Re: [PATCH 1/1] sched/fair: Fix inaccurate tally of ttwu_move_affine

Vincent Guittot
2022-08-17T13:21:27Z

On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 21:19, Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 8/15/22 04:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 03:33:13PM -0700, Libo Chen wrote:
> >> There are scenarios where non-affine wakeups are incorrectly counted as
> >> affine wakeups by schedstats.
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> >> When wake_affine_idle() returns prev_cpu which doesn't equal to
> >> nr_cpumask_bits, it will slip through the check: target == nr_cpumask_bits
> >> in wake_affine() and be counted as if target == this_cpu in schedstats.
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> >> Replace target == nr_cpumask_bits with target != this_cpu to make sure
> >> affine wakeups are accurately tallied.
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> >> Fixes: 806486c377e33 (sched/fair: Do not migrate if the prev_cpu is idle)
> >> Suggested-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
> >> ---
> >> kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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> >> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> >> index da388657d5ac..b179da4f8105 100644
> >> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> >> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> >> @@ -6114,7 +6114,7 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
> >> target = wake_affine_weight(sd, p, this_cpu, prev_cpu, sync);
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> >> schedstat_inc(p->stats.nr_wakeups_affine_attempts);
> >> - if (target == nr_cpumask_bits)
> >> + if (target != this_cpu)
> >> return prev_cpu;
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> >> schedstat_inc(sd->ttwu_move_affine);
> > This not only changes the accounting but also the placement, no?
> No, it should only change the accounting. wake_affine() still returns
> prev_cpu if target equals to prev_cpu or nr_cpumask_bits, the same
> behavior as before.

Looks good to me

Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>

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