[PATCH v1 08/10] sched/fair: Remove scale_load_down() for load_avg

[Yuyang Du]

Currently, load_avg = scale_load_down(load) * runnable%. The extra scaling
down of load does not make much sense, because load_avg is primarily THE
load and on top of that, we take runnable time into account.

We therefore remove scale_load_down() for load_avg. But we need to
carefully consider the overflow risk if load has higher fixed point range
(2*SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT). The only case an overflow may occur due
to us is on 64bit kernel with increased fixed point range. In this case,
the 64bit load_sum can afford 4251057 (=2^64/47742/88761/1024)
entities with the highest load (=88761*1024) always runnable on one
single cfs_rq, which may be an issue, but should be fine. Even if this
occurs at the end of the day, on the condition where it occurs, the
load average will not be useful anyway. And afterwards if the machine
can survive, the load will correct itself very quickly in no more than
~2 seconds (=32ms*64).

Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
 kernel/sched/fair.c   |   11 +++++------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 912830c..9abfc62 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1233,7 +1233,7 @@ struct load_weight {
  *
  * [load_avg definition]
  *
- *   load_avg = runnable% * scale_load_down(load)
+ *   load_avg = runnable% * load
  *
  * where runnable% is the time ratio that a sched_entity is runnable.
  * For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated load_avg of all runnable and
@@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ struct load_weight {
  *
  * load_avg may also take frequency scaling into account:
  *
- *   load_avg = runnable% * scale_load_down(load) * freq%
+ *   load_avg = runnable% * load * freq%
  *
  * where freq% is the CPU frequency normalized to the highest frequency.
  *
@@ -1267,9 +1267,18 @@ struct load_weight {
  *
  * [Overflow issue]
  *
- * The 64-bit load_sum can have 4353082796 (=2^64/47742/88761) entities
- * with the highest load (=88761), always runnable on a single cfs_rq,
- * and should not overflow as the number already hits PID_MAX_LIMIT.
+ * On 64bit kernel:
+ *
+ * When load has small fixed point range (SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT), the
+ * 64bit load_sum can have 4353082796 (=2^64/47742/88761) tasks with
+ * the highest load (=88761) always runnable on a cfs_rq, we should
+ * not overflow as the number already hits PID_MAX_LIMIT.
+ *
+ * When load has large fixed point range (2*SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT),
+ * the 64bit load_sum can have 4251057 (=2^64/47742/88761/1024) tasks
+ * with the highest load (=88761*1024) always runnable on ONE cfs_rq,
+ * we should be fine. Even if the overflow occurs at the end of day,
+ * at the time the load_avg won't be useful anyway in that situation.
  *
  * For all other cases (including 32-bit kernels), struct load_weight's
  * weight will overflow first before we do, because:
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index eea3349..033cf70 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ void init_entity_sched_avg(struct sched_entity *se)
 	 * will definitely be update (after enqueue).
 	 */
 	sa->period_contrib = 1023;
-	sa->load_avg = scale_load_down(se->load.weight);
+	sa->load_avg = se->load.weight;
 	sa->load_sum = sa->load_avg * SCHED_AVG_MAX;
 	/*
 	 * At this point, util_avg won't be used in select_task_rq_fair anyway
@@ -2953,7 +2953,7 @@ update_cfs_rq_sched_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, bool update_freq)
 	}
 
 	decayed = __update_sched_avg(now, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)), sa,
-		scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight), cfs_rq->curr != NULL, cfs_rq);
+				     cfs_rq->load.weight, cfs_rq->curr != NULL, cfs_rq);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
 	smp_wmb();
@@ -2978,8 +2978,7 @@ static inline void update_sched_avg(struct sched_entity *se, int update_tg)
 	 * Track task load average for carrying it to new CPU after migrated, and
 	 * track group sched_entity load average for task_h_load calc in migration
 	 */
-	__update_sched_avg(now, cpu, &se->avg,
-			   se->on_rq * scale_load_down(se->load.weight),
+	__update_sched_avg(now, cpu, &se->avg, se->on_rq * se->load.weight,
 			   cfs_rq->curr == se, NULL);
 
 	if (update_cfs_rq_sched_avg(now, cfs_rq, true) && update_tg)
@@ -3036,7 +3035,7 @@ skip_aging:
 static void detach_entity_sched_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 {
 	__update_sched_avg(cfs_rq->avg.last_update_time, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)),
-			   &se->avg, se->on_rq * scale_load_down(se->load.weight),
+			   &se->avg, se->on_rq * se->load.weight,
 			   cfs_rq->curr == se, NULL);
 
 	sub_positive(&cfs_rq->avg.load_avg, se->avg.load_avg);
@@ -3058,7 +3057,7 @@ enqueue_entity_sched_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 	migrated = !sa->last_update_time;
 	if (!migrated) {
 		__update_sched_avg(now, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)), sa,
-				   se->on_rq * scale_load_down(se->load.weight),
+				   se->on_rq * se->load.weight,
 				   cfs_rq->curr == se, NULL);
 	}
 
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