Boosted RT tasks can be deboosted quickly, this makes boost usless
for RT tasks and causes lots of glitching. Use timers to prevent
de-boost too soon and wait for long enough such that next enqueue
happens after a threshold.
While this can be solved in the governor, there are following
advantages:
- The approach used is governor-independent
- Reduces boost group lock contention for frequently sleepers/wakers
Note:
Fixed build breakage due to schedfreq dependency which isn't used
for RT anymore.
Bug: 30210506
Change-Id: I428a2695cac06cc3458cdde0dea72315e4e66c00
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Conflicts:
fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c
Pick changes from AOSP Change-Id: Icd8a85ac0c19a8aa25cd2591a12b4e9b85bdf1c5
("f2fs: catch up to v4.14-rc1")
fs/f2fs/namei.c
Pick changes from AOSP F2FS backport commit 7d5c08fd91
("f2fs: backport from (4c1fad64 - Merge tag 'for-f2fs-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs)")
commit 364f566537 upstream.
When issuing an IPI RT push, where an IPI is sent to each CPU that has more
than one RT task scheduled on it, it references the root domain's rto_mask,
that contains all the CPUs within the root domain that has more than one RT
task in the runable state. The problem is, after the IPIs are initiated, the
rq->lock is released. This means that the root domain that is associated to
the run queue could be freed while the IPIs are going around.
Add a sched_get_rd() and a sched_put_rd() that will increment and decrement
the root domain's ref count respectively. This way when initiating the IPIs,
the scheduler will up the root domain's ref count before releasing the
rq->lock, ensuring that the root domain does not go away until the IPI round
is complete.
Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 4bdced5c9a ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAEU1=PkiHO35Dzna8EQqNSKW1fr1y1zRQ5y66X117MG06sQtNA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit ad0f1d9d65 upstream.
When the rto_push_irq_work_func() is called, it looks at the RT overloaded
bitmask in the root domain via the runqueue (rq->rd). The problem is that
during CPU up and down, nothing here stops rq->rd from changing between
taking the rq->rd->rto_lock and releasing it. That means the lock that is
released is not the same lock that was taken.
Instead of using this_rq()->rd to get the root domain, as the irq work is
part of the root domain, we can simply get the root domain from the irq work
that is passed to the routine:
container_of(work, struct root_domain, rto_push_work)
This keeps the root domain consistent.
Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 4bdced5c9a ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAEU1=PkiHO35Dzna8EQqNSKW1fr1y1zRQ5y66X117MG06sQtNA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit f73c52a5bc upstream.
Daniel Wagner reported a crash on the BeagleBone Black SoC.
This is a single CPU architecture, and does not have a functional
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi() implementation which can crash
the kernel if that is called.
As it only has one CPU, it shouldn't be called, but if the kernel is
compiled for SMP, the push/pull RT scheduling logic now calls it for
irq_work if the one CPU is overloaded, it can use that function to call
itself and crash the kernel.
Ideally, we should disable the SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI) if the system
only has a single CPU. But SCHED_FEAT is a constant if sched debugging
is turned off. Another fix can also be used, and this should also help
with normal SMP machines. That is, do not initiate the pull code if
there's only one RT overloaded CPU, and that CPU happens to be the
current CPU that is scheduling in a lower priority task.
Even on a system with many CPUs, if there's many RT tasks waiting to
run on a single CPU, and that CPU schedules in another RT task of lower
priority, it will initiate the PULL logic in case there's a higher
priority RT task on another CPU that is waiting to run. But if there is
no other CPU with waiting RT tasks, it will initiate the RT pull logic
on itself (as it still has RT tasks waiting to run). This is a wasted
effort.
Not only does this help with SMP code where the current CPU is the only
one with RT overloaded tasks, it should also solve the issue that
Daniel encountered, because it will prevent the PULL logic from
executing, as there's only one CPU on the system, and the check added
here will cause it to exit the RT pull code.
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 4bdced5c9 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171202130454.4cbbfe8d@vmware.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 4bdced5c9a upstream.
