Re: [patch v8 3/9] sched: set initial value of runnable avg for new forked task

[Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>]

On 06/14/2013 07:09 PM, Paul Turner wrote:
> Minor comments; looks good otherwise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>

thanks a lot Paul. the patch with your input updated here:

BTW, would you like to give some comments on the last patch of this patchset?

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>From ed35080d0bae803d68f84a3e683d34a356a5a5de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:41:09 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] sched: set initial value of runnable avg for new forked
 task

We need initialize the se.avg.{decay_count, load_avg_contrib} for a
new forked task.
Otherwise random values of above variables cause mess when do new task
enqueue:
    enqueue_task_fair
        enqueue_entity
            enqueue_entity_load_avg

and make forking balancing imbalance since incorrect load_avg_contrib.

Further more, Morten Rasmussen notice some tasks were not launched at
once after created. So Paul and Peter suggest giving a start value for
new task runnable avg time same as sched_slice().

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c  |    6 ++----
 kernel/sched/fair.c  |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sched/sched.h |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b9e7036..c78a9e2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1598,10 +1598,6 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_struct *p)
 	p->se.vruntime			= 0;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->se.group_node);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-	p->se.avg.runnable_avg_period = 0;
-	p->se.avg.runnable_avg_sum = 0;
-#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
 	memset(&p->se.statistics, 0, sizeof(p->se.statistics));
 #endif
@@ -1745,6 +1741,8 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p)
 	set_task_cpu(p, select_task_rq(p, SD_BALANCE_FORK, 0));
 #endif
 
+	/* Initialize new task's runnable average */
+	init_task_runnable_average(p);
 	rq = __task_rq_lock(p);
 	activate_task(rq, p, 0);
 	p->on_rq = 1;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index f404468..df5b8a9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -680,6 +680,26 @@ static u64 sched_vslice(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 	return calc_delta_fair(sched_slice(cfs_rq, se), se);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+static inline void __update_task_entity_contrib(struct sched_entity *se);
+
+/* Give new task start runnable values to heavy its load in infant time */
+void init_task_runnable_average(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	u32 slice;
+
+	p->se.avg.decay_count = 0;
+	slice = sched_slice(task_cfs_rq(p), &p->se) >> 10;
+	p->se.avg.runnable_avg_sum = slice;
+	p->se.avg.runnable_avg_period = slice;
+	__update_task_entity_contrib(&p->se);
+}
+#else
+void init_task_runnable_average(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Update the current task's runtime statistics. Skip current tasks that
  * are not in our scheduling class.
@@ -1527,6 +1547,10 @@ static inline void enqueue_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq,
 	 * We track migrations using entity decay_count <= 0, on a wake-up
 	 * migration we use a negative decay count to track the remote decays
 	 * accumulated while sleeping.
+	 *
+	 * Newly forked tasks are enqueued with se->avg.decay_count == 0, they
+	 * are seen by enqueue_entity_load_avg() as a migration with an already
+	 * constructed load_avg_contrib.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(se->avg.decay_count <= 0)) {
 		se->avg.last_runnable_update = rq_clock_task(rq_of(cfs_rq));
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 24b1503..0684c26 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1058,6 +1058,8 @@ extern void init_rt_bandwidth(struct rt_bandwidth *rt_b, u64 period, u64 runtime
 
 extern void update_idle_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq);
 
+extern void init_task_runnable_average(struct task_struct *p);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
 static inline u64 steal_ticks(u64 steal)
 {
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