Re: [PATCH] sched/core: Fix arch_scale_freq_tick() on tickless systems

[ypodemsk@redhat.com]

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On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 16:35 +0100, Giovanni Gherdovich wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 14:51 +0200, Yair Podemsky wrote:
> > In order for the scheduler to be frequency invariant we measure the
> > ratio between the maximum cpu frequency and the actual cpu
> > frequency.
> > During long tickless periods of time the calculations that keep
> > track
> > of that might overflow, in the function scale_freq_tick():
> > 
> > if (check_shl_overflow(acnt, 2*SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT, &acnt))
> > »       goto error;
> > 
> > eventually forcing the kernel to disable the feature for all cpus,
> > and show the warning message
> > "Scheduler frequency invariance went wobbly, disabling!".
> > Let's avoid that by limiting the frequency invariant calculations
> > to cpus with regular tick.
> > 
> > Fixes: e2b0d619b400 ("x86, sched: check for counters overflow in
> > frequency invariant accounting")
> > Signed-off-by: Yair Podemsky <ypodemsk@redhat.com>
> > Suggested-by: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
> 
> > ---
> > V1 -> V2: solution approach was changed from detecting long
> > tickless periods
> > to frequency invariant measurements on housekeeping cpus only.
> > Link: ee89073a1e9de11c7bd7726eb5da71a0e8795099.camel@redhat.com
> > ---
> >  kernel/sched/core.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index daff72f00385..1bb0a840c817 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -5469,7 +5469,9 @@ void scheduler_tick(void)
> >  	unsigned long thermal_pressure;
> >  	u64 resched_latency;
> >  
> > -	arch_scale_freq_tick();
> > +	if (housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_TICK))
> > +		arch_scale_freq_tick();
> > +
> >  	sched_clock_tick();
> >  
> >  	rq_lock(rq, &rf);