[PATCH v2] sched/freq: move call to cpufreq_update_util

[Vincent Guittot]

update_cfs_rq_load_avg() calls cfs_rq_util_change() everytime pelt decays,
which might be inefficient when cpufreq driver has rate limitation.

When a task is attached on a CPU, we have call path:

update_blocked_averages()
  update_cfs_rq_load_avg()
    cfs_rq_util_change -- > trig frequency update
  attach_entity_load_avg()
    cfs_rq_util_change -- > trig frequency update

The 1st frequency update will not take into account the utilization of the
newly attached task and the 2nd one might be discard because of rate
limitation of the cpufreq driver.

update_cfs_rq_load_avg() is only called by update_blocked_averages()
and update_load_avg() so we can move the call to
{cfs_rq,cpufreq}_util_change() into these 2 functions. It's also
interesting to notice that update_load_avg() already calls directly
cfs_rq_util_change() for !SMP case.

This changes will also ensure that cpufreq_update_util() is called even
when there is no more CFS rq in the leaf_cfs_rq_list to update but only
irq, rt or dl pelt signals.

Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 039ae8bcf7a5 ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in the load balancing path")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

I have just rebased the patch on latest tip/sched/core and made it a proper
patchset after Doug reported that the problem has diseappeared according to
his 1st results but tests results are not all based on the same v5.4-rcX
and with menu instead of teo governor.

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index e458f52..c93d534 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3508,9 +3508,6 @@ update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 	cfs_rq->load_last_update_time_copy = sa->last_update_time;
 #endif
 
-	if (decayed)
-		cfs_rq_util_change(cfs_rq, 0);
-
 	return decayed;
 }
 
@@ -3620,8 +3617,12 @@ static inline void update_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *s
 		attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION);
 		update_tg_load_avg(cfs_rq, 0);
 
-	} else if (decayed && (flags & UPDATE_TG))
-		update_tg_load_avg(cfs_rq, 0);
+	} else if (decayed) {
+		cfs_rq_util_change(cfs_rq, 0);
+
+		if (flags & UPDATE_TG)
+			update_tg_load_avg(cfs_rq, 0);
+	}
 }
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
@@ -7484,6 +7485,7 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
 	const struct sched_class *curr_class;
 	struct rq_flags rf;
 	bool done = true;
+	int decayed = 0;
 
 	rq_lock_irqsave(rq, &rf);
 	update_rq_clock(rq);
@@ -7493,9 +7495,9 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
 	 * that RT, DL and IRQ signals have been updated before updating CFS.
 	 */
 	curr_class = rq->curr->sched_class;
-	update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &rt_sched_class);
-	update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &dl_sched_class);
-	update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);
+	decayed |= update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &rt_sched_class);
+	decayed |= update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &dl_sched_class);
+	decayed |= update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);
 
 	/* Don't need periodic decay once load/util_avg are null */
 	if (others_have_blocked(rq))
@@ -7529,6 +7531,9 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
 	}
 
 	update_blocked_load_status(rq, !done);
+
+	if (decayed)
+		cpufreq_update_util(rq, 0);
 	rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, &rf);
 }
 
@@ -7585,6 +7590,7 @@ static inline void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = &rq->cfs;
 	const struct sched_class *curr_class;
 	struct rq_flags rf;
+	int decayed = 0;
 
 	rq_lock_irqsave(rq, &rf);
 	update_rq_clock(rq);
@@ -7594,13 +7600,16 @@ static inline void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
 	 * that RT, DL and IRQ signals have been updated before updating CFS.
 	 */
 	curr_class = rq->curr->sched_class;
-	update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &rt_sched_class);
-	update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &dl_sched_class);
-	update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);
+	decayed |= update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &rt_sched_class);
+	decayed |= update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, curr_class == &dl_sched_class);
+	decayed |= update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);
 
-	update_cfs_rq_load_avg(cfs_rq_clock_pelt(cfs_rq), cfs_rq);
+	decayed |= update_cfs_rq_load_avg(cfs_rq_clock_pelt(cfs_rq), cfs_rq);
 
 	update_blocked_load_status(rq, cfs_rq_has_blocked(cfs_rq) || others_have_blocked(rq));
+
+	if (decayed)
+		cpufreq_update_util(rq, 0);
 	rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, &rf);
 }
 
-- 
2.7.4