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Message-ID: <1444816056-11886-2-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:47:35 +0900
From:	<byungchul.park@....com>
To:	mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] sched: make __update_cpu_load() handle active tickless case

From: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>

There are some cases where distance between ticks is more then one tick,
while the cpu is not idle, e.g. full NOHZ.

However __update_cpu_load() assumes it is the idle tickless case if the
distance between ticks is more than 1, even though it can be the active
tickless case. Thus in the active tickless case, updating cpu load
cannot be performed correctly. To update cpu load properly, this patch
changes __update_cpu_load() so that it can handle active tickless case.

We can consider the new_load for each omitted tick during tickless though
the each new_load would be zero in idle tickless case, while it's not
true in non-idle tickless case. We can approximately consider the
new_load ~= the last this_rq->cpu_load[0] during tickless in non-idle
tickless case. Now, let's define a symbol L which is representing the
each new_load during tickless so that L = 0 in idle tickless case,
L = this_rq->cpu_load[0] in non-idle tickless case. Then, we can get
the cpu_load(n) during tickless since last update, by

cpu_load(n) = (1 - 1/s) * cpu_load(n-1) + (1/s) * L
            , where n = the current tick - 1, s = scale

            = A * cpu_load(n-1) + B
            , where A = 1 - 1/s, B = (1/s) * L

            = A * (A * cpu_load(n-2) + B) + B

            = A * (A * (A * cpu_load(n-3) + B) + B) + B

            = A^3 * cpu_load(n-3) + A^2 * B + A * B + B

            = A^i * cpu_load(n-i) + (A^(i-1) + A^(i-2) + ... + 1) * B
            , where i = pending_updates - 1

            = A^i * cpu_load(n-i) + B * (A^i - 1) / (A - 1)
            , by geometric series formula for sum

            = (1 - 1/s)^i * (cpu_load(n-i) - L) + L
            , by extending A and B

Calculation is over!

1. (1 - 1/s)^i can be handled by decay_load_missed().
2. cpu_load(n-i) is the "old_load".
3. L is the this_rq->cpu_load[0], updated at the last time.

Finally,

cpu_load(n) for current tick will be handled in this turn.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 077076f..26473fc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4307,13 +4307,54 @@ decay_load_missed(unsigned long load, unsigned long missed_updates, int idx)
 
 /*
  * Update rq->cpu_load[] statistics. This function is usually called every
- * scheduler tick (TICK_NSEC). With tickless idle this will not be called
- * every tick. We fix it up based on jiffies.
+ * scheduler tick (TICK_NSEC). With tickless this will not be called every
+ * tick. We fix it up based on jiffies.
+ *
+ * We can consider the new_load for each omitted tick during tickless though
+ * the each new_load would be zero in idle tickless case, while it's not
+ * true in non-idle tickless case e.g. full NOHZ. We can approximately
+ * consider the new_load ~= the last this_rq->cpu_load[0] during tickless
+ * in non-idle tickless case e.g. full NOHZ. Now, let's define a symbol L
+ * which is representing the each new_load during tickless so that L = 0 in
+ * idle tickless case, L = this_rq->cpu_load[0] in non-idle tickless case.
+ * Then, we can get the cpu_load(n) during tickless since last update, by
+ *
+ * cpu_load(n) = (1 - 1/s) * cpu_load(n-1) + (1/s) * L
+ *             , where n = the current tick - 1, s = scale
+ *
+ *             = A * cpu_load(n-1) + B
+ *             , where A = 1 - 1/s, B = (1/s) * L
+ *
+ *             = A * (A * cpu_load(n-2) + B) + B
+ *
+ *             = A * (A * (A * cpu_load(n-3) + B) + B) + B
+ *
+ *             = A^3 * cpu_load(n-3) + A^2 * B + A * B + B
+ *
+ *             = A^i * cpu_load(n-i) + (A^(i-1) + A^(i-2) + ... + 1) * B
+ *             , where i = pending_updates - 1
+ *
+ *             = A^i * cpu_load(n-i) + B * (A^i - 1) / (A - 1)
+ *             , by geometric series formula for sum
+ *
+ *             = (1 - 1/s)^i * (cpu_load(n-i) - L) + L
+ *             , by extending A and B
+ *
+ * Calculation is over!
+ *
+ * 1. (1 - 1/s)^i can be handled by decay_load_missed().
+ * 2. cpu_load(n-i) is the "old_load".
+ * 3. L is the this_rq->cpu_load[0], updated at the last time.
+ *
+ * Finally,
+ *
+ * cpu_load(n) for current tick will be handled in this turn.
  */
 static void __update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long this_load,
-			      unsigned long pending_updates)
+			      unsigned long pending_updates, int active)
 {
 	int i, scale;
+	unsigned long tickless_load = active ? this_rq->cpu_load[0] : 0;
 
 	this_rq->nr_load_updates++;
 
@@ -4324,8 +4365,9 @@ static void __update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned long this_load,
 
 		/* scale is effectively 1 << i now, and >> i divides by scale */
 
-		old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i];
+		old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i] - tickless_load;
 		old_load = decay_load_missed(old_load, pending_updates - 1, i);
+		old_load += tickless_load;
 		new_load = this_load;
 		/*
 		 * Round up the averaging division if load is increasing. This
@@ -4380,7 +4422,7 @@ static void update_idle_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)
 	pending_updates = curr_jiffies - this_rq->last_load_update_tick;
 	this_rq->last_load_update_tick = curr_jiffies;
 
-	__update_cpu_load(this_rq, load, pending_updates);
+	__update_cpu_load(this_rq, load, pending_updates, 0);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -4403,7 +4445,7 @@ void update_cpu_load_nohz(void)
 		 * We were idle, this means load 0, the current load might be
 		 * !0 due to remote wakeups and the sort.
 		 */
-		__update_cpu_load(this_rq, 0, pending_updates);
+		__update_cpu_load(this_rq, 0, pending_updates, 0);
 	}
 	raw_spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
 }
@@ -4419,7 +4461,7 @@ void update_cpu_load_active(struct rq *this_rq)
 	 * See the mess around update_idle_cpu_load() / update_cpu_load_nohz().
 	 */
 	this_rq->last_load_update_tick = jiffies;
-	__update_cpu_load(this_rq, load, 1);
+	__update_cpu_load(this_rq, load, 1, 1);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.7.9.5

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