From: Tao Cui <cui.tao@linux.dev>
To: tj@kernel.org
Cc: void@manifault.com, arighi@nvidia.com, changwoo@igalia.com,
mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
sched-ext@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, cui.tao@linux.dev,
Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] sched_ext/scx_flatcg: Fix cvtime true-up on slice expiry
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:59:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260815045905.3431991-1-cui.tao@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
fcg_dispatch() true-ups the current cgroup's cvtime when its slice
expires or its DSQ runs empty while the slice is still active:
__sync_fetch_and_add(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
(cpuc->cur_at + cgrp_slice_ns - now) *
FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE / (cgc->hweight ?: 1));
The true-up should be actual minus charged: on CNS_EXPIRE, the overrun
(now - cur_at - cgrp_slice_ns) should be added; on CNS_EMPTY, the
unused portion of the slice should be subtracted. The expression above
has the sign inverted, and in the CNS_EXPIRE case now is already past
cur_at + cgrp_slice_ns, so the u64 subtraction wraps. The
multiplication preserves the two's complement encoding but the
unsigned division by hweight destroys it, adding roughly 2^64/hweight
per expiry instead of a small correction.
Under saturation the hweight budget clamp in cgrp_cap_budget() masks
most of the garbage, so the weight distribution barely moves, but the
accounting is broken all the same. Compute the delta as a signed value
and use fetch_and_add()/fetch_and_sub() so that the dividends stay
positive, as BPF division is unsigned.
Instrumented the true-up and ran a saturated three-leaf cgroup tree on
a 4-CPU VM: without the fix, each expiry added ~5e15 (2^64/hweight
territory) to cvtime_delta; with it, the corrections are back to
slice scale, with the overrun added and the unused portion subtracted.
Fixes: a4103eacc2ab ("sched_ext: Add a cgroup scheduler which uses flattened hierarchy")
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
---
tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c b/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c
index 0fd214cc61da..ddcf6bc03b11 100644
--- a/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c
+++ b/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c
@@ -769,10 +769,18 @@ void BPF_STRUCT_OPS(fcg_dispatch, s32 cpu, struct task_struct *prev)
* cgroup to execute but the latter needs to be done in a loop
* and we can't keep the lock held. Oh well...
*/
+ s64 delta = now - cpuc->cur_at - cgrp_slice_ns;
+
bpf_spin_lock(&cgv_tree_lock);
- __sync_fetch_and_add(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
- (cpuc->cur_at + cgrp_slice_ns - now) *
- FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE / (cgc->hweight ?: 1));
+ /* keep the dividends positive, BPF division is unsigned */
+ if (delta >= 0)
+ __sync_fetch_and_add(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
+ (u64)delta * FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE /
+ (cgc->hweight ?: 1));
+ else
+ __sync_fetch_and_sub(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
+ (u64)-delta * FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE /
+ (cgc->hweight ?: 1));
bpf_spin_unlock(&cgv_tree_lock);
} else {
stat_inc(FCG_STAT_CNS_GONE);
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-15 4:59 UTC|newest]
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2026-08-15 4:59 Tao Cui [this message]
2026-08-15 9:10 ` [PATCH] sched_ext/scx_flatcg: Fix cvtime true-up on slice expiry Tejun Heo
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