sched/deadline: Make DL capacity-aware

The current SCHED_DEADLINE (DL) scheduler uses a global EDF scheduling
algorithm w/o considering CPU capacity or task utilization.
This works well on homogeneous systems where DL tasks are guaranteed
to have a bounded tardiness but presents issues on heterogeneous
systems.

A DL task can migrate to a CPU which does not have enough CPU capacity
to correctly serve the task (e.g. a task w/ 70ms runtime and 100ms
period on a CPU w/ 512 capacity).

Add the DL fitness function dl_task_fits_capacity() for DL admission
control on heterogeneous systems. A task fits onto a CPU if:

    CPU original capacity / 1024 >= task runtime / task deadline

Use this function on heterogeneous systems to try to find a CPU which
meets this criterion during task wakeup, push and offline migration.

On homogeneous systems the original behavior of the DL admission
control should be retained.

Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520134243.19352-5-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 91b250f265c0..336887607b3d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -317,6 +317,21 @@ static inline bool __dl_overflow(struct dl_bw *dl_b, unsigned long cap,
 	       cap_scale(dl_b->bw, cap) < dl_b->total_bw - old_bw + new_bw;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Verify the fitness of task @p to run on @cpu taking into account the
+ * CPU original capacity and the runtime/deadline ratio of the task.
+ *
+ * The function will return true if the CPU original capacity of the
+ * @cpu scaled by SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE >= runtime/deadline ratio of the
+ * task and false otherwise.
+ */
+static inline bool dl_task_fits_capacity(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
+{
+	unsigned long cap = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu);
+
+	return cap_scale(p->dl.dl_deadline, cap) >= p->dl.dl_runtime;
+}
+
 extern void init_dl_bw(struct dl_bw *dl_b);
 extern int  sched_dl_global_validate(void);
 extern void sched_dl_do_global(void);