linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 49/68] sched/fair: Fix effective_load() to consistently use smoothed load

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Date:	Mon,  8 Aug 2016 21:11:24 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 49/68] sched/fair: Fix effective_load() to consistently use smoothed load

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

commit 7dd4912594daf769a46744848b05bd5bc6d62469 upstream.

Starting with the following commit:

  fde7d22e01aa ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities")

calc_tg_weight() doesn't compute the right value as expected by effective_load().

The difference is in the 'correction' term. In order to ensure \Sum
rw_j >= rw_i we cannot use tg->load_avg directly, since that might be
lagging a correction on the current cfs_rq->avg.load_avg value.
Therefore we use tg->load_avg - cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib +
cfs_rq->avg.load_avg.

Now, per the referenced commit, calc_tg_weight() doesn't use
cfs_rq->avg.load_avg, as is later used in @w, but uses
cfs_rq->load.weight instead.

So stop using calc_tg_weight() and do it explicitly.

The effects of this bug are wake_affine() making randomly
poor choices in cgroup-intense workloads.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Fixes: fde7d22e01aa ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -687,8 +687,6 @@ void init_entity_runnable_average(struct
 	/* when this task enqueue'ed, it will contribute to its cfs_rq's load_avg */
 }
 
-static inline unsigned long cfs_rq_runnable_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
-static inline unsigned long cfs_rq_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
 #else
 void init_entity_runnable_average(struct sched_entity *se)
 {
@@ -4594,19 +4592,24 @@ static long effective_load(struct task_g
 		return wl;
 
 	for_each_sched_entity(se) {
-		long w, W;
+		struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = se->my_q;
+		long W, w = cfs_rq_load_avg(cfs_rq);
 
-		tg = se->my_q->tg;
+		tg = cfs_rq->tg;
 
 		/*
 		 * W = @wg + \Sum rw_j
 		 */
-		W = wg + calc_tg_weight(tg, se->my_q);
+		W = wg + atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
+
+		/* Ensure \Sum rw_j >= rw_i */
+		W -= cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib;
+		W += w;
 
 		/*
 		 * w = rw_i + @wl
 		 */
-		w = cfs_rq_load_avg(se->my_q) + wl;
+		w += wl;
 
 		/*
 		 * wl = S * s'_i; see (2)