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sched: make the scheduler converge to the ideal latency

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de-HZ-ification of the granularity defaults unearthed a pre-existing
property of CFS: while it correctly converges to the granularity goal,
it does not prevent run-time fluctuations in the range of
[-gran ... 0 ... +gran].

With the increase of the granularity due to the removal of HZ
dependencies, this becomes visible in chew-max output (with 5 tasks
running):

 out:  28 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   37 .   40
 out:  27 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:   17 .   13 | per:   44 .   40
 out:  27 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   36 .   40
 out:  29 . 27. 32 | flu:  2 .  0 | ran:   17 .   13 | per:   46 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   37 .   40
 out:  29 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:   18 .   13 | per:   47 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 32 | flu:  0 .  0 | ran:    9 .   13 | per:   37 .   40

average slice is the ideal 13 msecs and the period is picture-perfect 40
msecs. But the 'ran' field fluctuates around 13.33 msecs and there's no
mechanism in CFS to keep that from happening: it's a perfectly valid
solution that CFS finds.

to fix this we add a granularity/preemption rule that knows about
the "target latency", which makes tasks that run longer than the ideal
latency run a bit less. The simplest approach is to simply decrease the
preemption granularity when a task overruns its ideal latency. For this
we have to track how much the task executed since its last preemption.

( this adds a new field to task_struct, but we can eliminate that
  overhead in 2.6.24 by putting all the scheduler timestamps into an
  anonymous union. )

with this change in place, chew-max output is fluctuation-less all
around:

 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  2 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  1 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40
 out:  28 . 27. 39 | flu:  0 .  1 | ran:   13 .   13 | per:   41 .   40

this patch has no impact on any fastpath or on any globally observable
scheduling property. (unless you have sharp enough eyes to see
millisecond-level ruckles in glxgears smoothness :-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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Ingo Molnar 2007-08-28 12:53:24 +02:00
parent 5f01d519e6
commit f6cf891c4d
3 changed files with 24 additions and 4 deletions
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include/linux/sched.h
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@ -904,6 +904,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
u64 exec_start;
u64 sum_exec_runtime;
u64 prev_sum_exec_runtime;
u64 wait_start_fair;
u64 sleep_start_fair;

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kernel/sched.c
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@ -1587,6 +1587,7 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_struct *p)
p->se.wait_start_fair = 0;
p->se.exec_start = 0;
p->se.sum_exec_runtime = 0;
p->se.prev_sum_exec_runtime = 0;
p->se.delta_exec = 0;
p->se.delta_fair_run = 0;
p->se.delta_fair_sleep = 0;

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kernel/sched_fair.c
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@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int sleep)
/*
* Preempt the current task with a newly woken task if needed:
*/
static void
static int
__check_preempt_curr_fair(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
struct sched_entity *curr, unsigned long granularity)
{
@ -679,8 +679,11 @@ __check_preempt_curr_fair(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
* preempt the current task unless the best task has
* a larger than sched_granularity fairness advantage:
*/
if (__delta > niced_granularity(curr, granularity))
if (__delta > niced_granularity(curr, granularity)) {
resched_task(rq_of(cfs_rq)->curr);
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
static inline void
@ -725,6 +728,7 @@ static void put_prev_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *prev)
static void entity_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
{
unsigned long gran, ideal_runtime, delta_exec;
struct sched_entity *next;
/*
@ -741,8 +745,22 @@ static void entity_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
if (next == curr)
return;
__check_preempt_curr_fair(cfs_rq, next, curr,
sched_granularity(cfs_rq));
gran = sched_granularity(cfs_rq);
ideal_runtime = niced_granularity(curr,
max(sysctl_sched_latency / cfs_rq->nr_running,
(unsigned long)sysctl_sched_min_granularity));
/*
* If we executed more than what the latency constraint suggests,
* reduce the rescheduling granularity. This way the total latency
* of how much a task is not scheduled converges to
* sysctl_sched_latency:
*/
delta_exec = curr->sum_exec_runtime - curr->prev_sum_exec_runtime;
if (delta_exec > ideal_runtime)
gran = 0;
if (__check_preempt_curr_fair(cfs_rq, next, curr, gran))
curr->prev_sum_exec_runtime = curr->sum_exec_runtime;
}
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