Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] sched: Add sched_overutilized tracepoint

[Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>]

On 05/13/19 14:08, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 12:30:12PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
> > index cbcb47972232..0cf42d13d6c4 100644
> > --- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
> > +++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
> > @@ -600,6 +600,10 @@ DECLARE_TRACE(pelt_se,
> >  	TP_PROTO(int cpu, const char *path, struct sched_entity *se),
> >  	TP_ARGS(cpu, path, se));
> >  
> > +DECLARE_TRACE(sched_overutilized,
> > +	TP_PROTO(int overutilized),
> > +	TP_ARGS(overutilized));
> > +
> >  #endif /* _TRACE_SCHED_H */
> >  
> >  /* This part must be outside protection */
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 81036c34fd29..494032220fe7 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -4965,8 +4965,10 @@ static inline bool cpu_overutilized(int cpu)
> >  
> >  static inline void update_overutilized_status(struct rq *rq)
> >  {
> > -	if (!READ_ONCE(rq->rd->overutilized) && cpu_overutilized(rq->cpu))
> > +	if (!READ_ONCE(rq->rd->overutilized) && cpu_overutilized(rq->cpu)) {
> >  		WRITE_ONCE(rq->rd->overutilized, SG_OVERUTILIZED);
> > +		trace_sched_overutilized(1);
> > +	}
> >  }
> >  #else
> >  static inline void update_overutilized_status(struct rq *rq) { }
> > @@ -8330,8 +8332,11 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *sd
> >  
> >  		/* Update over-utilization (tipping point, U >= 0) indicator */
> >  		WRITE_ONCE(rd->overutilized, sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED);
> > +
> > +		trace_sched_overutilized(!!(sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED));
> >  	} else if (sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED) {
> >  		WRITE_ONCE(env->dst_rq->rd->overutilized, SG_OVERUTILIZED);
> > +		trace_sched_overutilized(1);
> >  	}
> >  }
> 
> Note how the state is per root domain and the tracepoint doesn't
> communicate that.

Right! I can pass rd->span so that the probing function can use it to
differentiate the root domains if they care?

--
Qais Yousef