Re: [Patch] sched/fair: Avoid throttle_list starvation with low cfs quota

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

I've Cc:-ed a handful of gents who worked on CFS bandwidth details to widen the discussion. 
Patch quoted below.

Looks like a real bug that needs to be fixed - and at first sight the quota of 1000 looks very 
low - could we improve the arithmetics perhaps?

A low quota of 1000 is used because there's many VMs or containers provisioned on the system 
that is triggering the bug, right?

Thanks,

	Ingo

* Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> wrote:

> From: "Phil Auld" <pauld@redhat.com>
> 
> sched/fair: Avoid throttle_list starvation with low cfs quota
> 
> With a very low cpu.cfs_quota_us setting, such as the minimum of 1000, 
> distribute_cfs_runtime may not empty the throttled_list before it runs 
> out of runtime to distribute. In that case, due to the change from 
> c06f04c7048 to put throttled entries at the head of the list, later entries 
> on the list will starve.  Essentially, the same X processes will get pulled 
> off the list, given CPU time and then, when expired, get put back on the 
> head of the list where distribute_cfs_runtime will give runtime to the same 
> set of processes leaving the rest.
> 
> Fix the issue by setting a bit in struct cfs_bandwidth when 
> distribute_cfs_runtime is running, so that the code in throttle_cfs_rq can 
> decide to put the throttled entry on the tail or the head of the list.  The 
> bit is set/cleared by the callers of distribute_cfs_runtime while they hold 
> cfs_bandwidth->lock. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
> Fixes: c06f04c70489 ("sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop")
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> 
> This is easy to reproduce with a handful of cpu consumers. I use crash on 
> the live system. In some cases you can simply look at the throttled list and 
> see the later entries are not changing:
> 
> crash> list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
>   1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -976050
>   2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -484925
>   3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -658814
>   4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -275365
>   5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
>   6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
>   7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
>   8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
>   9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
>  10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
>  11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582
> crash> list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
>   1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -994147
>   2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -306051
>   3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -961321
>   4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -24490
>   5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
>   6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
>   7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
>   8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
>   9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
>  10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
>  11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582
> 
> Sometimes it is easier to see by finding a process getting starved and looking 
> at the sched_info:
> 
> crash> task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
> PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
>   sched_info = {
>     pcount = 8, 
>     run_delay = 697094208, 
>     last_arrival = 240260125039, 
>     last_queued = 240260327513
>   }, 
> crash> task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
> PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
>   sched_info = {
>     pcount = 8, 
>     run_delay = 697094208, 
>     last_arrival = 240260125039, 
>     last_queued = 240260327513
>   }, 
> 
> 
>  fair.c  |   22 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  sched.h |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 7fc4a371bdd2..f88e00705b55 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -4476,9 +4476,13 @@ static void throttle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Add to the _head_ of the list, so that an already-started
> -	 * distribute_cfs_runtime will not see us
> +	 * distribute_cfs_runtime will not see us. If disribute_cfs_runtime is
> +	 * not running add to the tail so that later runqueues don't get starved.
>  	 */
> -	list_add_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
> +	if (cfs_b->distribute_running)
> +		list_add_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
> +	else
> +		list_add_tail_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If we're the first throttled task, make sure the bandwidth
> @@ -4622,14 +4626,16 @@ static int do_sched_cfs_period_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, int overrun)
>  	 * in us over-using our runtime if it is all used during this loop, but
>  	 * only by limited amounts in that extreme case.
>  	 */
> -	while (throttled && cfs_b->runtime > 0) {
> +	while (throttled && cfs_b->runtime > 0 && !cfs_b->distribute_running) {
>  		runtime = cfs_b->runtime;
> +		cfs_b->distribute_running = 1;
>  		raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
>  		/* we can't nest cfs_b->lock while distributing bandwidth */
>  		runtime = distribute_cfs_runtime(cfs_b, runtime,
>  						 runtime_expires);
>  		raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
>  
> +		cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
>  		throttled = !list_empty(&cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
>  
>  		cfs_b->runtime -= min(runtime, cfs_b->runtime);
> @@ -4740,6 +4746,11 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
>  
>  	/* confirm we're still not at a refresh boundary */
>  	raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
> +	if (cfs_b->distribute_running) {
> +		raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (runtime_refresh_within(cfs_b, min_bandwidth_expiration)) {
>  		raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
>  		return;
> @@ -4749,6 +4760,9 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
>  		runtime = cfs_b->runtime;
>  
>  	expires = cfs_b->runtime_expires;
> +	if (runtime)
> +		cfs_b->distribute_running = 1;
> +
>  	raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
>  
>  	if (!runtime)
> @@ -4759,6 +4773,7 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
>  	raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
>  	if (expires == cfs_b->runtime_expires)
>  		cfs_b->runtime -= min(runtime, cfs_b->runtime);
> +	cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
>  	raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
>  }
>  
> @@ -4867,6 +4882,7 @@ void init_cfs_bandwidth(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
>  	cfs_b->period_timer.function = sched_cfs_period_timer;
>  	hrtimer_init(&cfs_b->slack_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
>  	cfs_b->slack_timer.function = sched_cfs_slack_timer;
> +	cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
>  }
>  
>  static void init_cfs_rq_runtime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index 455fa330de04..9683f458aec7 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ struct cfs_bandwidth {
>  	int			nr_periods;
>  	int			nr_throttled;
>  	u64			throttled_time;
> +
> +	bool                    distribute_running;
>  #endif
>  };
>  
> 
> 
> --