[PATCH 4.18 189/235] sched/fair: Fix util_avg of new tasks for asymmetric systems

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Sep 24 2018 - 08:42:26 EST


4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 8fe5c5a937d0f4e84221631833a2718afde52285 ]

When a new task wakes-up for the first time, its initial utilization
is set to half of the spare capacity of its CPU. The current
implementation of post_init_entity_util_avg() uses SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE
directly as a capacity reference. As a result, on a big.LITTLE system, a
new task waking up on an idle little CPU will be given ~512 of util_avg,
even if the CPU's capacity is significantly less than that.

Fix this by computing the spare capacity with arch_scale_cpu_capacity().

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx
Cc: morten.rasmussen@xxxxxxx
Cc: patrick.bellasi@xxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612112215.25448-1-quentin.perret@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -735,11 +735,12 @@ static void attach_entity_cfs_rq(struct
* To solve this problem, we also cap the util_avg of successive tasks to
* only 1/2 of the left utilization budget:
*
- * util_avg_cap = (1024 - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2^n
+ * util_avg_cap = (cpu_scale - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2^n
*
- * where n denotes the nth task.
+ * where n denotes the nth task and cpu_scale the CPU capacity.
*
- * For example, a simplest series from the beginning would be like:
+ * For example, for a CPU with 1024 of capacity, a simplest series from
+ * the beginning would be like:
*
* task util_avg: 512, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, ...
* cfs_rq util_avg: 512, 768, 896, 960, 992, 1008, 1016, ...
@@ -751,7 +752,8 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct sc
{
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
struct sched_avg *sa = &se->avg;
- long cap = (long)(SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2;
+ long cpu_scale = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)));
+ long cap = (long)(cpu_scale - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2;

if (cap > 0) {
if (cfs_rq->avg.util_avg != 0) {