linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v5 9/9] sched/deadline: also reclaim bandwidth not used by dl tasks

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:03:41 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     luca abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
        Claudio Scordino <claudio@...dence.eu.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@...up.it>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v5 9/9] sched/deadline: also reclaim bandwidth not used by
 dl tasks

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:53:02AM +0100, luca abeni wrote:

> +static inline
> +void __dl_update(struct dl_bw *dl_b, s64 bw)
> +{
> +	struct root_domain *rd = container_of(dl_b, struct root_domain, dl_bw);
> +	int i;
> +
> +	RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held(),
> +			 "sched RCU must be held");
> +	for_each_cpu_and(i, rd->span, cpu_active_mask) {
> +		struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i);
> +
> +		rq->dl.extra_bw += bw;
> +	}

So this is unfortunate (and we already have one such instance).

It effectively does an for_each_online_cpu() with IRQs disabled, and on
SGI class hardware that takes _forever_.

This is also what I got stuck on trying to rewrite AC to use Tommaso's
recoverable thing. In the end I had to do a 2 stage try/commit variant.
Which ended up being a pain and I didn't finish.

I'm not saying this patch is bad, but this is something we need to thing
about.