[PATCH v6 1/2] sched/fair: Record the average duration of a task

[Chen Yu]

Record the average duration of a task, as there is a requirement
to leverage this information for better task placement.

At first thought the (p->se.sum_exec_runtime / p->nvcsw)
can be used to measure the task duration. However, the
history long past was factored too heavily in such a formula.
Ideally, the old activity should decay and not affect
the current status too much.

Although something based on PELT can be used, se.util_avg might
not be appropriate to describe the task duration:
Task p1 and task p2 are doing frequent ping-pong scheduling on
one CPU, both p1 and p2 have a short duration, but the util_avg
can be up to 50%, which is inconsistent with task duration.

It was found that there was once a similar feature to track the
duration of a task:
commit ad4b78bbcbab ("sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING")
Unfortunately, it was reverted because it was an experiment. Pick the
patch up again, by recording the average duration when a task voluntarily
switches out.

For example, suppose on CPU1, task p1 and p2 run alternatively:

 --------------------> time

 | p1 runs 1ms | p2 preempt p1 | p1 switch in, runs 0.5ms and blocks |
               ^               ^                                     ^
 |_____________|               |_____________________________________|
                                                                     ^
                                                                     |
                                                                  p1 dequeued

p1's duration in one section is (1 + 0.5)ms. Because if p2 does not
preempt p1, p1 can run 1.5ms. This reflects the nature of a task:
how long it wishes to run at most.

Suggested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |  3 +++
 kernel/sched/core.c   |  2 ++
 kernel/sched/debug.c  |  1 +
 kernel/sched/fair.c   | 13 +++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 4df2b3e76b30..e21709402a31 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -557,6 +557,9 @@ struct sched_entity {
 	u64				prev_sum_exec_runtime;
 
 	u64				nr_migrations;
+	u64				prev_sleep_sum_runtime;
+	/* average duration of a task */
+	u64				dur_avg;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 	int				depth;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 4580fe3e1d0c..455ab9edfe6a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4428,6 +4428,8 @@ static void __sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 	p->se.prev_sum_exec_runtime	= 0;
 	p->se.nr_migrations		= 0;
 	p->se.vruntime			= 0;
+	p->se.dur_avg			= 0;
+	p->se.prev_sleep_sum_runtime	= 0;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->se.group_node);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 1637b65ba07a..8d64fba16cfe 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -1024,6 +1024,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	__PS("nr_involuntary_switches", p->nivcsw);
 
 	P(se.load.weight);
+	P(se.dur_avg);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	P(se.avg.load_sum);
 	P(se.avg.runnable_sum);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index ff4dbbae3b10..9ac63868eaaa 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6279,6 +6279,18 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 
 static void set_next_buddy(struct sched_entity *se);
 
+static inline void dur_avg_update(struct task_struct *p, bool task_sleep)
+{
+	u64 dur;
+
+	if (!task_sleep)
+		return;
+
+	dur = p->se.sum_exec_runtime - p->se.prev_sleep_sum_runtime;
+	p->se.prev_sleep_sum_runtime = p->se.sum_exec_runtime;
+	update_avg(&p->se.dur_avg, dur);
+}
+
 /*
  * The dequeue_task method is called before nr_running is
  * decreased. We remove the task from the rbtree and
@@ -6351,6 +6363,7 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 
 dequeue_throttle:
 	util_est_update(&rq->cfs, p, task_sleep);
+	dur_avg_update(p, task_sleep);
 	hrtick_update(rq);
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1