Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched: move IO scheduling accounting from io_schedule_timeout() to __schedule()

Pavan Kondeti
2016-11-03T15:33:50Z

Hi Tejun,

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 94732d1..f6baa38 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -3336,11 +3336,17 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
> unsigned long *switch_count;
> struct pin_cookie cookie;
> struct rq *rq;
> - int cpu;
> + int cpu, in_iowait;
>
> cpu = smp_processor_id();
> rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> prev = rq->curr;
> + in_iowait = prev->in_iowait;
> +
> + if (in_iowait) {
> + delayacct_blkio_start();
> + atomic_inc(&rq->nr_iowait);
> + }
>
> schedule_debug(prev);
>
> @@ -3406,6 +3412,11 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
> }
>
> balance_callback(rq);
> +
> + if (in_iowait) {
> + atomic_dec(&rq->nr_iowait);
> + delayacct_blkio_end();
> + }
> }

I think, the nr_iowait update can go wrong here.

When the task migrates to a different CPU upon wakeup, this rq points
to a different CPU from the one on which nr_iowait is incremented
before.

Thanks,
Pavan

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