When a CPU lowers its priority (schedules out a high priority task for a
lower priority one), a check is made to see if any other CPU has overloaded
RT tasks (more than one). It checks the rto_mask to determine this and if so
it will request to pull one of those tasks to itself if the non running RT
task is of higher priority than the new priority of the next task to run on
the current CPU.
When we deal with large number of CPUs, the original pull logic suffered
from large lock contention on a single CPU run queue, which caused a huge
latency across all CPUs. This was caused by only having one CPU having
overloaded RT tasks and a bunch of other CPUs lowering their priority. To
solve this issue, commit:
b6366f048e ("sched/rt: Use IPI to trigger RT task push migration instead of pulling")
changed the way to request a pull. Instead of grabbing the lock of the
overloaded CPU's runqueue, it simply sent an IPI to that CPU to do the work.
Although the IPI logic worked very well in removing the large latency build
up, it still could suffer from a large number of IPIs being sent to a single
CPU. On a 80 CPU box, I measured over 200us of processing IPIs. Worse yet,
when I tested this on a 120 CPU box, with a stress test that had lots of
RT tasks scheduling on all CPUs, it actually triggered the hard lockup
detector! One CPU had so many IPIs sent to it, and due to the restart
mechanism that is triggered when the source run queue has a priority status
change, the CPU spent minutes! processing the IPIs.
Thinking about this further, I realized there's no reason for each run queue
to send its own IPI. As all CPUs with overloaded tasks must be scanned
regardless if there's one or many CPUs lowering their priority, because
there's no current way to find the CPU with the highest priority task that
can schedule to one of these CPUs, there really only needs to be one IPI
being sent around at a time.
This greatly simplifies the code!
The new approach is to have each root domain have its own irq work, as the
rto_mask is per root domain. The root domain has the following fields
attached to it:
rto_push_work - the irq work to process each CPU set in rto_mask
rto_lock - the lock to protect some of the other rto fields
rto_loop_start - an atomic that keeps contention down on rto_lock
the first CPU scheduling in a lower priority task
is the one to kick off the process.
rto_loop_next - an atomic that gets incremented for each CPU that
schedules in a lower priority task.
rto_loop - a variable protected by rto_lock that is used to
compare against rto_loop_next
rto_cpu - The cpu to send the next IPI to, also protected by
the rto_lock.
When a CPU schedules in a lower priority task and wants to make sure
overloaded CPUs know about it. It increments the rto_loop_next. Then it
atomically sets rto_loop_start with a cmpxchg. If the old value is not "0",
then it is done, as another CPU is kicking off the IPI loop. If the old
value is "0", then it will take the rto_lock to synchronize with a possible
IPI being sent around to the overloaded CPUs.
If rto_cpu is greater than or equal to nr_cpu_ids, then there's either no
IPI being sent around, or one is about to finish. Then rto_cpu is set to the
first CPU in rto_mask and an IPI is sent to that CPU. If there's no CPUs set
in rto_mask, then there's nothing to be done.
When the CPU receives the IPI, it will first try to push any RT tasks that is
queued on the CPU but can't run because a higher priority RT task is
currently running on that CPU.
Then it takes the rto_lock and looks for the next CPU in the rto_mask. If it
finds one, it simply sends an IPI to that CPU and the process continues.
If there's no more CPUs in the rto_mask, then rto_loop is compared with
rto_loop_next. If they match, everything is done and the process is over. If
they do not match, then a CPU scheduled in a lower priority task as the IPI
was being passed around, and the process needs to start again. The first CPU
in rto_mask is sent the IPI.
This change removes this duplication of work in the IPI logic, and greatly
lowers the latency caused by the IPIs. This removed the lockup happening on
the 120 CPU machine. It also simplifies the code tremendously. What else
could anyone ask for?
Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for simplifying the rto_loop_start atomic logic and
supplying me with the rto_start_trylock() and rto_start_unlock() helper
functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170424114732.1aac6dc4@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Boosted RT tasks can be deboosted quickly, this makes boost usless
for RT tasks and causes lots of glitching. Use timers to prevent
de-boost too soon and wait for long enough such that next enqueue
happens after a threshold.
