Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] sched/fair: update scale invariance of PELT

From: Dietmar Eggemann
Date: Wed Oct 31 2018 - 03:20:52 EST


On 10/26/18 6:11 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:

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static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int cpu);
static unsigned long task_h_load(struct task_struct *p);
@@ -764,7 +763,7 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct sched_entity *se)
* such that the next switched_to_fair() has the
* expected state.
*/
- se->avg.last_update_time = cfs_rq_clock_task(cfs_rq);
+ se->avg.last_update_time = cfs_rq_clock_pelt(cfs_rq);
return;
}
}

There is this 1/cpu scaling of se->avg.util_sum (running_sum) in update_tg_cfs_runnable() so it can be used to calculate se->avg.runnable_load_sum (runnable_sum). I guess with your approach this should be removed.

@@ -3466,7 +3465,7 @@ static void detach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *s
/* Update task and its cfs_rq load average */
static inline void update_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
{
- u64 now = cfs_rq_clock_task(cfs_rq);
+ u64 now = cfs_rq_clock_pelt(cfs_rq);
struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq);
int cpu = cpu_of(rq);
int decayed;
@@ -6694,6 +6693,12 @@ done: __maybe_unused;
if (new_tasks > 0)
goto again;
+ /*
+ * rq is about to be idle, check if we need to update the
+ * lost_idle_time of clock_pelt
+ */
+ update_idle_rq_clock_pelt(rq);
+
return NULL;
}

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