Re: [RFC][PATCH 08/10] sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue

[Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>]

On 6/4/24 11:11, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 08:30:43PM +0100, Luis Machado wrote:
> 
>> Exchanging some information with Hongyan today, he was a bit suspicious of the uclamp
>> behavior with the eevdf complete series applied.
>>
>> Checking the uclamp code, I see we have some refcounting tied to enqueuing/dequeuing
>> of tasks, and the uclamp values are organized in buckets.
>>
>> Just for fun I added a few trace_printk's in uclamp_eff_value, uclamp_rq_inc_id and
>> uclamp_rq_dec_id.
>>
>> Booting up the system with delayed_dequeue disabled and running the benchmark, I 
>> see the uclamp bucket management pretty stable. Tasks get added to the uclamp
>> buckets but then get removed. At the end of the benchmark, the uclamp buckets
>> are (almost always) clean of tasks.
>>
>> Enabling delayed dequeue, I can see the uclamp buckets slowly filling up with
>> tasks. At the end of the benchmark, I see uclamp buckets with 30, 40 or 50
>> tasks still. If I do another run, I can see 80, 100 tasks still.
>>
>> I suspect refcounting might be going wrong somewhere due to delayed dequeue
>> tasks, but that's more of a guess right now. Hopefully that is useful
>> information. I'll resume investigation tomorrow.
> 
> Thank you both!!
> 
> Does the below help?
> 
> Note how dequeue_task() does uclamp_rq_dec() unconditionally, which is
> then not balanced in the case below.
> 
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -3664,6 +3664,7 @@ static int ttwu_runnable(struct task_str
>  			/* mustn't run a delayed task */
>  			SCHED_WARN_ON(task_on_cpu(rq, p));
>  			enqueue_task(rq, p, ENQUEUE_DELAYED);
> +			uclamp_rq_inc(rq, p);
>  		}
>  		if (!task_on_cpu(rq, p)) {
>  			/*

As Hongyan pointed out in a separate message, the above makes things
worse, as we end up with even more leftover tasks in the uclamp
buckets.

I'm trying a fix in kernel/sched/core.c:enqueue_task that only
calls uclamp_rq_inc if the task is not sched_delayed, so:

-       uclamp_rq_inc(rq, p);
+       if (!p->se.sched_delayed)
+         uclamp_rq_inc(rq, p);

I'm not entirely sure it is correct, but it seems to fix things,
but I'm still running some tests.

With the current code, given uclamp_rq_inc and uclamp_rq_dec get
called in enqueue_task and dequeue_task, the additional enqueue_task
call from ttwu_runnable for a delayed_dequeue task may do an additional
unconditional call to uclamp_rq_inc, no?