While this can be solved in the governor, there are following
advantages:
- The approach used is governor-independent
- Reduces boost group lock contention for frequently sleepers/wakers
- Works with schedfreq without any other schedfreq hacks.
Bug: 30210506
Change-Id: I41788b235586988be446505deb7c0529758a9898
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
We all should be using (and improving) the schedutil governor now. Get
rid of the non-upstream governor.
Tested on Hikey.
Change-Id: Ic660756536e5da51952738c3c18b94e31f58cd57
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
This patch adds schedtune enqueue/dequeue to RT scheduling class.
Change-Id: If416e64319d62191f3aedd675d3e9a21fe2102fb
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
(from https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9895261/)
This patch adds a parameter to select_task_rq, sibling_count_hint
allowing the caller, where it has this information, to inform the
sched_class the number of tasks that are being woken up as part of
the same event.
The wake_q mechanism is one case where this information is available.
select_task_rq_fair can then use the information to detect that it
needs to widen the search space for task placement in order to avoid
overloading the last-level cache domain's CPUs.
* * *
The reason I am investigating this change is the following use case
on ARM big.LITTLE (asymmetrical CPU capacity): 1 task per CPU, which
all repeatedly do X amount of work then
pthread_barrier_wait (i.e. sleep until the last task finishes its X
and hits the barrier). On big.LITTLE, the tasks which get a "big" CPU
finish faster, and then those CPUs pull over the tasks that are still
running:
v CPU v ->time->
-------------
0 (big) 11111 /333
-------------
1 (big) 22222 /444|
-------------
2 (LITTLE) 333333/
-------------
3 (LITTLE) 444444/
-------------
Now when task 4 hits the barrier (at |) and wakes the others up,
there are 4 tasks with prev_cpu=<big> and 0 tasks with
prev_cpu=<little>. want_affine therefore means that we'll only look
in CPUs 0 and 1 (sd_llc), so tasks will be unnecessarily coscheduled
on the bigs until the next load balance, something like this:
v CPU v ->time->
------------------------
0 (big) 11111 /333 31313\33333
------------------------
1 (big) 22222 /444|424\4444444
------------------------
2 (LITTLE) 333333/ \222222
------------------------
3 (LITTLE) 444444/ \1111
------------------------
^^^
underutilization
So, I'm trying to get want_affine = 0 for these tasks.
I don't _think_ any incarnation of the wakee_flips mechanism can help
us here because which task is waker and which tasks are wakees
generally changes with each iteration.
However pthread_barrier_wait (or more accurately FUTEX_WAKE) has the
nice property that we know exactly how many tasks are being woken, so
we can cheat.
It might be a disadvantage that we "widen" _every_ task that's woken in
an event, while select_idle_sibling would work fine for the first
sd_llc_size - 1 tasks.
IIUC, if wake_affine() behaves correctly this trick wouldn't be
necessary on SMP systems, so it might be best guarded by the presence
of SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY?
* * *
Final note..
In order to observe "perfect" behaviour for this use case, I also had
to disable the TTWU_QUEUE sched feature. Suppose during the wakeup
above we are working through the work queue and have placed tasks 3
and 2, and are about to place task 1:
v CPU v ->time->
--------------
0 (big) 11111 /333 3
--------------
1 (big) 22222 /444|4
--------------
2 (LITTLE) 333333/ 2
--------------
3 (LITTLE) 444444/ <- Task 1 should go here
--------------
If TTWU_QUEUE is enabled, we will not yet have enqueued task
2 (having instead sent a reschedule IPI) or attached its load to CPU
2. So we are likely to also place task 1 on cpu 2. Disabling
TTWU_QUEUE means that we enqueue task 2 before placing task 1,
solving this issue. TTWU_QUEUE is there to minimise rq lock
contention, and I guess that this contention is less of an issue on
big.LITTLE systems since they have relatively few CPUs, which
suggests the trade-off makes sense here.
