Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: scale quota and period without losing quota/period ratio precision

[Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 05:12:43PM -0700 Xuewei Zhang wrote:
> quota/period ratio is used to ensure a child task group won't get more
> bandwidth than the parent task group, and is calculated as:
> normalized_cfs_quota() = [(quota_us << 20) / period_us]
> 
> If the quota/period ratio was changed during this scaling due to
> precision loss, it will cause inconsistency between parent and child
> task groups. See below example:
> A userspace container manager (kubelet) does three operations:
> 1) Create a parent cgroup, set quota to 1,000us and period to 10,000us.
> 2) Create a few children cgroups.
> 3) Set quota to 1,000us and period to 10,000us on a child cgroup.
> 
> These operations are expected to succeed. However, if the scaling of
> 147/128 happens before step 3), quota and period of the parent cgroup
> will be changed:
> new_quota: 1148437ns, 1148us
> new_period: 11484375ns, 11484us
> 
> And when step 3) comes in, the ratio of the child cgroup will be 104857,
> which will be larger than the parent cgroup ratio (104821), and will
> fail.
> 
> Scaling them by a factor of 2 will fix the problem.

I have no issues with the concept. We went around a bit about the actual
numbers and made it an approximation. 

> 
> Fixes: 2e8e19226398 ("sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer() loop to avoid hard lockup")
> Signed-off-by: Xuewei Zhang <xueweiz@google.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 83ab35e2374f..b3d3d0a231cd 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -4926,20 +4926,28 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
>  		if (++count > 3) {
>  			u64 new, old = ktime_to_ns(cfs_b->period);
>  
> -			new = (old * 147) / 128; /* ~115% */
> -			new = min(new, max_cfs_quota_period);
> -
> -			cfs_b->period = ns_to_ktime(new);
> -
> -			/* since max is 1s, this is limited to 1e9^2, which fits in u64 */
> -			cfs_b->quota *= new;
> -			cfs_b->quota = div64_u64(cfs_b->quota, old);
> -
> -			pr_warn_ratelimited(
> -	"cfs_period_timer[cpu%d]: period too short, scaling up (new cfs_period_us %lld, cfs_quota_us = %lld)\n",
> -				smp_processor_id(),
> -				div_u64(new, NSEC_PER_USEC),
> -				div_u64(cfs_b->quota, NSEC_PER_USEC));
> +			/*
> +			 * Grow period by a factor of 2 to avoid lossing precision.
> +			 * Precision loss in the quota/period ratio can cause __cfs_schedulable
> +			 * to fail.
> +			 */
> +			new = old * 2;
> +			if (new < max_cfs_quota_period) {

I don't like this part as much. There may be a value between
max_cfs_quota_period/2 and max_cfs_quota_period that would get us out of
the loop. Possibly in practice it won't matter but here you trigger the
warning and take no action to keep it from continuing.

Also, if you are actually hitting this then you might want to just start at
a higher but proportional quota and period.


Cheers,
Phil

> +				cfs_b->period = ns_to_ktime(new);
> +				cfs_b->quota *= 2;
> +
> +				pr_warn_ratelimited(
> +	"cfs_period_timer[cpu%d]: period too short, scaling up (new cfs_period_us = %lld, cfs_quota_us = %lld)\n",
> +					smp_processor_id(),
> +					div_u64(new, NSEC_PER_USEC),
> +					div_u64(cfs_b->quota, NSEC_PER_USEC));
> +			} else {
> +				pr_warn_ratelimited(
> +	"cfs_period_timer[cpu%d]: period too short, but cannot scale up without losing precision (cfs_period_us = %lld, cfs_quota_us = %lld)\n",
> +					smp_processor_id(),
> +					div_u64(old, NSEC_PER_USEC),
> +					div_u64(cfs_b->quota, NSEC_PER_USEC));
> +			}
>  
>  			/* reset count so we don't come right back in here */
>  			count = 0;
> -- 
> 2.23.0.581.g78d2f28ef7-goog
> 

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