linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] schied/fair: Skip calculating @contrib without load

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Date:   Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:45:40 +0800
From:   Peng Wang <rocking@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com, mgorman@...e.de
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peng Wang <rocking@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] schied/fair: Skip calculating @contrib without load

Because of the:

	if (!load)
		runnable = running = 0;

clause in ___update_load_sum(), all the actual users of @contrib in
accumulate_sum():

	if (load)
		sa->load_sum += load * contrib;
	if (runnable)
		sa->runnable_load_sum += runnable * contrib;
	if (running)
		sa->util_sum += contrib << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;

don't happen, and therefore we don't care what @contrib actually is and
calculating it is pointless.

If we count the times when @load equals zero and not as below:

	if (load) {
		load_is_not_zero_count++;
		contrib = __accumulate_pelt_segments(periods,
				1024 - sa->period_contrib,delta);
	} else
		load_is_zero_count++;

As we can see, load_is_zero_count is much bigger than
load_is_zero_count, and the gap is gradually widening:

	load_is_zero_count:            6016044 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         244316 times
	19:50:43 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.02

	load_is_zero_count:            7956168 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         261472 times
	19:51:42 up 2 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.01

	load_is_zero_count:           10199896 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         278364 times
	19:52:51 up 3 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.01

	load_is_zero_count:           14333700 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         318424 times
	19:54:53 up 5 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00

Perhaps we can gain some performance advantage by saving these
unnecessary calculation.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <rocking@...ux.alibaba.com>
---
 kernel/sched/pelt.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/pelt.c b/kernel/sched/pelt.c
index a96db50..4392953 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/pelt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/pelt.c
@@ -129,8 +129,9 @@ static u32 __accumulate_pelt_segments(u64 periods, u32 d1, u32 d3)
 		 * Step 2
 		 */
 		delta %= 1024;
-		contrib = __accumulate_pelt_segments(periods,
-				1024 - sa->period_contrib, delta);
+		if (load)
+			contrib = __accumulate_pelt_segments(periods,
+					1024 - sa->period_contrib, delta);
 	}
 	sa->period_contrib = delta;
 
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