Re: [PATCH -v2 15/18] sched/fair: Align PELT windows between cfs_rq and its se

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

On 01/09/17 14:21, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The PELT _sum values are a saw-tooth function, dropping on the decay
> edge and then growing back up again during the window.
> 
> When these window-edges are not aligned between cfs_rq and se, we can
> have the situation where, for example, on dequeue, the se decays
> first.
> 
> Its _sum values will be small(er), while the cfs_rq _sum values will
> still be on their way up. Because of this, the subtraction:
> cfs_rq->avg._sum -= se->avg._sum will result in a positive value. This
> will then, once the cfs_rq reaches an edge, translate into its _avg
> value jumping up.
> 
> This is especially visible with the runnable_load bits, since they get
> added/subtracted a lot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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> @@ -3644,7 +3634,34 @@ update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct c
>   */
>  static void attach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>  {
> +	u32 divider = LOAD_AVG_MAX - 1024 + cfs_rq->avg.period_contrib;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * When we attach the @se to the @cfs_rq, we must align the decay
> +	 * window because without that, really weird and wonderful things can
> +	 * happen.
> +	 *
> +	 * XXX illustrate
> +	 */
>  	se->avg.last_update_time = cfs_rq->avg.last_update_time;
> +	se->avg.period_contrib = cfs_rq->avg.period_contrib;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Hell(o) Nasty stuff.. we need to recompute _sum based on the new
> +	 * period_contrib. This isn't strictly correct, but since we're
> +	 * entirely outside of the PELT hierarchy, nobody cares if we truncate
> +	 * _sum a little.
> +	 */
> +	se->avg.util_sum = se->avg.util_avg * divider;
> +
> +	se->avg.load_sum = divider;
> +	if (se_weight(se)) {
> +		se->avg.load_sum =
> +			div_u64(se->avg.load_avg * se->avg.load_sum, se_weight(se));
> +	}

Can scale_load_down(se->load.weight) ever become 0 here?

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