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sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent
authorOdin Ugedal <odin@uged.al>
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:18:15 +0000 (13:18 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 08:01:11 +0000 (10:01 +0200)
commit718aa77b068c55c52c005eb111ed71d0f72869a4
tree3df06bcce08dcedd33f882614303574852c3222f
parent3bb702ccfe3183550eb79192e8d2a84dbf3566c5
sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent

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The _sum and _avg values are in general sync together with the PELT
divider. They are however not always completely in perfect sync,
resulting in situations where _sum gets to zero while _avg stays
positive. Such situations are undesirable.

This comes from the fact that PELT will increase period_contrib, also
increasing the PELT divider, without updating _sum and _avg values to
stay in perfect sync where (_sum == _avg * divider). However, such PELT
change will never lower _sum, making it impossible to end up in a
situation where _sum is zero and _avg is not.

Therefore, we need to ensure that when subtracting load outside PELT,
that when _sum is zero, _avg is also set to zero. This occurs when
(_sum < _avg * divider), and the subtracted (_avg * divider) is bigger
or equal to the current _sum, while the subtracted _avg is smaller than
the current _avg.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Odin Ugedal <odin@uged.al>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624111815.57937-1-odin@uged.al
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c