[PATCH 21/34] sched_ext: Add task state tracking operations

Tejun Heo
2023-07-11T01:16:38Z

Being able to track the task runnable and running state transitions are
useful for a variety of purposes including latency tracking and load factor
calculation.

Currently, BPF schedulers don't have a good way of tracking these
transitions. Becoming runnable can be determined from ops.enqueue() but
becoming quiescent can only be inferred from the lack of subsequent enqueue.
Also, as the local dsq can have multiple tasks and some events are handled
in the sched_ext core, it's difficult to determine when a given task starts
and stops executing.

This patch adds sched_ext_ops.runnable(), .running(), .stopping() and
.quiescent() operations to track the task runnable and running state
transitions. They're mostly self explanatory; however, we want to ensure
that running <-> stopping transitions are always contained within runnable
<-> quiescent transitions which is a bit different from how the scheduler
core behaves. This adds a bit of complication. See the comment in
dequeue_task_scx().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
---
include/linux/sched/ext.h | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/ext.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 96 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/ext.h b/include/linux/sched/ext.h
index 5c2df7ccc0a6..5cc37bc30352 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/ext.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/ext.h
@@ -192,6 +192,71 @@ struct sched_ext_ops {
*/
void (*dispatch)(s32 cpu, struct task_struct *prev);

+ /**
+ * runnable - A task is becoming runnable on its associated CPU
+ * @p: task becoming runnable
+ * @enq_flags: %SCX_ENQ_*
+ *
+ * This and the following three functions can be used to track a task's
+ * execution state transitions. A task becomes ->runnable() on a CPU,
+ * and then goes through one or more ->running() and ->stopping() pairs
+ * as it runs on the CPU, and eventually becomes ->quiescent() when it's
+ * done running on the CPU.
+ *
+ * @p is becoming runnable on the CPU because it's
+ *
+ * - waking up (%SCX_ENQ_WAKEUP)
+ * - being moved from another CPU
+ * - being restored after temporarily taken off the queue for an
+ * attribute change.
+ *
+ * This and ->enqueue() are related but not coupled. This operation
+ * notifies @p's state transition and may not be followed by ->enqueue()
+ * e.g. when @p is being dispatched to a remote CPU. Likewise, a task
+ * may be ->enqueue()'d without being preceded by this operation e.g.
+ * after exhausting its slice.
+ */
+ void (*runnable)(struct task_struct *p, u64 enq_flags);
+
+ /**
+ * running - A task is starting to run on its associated CPU
+ * @p: task starting to run
+ *
+ * See ->runnable() for explanation on the task state notifiers.
+ */
+ void (*running)(struct task_struct *p);
+
+ /**
+ * stopping - A task is stopping execution
+ * @p: task stopping to run
+ * @runnable: is task @p still runnable?
+ *
+ * See ->runnable() for explanation on the task state notifiers. If
+ * !@runnable, ->quiescent() will be invoked after this operation
+ * returns.
+ */
+ void (*stopping)(struct task_struct *p, bool runnable);
+
+ /**
+ * quiescent - A task is becoming not runnable on its associated CPU
+ * @p: task becoming not runnable
+ * @deq_flags: %SCX_DEQ_*
+ *
+ * See ->runnable() for explanation on the task state notifiers.
+ *
+ * @p is becoming quiescent on the CPU because it's
+ *
+ * - sleeping (%SCX_DEQ_SLEEP)
+ * - being moved to another CPU
+ * - being temporarily taken off the queue for an attribute change
+ * (%SCX_DEQ_SAVE)
+ *
+ * This and ->dequeue() are related but not coupled. This operation
+ * notifies @p's state transition and may not be preceded by ->dequeue()
+ * e.g. when @p is being dispatched to a remote CPU.
+ */
+ void (*quiescent)(struct task_struct *p, u64 deq_flags);
+
/**
* yield - Yield CPU
* @from: yielding task
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
index 48e27d59e621..2951200cd81a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -775,6 +775,9 @@ static void enqueue_task_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int enq_flags
rq->scx.nr_running++;
add_nr_running(rq, 1);

+ if (SCX_HAS_OP(runnable))
+ SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_REST, runnable, p, enq_flags);
+
do_enqueue_task(rq, p, enq_flags, sticky_cpu);
}

@@ -835,6 +838,26 @@ static void dequeue_task_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int deq_flags

ops_dequeue(p, deq_flags);

+ /*
+ * A currently running task which is going off @rq first gets dequeued
+ * and then stops running. As we want running <-> stopping transitions
+ * to be contained within runnable <-> quiescent transitions, trigger
+ * ->stopping() early here instead of in put_prev_task_scx().
+ *
+ * @p may go through multiple stopping <-> running transitions between
+ * here and put_prev_task_scx() if task attribute changes occur while
+ * balance_scx() leaves @rq unlocked. However, they don't contain any
+ * information meaningful to the BPF scheduler and can be suppressed by
+ * skipping the callbacks if the task is !QUEUED.
+ */
+ if (SCX_HAS_OP(stopping) && task_current(rq, p)) {
+ update_curr_scx(rq);
+ SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_REST, stopping, p, false);
+ }
+
+ if (SCX_HAS_OP(quiescent))
+ SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_REST, quiescent, p, deq_flags);
+
if (deq_flags & SCX_DEQ_SLEEP)
p->scx.flags |= SCX_TASK_DEQD_FOR_SLEEP;
else
@@ -1371,6 +1394,10 @@ static void set_next_task_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool first)

p->se.exec_start = rq_clock_task(rq);

+ /* see dequeue_task_scx() on why we skip when !QUEUED */
+ if (SCX_HAS_OP(running) && (p->scx.flags & SCX_TASK_QUEUED))
+ SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_REST, running, p);
+
watchdog_unwatch_task(p, true);
}

@@ -1409,6 +1436,10 @@ static void put_prev_task_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)

update_curr_scx(rq);

+ /* see dequeue_task_scx() on why we skip when !QUEUED */
+ if (SCX_HAS_OP(stopping) && (p->scx.flags & SCX_TASK_QUEUED))
+ SCX_CALL_OP(SCX_KF_REST, stopping, p, true);
+
/*
* If we're being called from put_prev_task_balance(), balance_scx() may
* have decided that @p should keep running.
--
2.41.0