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Before being migrated to a new CPU, a task sees its PELT values synchronized with rq last_update_time. Once done, that same task will also have its sched_avg last_update_time reset. This means the time between the migration and the last clock update will not be accounted for in util_avg and a discontinuity will appear. This issue is amplified by the PELT clock scaling. It takes currently one tick after the CPU being idle to let clock_pelt catching up clock_task. This is especially problematic for asymmetric CPU capacity systems which need stable util_avg signals for task placement and energy estimation. Ideally, this problem would be solved by updating the runqueue clocks before the migration. But that would require taking the runqueue lock which is quite expensive [1]. Instead estimate the missing time and update the task util_avg with that value. To that end, we need sched_clock_cpu() but it is a costly function. Limit the usage to the case where the source CPU is idle as we know this is when the clock is having the biggest risk of being outdated. See comment in migrate_se_pelt_lag() for more details about how the PELT value is estimated. Notice though this estimation doesn't take into account IRQ and Paravirt time. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190709115759.10451-1-chris.redpath@arm.com Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220621090414.433602-3-vdonnefort@google.com |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.