linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.18 189/235] sched/fair: Fix util_avg of new tasks for asymmetric systems

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Message-Id: <20180924113123.349498903@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:52:55 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        morten.rasmussen@....com, patrick.bellasi@....com,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.18 189/235] sched/fair: Fix util_avg of new tasks for asymmetric systems

4.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>

[ Upstream commit 8fe5c5a937d0f4e84221631833a2718afde52285 ]

When a new task wakes-up for the first time, its initial utilization
is set to half of the spare capacity of its CPU. The current
implementation of post_init_entity_util_avg() uses SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE
directly as a capacity reference. As a result, on a big.LITTLE system, a
new task waking up on an idle little CPU will be given ~512 of util_avg,
even if the CPU's capacity is significantly less than that.

Fix this by computing the spare capacity with arch_scale_cpu_capacity().

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@....com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@....com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@....com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612112215.25448-1-quentin.perret@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -735,11 +735,12 @@ static void attach_entity_cfs_rq(struct
  * To solve this problem, we also cap the util_avg of successive tasks to
  * only 1/2 of the left utilization budget:
  *
- *   util_avg_cap = (1024 - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2^n
+ *   util_avg_cap = (cpu_scale - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2^n
  *
- * where n denotes the nth task.
+ * where n denotes the nth task and cpu_scale the CPU capacity.
  *
- * For example, a simplest series from the beginning would be like:
+ * For example, for a CPU with 1024 of capacity, a simplest series from
+ * the beginning would be like:
  *
  *  task  util_avg: 512, 256, 128,  64,  32,   16,    8, ...
  * cfs_rq util_avg: 512, 768, 896, 960, 992, 1008, 1016, ...
@@ -751,7 +752,8 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct sc
 {
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
 	struct sched_avg *sa = &se->avg;
-	long cap = (long)(SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2;
+	long cpu_scale = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)));
+	long cap = (long)(cpu_scale - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2;
 
 	if (cap > 0) {
 		if (cfs_rq->avg.util_avg != 0) {