Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent

[Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

> On 24-Jun-2021, at 4:48 PM, Odin Ugedal <odin@uged.al> wrote:
> 
> The _sum and _avg values are in general sync together with the PELT
> divider. They are however not always completely in perfect sync,
> resulting in situations where _sum gets to zero while _avg stays
> positive. Such situations are undesirable.
> 
> This comes from the fact that PELT will increase period_contrib, also
> increasing the PELT divider, without updating _sum and _avg values to
> stay in perfect sync where (_sum == _avg * divider). However, such PELT
> change will never lower _sum, making it impossible to end up in a
> situation where _sum is zero and _avg is not.
> 
> Therefore, we need to ensure that when subtracting load outside PELT,
> that when _sum is zero, _avg is also set to zero. This occurs when
> (_sum < _avg * divider), and the subtracted (_avg * divider) is bigger
> or equal to the current _sum, while the subtracted _avg is smaller than
> the current _avg.
> 
> Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Odin Ugedal <odin@uged.al>
> ---
> 

Thank You for the fix. Works for me.

Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks
-Sachin

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> 
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> 
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index bfaa6e1f6067..def48bc2e90b 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -3688,15 +3688,15 @@ update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> 
> 		r = removed_load;
> 		sub_positive(&sa->load_avg, r);
> -		sub_positive(&sa->load_sum, r * divider);
> +		sa->load_sum = sa->load_avg * divider;
> 
> 		r = removed_util;
> 		sub_positive(&sa->util_avg, r);
> -		sub_positive(&sa->util_sum, r * divider);
> +		sa->util_sum = sa->util_avg * divider;
> 
> 		r = removed_runnable;
> 		sub_positive(&sa->runnable_avg, r);
> -		sub_positive(&sa->runnable_sum, r * divider);
> +		sa->runnable_sum = sa->runnable_avg * divider;
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * removed_runnable is the unweighted version of removed_load so we
> -- 
> 2.32.0
>