The update of the share of a cfs_rq is done when its load_avg is updated but before the group_entity's load_avg has been updated for the past time slot. This generates wrong load_avg accounting which can be significant when small tasks are involved in the scheduling. Let take the example of a task a that is dequeued of its task group A: root (cfs_rq) \ (se) A (cfs_rq) \ (se) a Task "a" was the only task in task group A which becomes idle when a is dequeued. We have the sequence: - dequeue_entity a->se - update_load_avg(a->se) - dequeue_entity_load_avg(A->cfs_rq, a->se) - update_cfs_shares(A->cfs_rq) A->cfs_rq->load.weight == 0 A->se->load.weight is updated with the new share (0 in this case) - dequeue_entity A->se - update_load_avg(A->se) but its weight is now null so the last time slot (up to a tick) will be accounted with a weight of 0 instead of its real weight during the time slot. The last time slot will be accounted as an idle one whereas it was a running one. If the running time of task a is short enough that no tick happens when it runs, all running time of group entity A->se will be accounted as idle time. Instead, we should update the share of a cfs_rq (in fact the weight of its group entity) only after having updated the load_avg of the group_entity. update_cfs_shares() now takes the sched_entity as a parameter instead of the cfs_rq, and the weight of the group_entity is updated only once its load_avg has been synced with current time. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: pjt@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482335426-7664-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.