Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] sched: Upload nohz full CPU load on task enqueue/dequeue

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 03:54:19PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> > You can simply do:
> > 
> > 	for_each_nohzfull_cpu(cpu) {
> > 		struct rq *rq = rq_of(cpu);
> > 
> > 		raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
> > 		update_cpu_load_active(rq);
> > 		raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
> > 	}
> 
> But from where should we do that? 

house keeper thingy

> Maybe we can do it before we call source/target_load(), on the
> selected targets needed by the caller? The problem is that if we do
> that right after a task got enqueued on the nohz runqueue, we may
> accidentally account it as the whole dynticks frame (I mean, if we get
> rid of that enqueue/dequeue accounting).

Yes so? What if the current tick happens right after a task get
enqueued? Then we account the whole tick as !idle, even tough we might
have been idle for 99% of the time.

Not a problem, this is sampling.

Doing it locally or remotely doesn't matter.

> > Also, since when can we have enqueues/dequeues while NOHZ_FULL ? I
> > thought that was the 1 task 100% cpu case, there are no
> > enqueues/dequeues there.
> 
> That's the most optimized case but we can definetly have small moments
> with more than one task running. For example if we have a workqueue,
> or such short and quick tasks.

The moment you have nr_running>1 the tick comes back on.