[PATCH 3.16 262/366] sched/autogroup: Fix 64-bit kernel nice level adjustment

Ben Hutchings
2018-10-14T15:25:41Z

From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>

commit 83929cce95251cc77e5659bf493bd424ae0e7a67 upstream.

Michael Kerrisk reported:

> Regarding the previous paragraph... My tests indicate
> that writing *any* value to the autogroup [nice priority level]
> file causes the task group to get a lower priority.

Because autogroup didn't call the then meaningless scale_load()...

Autogroup nice level adjustment has been broken ever since load
resolution was increased for 64-bit kernels. Use scale_load() to
scale group weight.

Michael Kerrisk tested this patch to fix the problem:

> Applied and tested against 4.9-rc6 on an Intel u7 (4 cores).
> Test setup:
>
> Terminal window 1: running 40 CPU burner jobs
> Terminal window 2: running 40 CPU burner jobs
> Terminal window 1: running 1 CPU burner job
>
> Demonstrated that:
> * Writing "0" to the autogroup file for TW1 now causes no change
> to the rate at which the process on the terminal consume CPU.
> * Writing -20 to the autogroup file for TW1 caused those processes
> to get the lion's share of CPU while TW2 TW3 get a tiny amount.
> * Writing -20 to the autogroup files for TW1 and TW3 allowed the
> process on TW3 to get as much CPU as it was getting as when
> the autogroup nice values for both terminals were 0.

Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479897217.4306.6.camel@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: s/sched_prio_to_weight/prio_to_weight/]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
kernel/sched/auto_group.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ int proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice(struct
{
static unsigned long next = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
struct autogroup *ag;
+ unsigned long shares;
int err;

if (nice < MIN_NICE || nice > MAX_NICE)
@@ -215,9 +216,10 @@ int proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice(struct

next = HZ / 10 + jiffies;
ag = autogroup_task_get(p);
+ shares = scale_load(prio_to_weight[nice + 20]);

down_write(&ag->lock);
- err = sched_group_set_shares(ag->tg, prio_to_weight[nice + 20]);
+ err = sched_group_set_shares(ag->tg, shares);
if (!err)
ag->nice = nice;
up_write(&ag->lock);