On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 02:04:10PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:22:47AM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>
> > The algorithm used to order cfs_rq in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list assumes that
> > it will walk down to root the 1st time a cfs_rq is used and we will finish
> > to add either a cfs_rq without parent or a cfs_rq with a parent that is
> > already on the list. But this is not always true in presence of throttling.
> > Because a cfs_rq can be throttled even if it has never been used but other
> > CPUs
> > of the cgroup have already used all the bandwdith, we are not sure to go
> > down to
> > the root and add all cfs_rq in the list.
> >
> > Ensure that all cfs_rq will be added in the list even if they are throttled.
>
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index e2ff4b6..826fbe5 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -352,6 +352,20 @@ static inline void list_del_leaf_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq
> > *cfs_rq)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +static inline void list_add_branch_cfs_rq(struct sched_entity *se, struct
> > rq *rq)
> > +{
> > + struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
> > +
> > + for_each_sched_entity(se) {
> > + cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> > + list_add_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
> > +
> > + /* If parent is already in the list, we can stop */
> > + if (rq->tmp_alone_branch == &rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list)
> > + break;
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > /* Iterate through all leaf cfs_rq's on a runqueue: */
> > #define for_each_leaf_cfs_rq(rq, cfs_rq) \
> > list_for_each_entry_rcu(cfs_rq, &rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list, leaf_cfs_rq_list)
>
> > @@ -5179,6 +5197,9 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct
> > *p, int flags)
> >
> > }
> >
> > + /* Ensure that all cfs_rq have been added to the list */
> > + list_add_branch_cfs_rq(se, rq);
> > +
> > hrtick_update(rq);
> > }
>
> So I don't much like this; at all. But maybe I misunderstand, this is
> somewhat tricky stuff and I've not looked at it in a while.
>
> So per normal we do:
>
> enqueue_task_fair()
> for_each_sched_entity() {
> if (se->on_rq)
> break;
> enqueue_entity()
> list_add_leaf_cfs_rq();
> }
>
> This ensures that all parents are already enqueued, right? because this
> is what enqueues those parents.
>
> And in this case you add an unconditional second
> for_each_sched_entity(); even though it is completely redundant, afaict.
Ah, it doesn't do a second iteration; it continues where the previous
two left off.
Still, why isn't this in unthrottle?
> The problem seems to stem from the whole throttled crud; which (also)
> breaks the above enqueue loop on throttle state, and there the parent can
> go missing.
>
> So why doesn't this live in unthrottle_cfs_rq() ?
>
