Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] track CPU utilization

Juri Lelli
2018-06-05T13:15:23Z

On 05/06/18 14:05, Quentin Perret wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 Jun 2018 at 14:11:53 (+0200), Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Hi Quentin,
> >
> > On 05/06/18 11:57, Quentin Perret wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > What about the diff below (just a quick hack to show the idea) applied
> > > on tip/sched/core ?
> > >
> > > ---8<---
> > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> > > index a8ba6d1f262a..23a4fb1c2c25 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> > > @@ -180,9 +180,12 @@ static void sugov_get_util(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu)
> > > sg_cpu->util_dl = cpu_util_dl(rq);
> > > }
> > >
> > > +unsigned long scale_rt_capacity(int cpu);
> > > static unsigned long sugov_aggregate_util(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu)
> > > {
> > > struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(sg_cpu->cpu);
> > > + int cpu = sg_cpu->cpu;
> > > + unsigned long util, dl_bw;
> > >
> > > if (rq->rt.rt_nr_running)
> > > return sg_cpu->max;
> > > @@ -197,7 +200,14 @@ static unsigned long sugov_aggregate_util(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu)
> > > * util_cfs + util_dl as requested freq. However, cpufreq is not yet
> > > * ready for such an interface. So, we only do the latter for now.
> > > */
> > > - return min(sg_cpu->max, (sg_cpu->util_dl + sg_cpu->util_cfs));
> > > + util = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu) * scale_rt_capacity(cpu);
> >
> > Sorry to be pedantinc, but this (ATM) includes DL avg contribution, so,
> > since we use max below, we will probably have the same problem that we
> > discussed on Vincent's approach (overestimation of DL contribution while
> > we could use running_bw).
>
> Ah no, you're right, this isn't great for long running deadline tasks.
> We should definitely account for the running_bw here, not the dl avg...
>
> I was trying to address the issue of RT stealing time from CFS here, but
> the DL integration isn't quite right which this patch as-is, I agree ...
>
> >
> > > + util >>= SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
> > > + util = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu) - util;
> > > + util += sg_cpu->util_cfs;
> > > + dl_bw = (rq->dl.this_bw * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE) >> BW_SHIFT;
> >
> > Why this_bw instead of running_bw?
>
> So IIUC, this_bw should basically give you the absolute reservation (== the
> sum of runtime/deadline ratios of all DL tasks on that rq).

Yep.

> The reason I added this max is because I'm still not sure to understand
> how we can safely drop the freq below that point ? If we don't guarantee
> to always stay at least at the freq required by DL, aren't we risking to
> start a deadline tasks stuck at a low freq because of rate limiting ? In
> this case, if that tasks uses all of its runtime then you might start
> missing deadlines ...

We decided to avoid (software) rate limiting for DL with e97a90f7069b
("sched/cpufreq: Rate limits for SCHED_DEADLINE").

> My feeling is that the only safe thing to do is to guarantee to never go
> below the freq required by DL, and to optimistically add CFS tasks
> without raising the OPP if we have good reasons to think that DL is
> using less than it required (which is what we should get by using
> running_bw above I suppose). Does that make any sense ?

Then we can't still avoid the hardware limits, so using running_bw is a
trade off between safety (especially considering soft real-time
scenarios) and energy consumption (which seems to be working in
practice).

Thanks,

- Juri