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Message-ID: <20160223122822.GP6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:28:22 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Always calculate end of period on
 sched_yield()

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:10:20PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index cd64c979d0e1..1dd180cda574 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
>  	 * approach need further study.
>  	 */
>  	delta_exec = rq_clock_task(rq) - curr->se.exec_start;
> -	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec <= 0))
> +	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec <= 0 && !dl_se->dl_yielded))
>  		return;
>  
>  	schedstat_set(curr->se.statistics.exec_max,


Would something like this make sense instead?

It also retains the ->runtime while yielded, and would actually 'fix' a
case where, when we call yield, we would have had a negative runtime
after update_curr_dl().

The current code will 'gift' us extra runtime in that case.

---
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 57b939c81bce..c2bca80d3388 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ static void replenish_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
 		dl_se->runtime = pi_se->dl_runtime;
 	}
 
+	if (dl_se->dl_yielded && dl_se->runtime > 0)
+		dl_se->runtime = 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * We keep moving the deadline away until we get some
 	 * available runtime for the entity. This ensures correct
@@ -735,8 +738,11 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
 	 * approach need further study.
 	 */
 	delta_exec = rq_clock_task(rq) - curr->se.exec_start;
-	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec <= 0))
+	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec <= 0)) {
+		if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_yielded))
+			goto throttle;
 		return;
+	}
 
 	schedstat_set(curr->se.statistics.exec_max,
 		      max(curr->se.statistics.exec_max, delta_exec));
@@ -749,8 +755,10 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
 
 	sched_rt_avg_update(rq, delta_exec);
 
-	dl_se->runtime -= dl_se->dl_yielded ? 0 : delta_exec;
-	if (dl_runtime_exceeded(dl_se)) {
+	dl_se->runtime -= delta_exec;
+
+throttle:
+	if (dl_runtime_exceeded(dl_se) || dl_se->dl_yielded) {
 		dl_se->dl_throttled = 1;
 		__dequeue_task_dl(rq, curr, 0);
 		if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted || !start_dl_timer(curr)))
@@ -1002,10 +1010,8 @@ static void yield_task_dl(struct rq *rq)
 	 * it and the bandwidth timer will wake it up and will give it
 	 * new scheduling parameters (thanks to dl_yielded=1).
 	 */
-	if (p->dl.runtime > 0) {
-		rq->curr->dl.dl_yielded = 1;
-		p->dl.runtime = 0;
-	}
+	rq->curr->dl.dl_yielded = 1;
+
 	update_rq_clock(rq);
 	update_curr_dl(rq);
 	/*

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