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Message-ID: <d5c570edb2000f70d283e185162080e55636eb83.camel@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 20:03:29 +0200
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Luis Machado
 <luis.machado@....com>
Cc: mingo@...hat.com, juri.lelli@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org, 
 dietmar.eggemann@....com, rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com,
 mgorman@...e.de,  bristot@...hat.com, vschneid@...hat.com,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,  kprateek.nayak@....com,
 wuyun.abel@...edance.com, tglx@...utronix.de, nd <nd@....com>,  John Stultz
 <jstultz@...gle.com>, Hongyan.Xia2@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 08/10] sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue

On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 13:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 11:36:49AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 03:49:46PM +0100, Luis Machado wrote:
> > > Just a quick update on this. While investigating this behavior, I
> > > spotted very high loadavg values on an idle system. For instance:
> > > 
> > > load average: 4733.84, 4721.24, 4680.33
> > > 
> > > I wonder if someone else also spotted this.
> > 
> > Hadn't spotted it, but now that you mention it, I can definitely see it.

(ditto.. wart not enormous enough for awesome powers of observation:)

> > 
> > Let me go prod with something sharp. Thanks!
> 
> What's the point of making notes if you then don't read them... *sigh*.
> 
> Does this help?

That fixed it up here.

> ---
>  kernel/sched/core.c  | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
>  kernel/sched/fair.c  |  4 ++--
>  kernel/sched/sched.h |  8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 5ffd7e047393..43f061bcfe54 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2154,14 +2154,18 @@ void activate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
>  
>  void deactivate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
>  {
> -       bool sleep = flags & DEQUEUE_SLEEP;
> +       SCHED_WARN_ON(flags & DEQUEUE_SLEEP);
>  
> -       if (dequeue_task(rq, p, flags)) {
> -               WRITE_ONCE(p->on_rq, sleep ? 0 : TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING);
> -               ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(p->on_rq);
> -       } else {
> -               SCHED_WARN_ON(!sleep); /* only sleep can fail */
> -       }
> +       dequeue_task(rq, p, flags);
> +
> +       WRITE_ONCE(p->on_rq, TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING);
> +       ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(p->on_rq);
> +}
> +
> +static void block_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
> +{
> +       if (dequeue_task(rq, p, DEQUEUE_SLEEP | flags))
> +               __block_task(rq, p);
>  }
>  
>  static inline int __normal_prio(int policy, int rt_prio, int nice)
> @@ -6693,9 +6697,6 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(unsigned int sched_mode)
>                                 !(prev_state & TASK_NOLOAD) &&
>                                 !(prev_state & TASK_FROZEN);
>  
> -                       if (prev->sched_contributes_to_load)
> -                               rq->nr_uninterruptible++;
> -
>                         /*
>                          * __schedule()                 ttwu()
>                          *   prev_state = prev->state;    if (p->on_rq && ...)
> @@ -6707,7 +6708,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(unsigned int sched_mode)
>                          *
>                          * After this, schedule() must not care about p->state any more.
>                          */
> -                       deactivate_task(rq, prev, DEQUEUE_SLEEP | DEQUEUE_NOCLOCK);
> +                       block_task(rq, prev, DEQUEUE_SLEEP | DEQUEUE_NOCLOCK);
>  
>                         if (prev->in_iowait) {
>                                 atomic_inc(&rq->nr_iowait);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 536eabcb1a71..596a5fabe490 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -7032,8 +7032,8 @@ static int dequeue_entities(struct rq *rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
>                         util_est_update(&rq->cfs, p, task_sleep);
>                         hrtick_update(rq);
>  
> -                       /* Fix-up what deactivate_task() skipped. */
> -                       WRITE_ONCE(p->on_rq, 0);
> +                       /* Fix-up what block_task() skipped. */
> +                       __block_task(rq, p);
>                 }
>         }
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index 12841d8195c5..48e5f49d9bc2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -2560,6 +2560,14 @@ static inline void sub_nr_running(struct rq *rq, unsigned count)
>         sched_update_tick_dependency(rq);
>  }
>  
> +static inline void __block_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> +       WRITE_ONCE(p->on_rq, 0);
> +       ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(p->on_rq);
> +       if (p->sched_contributes_to_load)
> +               rq->nr_uninterruptible++;
> +}
> +
>  extern void activate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
>  extern void deactivate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
>  

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