linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/debug: Show intergroup and hierarchy sum wait time of a task group

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Message-ID: <3680160f-a439-02a3-3d40-56de18096c4b@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:11:40 +0800
From:   王贇 <yun.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     ufo19890607@...il.com, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        yuzhoujian@...ichuxing.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/debug: Show intergroup and hierarchy sum wait time
 of a task group



On 2019/1/23 下午5:46, ufo19890607@...il.com wrote:
> From: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@...ichuxing.com>
> 
> We can monitor the sum wait time of a task group since 'commit 3d6c50c27bd6
> ("sched/debug: Show the sum wait time of a task group")'. However this
> wait_sum just represents the confilct between different task groups, since
> it is simply sum the wait time of task_group's cfs_rq. And we still cannot
> evaluate the conflict between all the tasks within hierarchy of this group,
> so the hierarchy wait time is still needed.

Could you please give us a scene that we do need this hierarchy wait_sum,
despite the extra overhead?

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 
> Thus we introduce hierarchy wait_sum which summarizes the total wait sum of
> all the tasks in the hierarchy of a group.
> 
> The 'cpu.stat' is modified to show the statistic, like:
> 
> 	nr_periods 0
> 	nr_throttled 0
> 	throttled_time 0
> 	intergroup wait_sum 2842251984
> 	hierarchy wait_sum 6389509389332798
> 
>  From now on we can monitor both the wait_sum of intergroup and hierarchy,
> which will inevitably help a system administrator know how intense the CPU
> competition is within a task group and between different task groups. We
> can calculate the wait rate of a task group based on hierarchy wait_sum and
> cpuacct.usage.
> 
> For example:
> 	X% = (current_wait_sum - last_wait_sum) / ((current_usage -
> last_usage) + (current_wait_sum - last_wait_sum))
> 
> That means the task group paid X percentage of time on runqueue waiting
> for the CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@...ichuxing.com>
> ---
>   kernel/sched/core.c  | 11 +++++++----
>   kernel/sched/fair.c  | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>   kernel/sched/sched.h |  3 +++
>   3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index ee77636..172e6fb 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6760,13 +6760,16 @@ static int cpu_cfs_stat_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
>   	seq_printf(sf, "throttled_time %llu\n", cfs_b->throttled_time);
>   
>   	if (schedstat_enabled() && tg != &root_task_group) {
> -		u64 ws = 0;
> +		u64 inter_ws = 0, hierarchy_ws = 0;
>   		int i;
>   
> -		for_each_possible_cpu(i)
> -			ws += schedstat_val(tg->se[i]->statistics.wait_sum);
> +		for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> +			inter_ws += schedstat_val(tg->se[i]->statistics.wait_sum);
> +			hierarchy_ws += tg->cfs_rq[i]->hierarchy_wait_sum;
> +		}
>   
> -		seq_printf(sf, "wait_sum %llu\n", ws);
> +		seq_printf(sf, "intergroup wait_sum %llu\n", inter_ws);
> +		seq_printf(sf, "hierarchy wait_sum %llu\n", hierarchy_ws);
>   	}
>   
>   	return 0;
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index e2ff4b6..35e89ca 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -858,6 +858,19 @@ static void update_curr_fair(struct rq *rq)
>   }
>   
>   static inline void
> +update_hierarchy_wait_sum(struct sched_entity *se,
> +			u64 delta_wait)
> +{
> +	for_each_sched_entity(se) {
> +		struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> +
> +		if (cfs_rq->tg != &root_task_group)
> +			__schedstat_add(cfs_rq->hierarchy_wait_sum,
> +					delta_wait);
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static inline void
>   update_stats_wait_end(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>   {
>   	struct task_struct *p;
> @@ -880,6 +893,7 @@ static void update_curr_fair(struct rq *rq)
>   			return;
>   		}
>   		trace_sched_stat_wait(p, delta);
> +		update_hierarchy_wait_sum(se, delta);
>   	}
>   
>   	__schedstat_set(se->statistics.wait_max,
> @@ -10273,6 +10287,9 @@ void init_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>   #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
>   	cfs_rq->min_vruntime_copy = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
>   #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
> +	cfs_rq->hierarchy_wait_sum = 0;
> +#endif
>   #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>   	raw_spin_lock_init(&cfs_rq->removed.lock);
>   #endif
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index d27c1a5..c01ab99 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ struct cfs_rq {
>   #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
>   	u64			min_vruntime_copy;
>   #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
> +	u64			hierarchy_wait_sum;
> +#endif
>   
>   	struct rb_root_cached	tasks_timeline;
>   
>