Change-Id: I2080302839a263e0841a89efea8589ea53bbda9c
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Task->on_rq has three states:
0 - Task is not on runqueue (rq)
1 (TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED) - Task is on rq
2 (TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING) - Task is on rq but in the
process of being migrated to another rq
When a task is moving between rqs task->on_rq state should be
TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING in order for WALT to account rq's cumulative
runnable average correctly. Without such state marking for all the
classes, WALT's update_history() would try to fixup task's demand
which was never contributed to any of CPUs during migration.
Change-Id: Iced3428f3924fe8ab5d0075698273ead04f12d5b
Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop: Reinforced changelog to explain why this is needed by WALT.
Fixed conflicts in deadline.c]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
The scheduler cpufreq hooks are required by the schedutil cpufreq
governor.
Change-Id: Ied6c46262bb33b7e81bbb3d3d2761124e0c676b7
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@linaro.org>
[trivial cherry-picking fixes]
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
commit 619bd4a718 upstream.
Since the change in commit:
fd7a4bed18 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks")
... we don't reschedule a task under certain circumstances:
Lets say task-A, SCHED_OTHER, is running on CPU0 (and it may run only on
CPU0) and holds a PI lock. This task is removed from the CPU because it
used up its time slice and another SCHED_OTHER task is running. Task-B on
CPU1 runs at RT priority and asks for the lock owned by task-A. This
results in a priority boost for task-A. Task-B goes to sleep until the
lock has been made available. Task-A is already runnable (but not active),
so it receives no wake up.
The reality now is that task-A gets on the CPU once the scheduler decides
to remove the current task despite the fact that a high priority task is
enqueued and waiting. This may take a long time.
The desired behaviour is that CPU0 immediately reschedules after the
priority boost which made task-A the task with the lowest priority.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: fd7a4bed18 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124144006.29821-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Existing debug prints do not provide any clues about which tasks
may have triggered RT throttling. Print the names and PIDs of
all tasks on the throttled rt_rq to help narrow down the source
of the problem.
Change-Id: I180534c8a647254ed38e89d0c981a8f8bccd741c
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
use a window based view of time in order to track task
demand and CPU utilization in the scheduler.
Window Assisted Load Tracking (WALT) implementation credits:
Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Steve Muckle, Syed Rameez Mustafa, Joonwoo Park,
Pavan Kumar Kondeti, Olav Haugan
2016-03-06: Integration with EAS/refactoring by Vikram Mulukutla
and Todd Kjos
Change-Id: I21408236836625d4e7d7de1843d20ed5ff36c708
Includes fixes for issues:
eas/walt: Use walt_ktime_clock() instead of ktime_get_ns() to avoid a
race resulting in watchdog resets
BUG: 29353986
Change-Id: Ic1820e22a136f7c7ebd6f42e15f14d470f6bbbdb
Handle walt accounting anomoly during resume
During resume, there is a corner case where on wakeup, a task's
prev_runnable_sum can go negative. This is a workaround that
fixes the condition and warns (instead of crashing).
BUG: 29464099
Change-Id: I173e7874324b31a3584435530281708145773508
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinath Sridharan <srinathsr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
[jstultz: fwdported to 4.4]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
RT tasks don't provide any running constraints like deadline ones
except their running priority. The only current usable input to
estimate the capacity needed by RT tasks is the rt_avg metric. We use
it to estimate the CPU capacity needed for the RT scheduler class.
In order to monitor the evolution for RT task load, we must
peridiocally check it during the tick.
Then, we use the estimated capacity of the last activity to estimate
the next one which can not be that accurate but is a good starting
point without any impact on the wake up path of RT tasks.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@linaro.org>
The push_irq_work_func() function is conditionally defined only
when both CONFIG_SMP and HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI are defined, but the
forward declaration remains visibile without HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI,
causing a gcc warning in ARM64 allnoconfig:
kernel/sched/rt.c:68:13: warning: 'push_irq_work_func' declared 'static' but never defined [-Wunused-function]
This changes the code to use the same condition for both the
declaration and the function definition, which gets rid of the
warning.
