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Message-ID: <20151123023214.GA3514@byungchulpark-X58A-UD3R>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:32:14 +0900
From: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, efault@....de,
tglx@...utronix.de, fweisbec@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] sched: make update_cpu_load_nohz() consider
missed ticks in NOHZ_FULL
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 02:19:55PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:36:02AM +0900, byungchul.park@....com wrote:
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -4419,10 +4419,11 @@ static void update_idle_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)
> > /*
> > * Called from tick_nohz_idle_exit() -- try and fix up the ticks we missed.
> > */
> > -void update_cpu_load_nohz(void)
> > +void update_cpu_load_nohz(int active)
> > {
> > struct rq *this_rq = this_rq();
> > unsigned long curr_jiffies = READ_ONCE(jiffies);
> > + unsigned long load = active ? weighted_cpuload(cpu_of(this_rq)) : 0;
> > unsigned long pending_updates;
> >
> > if (curr_jiffies == this_rq->last_load_update_tick)
> > @@ -4433,10 +4434,11 @@ void update_cpu_load_nohz(void)
> > if (pending_updates) {
> > this_rq->last_load_update_tick = curr_jiffies;
> > /*
> > - * We were idle, this means load 0, the current load might be
> > - * !0 due to remote wakeups and the sort.
> > + * In the regular NOHZ case, we were idle, this means load 0.
> > + * In the NOHZ_FULL case, we were non-idle, we should consider
> > + * its weighted load.
> > */
> > - __update_cpu_load(this_rq, 0, pending_updates, 0);
> > + __update_cpu_load(this_rq, load, pending_updates, active);
> > }
> > raw_spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
> > }
>
> Bah, so I did all the work to get the actual number of lost ticks in
> there, only to _then_ find out that's mostly pointless :-)
>
> The problem is update_idle_cpu_load() is called while idle (from another
> CPU), so it still needs the whole jiffy based thing.
>
> So I'll take this patch for now. Thanks.
Thank you.
Byungchul
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