Re: [PATCH v4] sched: fix incorrect wait time and wait count statistics

[Joonwoo Park]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 02:57:49PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:46:53PM -0700, Joonwoo Park wrote:
> > @@ -1272,6 +1272,15 @@ void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
> >  	WARN_ON_ONCE(p->state != TASK_RUNNING && p->state != TASK_WAKING &&
> >  			!p->on_rq);
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Migrating fair class task must have p->on_rq = TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING,
> > +	 * because schedstat_wait_{start,end} rebase migrating task's wait_start
> > +	 * time relying on p->on_rq.
> > +	 */
> > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(p->state == TASK_RUNNING &&
> > +		     p->sched_class == &fair_sched_class &&
> > +		     (p->on_rq && !task_on_rq_migrating(p)));
> > +
> 
> Why do we have to test p->on_rq? Would not ->state == RUNNING imply
> that?
> 

sched_fork() sets p->state = RUNNING before changing task cpu.
Please let me know if you got better idea.

> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -737,41 +737,69 @@ static void update_curr_fair(struct rq *rq)
> >  	update_curr(cfs_rq_of(&rq->curr->se));
> >  }
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
> >  static inline void
> >  update_stats_wait_start(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> >  {
> > +	u64 wait_start = rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq));
> >  
> > +	if (entity_is_task(se) && task_on_rq_migrating(task_of(se)) &&
> > +	    likely(wait_start > se->statistics.wait_start))
> > +		wait_start -= se->statistics.wait_start;
> > +
> > +	schedstat_set(se->statistics.wait_start, wait_start);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static void
> >  update_stats_wait_end(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> >  {
> 
> Since this is now all under CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT, would it not make sense
> to do something like:
> 
> 	u64 now = rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq));
> 
> to avoid the endless calling of that function?
> 
> Also, for that very same reason; would it not make sense to drop the
> schedstat_set() usage below, that would greatly enhance readability.
> 

Agreed.

> > +	if (entity_is_task(se) && task_on_rq_migrating(task_of(se))) {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Preserve migrating task's wait time so wait_start time stamp
> > +		 * can be adjusted to accumulate wait time prior to migration.
> > +		 */
> > +		schedstat_set(se->statistics.wait_start,
> > +			      rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq)) -
> > +			      se->statistics.wait_start);
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	schedstat_set(se->statistics.wait_max, max(se->statistics.wait_max,
> >  			rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq)) - se->statistics.wait_start));
> >  	schedstat_set(se->statistics.wait_count, se->statistics.wait_count + 1);
> >  	schedstat_set(se->statistics.wait_sum, se->statistics.wait_sum +
> >  			rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq)) - se->statistics.wait_start);
> > +
> >  	if (entity_is_task(se)) {
> >  		trace_sched_stat_wait(task_of(se),
> >  			rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq)) - se->statistics.wait_start);
> >  	}
> 
> Is there no means of collapsing the two 'entity_is_task()' branches?
> 

Agreed.  Will spin v5 with these clean up.

Thanks,
Joonwoo

> >  	schedstat_set(se->statistics.wait_start, 0);
> >  }
> > +#else
> > +static inline void
> > +update_stats_wait_start(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void
> > +update_stats_wait_end(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +#endif

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