Re: [PATCH 1/1] Sched/fair: Improve the accuracy of sched_stat_wait statistics

[Yafang Shao]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:19 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 05:25:30PM +0800, qianjun.kernel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: jun qian <qianjun.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When the sched_schedstat changes from 0 to 1, some sched se maybe
> > already in the runqueue, the se->statistics.wait_start will be 0.
> > So it will let the (rq_of(cfs_rq)) - se->statistics.wait_start)
> > wrong. We need to avoid this scenario.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: jun qian <qianjun.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This SoB chain isn't valid. Did Yafang's tag need to a reviewed-by or
> something?
>

This patch improves the behavior when sched_schedstat is changed from
0 to 1, so it looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>

> > ---
> >  kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 +++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 1a68a05..6f8ca0c 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -906,6 +906,15 @@ static void update_curr_fair(struct rq *rq)
> >       if (!schedstat_enabled())
> >               return;
> >
> > +     /*
> > +      * When the sched_schedstat changes from 0 to 1, some sched se
> > +      * maybe already in the runqueue, the se->statistics.wait_start
> > +      * will be 0.So it will let the delta wrong. We need to avoid this
> > +      * scenario.
> > +      */
> > +     if (unlikely(!schedstat_val(se->statistics.wait_start)))
> > +             return;
> > +
> >       delta = rq_clock(rq_of(cfs_rq)) - schedstat_val(se->statistics.wait_start);
> >
> >       if (entity_is_task(se)) {
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> >



-- 
Thanks
Yafang