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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2 v3] sched: Rewrite per entity runnable load average tracking
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:53:23AM -0700, bsegall@google.com wrote:
> Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 02:50:47AM +0100, Yuyang Du wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> +/*
> >> + * Update load_avg of the cfs_rq along with its own se. They should get
> >> + * synchronized: group se's load_avg is used for task_h_load calc, and
> >> + * group cfs_rq's load_avg is used for task_h_load (and update_cfs_share
> >> + * calc).
> >> + */
> >> +static inline int update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> >> {
> >> - long old_contrib = se->avg.load_avg_contrib;
> >> + int decayed;
> >>
> >> - if (entity_is_task(se)) {
> >> - __update_task_entity_contrib(se);
> >> - } else {
> >> - __update_tg_runnable_avg(&se->avg, group_cfs_rq(se));
> >> - __update_group_entity_contrib(se);
> >> + if (atomic_long_read(&cfs_rq->removed_load_avg)) {
> >> + long r = atomic_long_xchg(&cfs_rq->removed_load_avg, 0);
> >> + cfs_rq->avg.load_avg = subtract_until_zero(cfs_rq->avg.load_avg, r);
> >> + r *= LOAD_AVG_MAX;
> >> + cfs_rq->avg.load_sum = subtract_until_zero(cfs_rq->avg.load_sum, r);
> >> }
> >>
> >> - return se->avg.load_avg_contrib - old_contrib;
> >> -}
> >> + decayed = __update_load_avg(now, &cfs_rq->avg, cfs_rq->load.weight);
> >> +#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
> >> + if (cfs_rq->avg.last_update_time != cfs_rq->load_last_update_time_copy)
> >> + sa_q->last_update_time_copy = sa_q->last_update_time;
> >
> > to make it build. But I'm not convinced that this synchronization is
> > right.
> >
> > First let me say that I'm not an expert on synchronization. It seems to
> > me that there is nothing preventing reordering of the writes in
> > __update_load_avg() which sets cfs_rq->avg.last_update_time and the
> > update of cfs_rq->avg.load_last_update_time_copy.
>
> You're correct, this needs to be if(...) { smp_wmb(); copy = time; },
> the same as update_min_vruntime.

Ok, I will get the barrier back. Thanks, Morten and Ben.

Yuyang


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