linux-kernel - [PATCH 05/10] sched/deadline: do not reclaim the whole CPU bandwidth

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Message-Id: <1495138417-6203-6-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Date:   Thu, 18 May 2017 22:13:32 +0200
From:   luca abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.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>,
        Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>
Subject: [PATCH 05/10] sched/deadline: do not reclaim the whole CPU bandwidth

From: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>

Original GRUB tends to reclaim 100% of the CPU time... And this
allows a CPU hog to starve non-deadline tasks.
To address this issue, allow the scheduler to reclaim only a
specified fraction of CPU time, stored in the new "bw_ratio"
field of the dl runqueue structure.

Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c     | 11 +++++++++++
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 kernel/sched/sched.h    |  8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 14dd97e..84cd00f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6754,6 +6754,16 @@ static int sched_dl_global_validate(void)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+void init_dl_rq_bw_ratio(struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
+{
+	if (global_rt_runtime() == RUNTIME_INF) {
+		dl_rq->bw_ratio = 1 << RATIO_SHIFT;
+	} else {
+		dl_rq->bw_ratio = to_ratio(global_rt_runtime(),
+			  global_rt_period()) >> (BW_SHIFT - RATIO_SHIFT);
+	}
+}
+
 static void sched_dl_do_global(void)
 {
 	u64 new_bw = -1;
@@ -6779,6 +6789,7 @@ static void sched_dl_do_global(void)
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dl_b->lock, flags);
 
 		rcu_read_unlock_sched();
+		init_dl_rq_bw_ratio(&cpu_rq(cpu)->dl);
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 4e0c02c..f4d36aa 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ void init_dl_rq(struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
 #endif
 
 	dl_rq->running_bw = 0;
+	init_dl_rq_bw_ratio(dl_rq);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -924,11 +925,20 @@ extern bool sched_rt_bandwidth_account(struct rt_rq *rt_rq);
  * Uact is the (per-runqueue) active utilization.
  * Since rq->dl.running_bw contains Uact * 2^BW_SHIFT, the result
  * has to be shifted right by BW_SHIFT.
+ * To reclaim only a fraction Umax of the CPU time, the
+ * runtime accounting rule is modified as
+ * "dq = -Uact / Umax dt"; since rq->dl.bw_ratio contains
+ * 2^RATIO_SHIFT / Umax, delta is multiplied by bw_ratio and shifted
+ * right by RATIO_SHIFT.
+ * Since delta is a 64 bit variable, to have an overflow its value
+ * should be larger than 2^(64 - 20 - 8), which is more than 64 seconds.
+ * So, overflow is not an issue here.
  */
 u64 grub_reclaim(u64 delta, struct rq *rq)
 {
 	delta *= rq->dl.running_bw;
-	delta >>= BW_SHIFT;
+	delta *= rq->dl.bw_ratio;
+	delta >>= BW_SHIFT + RATIO_SHIFT;
 
 	return delta;
 }
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index c0001ab..cd20da1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -565,6 +565,12 @@ struct dl_rq {
 	 * task blocks
 	 */
 	u64 running_bw;
+
+	/*
+	 * Inverse of the fraction of CPU utilization that can be reclaimed
+	 * by the GRUB algorithm.
+	 */
+	u64 bw_ratio;
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -1495,9 +1501,11 @@ extern struct dl_bandwidth def_dl_bandwidth;
 extern void init_dl_bandwidth(struct dl_bandwidth *dl_b, u64 period, u64 runtime);
 extern void init_dl_task_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se);
 extern void init_dl_inactive_task_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se);
+extern void init_dl_rq_bw_ratio(struct dl_rq *dl_rq);
 
 #define BW_SHIFT	20
 #define BW_UNIT		(1 << BW_SHIFT)
+#define RATIO_SHIFT	8
 unsigned long to_ratio(u64 period, u64 runtime);
 
 extern void init_entity_runnable_average(struct sched_entity *se);
-- 
2.7.4