Re: [PATCH v7 11/14] sched/fair: Introduce an energy estimation helper function

Quentin Perret
2018-10-04T09:02:13Z

Hi Peter,

On Thursday 04 Oct 2018 at 10:34:57 (+0200), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > +static unsigned long cpu_util_next(int cpu, struct task_struct *p, int dst_cpu)
> > +{
> > + struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = &cpu_rq(cpu)->cfs;
> > + unsigned long util_est, util = READ_ONCE(cfs_rq->avg.util_avg);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * If @p migrates from @cpu to another, remove its contribution. Or,
> > + * if @p migrates from another CPU to @cpu, add its contribution. In
> > + * the other cases, @cpu is not impacted by the migration, so the
> > + * util_avg should already be correct.
> > + */
> > + if (task_cpu(p) == cpu && dst_cpu != cpu)
> > + util = max_t(long, util - task_util(p), 0);
>
> That's not quite right; what you want to check for is underflow, but the
> above also results in 0 if util - task_util() > LONG_MAX without an
> underflow.

Hmm, I basically took that from capacity_spare_wake(). So I guess that
function wants fixing too ... :/

Now, is it actually possible to hit that case (util - task_util() > LONG_MAX)
given that util numbers are in the 1024 scale ? I guess that _could_
become a problem if we decided to increase the resolution one day.

> You could write: sub_positive(&util, task_util(p));

Ah right, I forgot about that macro. It seems to have a slightly
stronger semantics than what I need here though. I don't really care if
the intermediate value hits the memory and task_util() already has a
READ_ONCE. Not sure if that's a big deal.

>
> > + else if (task_cpu(p) != cpu && dst_cpu == cpu)
> > + util += task_util(p);
> > +
> > + if (sched_feat(UTIL_EST)) {
> > + util_est = READ_ONCE(cfs_rq->avg.util_est.enqueued);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * During wake-up, the task isn't enqueued yet and doesn't
> > + * appear in the cfs_rq->avg.util_est.enqueued of any rq,
> > + * so just add it (if needed) to "simulate" what will be
> > + * cpu_util() after the task has been enqueued.
> > + */
> > + if (dst_cpu == cpu)
> > + util_est += _task_util_est(p);
> > +
> > + util = max(util, util_est);
> > + }
> > +
> > + return min_t(unsigned long, util, capacity_orig_of(cpu));
>
> AFAICT both @util and capacity_orig_of() have 'unsigned long' as type.

Indeed, no need for min_t.

> > +}
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * compute_energy(): Estimates the energy that would be consumed if @p was
> > + * migrated to @dst_cpu. compute_energy() predicts what will be the utilization
> > + * landscape of the * CPUs after the task migration, and uses the Energy Model
> > + * to compute what would be the energy if we decided to actually migrate that
> > + * task.
> > + */
> > +static long compute_energy(struct task_struct *p, int dst_cpu,
> > + struct perf_domain *pd)
>
> static long
> compute_energy(struct task_struct *p, int dst_cpu, struct perf_domain *pd)

OK.

> > +{
> > + long util, max_util, sum_util, energy = 0;
> > + int cpu;
> > +
> > + while (pd) {
> > + max_util = sum_util = 0;
> > + /*
> > + * The capacity state of CPUs of the current rd can be driven by
> > + * CPUs of another rd if they belong to the same performance
> > + * domain. So, account for the utilization of these CPUs too
> > + * by masking pd with cpu_online_mask instead of the rd span.
> > + *
> > + * If an entire performance domain is outside of the current rd,
> > + * it will not appear in its pd list and will not be accounted
> > + * by compute_energy().
> > + */
> > + for_each_cpu_and(cpu, perf_domain_span(pd), cpu_online_mask) {
> > + util = cpu_util_next(cpu, p, dst_cpu);
> > + util = schedutil_freq_util(cpu, util, ENERGY_UTIL);
> > + max_util = max(util, max_util);
> > + sum_util += util;
> > + }
> > +
> > + energy += em_pd_energy(pd->obj, max_util, sum_util);
> > + pd = pd->next;
> > + }
>
> No real strong preference, but you could write that like:
>
> for (; pd; pd = pd->next) {
> }

And OK for that one too. That saves one line. The next patch has the
same pattern, I'll change it too.

Thanks,
Quentin