Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] sched/dl: Try better placement even for deadline tasks that do not block

[Dietmar Eggemann]

On 7/9/19 3:24 PM, luca abeni wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 15:55:36 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 06:48:33AM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote:
>>> @@ -1223,8 +1250,17 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
>>>  			dl_se->dl_overrun = 1;
>>>  
>>>  		__dequeue_task_dl(rq, curr, 0);
>>> -		if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted
>>> || !start_dl_timer(curr)))
>>> +		if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted
>>> || !start_dl_timer(curr))) { enqueue_task_dl(rq, curr,
>>> ENQUEUE_REPLENISH); +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>>> +		} else if (dl_se->dl_adjust) {
>>> +			if (rq->migrating_task == NULL) {
>>> +				queue_balance_callback(rq,
>>> &per_cpu(dl_migrate_head, rq->cpu), migrate_dl_task);  
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure about this one.
>>
>> That is, we only do those callbacks from:
>>
>>   schedule_tail()
>>   __schedule()
>>   rt_mutex_setprio()
>>   __sched_setscheduler()
>>
>> and the above looks like it can happen outside of those.
> 
> Sorry, I did not know the constraints or requirements for using
> queue_balance_callback()...
> 
> I used it because I wanted to trigger a migration from
> update_curr_dl(), but invoking double_lock_balance() from this function
> obviously resulted in a warning. So, I probably misunderstood the
> purpose of the balance callback API, and I misused it.
> 
> What would have been the "right way" to trigger a migration for a task
> when it is throttled?
> 
> 
>>
>> The pattern in those sites is:
>>
>> 	rq_lock();
>> 	... do crap that leads to queue_balance_callback()
>> 	rq_unlock()
>> 	if (rq->balance_callback) {
>> 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(rq->lock, flags);
>> 		... do callbacks
>> 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(rq->lock, flags);
>> 	}
>>
>> So I suppose can catch abuse of this API by doing something like the
>> below; can you validate?
> 
> Sorry; right now I cannot run tests on big.LITTLE machines... 
> Maybe Dietmar (added in cc), who is working on mainlining this patcset,
> can test?

I do see this one triggering (on ARM64 (Juno, 2 big/4 LITTLE,
performance CPUfreq gov, CPU_IDLE disabled):

1 deadline tasks (12000, 100000, 100000)

but the warnings come out of the pi, CFS and tick code?

[   70.190812] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3550 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145
task_rq_lock+0xe8/0xf0
...
[   70.310931] Call trace:
[   70.313352]  task_rq_lock+0xe8/0xf0
[   70.316808]  inactive_task_timer+0x48/0x4f0
[   70.320951]  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x11c/0x3d0
[   70.325265]  hrtimer_interrupt+0xd8/0x248
[   70.329236]  arch_timer_handler_phys+0x38/0x58
[   70.333637]  handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x90/0x2b8
[   70.338123]  generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50
[   70.342093]  __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
[   70.346149]  gic_handle_irq+0x60/0xb0
[   70.349773]  el1_irq+0xbc/0x180
[   70.352884]  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x64/0x90
[   70.357629]  rt_mutex_adjust_pi+0x4c/0xb0
[   70.361599]  __sched_setscheduler+0x49c/0x830
[   70.365912]  _sched_setscheduler+0x98/0xc0
[   70.369967]  do_sched_setscheduler+0xb4/0x118
[   70.374281]  __arm64_sys_sched_setscheduler+0x28/0x40
[   70.379285]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x178
[   70.384029]  el0_svc_handler+0x34/0x90
[   70.387739]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
...
[   70.395177] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 43 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145
update_blocked_averages+0x924/0x998
...
[   70.523815] Call trace:
[   70.526236]  update_blocked_averages+0x924/0x998
[   70.530807]  update_nohz_stats+0x78/0xa0
[   70.534690]  find_busiest_group+0x5f0/0xc18
[   70.538831]  load_balance+0x174/0xbc0
[   70.542456]  pick_next_task_fair+0x34c/0x740
[   70.546683]  __schedule+0x130/0x690
[   70.550136]  schedule+0x38/0xc0
[   70.553246]  worker_thread+0xc8/0x458
[   70.556872]  kthread+0x130/0x138
[   70.560067]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
...
[   70.568191] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3550 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145
scheduler_tick+0x110/0x118
...
[   70.690607] Call trace:
[   70.693029]  scheduler_tick+0x110/0x118
[   70.696826]  update_process_times+0x48/0x60
[   70.700968]  tick_sched_handle.isra.5+0x44/0x68
[   70.705451]  tick_sched_timer+0x50/0xa0
[   70.709249]  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x11c/0x3d0
[   70.713562]  hrtimer_interrupt+0xd8/0x248
[   70.717531]  arch_timer_handler_phys+0x38/0x58
[   70.721930]  handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x90/0x2b8
[   70.726416]  generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50
[   70.730385]  __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
[   70.734439]  gic_handle_irq+0x60/0xb0
[   70.738063]  el1_irq+0xbc/0x180
[   70.741172]  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x64/0x90
[   70.745916]  rt_mutex_adjust_pi+0x4c/0xb0
[   70.749885]  __sched_setscheduler+0x49c/0x830
[   70.754198]  _sched_setscheduler+0x98/0xc0
[   70.758253]  do_sched_setscheduler+0xb4/0x118
[   70.762567]  __arm64_sys_sched_setscheduler+0x28/0x40
[   70.767569]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x178
[   70.772312]  el0_svc_handler+0x34/0x90
[   70.776022]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc