From a75cdaa915e42ef0e6f38dc7f2a6a1deca91d648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Shi Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:18:47 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Set an initial value of runnable avg for new forked task We need to initialize the se.avg.{decay_count, load_avg_contrib} for a new forked task. Otherwise random values of above variables cause a mess when a new task is enqueued: enqueue_task_fair enqueue_entity enqueue_entity_load_avg and make fork balancing imbalance due to incorrect load_avg_contrib. Further more, Morten Rasmussen notice some tasks were not launched at once after created. So Paul and Peter suggest giving a start value for new task runnable avg time same as sched_slice(). PeterZ said: > So the 'problem' is that our running avg is a 'floating' average; ie. it > decays with time. Now we have to guess about the future of our newly > spawned task -- something that is nigh impossible seeing these CPU > vendors keep refusing to implement the crystal ball instruction. > > So there's two asymptotic cases we want to deal well with; 1) the case > where the newly spawned program will be 'nearly' idle for its lifetime; > and 2) the case where its cpu-bound. > > Since we have to guess, we'll go for worst case and assume its > cpu-bound; now we don't want to make the avg so heavy adjusting to the > near-idle case takes forever. We want to be able to quickly adjust and > lower our running avg. > > Now we also don't want to make our avg too light, such that it gets > decremented just for the new task not having had a chance to run yet -- > even if when it would run, it would be more cpu-bound than not. > > So what we do is we make the initial avg of the same duration as that we > guess it takes to run each task on the system at least once -- aka > sched_slice(). > > Of course we can defeat this with wakeup/fork bombs, but in the 'normal' > case it should be good enough. Paul also contributed most of the code comments in this commit. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng Reviewed-by: Paul Turner [peterz; added explanation of sched_slice() usage] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-4-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 6 ++---- kernel/sched/fair.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 0241b1b55a04..729e7fc7634b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1611,10 +1611,6 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_struct *p) p->se.vruntime = 0; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->se.group_node); -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP - p->se.avg.runnable_avg_period = 0; - p->se.avg.runnable_avg_sum = 0; -#endif #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS memset(&p->se.statistics, 0, sizeof(p->se.statistics)); #endif @@ -1758,6 +1754,8 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p) set_task_cpu(p, select_task_rq(p, SD_BALANCE_FORK, 0)); #endif + /* Initialize new task's runnable average */ + init_task_runnable_average(p); rq = __task_rq_lock(p); activate_task(rq, p, 0); p->on_rq = 1; diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 36eadaaa4e5b..e1602a0fdbf8 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -680,6 +680,26 @@ static u64 sched_vslice(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se) return calc_delta_fair(sched_slice(cfs_rq, se), se); } +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP +static inline void __update_task_entity_contrib(struct sched_entity *se); + +/* Give new task start runnable values to heavy its load in infant time */ +void init_task_runnable_average(struct task_struct *p) +{ + u32 slice; + + p->se.avg.decay_count = 0; + slice = sched_slice(task_cfs_rq(p), &p->se) >> 10; + p->se.avg.runnable_avg_sum = slice; + p->se.avg.runnable_avg_period = slice; + __update_task_entity_contrib(&p->se); +} +#else +void init_task_runnable_average(struct task_struct *p) +{ +} +#endif + /* * Update the current task's runtime statistics. Skip current tasks that * are not in our scheduling class. @@ -1527,6 +1547,10 @@ static inline void enqueue_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, * We track migrations using entity decay_count <= 0, on a wake-up * migration we use a negative decay count to track the remote decays * accumulated while sleeping. + * + * Newly forked tasks are enqueued with se->avg.decay_count == 0, they + * are seen by enqueue_entity_load_avg() as a migration with an already + * constructed load_avg_contrib. */ if (unlikely(se->avg.decay_count <= 0)) { se->avg.last_runnable_update = rq_clock_task(rq_of(cfs_rq)); diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index 31d25f80a7c6..9c65d46504b1 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -1048,6 +1048,8 @@ extern void init_rt_bandwidth(struct rt_bandwidth *rt_b, u64 period, u64 runtime extern void update_idle_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq); +extern void init_task_runnable_average(struct task_struct *p); + #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT static inline u64 steal_ticks(u64 steal) { -- 2.39.5