mainlining shenanigans
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During force-idle, we end up doing cross-cpu comparison of vruntimes during pick_next_task. If we simply compare (vruntime-min_vruntime) across CPUs, and if the CPUs only have 1 task each, we will always end up comparing 0 with 0 and pick just one of the tasks all the time. This starves the task that was not picked. To fix this, take a snapshot of the min_vruntime when entering force idle and use it for comparison. This min_vruntime snapshot will only be used for cross-CPU vruntime comparison, and nothing else. A note about the min_vruntime snapshot and force idling: During selection: When we're not fi, we need to update snapshot. when we're fi and we were not fi, we must update snapshot. When we're fi and we were already fi, we must not update snapshot. Which gives: fib fi update 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 Where: fi: force-idled now fib: force-idled before So the min_vruntime snapshot needs to be updated when: !(fib && fi). Also, the cfs_prio_less() function needs to be aware of whether the core is in force idle or not, since it will be use this information to know whether to advance a cfs_rq's min_vruntime_fi in the hierarchy. So pass this information along via pick_task() -> prio_less(). Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Don Hiatt <dhiatt@digitalocean.com> Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123308.738542617@infradead.org |
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Linux kernel
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