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Message-ID: <20130620210141.GN4082@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:01:42 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] sched: Disable lb_bias feature for full dynticks

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:45:38PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> If we run in full dynticks mode, we currently have no way to
> correctly update the secondary decaying indexes of the CPU
> load stats as it is typically maintained by update_cpu_load_active()
> at each tick.
> 
> We have an available infrastructure that handles tickless loads
> (cf: decay_load_missed) but it seems to only work for idle tickless
> loads, which only applies if the CPU hasn't run any real task but
> idle on the tickless timeslice.
> 
> Until we can provide a sane mathematical solution to handle full
> dynticks loads, lets simply deactivate the LB_BIAS sched feature
> if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL as it is currently the only user of the decayed
> load records.
> 
> The first load index that represents the current runqueue load weight
> is still maintained and usable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c     |   13 +++++++++++--
>  kernel/sched/features.h |    3 +++
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index c0ac2c3..2e8df6f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2937,6 +2937,15 @@ static unsigned long weighted_cpuload(const int cpu)
>  	return cpu_rq(cpu)->load.weight;
>  }
> 
> +static inline int sched_lb_bias(void)
> +{
> +#ifndef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
> +	return sched_feat(LB_BIAS);
> +#else
> +	return 0;
> +#endif
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Return a low guess at the load of a migration-source cpu weighted
>   * according to the scheduling class and "nice" value.
> @@ -2949,7 +2958,7 @@ static unsigned long source_load(int cpu, int type)
>  	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
>  	unsigned long total = weighted_cpuload(cpu);
> 
> -	if (type == 0 || !sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
> +	if (type == 0 || !sched_lb_bias())
>  		return total;
> 
>  	return min(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
> @@ -2964,7 +2973,7 @@ static unsigned long target_load(int cpu, int type)
>  	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
>  	unsigned long total = weighted_cpuload(cpu);
> 
> -	if (type == 0 || !sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
> +	if (type == 0 || !sched_lb_bias())
>  		return total;
> 
>  	return max(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
> index 99399f8..635f902 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/features.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ SCHED_FEAT(ARCH_POWER, true)
> 
>  SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, false)
>  SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, false)
> +
> +#ifndef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
>  SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, true)
> +#endif
> 
>  /*
>   * Decrement CPU power based on time not spent running tasks
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 

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