As Peter Zijlstra, we can possibly get rid of the whole HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI
thing after:
8053871d0f ("smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() locking")
Until that is done, this patch can be used to avoid the warning.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: b6366f048e ("sched/rt: Use IPI to trigger RT task push migration instead of pulling")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3828565.oKfGk7yNIT@wuerfel
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In the below two commits (see Fixes) we have periodic timers that can
stop themselves when they're no longer required, but need to be
(re)-started when their idle condition changes.
Further complications is that we want the timer handler to always do
the forward such that it will always correctly deal with the overruns,
and we do not want to race such that the handler has already decided
to stop, but the (external) restart sees the timer still active and we
end up with a 'lost' timer.
The problem with the current code is that the re-start can come before
the callback does the forward, at which point the forward from the
callback will WARN about forwarding an enqueued timer.
Now, conceptually its easy to detect if you're before or after the fwd
by comparing the expiration time against the current time. Of course,
that's expensive (and racy) because we don't have the current time.
Alternatively one could cache this state inside the timer, but then
everybody pays the overhead of maintaining this extra state, and that
is undesired.
The only other option that I could see is the external timer_active
variable, which I tried to kill before. I would love a nicer interface
for this seemingly simple 'problem' but alas.
Fixes: 272325c482 ("perf: Fix mux_interval hrtimer wreckage")
Fixes: 77a4d1a1b9 ("sched: Cleanup bandwidth timers")
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: klamm@yandex-team.ru
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: bsegall@google.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150514102311.GX21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Roman reported a 3 cpu lockup scenario involving __start_cfs_bandwidth().
The more I look at that code the more I'm convinced its crack, that
entire __start_cfs_bandwidth() thing is brain melting, we don't need to
cancel a timer before starting it, *hrtimer_start*() will happily remove
the timer for you if its still enqueued.
Removing that, removes a big part of the problem, no more ugly cancel
loop to get stuck in.
So now, if I understand things right, the entire reason you have this
cfs_b->lock guarded ->timer_active nonsense is to make sure we don't
accidentally lose the timer.
It appears to me that it should be possible to guarantee that same by
unconditionally (re)starting the timer when !queued. Because regardless
what hrtimer::function will return, if we beat it to (re)enqueue the
timer, it doesn't matter.
Now, because hrtimers don't come with any serialization guarantees we
must ensure both handler and (re)start loop serialize their access to
the hrtimer to avoid both trying to forward the timer at the same
time.
Update the rt bandwidth timer to match.
This effectively reverts: 09dc4ab039 ("sched/fair: Fix
tg_set_cfs_bandwidth() deadlock on rq->lock").
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150415095011.804589208@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When debugging the latencies on a 40 core box, where we hit 300 to
500 microsecond latencies, I found there was a huge contention on the
runqueue locks.
Investigating it further, running ftrace, I found that it was due to
the pulling of RT tasks.
The test that was run was the following:
cyclictest --numa -p95 -m -d0 -i100
This created a thread on each CPU, that would set its wakeup in iterations
of 100 microseconds. The -d0 means that all the threads had the same
interval (100us). Each thread sleeps for 100us and wakes up and measures
its latencies.
cyclictest is maintained at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clrkwllms/rt-tests.git
What happened was another RT task would be scheduled on one of the CPUs
that was running our test, when the other CPU tests went to sleep and
scheduled idle. This caused the "pull" operation to execute on all
these CPUs. Each one of these saw the RT task that was overloaded on
the CPU of the test that was still running, and each one tried
to grab that task in a thundering herd way.
To grab the task, each thread would do a double rq lock grab, grabbing
its own lock as well as the rq of the overloaded CPU. As the sched
domains on this box was rather flat for its size, I saw up to 12 CPUs
block on this lock at once. This caused a ripple affect with the
rq locks especially since the taking was done via a double rq lock, which
means that several of the CPUs had their own rq locks held while trying
to take this rq lock. As these locks were blocked, any wakeups or load
balanceing on these CPUs would also block on these locks, and the wait
time escalated.
