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From: Nirmoy <nirmodas@amd.com>
To: christian.koenig@amd.com, Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.aiemd@gmail.com>,
	amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: alexander.deucher@amd.com, kenny.ho@amd.com, nirmoy.das@amd.com,
	pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/scheduler: fix race condition in load balancer
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:04:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <862ad550-082d-7ece-1d4d-99801ab10428@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5deb3805-f7e8-3d0d-4259-a3be1c5d3cf5@gmail.com>

Hi Christian,

On 1/14/20 5:01 PM, Christian König wrote:
>
>> Before this patch:
>>
>> sched_name     num of many times it got scheduled
>> =========      ==================================
>> sdma0          314
>> sdma1          32
>> comp_1.0.0     56
>> comp_1.1.0     0
>> comp_1.1.1     0
>> comp_1.2.0     0
>> comp_1.2.1     0
>> comp_1.3.0     0
>> comp_1.3.1     0
>>
>> After this patch:
>>
>> sched_name     num of many times it got scheduled
>> =========      ==================================
>>   sdma1          243
>>   sdma0          164
>>   comp_1.0.1     14
>>   comp_1.1.0     11
>>   comp_1.1.1     10
>>   comp_1.2.0     15
>>   comp_1.2.1     14
>>   comp_1.3.0     10
>>   comp_1.3.1     10
>
> Well that is still rather nice to have, why does that happen?

I think I know why it happens. At init all entity's rq gets assigned to 
sched_list[0]. I put some prints to check what we compare in 
drm_sched_entity_get_free_sched.

It turns out most of the time it compares zero values(num_jobs(0) < 
min_jobs(0)) so most of the time 1st rq(sdma0, comp_1.0.0) was picked by 
drm_sched_entity_get_free_sched.


This patch was not correct , had an extra atomic_inc(num_jobs) in 
drm_sched_job_init. This probably added bit of randomness I think, which 
helped in better job distribution.

I've updated my previous RFC patch which uses time consumed by each 
sched for load balance with a twist of ignoring previously scheduled 
sched/rq. Let me know what do you think.


Regards,

Nirmoy

>
> Christian.
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-14 15:43 [PATCH] drm/scheduler: fix race condition in load balancer Nirmoy Das
2020-01-14 16:01 ` Christian König
2020-01-14 16:13   ` Nirmoy
2020-01-14 16:20     ` Christian König
2020-01-14 16:20   ` Nirmoy
2020-01-14 16:23     ` Christian König
2020-01-14 16:27       ` Nirmoy
2020-01-15 11:04   ` Nirmoy [this message]
2020-01-15 12:52     ` Christian König
2020-01-15 13:24       ` Nirmoy

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