From 5167e8d5417bf5c322a703d2927daec727ea40dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:52:09 +0200 Subject: sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code: - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a negative bias because we can negate our own sample. - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias because we push the sample to a known active period. So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding copious documentation to the code. Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4059c0f..20cb749 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1909,6 +1909,14 @@ static inline int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ +void calc_load_enter_idle(void); +void calc_load_exit_idle(void); +#else +static inline void calc_load_enter_idle(void) { } +static inline void calc_load_exit_idle(void) { } +#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */ + #ifndef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK static inline int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask) { diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index d5594a4..bb84040 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -2161,11 +2161,73 @@ unsigned long this_cpu_load(void) } +/* + * Global load-average calculations + * + * We take a distributed and async approach to calculating the global load-avg + * in order to minimize overhead. + * + * The global load average is an exponentially decaying average of nr_running + + * nr_uninterruptible. + * + * Once every LOAD_FREQ: + * + * nr_active = 0; + * for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) + * nr_active += cpu_of(cpu)->nr_running + cpu_of(cpu)->nr_uninterruptible; + * + * avenrun[n] = avenrun[0] * exp_n + nr_active * (1 - exp_n) + * + * Due to a number of reasons the above turns in the mess below: + * + * - for_each_possible_cpu() is prohibitively expensive on machines with + * serious number of cpus, therefore we need to take a distributed approach + * to calculating nr_active. + * + * \Sum_i x_i(t) = \Sum_i x_i(t) - x_i(t_0) | x_i(t_0) := 0 + * = \Sum_i { \Sum_j=1 x_i(t_j) - x_i(t_j-1) } + * + * So assuming nr_active := 0 when we start out -- true per definition, we + * can simply take per-cpu deltas and fold those into a global accumulate + * to obtain the same result. See calc_load_fold_active(). + * + * Furthermore, in order to avoid synchronizing all per-cpu delta folding + * across the machine, we assume 10 ticks is sufficient time for every + * cpu to have completed this task. + * + * This places an upper-bound on the IRQ-off latency of the machine. Then + * again, being late doesn't loose the delta, just wrecks the sample. + * + * - cpu_rq()->nr_uninterruptible isn't accurately tracked per-cpu because + * this would add another cross-cpu cacheline miss and atomic operation + * to the wakeup path. Instead we increment on whatever cpu the task ran + * when it went into uninterruptible state and decrement on whatever cpu + * did the wakeup. This means that only the sum of nr_uninterruptible over + * all cpus yields the correct result. + * + * This covers the NO_HZ=n code, for extra head-aches, see the comment below. + */ + /* Variables and functions for calc_load */ static atomic_long_t calc_load_tasks; static unsigned long calc_load_update; unsigned long avenrun[3]; -EXPORT_SYMBOL(avenrun); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(avenrun); /* should be removed */ + +/** + * get_avenrun - get the load average array + * @loads: pointer to dest load array + * @offset: offset to add + * @shift: shift count to shift the result left + * + * These values are estimates at best, so no need for locking. + */ +void get_avenrun(unsigned long *loads, unsigned long offset, int shift) +{ + loads[0] = (avenrun[0] + offset) << shift; + loads[1] = (avenrun[1] + offset) << shift; + loads[2] = (avenrun[2] + offset) << shift; +} static long calc_load_fold_active(struct rq *this_rq) { @@ -2182,6 +2244,9 @@ static long calc_load_fold_active(struct rq *this_rq) return delta; } +/* + * a1 = a0 * e + a * (1 - e) + */ static unsigned long calc_load(unsigned long load, unsigned long exp, unsigned long active) { @@ -2193,30 +2258,118 @@ calc_load(unsigned long load, unsigned long exp, unsigned long active) #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ /* - * For NO_HZ we delay the active fold to the next LOAD_FREQ update. + * Handle NO_HZ for the global load-average. + * + * Since the above described distributed algorithm to compute the global + * load-average relies on per-cpu sampling from the tick, it is affected by + * NO_HZ. + * + * The basic