Commit b5a9b340 authored by Vincent Guittot's avatar Vincent Guittot Committed by Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Fix incorrect task group ->load_avg

A scheduler performance regression has been reported by Joseph Salisbury,
which he bisected back to:

  3d30544f ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)

The regression triggers when several levels of task groups are involved
(read: SystemD) and cpu_possible_mask != cpu_present_mask.

The root cause is that group entity's load (tg_child->se[i]->avg.load_avg)
is initialized to scale_load_down(se->load.weight). During the creation of
a child task group, its group entities on possible CPUs are attached to
parent's cfs_rq (tg_parent) and their loads are added to the parent's load
(tg_parent->load_avg) with update_tg_load_avg().

But only the load on online CPUs will then be updated to reflect real load,
whereas load on other CPUs will stay at the initial value.

The result is a tg_parent->load_avg that is higher than the real load, the
weight of group entities (tg_parent->se[i]->load.weight) on online CPUs is
smaller than it should be, and the task group gets a less running time than
what it could expect.

( This situation can be detected with /proc/sched_debug. The ".tg_load_avg"
  of the task group will be much higher than sum of ".tg_load_avg_contrib"
  of online cfs_rqs of the task group. )

The load of group entities don't have to be intialized to something else
than 0 because their load will increase when an entity is attached.
Reported-by: default avatarJoseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8.x
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: joonwoop@codeaurora.org
Fixes: 3d30544f ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476881123-10159-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 1a1891d7
......@@ -690,6 +690,13 @@ void init_entity_runnable_average(struct sched_entity *se)
* will definitely be update (after enqueue).
*/
sa->period_contrib = 1023;
/*
* Tasks are intialized with full load to be seen as heavy tasks until
* they get a chance to stabilize to their real load level.
* Group entities are intialized with zero load to reflect the fact that
* nothing has been attached to the task group yet.
*/
if (entity_is_task(se))
sa->load_avg = scale_load_down(se->load.weight);
sa->load_sum = sa->load_avg * LOAD_AVG_MAX;
/*
......
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