[PATCH 3 1/4] sched/pelt: Relax the sync of util_sum with util_avg

[Vincent Guittot]

Rick reported performance regressions in bugzilla because of cpu frequency
being lower than before:
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215045

He bisected the problem to:
commit 1c35b07e6d39 ("sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent")

This commit forces util_sum to be synced with the new util_avg after
removing the contribution of a task and before the next periodic sync. By
doing so util_sum is rounded to its lower bound and might lost up to
LOAD_AVG_MAX-1 of accumulated contribution which has not yet been
reflected in util_avg.

Instead of always setting util_sum to the low bound of util_avg, which can
significantly lower the utilization of root cfs_rq after propagating the
change down into the hierarchy, we revert the change of util_sum and
propagate the difference.

In addition, we also check that cfs's util_sum always stays above the
lower bound for a given util_avg as it has been observed that
sched_entity's util_sum is sometimes above cfs one.

Reported-by: Rick Yiu <rickyiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1c35b07e6d39 ("sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 095b0aa378df..ed35255fdb85 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3381,6 +3381,7 @@ void set_task_rq_fair(struct sched_entity *se,
 	se->avg.last_update_time = n_last_update_time;
 }
 
+#define MIN_DIVIDER (LOAD_AVG_MAX - 1024)
 
 /*
  * When on migration a sched_entity joins/leaves the PELT hierarchy, we need to
@@ -3449,7 +3450,6 @@ void set_task_rq_fair(struct sched_entity *se,
  * XXX: only do this for the part of runnable > running ?
  *
  */
-
 static inline void
 update_tg_cfs_util(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, struct cfs_rq *gcfs_rq)
 {
@@ -3681,7 +3681,19 @@ update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 
 		r = removed_util;
 		sub_positive(&sa->util_avg, r);
-		sa->util_sum = sa->util_avg * divider;
+		sub_positive(&sa->util_sum, r * divider);
+		/*
+		 * Because of rounding, se->util_sum might ends up being +1 more than
+		 * cfs->util_sum. Although this is not a problem by itself, detaching
+		 * a lot of tasks with the rounding problem between 2 updates of
+		 * util_avg (~1ms) can make cfs->util_sum becoming null whereas
+		 * cfs_util_avg is not.
+		 * Check that util_sum is still above its lower bound for the new
+		 * util_avg. Given that period_contrib might have moved since the last
+		 * sync, we are only sure that util_sum must be above or equal to
+		 *    util_avg * minimum possible divider
+		 */
+		sa->util_sum = max_t(u32, sa->util_sum, sa->util_avg * MIN_DIVIDER);
 
 		r = removed_runnable;
 		sub_positive(&sa->runnable_avg, r);
-- 
2.17.1