Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] sched: consider missed ticks in full NOHZ

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 02 2015 - 11:10:34 EST


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 06:47:36PM +0900, byungchul.park@xxxxxxx wrote:
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -4428,7 +4428,7 @@ static void update_idle_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)

So if one were to read the comment above update_idle_cpu_load() one
would find there's a problem with jiffy based accounting.

> /*
> * Called from tick_nohz_idle_exit() -- try and fix up the ticks we missed.
> */
> -void update_cpu_load_nohz(void)
> +void update_cpu_load_nohz(int active)

> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> index 7c7ec45..515edf3 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c

> -static void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
> +static void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now, int active)
> {
> /* Update jiffies first */
> tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
> - update_cpu_load_nohz();
> + update_cpu_load_nohz(active);
>
> calc_load_exit_idle();
> touch_softlockup_watchdog();

And we could solve all that nicely if we pull up the hrtimer_forward()
result from tick_nohz_restart(), that way we have the actual number of
ticks lost on this cpu, and no need to start guessing about it.

Hmm?
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