linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/2] sched/deadline: Check bandwidth overflow earlier for hotplug

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Message-ID: <20250216163340.ttwddti5pzuynsj5@airbuntu>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:40 +0000
From: Qais Yousef <qyousef@...alina.io>
To: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/2] sched/deadline: Check bandwidth overflow earlier
 for hotplug

On 02/13/25 07:20, Juri Lelli wrote:
> On 12/02/25 19:22, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> > On 11/02/2025 11:42, Juri Lelli wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > What about we actually ignore them consistently? We already do that for
> > > admission control, so maybe we can do that when rebuilding domains as
> > > well (until we find maybe a better way to deal with them).
> > > 
> > > Does the following make any difference?
> > 
> > It at least seems to solve the issue. And like you mentioned on irc, we
> > don't know the bw req of sugov anyway.
> > 
> > So with this change we start with 'dl_bw->total_bw = 0' even w/ sugov tasks.
> > 
> > dl_rq[0]:
> >   .dl_nr_running                 : 0
> >   .dl_bw->bw                     : 996147
> >   .dl_bw->total_bw               : 0       <-- !
> > 
> > IMHO, people who want to run serious DL can always check whether there
> > are already these infrastructural DL tasks or even avoid schedutil.
> 
> It definitely not ideal and admittedly gross, but not worse than what we
> are doing already considering we ignore sugovs at AC and the current
> bandwidth allocation its there only to help with PI. So, duck tape. :/
> 
> A more proper way to work with this would entail coming up with sensible
> bandwidth allocation for sugovs, but that's most probably hardware
> specific, so I am not sure how we can make that general enough.

I haven't been following the problem closely, but one thing I was considering
and I don't know if it makes sense to you and could help with this problem too.
Shall we lump sugov with stopper class or create a new sched_class (seems
unnecessary, I think stopper should do)? With the consolidate cpufreq update
patch I've been working on Vincent raised issues with potential new ctx switch
and to improve that I needed to look at improving sugov wakeup path. If we
decouple it from DL I think that might fix your problem here and could allow us
to special case it for other problems like the ones I faced more easily without
missing up with DL.

Has the time come to consider retire the simple solution of making sugov a fake
DL task?

> 
> Anyway, looks like Jon was still seeing the issue. I asked him to verify
> he is using all the proposed changes. Let's see what he reports.
> 
> Best,
> Juri
>