idea is to fold the nr_active delta into a global idle-delta upon + * entering NO_HZ state such that we can include this as an 'extra' cpu delta + * when we read the global state. + * + * Obviously reality has to ruin such a delightfully simple scheme: + * + * - When we go NO_HZ idle during the window, we can negate our sample + * contribution, causing under-accounting. + * + * We avoid this by keeping two idle-delta counters and flipping them + * when the window starts, thus separating old and new NO_HZ load. + * + * The only trick is the slight shift in index flip for read vs write. + * + * 0s 5s 10s 15s + * +10 +10 +10 +10 + * |-|-----------|-|-----------|-|-----------|-| + * r:0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 + * w:0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 + * + * This ensures we'll fold the old idle contribution in this window while + * accumlating the new one. + * + * - When we wake up from NO_HZ idle during the window, we push up our + * contribution, since we effectively move our sample point to a known + * busy state. + * + * This is solved by pushing the window forward, and thus skipping the + * sample, for this cpu (effectively using the idle-delta for this cpu which + * was in effect at the time the window opened). This also solves the issue + * of having to deal with a cpu having been in NOHZ idle for multiple + * LOAD_FREQ intervals. * * When making the ILB scale, we should try to pull this in as well. */ -static atomic_long_t calc_load_tasks_idle; +static atomic_long_t calc_load_idle[2]; +static int calc_load_idx; -void calc_load_account_idle(struct rq *this_rq) +static inline int calc_load_write_idx(void) { + int idx = calc_load_idx; + + /* + * See calc_global_nohz(), if we observe the new index, we also + * need to observe the new update time. + */ + smp_rmb(); + + /* + * If the folding window started, make sure we start writing in the + * next idle-delta. + */ + if (!time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update)) + idx++; + + return idx & 1; +} + +static inline int calc_load_read_idx(void) +{ + return calc_load_idx & 1; +} + +void calc_load_enter_idle(void) +{ + struct rq *this_rq = this_rq(); long delta; + /* + * We're going into NOHZ mode, if there's any pending delta, fold it + * into the pending idle delta. + */ delta = calc_load_fold_active(this_rq); - if (delta) - atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_tasks_idle); + if (delta) { + int idx = calc_load_write_idx(); + atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_idle[idx]); + } } -static long calc_load_fold_idle(void) +void calc_load_exit_idle(void) { - long delta = 0; + struct rq *this_rq = this_rq(); + + /* + * If we're still before the sample window, we're done. + */ + if (time_before(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update)) + return; /* - * Its got a race, we don't care... + * We woke inside or after the sample window, this means we're already + * accounted through the nohz accounting, so skip the entire deal and + * sync up for the next window. */ - if (atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks_idle)) - delta = atomic_long_xchg(&calc_load_tasks_idle, 0); + this_rq->calc_load_update = calc_load_update; + if (time_before(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update + 10)) + this_rq->calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ; +} + +static long calc_load_fold_idle(void) +{ + int idx = calc_load_read_idx(); + long delta = 0; + + if (atomic_long_read(&calc_load_idle[idx])) + delta = atomic_long_xchg(&calc_load_idle[idx], 0); return delta; } @@ -2302,66 +2455,39 @@ static void calc_global_nohz(void) { long delta, active, n; - /* - * If we crossed a calc_load_update boundary, make sure to fold - * any pending idle changes, the respective CPUs might have - * missed the tick driven calc_load_account_active() update - * due to NO_HZ. - */ - delta = calc_load_fold_idle(); - if (delta) - atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_tasks); - - /* - * It could be the one fold was all it took, we done! - */ - if (time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update + 10)) - return; - - /* - * Catch-up, fold however many we are behind still - */ - delta = jiffies - calc_load_update - 10; - n = 1 + (delta / LOAD_FREQ); + if (!time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update + 10)) { + /* + * Catch-up, fold however many we are behind still + */ + delta = jiffies - calc_load_update - 10; + n = 1 + (delta / LOAD_FREQ); - active = atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks); - active = active > 0 ? active * FIXED_1 : 0; + active = atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks); + active = active > 0 ? active * FIXED_1 : 0; - avenrun[0] = calc_load_n(avenrun[0], EXP_1, active, n); - avenrun[1] = calc_load_n(avenrun[1], EXP_5, active, n); - avenrun[2] = calc_load_n(avenrun[2], EXP_15, active, n); + avenrun[0] = calc_load_n(avenrun[0], EXP_1, active, n); + avenrun[1] = calc_load_n(avenrun[1], EXP_5, active, n); + avenrun[2] = calc_load_n(avenrun[2], EXP_15, active, n); - calc_load_update += n * LOAD_FREQ; -} -#else -void calc_load_account_idle(struct rq *this_rq) -{ -} + calc_load_update += n * LOAD_FREQ; + } -static inline long calc_load_fold_idle(void) -{ - return 0; + /* + * Flip the idle index... + * + * Make sure we first write the new time then flip the index, so that + * calc_load_write_idx() will see the new time when it reads the new + * index, this avoids a double flip messing things up. + */ + smp_wmb(); + calc_load_idx++; } +#else /* !CONFIG_NO_HZ */ -static void calc_global_nohz(void) -{ -} -#endif +static inline long calc_load_fold_idle(void) { return 0; } +static inline void calc_global_nohz(void) { } -/** - * get_avenrun - get the load average array - * @loads: pointer to dest load array - * @offset: offset to add - * @shift: shift count to shift the result left - * - * These values are estimates at best, so no need for locking. - */ -void get_avenrun(unsigned long *loads, unsigned long offset, int shift) -{ - loads[0] = (avenrun[0] + offset) << shift; - loads[1] = (avenrun[1] + offset) << shift; - loads[2] = (avenrun[2] + offset) << shift; -} +#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */ /* * calc_load - update the avenrun load estimates 10 ticks after the @@ -2369,11 +2495,18 @@ void get_avenrun(unsigned long *loads, unsigned long offset, int shift) */ void calc_global_load(unsigned long ticks) { - long active; + long active, delta; if (time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update + 10)) return; + /* + * Fold the 'old' idle-delta to include all NO_HZ cpus. + */ + delta = calc_load_fold_idle(); + if (delta) + atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_tasks); + active = atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks); active = active > 0 ? active * FIXED_1 : 0; @@ -2384,12 +2517,7 @@ void calc_global_load(unsigned long ticks) calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ; /* - * Account one period with whatever state we found before - * folding in the nohz state and ageing the entire idle period. - * - * This avoids loosing a sample when we go idle between - * calc_load_account_active() (10 ticks ago) and now and thus - * under-accounting. + * In case we idled for multiple LOAD_FREQ intervals, catch up in bulk. */ calc_global_nohz(); } @@ -2406,7 +2534,6 @@ static void calc_load_account_active(struct rq *this_rq) return; delta = calc_load_fold_active(this_rq); - delta += calc_load_fold_idle(); if (delta) atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_tasks); @@ -2414,6 +2541,10 @@ static void calc_load_account_active(struct rq *this_rq) } /* + * End of global load-average stuff + */ + +/* * The exact cpuload at various idx values, calculated at every tick would be * load = (2^idx - 1) / 2^idx * load + 1 / 2^idx * cur_load * diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle_task.c b/kernel/sched/idle_task.c index b44d604..b6baf37 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/idle_task.c +++ b/kernel/sched/idle_task.c @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int fl static struct task_struct *pick_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq) { schedstat_inc(rq, sched_goidle); - calc_load_account_idle(rq); return rq->idle; } diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index 6d52cea..55844f2 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -942,8 +942,6 @@ static inline u64 sched_avg_period(void) return (u64)sysctl_sched_time_avg * NSEC_PER_MSEC / 2; } -void calc_load_account_idle(struct rq *this_rq); - #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK /* diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 8699978..4a08472 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ static void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched *ts) */ if (!ts->tick_stopped) { select_nohz_load_balancer(1); + calc_load_enter_idle(); ts->idle_tick = hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer); ts->tick_stopped = 1; @@ -597,6 +598,7 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void) account_idle_ticks(ticks); #endif + calc_load_exit_idle(); touch_softlockup_watchdog(); /* * Cancel the scheduled timer and restore the tick -- cgit v0.10.2