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authorMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>2017-02-17 12:07:30 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-03-16 09:21:00 +0100
commit6e5f32f7a43f45ee55c401c0b9585eb01f9629a8 (patch)
tree7618f32240ecf296ff5cae88248511c4df742fa1 /kernel
parentdcc3b5ffe1b32771c9a22e2c916fb94c4fcf5b79 (diff)
downloadlinux-6e5f32f7a43f45ee55c401c0b9585eb01f9629a8.tar.bz2
sched/loadavg: Avoid loadavg spikes caused by delayed NO_HZ accounting
If we crossed a sample window while in NO_HZ we will add LOAD_FREQ to the pending sample window time on exit, setting the next update not one window into the future, but two. This situation on exiting NO_HZ is described by: this_rq->calc_load_update < jiffies < calc_load_update In this scenario, what we should be doing is: this_rq->calc_load_update = calc_load_update [ next window ] But what we actually do is: this_rq->calc_load_update = calc_load_update + LOAD_FREQ [ next+1 window ] This has the effect of delaying load average updates for potentially up to ~9seconds. This can result in huge spikes in the load average values due to per-cpu uninterruptible task counts being out of sync when accumulated across all CPUs. It's safe to update the per-cpu active count if we wake between sample windows because any load that we left in 'calc_load_idle' will have been zero'd when the idle load was folded in calc_global_load(). This issue is easy to reproduce before, commit 9d89c257dfb9 ("sched/fair: Rewrite runnable load and utilization average tracking") just by forking short-lived process pipelines built from ps(1) and grep(1) in a loop. I'm unable to reproduce the spikes after that commit, but the bug still seems to be present from code review. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Fixes: commit 5167e8d ("sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217120731.11868-2-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/loadavg.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/loadavg.c b/kernel/sched/loadavg.c
index 7296b7308eca..3a55f3f9ffe4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/loadavg.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/loadavg.c
@@ -202,8 +202,9 @@ void calc_load_exit_idle(void)
struct rq *this_rq = this_rq();
/*
- * If we're still before the sample window, we're done.
+ * If we're still before the pending sample window, we're done.
*/
+ this_rq->calc_load_update = calc_load_update;
if (time_before(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update))
return;
@@ -212,7 +213,6 @@ void calc_load_exit_idle(void)
* accounted through the nohz accounting, so skip the entire deal and
* sync up for the next window.
*/
- this_rq->calc_load_update = calc_load_update;
if (time_before(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update + 10))
this_rq->calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
}