[PATCH v5 2/3] sched: reduce the periodic update duration

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 10:27:05 EST


Instead of using the cfs_rq_is_decayed() which monitors all *_avg
and *_sum, we create a cfs_rq_has_blocked() which only takes care of
util_avg and load_avg. We are only interested by these 2 values which are
decaying faster than the *_sum so we can stop the periodic update earlier.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5a6835e..9183fee 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7337,6 +7337,19 @@ static void attach_tasks(struct lb_env *env)
rq_unlock(env->dst_rq, &rf);
}

+static inline bool cfs_rq_has_blocked(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
+{
+ if (cfs_rq->avg.load_avg)
+ return true;
+
+ if (cfs_rq->avg.util_avg)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
+
static inline bool cfs_rq_is_decayed(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{
if (cfs_rq->load.weight)
@@ -7354,8 +7367,6 @@ static inline bool cfs_rq_is_decayed(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
return true;
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
-
static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
{
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
@@ -7391,7 +7402,9 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
*/
if (cfs_rq_is_decayed(cfs_rq))
list_del_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
- else
+
+ /* Don't need periodic decay once load/util_avg are null */
+ if (cfs_rq_has_blocked(cfs_rq))
done = false;
}

@@ -7461,7 +7474,7 @@ static inline void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
update_cfs_rq_load_avg(cfs_rq_clock_task(cfs_rq), cfs_rq);
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick = jiffies;
- if (cfs_rq_is_decayed(cfs_rq))
+ if (!cfs_rq_has_blocked(cfs_rq))
rq->has_blocked_load = 0;
#endif
rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, &rf);
--
2.7.4