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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2017-03-31 10:51:41 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-04-14 10:26:34 +0200
commit05296e7535d67ba4926b543a09cf5d430a815cb6 (patch)
tree3951cb0ee80c3307bd60740099034ec6c4ec5269 /Documentation/scheduler
parent717a94b5fc7092afebe9c93791f29b2d8e5d297a (diff)
sched/fair: Fix corner case in __accumulate_sum()
Paul noticed that in the (periods >= LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) case in __accumulate_sum(), the returned contribution value (LOAD_AVG_MAX) is incorrect. This is because at this point, the decay_load() on the old state -- the first step in accumulate_sum() -- will not have resulted in 0, and will therefore result in a sum larger than the maximum value of our series. Obviously broken. Note that: decay_load(LOAD_AVG_MAX, LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) = 1 (345 / 32) 47742 * - ^ = ~27 2 Not to mention that any further contribution from the d3 segment (our new period) would also push it over the maximum. Solve this by noting that we can write our c2 term: p c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n n=1 In terms of our maximum value: inf inf p max = 1024 \Sum y^n = 1024 ( \Sum y^n + \Sum y^n + y^0 ) n=0 n=p+1 n=1 Further note that: inf inf inf ( \Sum y^n ) y^p = \Sum y^(n+p) = \Sum y^n n=0 n=0 n=p Combined that gives us: p c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n n=1 inf inf = 1024 ( \Sum y^n - \Sum y^n - y^0 ) n=0 n=p+1 = max - (max y^(p+1)) - 1024 Further simplify things by dealing with p=0 early on. Reported-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a481db34b9be ("sched/fair: Optimize ___update_sched_avg()") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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