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sched/fair: Fix inaccurate h_nr_runnable accounting with delayed dequeue
authorK Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:58:52 +0000 (10:58 +0000)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:13:36 +0000 (13:13 +0100)
commit3429dd57f0deb1a602c2624a1dd7c4c11b6c4734
treeab2db032b73b216f61a88ba07185e3579708d463
parent95ec54a420b8f445e04a7ca0ea8deb72c51fe1d3
sched/fair: Fix inaccurate h_nr_runnable accounting with delayed dequeue

set_delayed() adjusts cfs_rq->h_nr_runnable for the hierarchy when an
entity is delayed irrespective of whether the entity corresponds to a
task or a cfs_rq.

Consider the following scenario:

root
       /    \
      A      B (*) delayed since B is no longer eligible on root
      |      |
    Task0  Task1 <--- dequeue_task_fair() - task blocks

When Task1 blocks (dequeue_entity() for task's se returns true),
dequeue_entities() will continue adjusting cfs_rq->h_nr_* for the
hierarchy of Task1. However, when the sched_entity corresponding to
cfs_rq B is delayed, set_delayed() will adjust the h_nr_runnable for the
hierarchy too leading to both dequeue_entity() and set_delayed()
decrementing h_nr_runnable for the dequeue of the same task.

A SCHED_WARN_ON() to inspect h_nr_runnable post its update in
dequeue_entities() like below:

    cfs_rq->h_nr_runnable -= h_nr_runnable;
    SCHED_WARN_ON(((int) cfs_rq->h_nr_runnable) < 0);

is consistently tripped when running wakeup intensive workloads like
hackbench in a cgroup.

This error is self correcting since cfs_rq are per-cpu and cannot
migrate. The entitiy is either picked for full dequeue or is requeued
when a task wakes up below it. Both those paths call clear_delayed()
which again increments h_nr_runnable of the hierarchy without
considering if the entity corresponds to a task or not.

h_nr_runnable will eventually reflect the correct value however in the
interim, the incorrect values can still influence PELT calculation which
uses se->runnable_weight or cfs_rq->h_nr_runnable.

Since only delayed tasks take the early return path in
dequeue_entities() and enqueue_task_fair(), adjust the
h_nr_runnable in {set,clear}_delayed() only when a task is delayed as
this path skips the h_nr_* update loops and returns early.

For entities corresponding to cfs_rq, the h_nr_* update loop in the
caller will do the right thing.

Fixes: 76f2f783294d ("sched/eevdf: More PELT vs DELAYED_DEQUEUE")
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Tested-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250117105852.23908-1-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
kernel/sched/fair.c