From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/7] sched: set skip_clock_update in yield_task_fair()
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:48:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322059696.14799.68.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321971686.6855.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 15:21 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> This is another case where we are on our way to schedule(),
> so can save a useless clock update and resulting microscopic
> vruntime update.
>
Everytime I see one of these skip_clock_update thingies I get the idea
we should do something smarter, because its most fragile and getting it
wrong results in a subtle trainwreck..
Would something like the below help in validating this stuff?
---
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -113,12 +113,27 @@ void update_rq_clock(struct rq *rq)
{
s64 delta;
- if (rq->skip_clock_update > 0)
+ if (rq->skip_clock_update > 0) {
+ /*
+ * We skipped an update even though we had a full context
+ * switch in between, badness.
+ */
+ if (rq->clock_update_stamp != rq->sched_switch)
+ trace_printk("lost an update!!\n");
return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * We're updating the clock even though we didn't switch yet.
+ */
+ if (rq->clock_update_stamp == rq->sched_switch)
+ trace_printk("too many updates!!\n");
delta = sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq)) - rq->clock;
rq->clock += delta;
update_rq_clock_task(rq, delta);
+
+ rq->clock_update_stamp = rq->sched_switch
}
/*
@@ -1922,6 +1937,9 @@ static void finish_task_switch(struct rq
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
local_irq_enable();
#endif /* __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
+ schedstat_inc(rq, sched_switch);
+#endif
finish_lock_switch(rq, prev);
fire_sched_in_preempt_notifiers(current);
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -374,6 +374,8 @@ struct rq {
unsigned char nohz_balance_kick;
#endif
int skip_clock_update;
+ unsigned int clock_update_stamp;
+
/* capture load from *all* tasks on this cpu: */
struct load_weight load;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-15 9:46 sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-16 1:14 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-16 9:24 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-16 18:37 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-17 1:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 15:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 15:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-17 16:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 17:36 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 15:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:17 ` [patch 1/6] sched: use rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 17:34 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:17 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:18 ` [patch 1/7] " Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06 9:50 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Use " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:20 ` [patch 2/7] sched: save some hrtick_start_fair cycles Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06 20:20 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Save " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:21 ` [patch 3/7] sched: set skip_clock_update in yield_task_fair() Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 11:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-11-24 3:50 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-24 10:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-25 6:39 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06 9:51 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Set " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:22 ` [patch 4/7] sched: convert rq->avg_idle to rq->avg_event Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 11:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 12:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:57 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 14:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:23 ` [patch 5/7] sched: ratelimit select_idle_sibling()for sync wakeups Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:24 ` [patch 6/7] sched: use rq->avg_event to resurrect nohz ratelimiting Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 11:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-23 12:35 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-22 14:26 ` [patch 7/7] sched: only use TTWU_QUEUE when waker/wakee CPUs do not share top level cache Mike Galbraith
2011-11-23 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 15:39 ` [patch 1/6] sched: use rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles Hillf Danton
2011-11-18 15:18 ` [patch 2/6] sched: convert rq->avg_idle to rq->avg_event Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:19 ` [patch 3/6] sched: use rq->avg_event to resurrect nohz ratelimiting Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 17:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-19 0:51 ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2011-11-19 4:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:20 ` [patch 4/6] sched: ratelimit select_idle_sibling()for sync wakeups Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:22 ` [patch 5/6] sched: save some hrtick_start_fair cycles Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 15:23 ` [patch 6/6] sched: set skip_clock_update in yield_task_fair() Mike Galbraith
2012-02-20 14:41 ` sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-20 15:03 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-20 18:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21 0:06 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-21 6:37 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21 8:09 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-20 18:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-20 18:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-20 19:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-21 5:43 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21 8:32 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-21 9:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21 10:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-21 14:58 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 10:49 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 12:18 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:20 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 11:32 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 16:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 11:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-25 6:54 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-25 8:30 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-27 22:11 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-02-28 5:05 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 19:08 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 15:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 15:26 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-12-06 9:49 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Clean up domain traversal in select_idle_sibling() tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 23:40 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
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