sched/pelt: Add a new runnable average signal

Now that runnable_load_avg has been removed, we can replace it by a new
signal that will highlight the runnable pressure on a cfs_rq. This signal
track the waiting time of tasks on rq and can help to better define the
state of rqs.

At now, only util_avg is used to define the state of a rq:
  A rq with more that around 80% of utilization and more than 1 tasks is
  considered as overloaded.

But the util_avg signal of a rq can become temporaly low after that a task
migrated onto another rq which can bias the classification of the rq.

When tasks compete for the same rq, their runnable average signal will be
higher than util_avg as it will include the waiting time and we can use
this signal to better classify cfs_rqs.

The new runnable_avg will track the runnable time of a task which simply
adds the waiting time to the running time. The runnable _avg of cfs_rq
will be the /Sum of se's runnable_avg and the runnable_avg of group entity
will follow the one of the rq similarly to util_avg.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>"
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index ce27e588fa7c..2a0caf394dd4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ struct cfs_rq {
 		int		nr;
 		unsigned long	load_avg;
 		unsigned long	util_avg;
-		unsigned long	runnable_sum;
+		unsigned long	runnable_avg;
 	} removed;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
@@ -688,9 +688,29 @@ struct dl_rq {
 /* An entity is a task if it doesn't "own" a runqueue */
 #define entity_is_task(se)	(!se->my_q)
 
+static inline void se_update_runnable(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+	if (!entity_is_task(se))
+		se->runnable_weight = se->my_q->h_nr_running;
+}
+
+static inline long se_runnable(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+	if (entity_is_task(se))
+		return !!se->on_rq;
+	else
+		return se->runnable_weight;
+}
+
 #else
 #define entity_is_task(se)	1
 
+static inline void se_update_runnable(struct sched_entity *se) {}
+
+static inline long se_runnable(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+	return !!se->on_rq;
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP