Re: commit e9e9250b: sync wakeup bustage when waker is an RT task

Mike Galbraith
2010-05-17T04:38:46Z

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 09:21 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 19:07 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:04 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 13:57 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > Hi Peter,
> > > >
> > > > This commit excluded RT tasks from rq->load, was that intentional? The
> > > > comment in struct rq states that load reflects *all* tasks, but since
> > > > this commit, that's no longer true.
> > >
> > > Right, because a static load value does not accurately reflect a RT task
> > > which can run as long as it pretty well pleases. So instead we measure
> > > the time spend running !fair tasks and scale down the cpu_power
> > > proportionally.
> > >
> > > > Looking at lmbench lat_udp in a PREEMPT_RT kernel, I noticed that
> > > > wake_affine() is failing for sync wakeups when it should not. It's
> > > > doing so because the waker in this case is an RT kernel thread
> > > > (sirq-net-rx) - we subtract the sync waker's weight, when it was never
> > > > added in the first place, resulting in this_load going gaga. End result
> > > > is quite high latency numbers due to tasks jabbering cross-cache.
> > > >
> > > > If the exclusion was intentional, I suppose I can do a waker class check
> > > > in wake_affine() to fix it.
> > >
> > > So basically make all RT wakeups sync?
> >
> > I was going to just skip subtracting waker's weight ala
> >
> > /*
> > * If sync wakeup then subtract the (maximum possible)
> > * effect of the currently running task from the load
> > * of the current CPU:
> > */
> > if (sync && !task_has_rt_policy(curr))
>
> One-liner doesn't work. We have one task on the cfs_rq, the one who is
> the waker in !PREEMPT_RT, which is a fail case for wake_affine() if you
> don't do the weight subtraction. I did the below instead.

(Which is kinda fugly, only redeeming factor is it works;).

What would be the harm/consequence of restoring RT tasks to rq->load so
the wake_affine()::sync logic just worked as before without hackery?
The weight is a more or less random number, but looking around, with
them excluded, avg_load_per_task is lowered when RT tasks enter the
system, and rq->load[] misses their weight. (Dunno what effect it has
on tg shares).

-Mike

> sched: RT waker sync wakeup bugfix
>
> An RT waker's weight is not on the runqueue, but we try to subrtact it anyway
> in the sync wakeup case, sending this_load negative. This leads to affine
> wakeup failure in cases where it should succeed. This was found while testing
> an PREEMPT_RT kernel with lmbench's lat_udp. In a PREEMPT_RT kernel, softirq
> threads act as a ~proxy for the !RT buddy. Approximate !PREEMPT_RT sync wakeup
> behavior by looking at the buddy instead, and subtracting the maximum task weight
> that will not send this_load negative.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
>
> kernel/sched_fair.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
> index 5240469..cc40849 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
> @@ -1280,6 +1280,15 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
> tg = task_group(current);
> weight = current->se.load.weight;
>
> + /*
> + * An RT waker's weight is not on the runqueue. Subtract the
> + * maximum task weight that will not send this_load negative.
> + */
> + if (task_has_rt_policy(current)) {
> + weight = max_t(unsigned long, NICE_0_LOAD, p->se.load.weight);
> + weight = min(weight, this_load);
> + }
> +
> this_load += effective_load(tg, this_cpu, -weight, -weight);
> load += effective_load(tg, prev_cpu, 0, -weight);
> }
>