From 2b8c41daba327c633228169e8bd8ec067ab443f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuyang Du Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 04:30:56 +0800 Subject: sched/fair: Initiate a new task's util avg to a bounded value A new task's util_avg is set to full utilization of a CPU (100% time running). This accelerates a new task's utilization ramp-up, useful to boost its execution in early time. However, it may result in (insanely) high utilization for a transient time period when a flood of tasks are spawned. Importantly, it violates the "fundamentally bounded" CPU utilization, and its side effect is negative if we don't take any measure to bound it. This patch proposes an algorithm to address this issue. It has two methods to approach a sensible initial util_avg: (1) An expected (or average) util_avg based on its cfs_rq's util_avg: util_avg = cfs_rq->util_avg / (cfs_rq->load_avg + 1) * se.load.weight (2) A trajectory of how successive new tasks' util develops, which gives 1/2 of the left utilization budget to a new task such that the additional util is noticeably large (when overall util is low) or unnoticeably small (when overall util is high enough). In the meantime, the aggregate utilization is well bounded: util_avg_cap = (1024 - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) / 2^n where n denotes the nth task. If util_avg is larger than util_avg_cap, then the effective util is clamped to the util_avg_cap. Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: steve.muckle@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459283456-21682-1-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sched/core.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index b5cf01d2368e..11594230ef4d 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -2431,6 +2431,8 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p) */ set_task_cpu(p, select_task_rq(p, task_cpu(p), SD_BALANCE_FORK, 0)); #endif + /* Post initialize new task's util average when its cfs_rq is set */ + post_init_entity_util_avg(&p->se); rq = __task_rq_lock(p); activate_task(rq, p, 0); -- cgit