Re: [patch v3 6/8] sched: consider runnable load average in move_tasks

[Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 04/09/2013 03:08 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 2 April 2013 05:23, Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> wrote:
>> Except using runnable load average in background, move_tasks is also
>> the key functions in load balance. We need consider the runnable load
>> average in it in order to the apple to apple load comparison.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> index 1f9026e..bf4e0d4 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -3966,6 +3966,15 @@ static unsigned long task_h_load(struct task_struct *p);
>>
>>  static const unsigned int sched_nr_migrate_break = 32;
>>
>> +static unsigned long task_h_load_avg(struct task_struct *p)
>> +{
>> +       u32 period = p->se.avg.runnable_avg_period;
>> +       if (!period)
>> +               return 0;
>> +
>> +       return task_h_load(p) * p->se.avg.runnable_avg_sum / period;
> 
> How do you ensure that runnable_avg_period and runnable_avg_sum are
> coherent ? an update of the statistic can occur in the middle of your
> sequence.

Hi, Vincent

Don't we have the 'rq->lock' to protect it?

move_tasks() was invoked with double locked, for all the se on src and
dst rq, no update should happen, isn't it?

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 
> Vincent
> 
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * move_tasks tries to move up to imbalance weighted load from busiest to
>>   * this_rq, as part of a balancing operation within domain "sd".
>> @@ -4001,7 +4010,7 @@ static int move_tasks(struct lb_env *env)
>>                 if (throttled_lb_pair(task_group(p), env->src_cpu, env->dst_cpu))
>>                         goto next;
>>
>> -               load = task_h_load(p);
>> +               load = task_h_load_avg(p);
>>
>>                 if (sched_feat(LB_MIN) && load < 16 && !env->sd->nr_balance_failed)
>>                         goto next;
>> --
>> 1.7.12
>>
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