linux-kernel - Re: [patch 05/15] sched: unthrottle cfs_rq(s) who ran out of quota at period refresh

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:28:13 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Nikhil Rao <ncrao@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 05/15] sched: unthrottle cfs_rq(s) who ran out of quota
 at period refresh

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 20:03 -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
> +static u64 distribute_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, u64 runtime)
> +{
> +       int i;
> +       u64 quota, remaining = runtime;
> +       const struct cpumask *span;
> +
> +       rcu_read_lock();
> +       span = sched_bw_period_mask();
> +       for_each_cpu(i, span) {
> +               struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i);
> +               struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_bandwidth_tg(cfs_b)->cfs_rq[i];
> +
> +               raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
> +               if (within_bandwidth(cfs_rq))
> +                       goto next;
> +
> +               quota = -cfs_rq->quota_remaining;
> +               quota += sched_cfs_bandwidth_slice();
> +               quota = min(quota, remaining);
> +               remaining -= quota;
> +
> +               cfs_rq->quota_remaining += quota;
> +               if (cfs_rq_throttled(cfs_rq) && cfs_rq->quota_remaining > 0)
> +                       unthrottle_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
> +
> +next:
> +               raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
> +
> +               if (!remaining)
> +                       break;
> +       }
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> +       return remaining;
> +}
> +
>  static int do_sched_cfs_period_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, int overrun)
>  {
> +       u64 runtime, runtime_assigned;
> +       int idle;
> +
> +       raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
> +       runtime = cfs_b->quota;
> +       idle = cfs_b->runtime == cfs_b->runtime_assigned;
> +       raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
> +
> +       if (runtime == RUNTIME_INF)
> +               return 1;
> +
> +       runtime *= overrun;
> +       runtime_assigned = runtime;
> +
> +       runtime = distribute_cfs_bandwidth(cfs_b, runtime);
> +
> +       raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
> +       cfs_b->runtime = runtime;
> +       cfs_b->runtime_assigned = runtime_assigned;
> +       raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
> +
> +       return idle;
>  } 

There's something fishy there, it looks like ->runtime can end up being
> ->quota in case of overrun > 1, that shouldn't be possible, the
refresh timer should never over-fill the bucket.

The whole ->runtime_assigned stuff had me confused for a while, but I
guess its the easiest way to determine if we indeed had runtime
consumption.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/