linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 07/17] sched: Fix hotplug vs CPU bandwidth control

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Date:   Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:52:00 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bigeasy@...utronix.de, qais.yousef@....com, swood@...hat.com,
        valentin.schneider@....com, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        bsegall@...gle.com, mgorman@...e.de, bristot@...hat.com,
        vincent.donnefort@....com, tj@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 07/17] sched: Fix hotplug vs CPU bandwidth control

On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 10:41:11PM +0200, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> On 05/10/2020 16:57, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Since we now migrate tasks away before DYING, we should also move
> > bandwidth unthrottle, otherwise we can gain tasks from unthrottle
> > after we expect all tasks to be gone already.
> > 
> > Also; it looks like the RT balancers don't respect cpu_active() and
> > instead rely on rq->online in part, complete this. This too requires
> > we do set_rq_offline() earlier to match the cpu_active() semantics.
> > (The bigger patch is to convert RT to cpu_active() entirely)
> > 
> > Since set_rq_online() is called from sched_cpu_activate(), place
> > set_rq_offline() in sched_cpu_deactivate().

> [   76.215229] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1913 at kernel/irq_work.c:95 irq_work_queue_on+0x108/0x110

> [   76.341076]  irq_work_queue_on+0x108/0x110
> [   76.349185]  pull_rt_task+0x58/0x68
> [   76.352673]  balance_rt+0x84/0x88

> balance_rt() checks via need_pull_rt_task() that rq is online but it
> looks like that with RT_PUSH_IPI pull_rt_task() -> tell_cpu_to_push()
> calls irq_work_queue_on() with cpu = rto_next_cpu(rq->rd) and this one
> can be offline here as well now.

Hurmph... so if I read this right, we reach offline with overload set?

Oooh, I think I see how that happens..