Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] sched/dl: Try better placement even for deadline tasks that do not block

[Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>]

On 7/9/19 3:42 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 03:24:36PM +0200, luca abeni wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 15:55:36 +0200
>> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 06:48:33AM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote:
>>>> @@ -1223,8 +1250,17 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
>>>>  			dl_se->dl_overrun = 1;
>>>>  
>>>>  		__dequeue_task_dl(rq, curr, 0);
>>>> -		if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted
>>>> || !start_dl_timer(curr)))
>>>> +		if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted
>>>> || !start_dl_timer(curr))) { enqueue_task_dl(rq, curr,
>>>> ENQUEUE_REPLENISH); +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>>>> +		} else if (dl_se->dl_adjust) {
>>>> +			if (rq->migrating_task == NULL) {
>>>> +				queue_balance_callback(rq,
>>>> &per_cpu(dl_migrate_head, rq->cpu), migrate_dl_task);  
>>>
>>> I'm not entirely sure about this one.
>>>
>>> That is, we only do those callbacks from:
>>>
>>>   schedule_tail()
>>>   __schedule()
>>>   rt_mutex_setprio()
>>>   __sched_setscheduler()
>>>
>>> and the above looks like it can happen outside of those.
>>
>> Sorry, I did not know the constraints or requirements for using
>> queue_balance_callback()...
>>
>> I used it because I wanted to trigger a migration from
>> update_curr_dl(), but invoking double_lock_balance() from this function
>> obviously resulted in a warning. So, I probably misunderstood the
>> purpose of the balance callback API, and I misused it.
>>
>> What would have been the "right way" to trigger a migration for a task
>> when it is throttled?
> 
> I'm thinking we'll end up in schedule() pretty soon after a throttle to
> make 'current' go away, right? We could put the queue_balance_callback()
> in dequeue_task_dl() or something.

Is this what you are concerned about?

(2 Cpus (CPU1, CPU2), 4 deadline task (thread0-X)) with 

@@ -1137,6 +1137,13 @@ static inline void rq_pin_lock(struct rq *rq, struct rq_flags *rf)
        rf->cookie = lockdep_pin_lock(&rq->lock);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+       /*
+        * There should not be pending callbacks at the start of rq_lock();
+        * all sites that handle them flush them at the end.
+        */
+       WARN_ON_ONCE(rq->balance_callback);
+#endif


[   87.251233] *** <--- queue_balance_callback(migrate_dl_task) p=[thread0-2 3626] on CPU1
[   87.251237] *** <--- queue_balance_callback(migrate_dl_task) p=[thread0-3 3627] on CPU2
[   87.251261] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3627 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145 __schedule+0x56c/0x690
[   87.259173] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3626 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145 try_to_wake_up+0x68c/0x778
[   87.615871] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3626 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145 scheduler_tick+0x110/0x118
[   87.615882] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3616 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145 task_rq_lock+0xe8/0xf0
[   88.012571] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3626 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145 update_blocked_averages+0x924/0x998
[   88.176844] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3616 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145 load_balance+0x4d0/0xbc0
[   88.381905] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3616 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1145 load_balance+0x7d8/0xbc0
[   88.586991] *** ---> migrate_dl_task() p=[thread0-3 3627] to CPU1
[   88.587008] *** ---> migrate_dl_task() p=[thread0-2 3626] to CPU1
[   89.335307] *** <--- queue_balance_callback(migrate_dl_task) p=[thread0-0 3624] on CPU2
[   89.343252] *** ---> migrate_dl_task() p=[thread0-0 3624] to CPU1
[   89.379309] *** <--- queue_balance_callback(migrate_dl_task) p=[thread0-1 3625] on CPU2
[   89.387249] *** ---> migrate_dl_task() p=[thread0-1 3625] to CPU1
[   89.591323] *** <--- queue_balance_callback(migrate_dl_task) p=[thread0-3 3627] on CPU2
[   89.599263] *** ---> migrate_dl_task() p=[thread0-3 3627] to CPU2