Re: 4.3 group scheduling regression

[Mike Galbraith]

On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 03:55 +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:23:31PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 10:12 +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> > 
> > > I am guessing it is in calc_tg_weight(), and naughty boys do make them more
> > > favored, what a reality...
> > > 
> > > Mike, beg you test the following?
> > 
> > Wow, that was quick.  Dinky patch made it all better.
> > 
> >  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   Task                  |   Runtime ms  | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms | Maximum delay at       |
> >  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   oink:(8)              | 739056.970 ms |    27270 | avg:    2.043 ms | max:   29.105 ms | max at:    339.988310 s
> >   mplayer:(25)          |  36448.997 ms |    44670 | avg:    1.886 ms | max:   72.808 ms | max at:    302.153121 s
> >   Xorg:988              |  13334.908 ms |    22210 | avg:    0.081 ms | max:   25.005 ms | max at:    269.068666 s
> >   testo:(9)             |   2558.540 ms |    13703 | avg:    0.124 ms | max:    6.412 ms | max at:    279.235272 s
> >   konsole:1781          |   1084.316 ms |     1457 | avg:    0.006 ms | max:    1.039 ms | max at:    268.863379 s
> >   kwin:1734             |    879.645 ms |    17855 | avg:    0.458 ms | max:   15.788 ms | max at:    268.854992 s
> >   pulseaudio:1808       |    356.334 ms |    15023 | avg:    0.028 ms | max:    6.134 ms | max at:    324.479766 s
> >   threaded-ml:3483      |    292.782 ms |    25769 | avg:    0.364 ms | max:   40.387 ms | max at:    294.550515 s
> >   plasma-desktop:1745   |    265.055 ms |     1470 | avg:    0.102 ms | max:   21.886 ms | max at:    267.724902 s
> >   perf:3439             |     61.677 ms |        2 | avg:    0.117 ms | max:    0.232 ms | max at:    367.043889 s
> 
> Phew...
> 
> I think maybe the real disease is the tg->load_avg is not updated in time.
> I.e., it is after migrate, the source cfs_rq does not decrease its contribution
> to the parent's tg->load_avg fast enough.

It sounded like you wanted me to run the below alone.  If so, it's a nogo.
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Task                  |   Runtime ms  | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms | Maximum delay at       |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  oink:(8)              | 787001.236 ms |    21641 | avg:    0.377 ms | max:   21.991 ms | max at:     51.504005 s
  mplayer:(25)          |   4256.224 ms |     7264 | avg:   19.698 ms | max: 2087.489 ms | max at:    115.294922 s
  Xorg:1011             |   1507.958 ms |     4081 | avg:    8.349 ms | max: 1652.200 ms | max at:    126.908021 s
  konsole:1752          |    697.806 ms |     1186 | avg:    5.749 ms | max:  160.189 ms | max at:     53.037952 s
  testo:(9)             |    438.164 ms |     2551 | avg:    6.616 ms | max:  215.527 ms | max at:    117.302455 s
  plasma-desktop:1716   |    280.418 ms |     1624 | avg:    3.701 ms | max:  574.806 ms | max at:     53.582261 s
  kwin:1708             |    144.986 ms |     2422 | avg:    3.301 ms | max:  315.707 ms | max at:    116.555721 s

> --
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 4df37a4..3dba883 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2686,12 +2686,13 @@ static inline u64 cfs_rq_clock_task(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
>  static inline int update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>  {
>  	struct sched_avg *sa = &cfs_rq->avg;
> -	int decayed;
> +	int decayed, updated = 0;
>  
>  	if (atomic_long_read(&cfs_rq->removed_load_avg)) {
>  		long r = atomic_long_xchg(&cfs_rq->removed_load_avg, 0);
>  		sa->load_avg = max_t(long, sa->load_avg - r, 0);
>  		sa->load_sum = max_t(s64, sa->load_sum - r * LOAD_AVG_MAX, 0);
> +		updated = 1;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (atomic_long_read(&cfs_rq->removed_util_avg)) {
> @@ -2708,7 +2709,7 @@ static inline int update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>  	cfs_rq->load_last_update_time_copy = sa->last_update_time;
>  #endif
>  
> -	return decayed;
> +	return decayed | updated;
>  }
>  
>  /* Update task and its cfs_rq load average */


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