I've tried various methods to lessen the load, but things like an
atomic counter to only let one CPU grab the task wont work, because
the task may have a limited affinity, and we may pick the wrong
CPU to take that lock and do the pull, to only find out that the
CPU we picked isn't in the task's affinity.
Instead of doing the PULL, I now have the CPUs that want the pull to
send over an IPI to the overloaded CPU, and let that CPU pick what
CPU to push the task to. No more need to grab the rq lock, and the
push/pull algorithm still works fine.
With this patch, the latency dropped to just 150us over a 20 hour run.
Without the patch, the huge latencies would trigger in seconds.
I've created a new sched feature called RT_PUSH_IPI, which is enabled
by default.
When RT_PUSH_IPI is not enabled, the old method of grabbing the rq locks
and having the pulling CPU do the work is implemented. When RT_PUSH_IPI
is enabled, the IPI is sent to the overloaded CPU to do a push.
To enabled or disable this at run time:
# mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
# echo RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
or
# echo NO_RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
Update: This original patch would send an IPI to all CPUs in the RT overload
list. But that could theoretically cause the reverse issue. That is, there
could be lots of overloaded RT queues and one CPU lowers its priority. It would
then send an IPI to all the overloaded RT queues and they could then all try
to grab the rq lock of the CPU lowering its priority, and then we have the
same problem.
The latest design sends out only one IPI to the first overloaded CPU. It tries to
push any tasks that it can, and then looks for the next overloaded CPU that can
push to the source CPU. The IPIs stop when all overloaded CPUs that have pushable
tasks that have priorities greater than the source CPU are covered. In case the
source CPU lowers its priority again, a flag is set to tell the IPI traversal to
restart with the first RT overloaded CPU after the source CPU.
Parts-suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@purestorage.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150318144946.2f3cc982@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The original purpose of rq::skip_clock_update was to avoid 'costly' clock
updates for back to back wakeup-preempt pairs. The big problem with it
has always been that the rq variable is unaware of the context and
causes indiscrimiate clock skips.
Rework the entire thing and create a sense of context by only allowing
schedule() to skip clock updates. (XXX can we measure the cost of the
added store?)
By ensuring only schedule can ever skip an update, we guarantee we're
never more than 1 tick behind on the update.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150105103554.432381549@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit d670ec1317 "posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles" fixes one glibc
test case in cost of breaking another one. After that commit, calling
clock_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, X) and then clock_gettime(&Y) can result
of Y time being smaller than X time.
Reproducer/tester can be found further below, it can be compiled and ran by:
gcc -o tst-cpuclock2 tst-cpuclock2.c -pthread
while ./tst-cpuclock2 ; do : ; done
This reproducer, when running on a buggy kernel, will complain
about "clock_gettime difference too small".
Issue happens because on start in thread_group_cputimer() we initialize
sum_exec_runtime of cputimer with threads runtime not yet accounted and
then add the threads runtime to running cputimer again on scheduler
tick, making it's sum_exec_runtime bigger than actual threads runtime.
KOSAKI Motohiro posted a fix for this problem, but that patch was never
applied: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/26/191 .
This patch takes different approach to cure the problem. It calls
update_curr() when cputimer starts, that assure we will have updated
stats of running threads and on the next schedule tick we will account
only the runtime that elapsed from cputimer start. That also assure we
have consistent state between cpu times of individual threads and cpu
time of the process consisted by those threads.
