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authorDietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>2021-06-02 16:58:08 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-06-03 15:47:23 +0200
commit68d7a190682aa4eb02db477328088ebad15acc83 (patch)
treeb69fb60b812faf894f79fb38fb3e9896ab01c958 /include/linux/sched.h
parentfcf6631f3736985ec89bdd76392d3c7bfb60119f (diff)
sched/fair: Fix util_est UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED handling
The util_est internal UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag which is used to prevent unnecessary util_est updates uses the LSB of util_est.enqueued. It is exposed via _task_util_est() (and task_util_est()). Commit 92a801e5d5b7 ("sched/fair: Mask UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED usages") mentions that the LSB is lost for util_est resolution but find_energy_efficient_cpu() checks if task_util_est() returns 0 to return prev_cpu early. _task_util_est() returns the max value of util_est.ewma and util_est.enqueued or'ed w/ UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED. So task_util_est() returning the max of task_util() and _task_util_est() will never return 0 under the default SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST, true). To fix this use the MSB of util_est.enqueued instead and keep the flag util_est internal, i.e. don't export it via _task_util_est(). The maximal possible util_avg value for a task is 1024 so the MSB of 'unsigned int util_est.enqueued' isn't used to store a util value. As a caveat the code behind the util_est_se trace point has to filter UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED to see the real util_est.enqueued value which should be easy to do. This also fixes an issue report by Xuewen Yan that util_est_update() only used UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED for the subtrahend of the equation: last_enqueued_diff = ue.enqueued - (task_util() | UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED) Fixes: b89997aa88f0b sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602145808.1562603-1-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d2c881384517..28a98fc4ded4 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -350,11 +350,19 @@ struct load_weight {
* Only for tasks we track a moving average of the past instantaneous
* estimated utilization. This allows to absorb sporadic drops in utilization
* of an otherwise almost periodic task.
+ *
+ * The UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag is used to synchronize util_est with util_avg
+ * updates. When a task is dequeued, its util_est should not be updated if its
+ * util_avg has not been updated in the meantime.
+ * This information is mapped into the MSB bit of util_est.enqueued at dequeue
+ * time. Since max value of util_est.enqueued for a task is 1024 (PELT util_avg
+ * for a task) it is safe to use MSB.
*/
struct util_est {
unsigned int enqueued;
unsigned int ewma;
#define UTIL_EST_WEIGHT_SHIFT 2
+#define UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED 0x80000000
} __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(u64))));
/*