UPSTREAM: sched/fair: Fix incorrect task group ->load_avg
authorVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:45:23 +0000 (14:45 +0200)
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:07:38 +0000 (16:37 +0530)
commit116285cc9a9d1f025c1d5deffd78f86ef4c0972c
tree8e67524218a758dac7f78589dcc784ee035b17b3
parent5fef33f1bad3f3745ba3e14d78fd7e2c8d8db993
UPSTREAM: sched/fair: Fix incorrect task group ->load_avg

A scheduler performance regression has been reported by Joseph Salisbury,
which he bisected back to:

  3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)

The regression triggers when several levels of task groups are involved
(read: SystemD) and cpu_possible_mask != cpu_present_mask.

The root cause is that group entity's load (tg_child->se[i]->avg.load_avg)
is initialized to scale_load_down(se->load.weight). During the creation of
a child task group, its group entities on possible CPUs are attached to
parent's cfs_rq (tg_parent) and their loads are added to the parent's load
(tg_parent->load_avg) with update_tg_load_avg().

But only the load on online CPUs will then be updated to reflect real load,
whereas load on other CPUs will stay at the initial value.

The result is a tg_parent->load_avg that is higher than the real load, the
weight of group entities (tg_parent->se[i]->load.weight) on online CPUs is
smaller than it should be, and the task group gets a less running time than
what it could expect.

( This situation can be detected with /proc/sched_debug. The ".tg_load_avg"
  of the task group will be much higher than sum of ".tg_load_avg_contrib"
  of online cfs_rqs of the task group. )

The load of group entities don't have to be intialized to something else
than 0 because their load will increase when an entity is attached.

Change-Id: Ie55021ff98ba49016adfddb2444e9c9709939226
Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8.x
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: joonwoop@codeaurora.org
Fixes: 3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476881123-10159-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit b5a9b340789b2b24c6896bcf7a065c31a4db671c)
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
kernel/sched/fair.c