Re: [PATCH 7/7 v3] sched: fix wrong utilization accounting when switching to fair class

[Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>]

On 20 September 2016 at 13:54, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 04:23:16PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> On 16 September 2016 at 14:16, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> >> > Also, the normalize comment in dequeue_entity() worries me, 'someone'
>> >> > didn't update that when he moved update_min_vruntime() around.
>> >
>> > I now worry more, so we do:
>> >
>> >         dequeue_task := dequeue_task_fair (p == current)
>> >           dequeue_entity
>> >             update_curr()
>> >               update_min_vruntime()
>> >             vruntime -= min_vruntime
>> >             update_min_vruntime()
>> >               // use cfs_rq->curr, which we just normalized !
>>
>> yes but does it really change the cfs_rq->min_vruntime in this case ?
>
> So let me see; it does:
>
>         vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
>
>         if (curr) // true
>           vruntime = curr->vruntime; // == vruntime - min_vruntime
>
>         if (leftmost) // possible
>           if (curr) // true
>             vruntime = min_vruntime(vruntime, se->vruntime);
>               if (se->vruntime - (curr->vruntime - min_vruntime)) < 0 // false
>
>         min_vruntime = max_vruntime(min_vruntime, vruntime);
>           if ((curr->vruntime - min_vruntime) - min_vruntime) > 0)
>
>
> The problem is that double subtraction of min_vruntime can wrap.
> The thing is, min_vruntime is the 0-point in our modular space, it
> normalizes vruntime (ideally min_vruntime would be our 0-lag point,
> resulting in vruntime - min_vruntime being the lag).
>
> The moment min_vruntime grows past S64_MAX/2 -2*min_vruntime wraps into

fair enough

> positive space again and the test above becomes true and we'll select
> the normalized @curr vruntime as new min_vruntime and weird stuff will
> happen.
>
>
> Also, even it things magically worked out, its still very icky to mix
> the normalized vruntime into things.

I agree

>
>> >         put_prev_task := put_prev_task_fair
>> >           put_prev_entity
>> >             cfs_rq->curr = NULL;
>> >
>> >
>> > Now the point of the latter update_min_vruntime() is to advance
>> > min_vruntime when the task we removed was the one holding it back.
>> >
>> > However, it means that if we do dequeue+enqueue, we're further in the
>> > future (ie. we get penalized).
>> >
>> > So I'm inclined to simply remove the (2nd) update_min_vruntime() call.
>> > But as said above, my brain isn't co-operating much today.
>
> OK, so not sure we can actually remove it, we do want it to move
> min_vruntime forward (sometimes). We just don't want it to do so when
> DEQUEUE_SAVE -- we want to get back where we left off, nor do we want to
> muck about with touching normalized values.
>
> Another fun corner case is DEQUEUE_SLEEP; in that case we do not
> normalize, but we still want advance min_vruntime if this was the one
> holding it back.
>
> I ended up with the below, but I'm not sure I like it much. Let me prod
> a wee bit more to see if there's not something else we can do.
>
> Google has this patch-set replacing min_vruntime with an actual global
> 0-lag, which greatly simplifies things. If only they'd post it sometime
> :/ /me prods pjt and ben with a sharp stick :-)
>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 986c10c25176..77566a340cbf 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -462,17 +462,23 @@ static inline int entity_before(struct sched_entity *a,
>
>  static void update_min_vruntime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>  {
> +       struct sched_entity *curr = cfs_rq->curr;
> +
>         u64 vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
>
> -       if (cfs_rq->curr)
> -               vruntime = cfs_rq->curr->vruntime;
> +       if (curr) {
> +               if (curr->on_rq)
> +                       vruntime = curr->vruntime;
> +               else
> +                       curr = NULL;
> +       }
>
>         if (cfs_rq->rb_leftmost) {
>                 struct sched_entity *se = rb_entry(cfs_rq->rb_leftmost,
>                                                    struct sched_entity,
>                                                    run_node);
>
> -               if (!cfs_rq->curr)
> +               if (!curr)
>                         vruntime = se->vruntime;
>                 else
>                         vruntime = min_vruntime(vruntime, se->vruntime);
> @@ -3483,8 +3489,16 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
>         /* return excess runtime on last dequeue */
>         return_cfs_rq_runtime(cfs_rq);
>
> -       update_min_vruntime(cfs_rq);
>         update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
> +
> +       /*
> +        * Now advance min_vruntime if @se was the entity holding it back,
> +        * except when: DEQUEUE_SAVE && !DEQUEUE_MOVE, in this case we'll be
> +        * put back on, and if we advance min_vruntime, we'll be placed back
> +        * further than we started -- ie. we'll be penalized.
> +        */
> +       if ((flags & (DEQUEUE_SAVE | DEQUEUE_MOVE)) == DEQUEUE_SAVE)
> +               update_min_vruntime(cfs_rq);
>  }
>
>  /*