[PATCH 5.15 016/245] sched/rt: Fix sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice intial value

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-27T14:01:33Z

From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>

commit c7fcb99877f9f542c918509b2801065adcaf46fa upstream.

There is a 10% rounding error in the intial value of the
sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice with CONFIG_HZ_300=y.

This was found with LTP test sched_rr_get_interval01:

sched_rr_get_interval01.c:57: TPASS: sched_rr_get_interval() passed
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:64: TPASS: Time quantum 0s 99999990ns
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:72: TFAIL: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms != 100 got 90
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:57: TPASS: sched_rr_get_interval() passed
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:64: TPASS: Time quantum 0s 99999990ns
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:72: TFAIL: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms != 100 got 90

What this test does is to compare the return value from the
sched_rr_get_interval() and the sched_rr_timeslice_ms sysctl file and
fails if they do not match.

The problem it found is the intial sysctl file value which was computed as:

static int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * RR_TIMESLICE;

which works fine as long as MSEC_PER_SEC is multiple of HZ, however it
introduces 10% rounding error for CONFIG_HZ_300:

(MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * (100 * HZ / 1000)

(1000 / 300) * (100 * 300 / 1000)

3 * 30 = 90

This can be easily fixed by reversing the order of the multiplication
and division. After this fix we get:

(MSEC_PER_SEC * (100 * HZ / 1000)) / HZ

(1000 * (100 * 300 / 1000)) / 300

(1000 * 30) / 300 = 100

Fixes: 975e155ed873 ("sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802151906.25258-2-chrubis@suse.cz
[ pvorel: rebased for 5.15, 5.10 ]
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/sched/rt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
#include "pelt.h"

int sched_rr_timeslice = RR_TIMESLICE;
-int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * RR_TIMESLICE;
+int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC * RR_TIMESLICE) / HZ;
/* More than 4 hours if BW_SHIFT equals 20. */
static const u64 max_rt_runtime = MAX_BW;