On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:21:01AM -0700 bseg...@google.com wrote:
> When a cfs_rq sleeps and returns its quota, we delay for 5ms before
> waking any throttled cfs_rqs to coalesce with other cfs_rqs going to
> sleep, as this has to be done outside of the rq lock we hold.
>
> The current code waits for 5ms without any sleeps, instead of waiting
> for 5ms from the first sleep, which can delay the unthrottle more than
> we want. Switch this around so that we can't push this forward forever.
>
> This requires an extra flag rather than using hrtimer_active, since we
> need to start a new timer if the current one is in the process of
> finishing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bseg...@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Xunlei Pang <xlp...@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 7 +++++++
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 8213ff6e365d..2ead252cfa32 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -4729,6 +4729,11 @@ static void start_cfs_slack_bandwidth(struct
> cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
> if (runtime_refresh_within(cfs_b, min_left))
> return;
>
> + /* don't push forwards an existing deferred unthrottle */
> + if (cfs_b->slack_started)
> + return;
> + cfs_b->slack_started = true;
> +
> hrtimer_start(&cfs_b->slack_timer,
> ns_to_ktime(cfs_bandwidth_slack_period),
> HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> @@ -4782,6 +4787,7 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct
> cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
>
> /* confirm we're still not at a refresh boundary */
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cfs_b->lock, flags);
> + cfs_b->slack_started = false;
> if (cfs_b->distribute_running) {
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cfs_b->lock, flags);
> return;
> @@ -4920,6 +4926,7 @@ void init_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
> hrtimer_init(&cfs_b->slack_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> cfs_b->slack_timer.function = sched_cfs_slack_timer;
> cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
> + cfs_b->slack_started = false;
> }
>
> static void init_cfs_rq_runtime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index efa686eeff26..60219acda94b 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ struct cfs_bandwidth {
> u64 throttled_time;
>
> bool distribute_running;
> + bool slack_started;
> #endif
> };
>
> --
> 2.22.0.rc1.257.g3120a18244-goog
>
I think this looks good. I like not delaying that further even if it
does not fix Dave's use case.
It does make it glaring that I should have used false/true for setting
distribute_running though :)
Acked-by: Phil Auld <pa...@redhat.com>
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