Full reproducer (tst-cpuclock2.c):
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
/* Parameters for the Linux kernel ABI for CPU clocks. */
#define CPUCLOCK_SCHED 2
#define MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(pid, clock) \
((~(clockid_t) (pid) << 3) | (clockid_t) (clock))
static pthread_barrier_t barrier;
/* Help advance the clock. */
static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
{
pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
while (1) ;
return NULL;
}
/* Don't use the glibc wrapper. */
static int do_nanosleep(int flags, const struct timespec *req)
{
clockid_t clock_id = MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(0, CPUCLOCK_SCHED);
return syscall(SYS_clock_nanosleep, clock_id, flags, req, NULL);
}
static int64_t tsdiff(const struct timespec *before, const struct timespec *after)
{
int64_t before_i = before->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + before->tv_nsec;
int64_t after_i = after->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + after->tv_nsec;
return after_i - before_i;
}
int main(void)
{
int result = 0;
pthread_t th;
pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2);
if (pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL) != 0) {
perror("pthread_create");
return 1;
}
pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
/* The test. */
struct timespec before, after, sleeptimeabs;
int64_t sleepdiff, diffabs;
const struct timespec sleeptime = {.tv_sec = 0,.tv_nsec = 100000000 };
/* The relative nanosleep. Not sure why this is needed, but its presence
seems to make it easier to reproduce the problem. */
if (do_nanosleep(0, &sleeptime) != 0) {
perror("clock_nanosleep");
return 1;
}
/* Get the current time. */
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &before) < 0) {
perror("clock_gettime[2]");
return 1;
}
/* Compute the absolute sleep time based on the current time. */
uint64_t nsec = before.tv_nsec + sleeptime.tv_nsec;
sleeptimeabs.tv_sec = before.tv_sec + nsec / 1000000000;
sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec = nsec % 1000000000;
/* Sleep for the computed time. */
if (do_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, &sleeptimeabs) != 0) {
perror("absolute clock_nanosleep");
return 1;
}
/* Get the time after the sleep. */
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &after) < 0) {
perror("clock_gettime[3]");
return 1;
}
/* The time after sleep should always be equal to or after the absolute sleep
time passed to clock_nanosleep. */
sleepdiff = tsdiff(&sleeptimeabs, &after);
if (sleepdiff < 0) {
printf("absolute clock_nanosleep woke too early: %" PRId64 "\n", sleepdiff);
result = 1;
printf("Before %llu.%09llu\n", before.tv_sec, before.tv_nsec);
printf("After %llu.%09llu\n", after.tv_sec, after.tv_nsec);
printf("Sleep %llu.%09llu\n", sleeptimeabs.tv_sec, sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec);
}
/* The difference between the timestamps taken before and after the
clock_nanosleep call should be equal to or more than the duration of the
sleep. */
diffabs = tsdiff(&before, &after);
if (diffabs < sleeptime.tv_nsec) {
printf("clock_gettime difference too small: %" PRId64 "\n", diffabs);
result = 1;
}
pthread_cancel(th);
return result;
}
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141112155843.GA24803@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
"Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many
years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other
inconsistent operations.
This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().
Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().
This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up
with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
remove the obsolete accessors"
* 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements
s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
...
__get_cpu_var can paper over differences in the definitions of
cpumask_var_t and either use the address of the cpumask variable
directly or perform a fetch of the address of the struct cpumask
allocated elsewhere. This is important particularly when using per cpu
cpumask_var_t declarations because in one case we have an offset into
a per cpu area to handle and in the other case we need to fetch a
pointer from the offset.
This patch introduces a new macro
this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr()
that is defined where cpumask_var_t is defined and performs the proper
actions. All use cases where __get_cpu_var is used with cpumask_var_t
are converted to the use of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
We always use resched_task() with rq->curr argument.
It's not possible to reschedule any task but rq's current.
The patch introduces resched_curr(struct rq *) to
replace all of the repeating patterns. The main aim
is cleanup, but there is a little size profit too:
(before)
$ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
155274 16445 7042 178761 2ba49 kernel/sched/built-in.o
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
7411490 1178376 991232 9581098 92322a vmlinux
(after)
$ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
155130 16445 7042 178617 2b9b9 kernel/sched/built-in.o
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
7411362 1178376 991232 9580970 9231aa vmlinux
I was choosing between resched_curr() and resched_rq(),
and the first name looks better for me.
A little lie in Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt. I have not
actually collected the tracing again. With a hope the patch
won't make execution times much worse :)
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140628200219.1778.18735.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Second round of scheduler changes:
- try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski
- continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas
Pitre
- misc fixes and enhancements"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio()
sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu()
sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread
sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups
cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...)
sched: Rename capacity related flags
sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups
sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power"
sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity
sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage
sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity"
sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats'
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee()
sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing
sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b->quota/period