Re: [PATCH v5 07/10] sched/irq: add irq utilization tracking

Vincent Guittot
2018-05-30T18:45:38Z

Hi Dietmar,

On 30 May 2018 at 17:55, Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> wrote:
> On 05/25/2018 03:12 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>
>> interrupt and steal time are the only remaining activities tracked by
>> rt_avg. Like for sched classes, we can use PELT to track their average
>> utilization of the CPU. But unlike sched class, we don't track when
>> entering/leaving interrupt; Instead, we take into account the time spent
>> under interrupt context when we update rqs' clock (rq_clock_task).
>> This also means that we have to decay the normal context time and account
>> for interrupt time during the update.
>>
>> That's also important to note that because
>> rq_clock == rq_clock_task + interrupt time
>> and rq_clock_task is used by a sched class to compute its utilization, the
>> util_avg of a sched class only reflects the utilization of the time spent
>> in normal context and not of the whole time of the CPU. The utilization of
>> interrupt gives an more accurate level of utilization of CPU.
>> The CPU utilization is :
>> avg_irq + (1 - avg_irq / max capacity) * /Sum avg_rq
>>
>> Most of the time, avg_irq is small and neglictible so the use of the
>> approximation CPU utilization = /Sum avg_rq was enough
>
>
> [...]
>
>> @@ -7362,6 +7363,7 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
>> }
>> update_rt_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, 0);
>> update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, 0);
>> + update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);
>
>
> So this one decays the signals only in case the update_rq_clock_task()
> didn't call update_irq_load_avg() because 'irq_delta + steal' is 0, right?

yes

>
> [...]
>
>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/pelt.c b/kernel/sched/pelt.c
>> index 3d5bd3a..d2e4f21 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/pelt.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/pelt.c
>> @@ -355,3 +355,41 @@ int update_dl_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct rq *rq, int
>> running)
>> return 0;
>> }
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * irq:
>> + *
>> + * util_sum = \Sum se->avg.util_sum but se->avg.util_sum is not tracked
>> + * util_sum = cpu_scale * load_sum
>> + * runnable_load_sum = load_sum
>> + *
>> + */
>> +
>> +int update_irq_load_avg(struct rq *rq, u64 running)
>> +{
>> + int ret = 0;
>> + /*
>> + * We know the time that has been used by interrupt since last
>> update
>> + * but we don't when. Let be pessimistic and assume that interrupt
>> has
>> + * happened just before the update. This is not so far from
>> reality
>> + * because interrupt will most probably wake up task and trig an
>> update
>> + * of rq clock during which the metric si updated.
>> + * We start to decay with normal context time and then we add the
>> + * interrupt context time.
>> + * We can safely remove running from rq->clock because
>> + * rq->clock += delta with delta >= running
>
>
> This is true as long update_irq_load_avg() with a 'running != 0' is called
> only after rq->clock moved forward (rq->clock += delta) (which is true for
> update_rq_clock()->update_rq_clock_task()).

yes

>
>> + */
>> + ret = ___update_load_sum(rq->clock - running, rq->cpu,
>> &rq->avg_irq,
>> + 0,
>> + 0,
>> + 0);
>> + ret += ___update_load_sum(rq->clock, rq->cpu, &rq->avg_irq,
>> + 1,
>> + 1,
>> + 1);
>
>
> So you decay the signal in [sa->lut, rq->clock - running] (assumed to be the
> portion of delta used by the task scheduler) and you increase it in
> [rq->clock - running, rq->clock] (irq and virt portion of delta).
>
> That means that this signal is updated on rq->clock whereas the others are
> on rq->clock_task.
>
> What about the ever growing clock diff between them? I see e.g ~6s after
> 20min uptime and up to 1.5ms 'running'.
>
> It should be still safe to sum the sched class and irq signal in
> sugov_aggregate_util() because they are independent, I guess.

yes. the formula is explained in patch "cpufreq/schedutil: take into
account interrupt"

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