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Message-ID: <1435728995.9397.7.camel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 07:36:35 +0200
From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@...s.com>
Cc: mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH?] Livelock in pick_next_task_fair() / idle_balance()
On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 16:30 +0200, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're seeing a livelock where two CPUs both loop with interrupts
> disabled in pick_next_task_fair() / idle_balance() and continuously
> fetch all tasks from each other...
Hm. Does the below help? Looks to me like we are over-balancing.
homer:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo > trace;massive_intr 12 10 > /dev/null;cat trace|grep OINK | wc -l;tail trace
480
massive_intr-8967 [003] d... 404.285682: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 83 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 83 dload: 83
massive_intr-8960 [001] d.s. 404.293331: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 84 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 99 dload: 174
massive_intr-8962 [002] d.s. 404.317572: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 83 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 83 dload: 161
massive_intr-8967 [003] d... 404.318296: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 83 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 83 dload: 83
massive_intr-8960 [005] d... 404.341049: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 84 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 83 dload: 84
massive_intr-8962 [002] d.s. 404.381549: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 83 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 83 dload: 161
massive_intr-8971 [005] d... 404.417148: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 84 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 83 dload: 84
massive_intr-8964 [006] d.s. 404.418536: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 72 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 144 sload_is: 83 dload: 149
massive_intr-8968 [003] d... 404.437861: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 83 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 180 sload_is: 83 dload: 83
massive_intr-8970 [001] d.s. 404.485263: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 71 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 154 sload_is: 83 dload: 148
homer:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo > trace;hackbench > /dev/null;cat trace|grep OINK | wc -l;tail trace
51
hackbench-9079 [006] d... 425.982722: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 54 load: 42 run: 4 det: 4 sload_was: 130 sload_is: 62 dload: 109
hackbench-9231 [002] d... 425.982974: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 14 load: 23 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 30 sload_is: 15 dload: 23
hackbench-9328 [006] d... 425.983037: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 16 load: 72 run: 2 det: 1 sload_was: 44 sload_is: 32 dload: 72
hackbench-9197 [002] d... 425.984416: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 62 load: 21 run: 3 det: 8 sload_was: 232 sload_is: 78 dload: 119
hackbench-9196 [004] d... 425.984507: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 45 load: 43 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 44 sload_is: 22 dload: 43
hackbench-9201 [004] d... 425.984648: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 15 load: 44 run: 1 det: 2 sload_was: 71 sload_is: 25 dload: 73
hackbench-9235 [002] d... 425.984789: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 5 load: 32 run: 2 det: 1 sload_was: 65 sload_is: 42 dload: 54
hackbench-9327 [000] d... 425.985424: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 1 load: 95 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 49 sload_is: 25 dload: 95
hackbench-9193 [003] d... 425.988701: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 22 load: 94 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 128 sload_is: 66 dload: 94
hackbench-9197 [003] d... 425.988712: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 56 load: 92 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 118 sload_is: 66 dload: 92
homer:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # tail trace
kwin-4654 [002] d... 460.627311: load_balance: kglobalaccel:4597 is non-contributor - count as 37
konsole-4707 [005] d... 460.627639: load_balance: kded4:4594 is non-contributor - count as 40
konsole-4707 [005] d... 460.627640: load_balance: kactivitymanage:4611 is non-contributor - count as 40
kwin-4654 [005] d... 460.627712: load_balance: kactivitymanage:4611 is non-contributor - count as 41
kactivitymanage-4611 [005] d... 460.627726: load_balance: kded4:4594 is non-contributor - count as 40
kwin-4654 [005] d... 460.828628: load_balance: OINK - imbal: 3 load: 618 run: 1 det: 1 sload_was: 1024 sload_is: 0 dload: 618
plasma-desktop-4665 [000] d... 461.886746: load_balance: baloo_file:4666 is non-contributor - count as 141
systemd-journal-397 [001] d... 466.209790: load_balance: pulseaudio:4718 is non-contributor - count as 5
systemd-1 [007] d... 466.209868: load_balance: kmix:4704 is non-contributor - count as 13
gnome-keyring-d-9455 [002] d... 466.209902: load_balance: krunner:4702 is non-contributor - count as 8
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5897,7 +5897,7 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *e
{
struct list_head *tasks = &env->src_rq->cfs_tasks;
struct task_struct *p;
- unsigned long load;
+ unsigned long load, d_load = 0, s_load = env->src_rq->load.weight;
int detached = 0;
lockdep_assert_held(&env->src_rq->lock);
@@ -5936,6 +5936,11 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *e
detached++;
env->imbalance -= load;
+ if (!load) {
+ load = min_t(unsigned long, env->imbalance, p->se.load.weight);
+ trace_printk("%s:%d is non-contributor - count as %ld\n", p->comm, p->pid, load);
+ }
+ d_load += load;
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
/*
@@ -5954,6 +5959,18 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *e
if (env->imbalance <= 0)
break;
+ /*
+ * We don't want to bleed busiest_rq dry either. Weighted load
+ * and/or imbalance may be dinky, load contribution can even be
+ * zero, perhaps causing us to over balancem we had not assigned
+ * it above.
+ */
+ if (env->src_rq->load.weight <= env->dst_rq->load.weight + d_load) {
+ trace_printk("OINK - imbal: %ld load: %ld run: %d det: %d sload_was: %ld sload_is: %ld dload: %ld\n",
+ env->imbalance, load, env->src_rq->nr_running, detached, s_load, env->src_rq->load.weight, env->dst_rq->load.weight+d_load);
+ break;
+ }
+
continue;
next:
list_move_tail(&p->se.group_node, tasks);
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