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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2012-05-11 17:31:26 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-05-14 15:05:27 +0200
commit556061b00c9f2fd6a5524b6bde823ef12f299ecf (patch)
tree087891d70dbcd97cd23ac3eb92fad6a905c0f527 /kernel
parent870a0bb5d636156502769233d02a0d5791d4366a (diff)
sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations
While investigating why the load-balancer did funny I found that the rq->cpu_load[] tables were completely screwy.. a bit more digging revealed that the updates that got through were missing ticks followed by a catchup of 2 ticks. The catchup assumes the cpu was idle during that time (since only nohz can cause missed ticks and the machine is idle etc..) this means that esp. the higher indices were significantly lower than they ought to be. The reason for this is that its not correct to compare against jiffies on every jiffy on any other cpu than the cpu that updates jiffies. This patch cludges around it by only doing the catch-up stuff from nohz_idle_balance() and doing the regular stuff unconditionally from the tick. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tp4kj18xdd5aj4vvj0qg55s2@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c53
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/sched.h2
3 files changed, 41 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 6883d998dc38..860fddfb7bb7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -692,8 +692,6 @@ int tg_nop(struct task_group *tg, void *data)
}
#endif
-void update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq);
-
static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p)
{
int prio = p->static_prio - MAX_RT_PRIO;
@@ -2486,22 +2484,13 @@ decay_load_missed(unsigned long load, unsigned long missed_updates, int idx)
* scheduler tick (TICK_NSEC). With tickless idle this will not be called
* every tick. We fix it up based on jiffies.
*/
-void update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)
+static void __update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long this_load,
+ unsigned long pending_updates)
{
- unsigned long this_load = this_rq->load.weight;
- unsigned long curr_jiffies = jiffies;
- unsigned long pending_updates;
int i, scale;
this_rq->nr_load_updates++;
- /* Avoid repeated calls on same jiffy, when moving in and out of idle */
- if (curr_jiffies == this_rq->last_load_update_tick)
- return;
-
- pending_updates = curr_jiffies - this_rq->last_load_update_tick;
- this_rq->last_load_update_tick = curr_jiffies;
-
/* Update our load: */
this_rq->cpu_load[0] = this_load; /* Fasttrack for idx 0 */
for (i = 1, scale = 2; i < CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX; i++, scale += scale) {
@@ -2526,9 +2515,45 @@ void update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)
sched_avg_update(this_rq);
}
+/*
+ * Called from nohz_idle_balance() to update the load ratings before doing the
+ * idle balance.
+ */
+void update_idle_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)
+{
+ unsigned long curr_jiffies = jiffies;
+ unsigned long load = this_rq->load.weight;
+ unsigned long pending_updates;
+
+ /*
+ * Bloody broken means of dealing with nohz, but better than nothing..
+ * jiffies is updated by one cpu, another cpu can drift wrt the jiffy
+ * update and see 0 difference the one time and 2 the next, even though
+ * we ticked at roughtly the same rate.
+ *
+ * Hence we only use this from nohz_idle_balance() and skip this
+ * nonsense when called from the scheduler_tick() since that's
+ * guaranteed a stable rate.
+ */
+ if (load || curr_jiffies == this_rq->last_load_update_tick)
+ return;
+
+ pending_updates = curr_jiffies - this_rq->last_load_update_tick;
+ this_rq->last_load_update_tick = curr_jiffies;
+
+ __update_cpu_load(this_rq, load, pending_updates);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Called from scheduler_tick()
+ */
static void update_cpu_load_active(struct rq *this_rq)
{
- update_cpu_load(this_rq);
+ /*
+ * See the mess in update_idle_cpu_load().
+ */
+ this_rq->last_load_update_tick = jiffies;
+ __update_cpu_load(this_rq, this_rq->load.weight, 1);
calc_load_account_active(this_rq);
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index a259a614b394..124e6b6999a7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5012,7 +5012,7 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(int this_cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
raw_spin_lock_irq(&this_rq->lock);
update_rq_clock(this_rq);
- update_cpu_load(this_rq);
+ update_idle_cpu_load(this_rq);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&this_rq->lock);
rebalance_domains(balance_cpu, CPU_IDLE);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 7282e7b5f4c7..ba9dccfd24ce 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ extern void resched_cpu(int cpu);
extern struct rt_bandwidth def_rt_bandwidth;
extern void init_rt_bandwidth(struct rt_bandwidth *rt_b, u64 period, u64 runtime);
-extern void update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq);
+extern void update_idle_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq);
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT
#include <linux/cgroup.h>