linux-stable.git/kernel/sched/proc.c, branch v3.18.78

sched/loadavg: Fix loadavg artifacts on fully idle and on fully loaded systems

2016-06-06T23:11:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit 20878232c52329f92423d27a60e48b6a6389e0dd ]

Systems show a minimal load average of 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 even when they
have no load at all.

Uptime and /proc/loadavg on all systems with kernels released during the
last five years up until kernel version 4.6-rc5, show a 5- and 15-minute
minimum loadavg of 0.01 and 0.05 respectively. This should be 0.00 on
idle systems, but the way the kernel calculates this value prevents it
from getting lower than the mentioned values.

Likewise but not as obviously noticeable, a fully loaded system with no
processes waiting, shows a maximum 1/5/15 loadavg of 1.00, 0.99, 0.95
(multiplied by number of cores).

Once the (old) load becomes 93 or higher, it mathematically can never
get lower than 93, even when the active (load) remains 0 forever.
This results in the strange 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 uptime values on idle
systems.  Note: 93/2048 = 0.0454..., which rounds up to 0.05.

It is not correct to add a 0.5 rounding (=1024/2048) here, since the
result from this function is fed back into the next iteration again,
so the result of that +0.5 rounding value then gets multiplied by
(2048-2037), and then rounded again, so there is a virtual "ghost"
load created, next to the old and active load terms.

By changing the way the internally kept value is rounded, that internal
value equivalent now can reach 0.00 on idle, and 1.00 on full load. Upon
increasing load, the internally kept load value is rounded up, when the
load is decreasing, the load value is rounded down.

The modified code was tested on nohz=off and nohz kernels. It was tested
on vanilla kernel 4.6-rc5 and on centos 7.1 kernel 3.10.0-327. It was
tested on single, dual, and octal cores system. It was tested on virtual
hosts and bare hardware. No unwanted effects have been observed, and the
problems that the patch intended to fix were indeed gone.

Tested-by: Damien Wyart 
Signed-off-by: Vik Heyndrickx 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: 
Cc: Doug Smythies 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 0f004f5a696a ("sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8d32bff-d544-7748-72b5-3c86cc71f09f@veribox.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU runqueues less

2014-08-06T19:17:45+00:00

The menu governer makes separate lookups of the CPU runqueue to get
load and number of IO waiters but it can be done with a single lookup.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline

2013-06-27T08:07:44+00:00

Based-on-patch-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi 
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-14-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task

2013-06-27T08:07:35+00:00

They are the base values in load balance, update them with rq runnable
load average, then the load balance will consider runnable load avg
naturally.

We also try to include the blocked_load_avg as cpu load in balancing,
but that cause kbuild performance drop 6% on every Intel machine, and
aim7/oltp drop on some of 4 CPU sockets machines.
Or only add blocked_load_avg into get_rq_runable_load, hackbench still
drop a little on NHM EX.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi 
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Factor out load calculation code from sched/core.c --> sched/proc.c

2013-05-07T11:14:50+00:00

This large chunk of load calculation code can be easily divorced
from the main core.c scheduler file, with only a couple
prototypes and externs added to a kernel/sched header.

Some recent commits expanded the code and the documentation of
it, making it large enough to warrant separation.  For example,
see:

  556061b, "sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations"
  5aaa0b7, "sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more"
  5167e8d, "sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again"

More importantly, it helps reduce the size of the main
sched/core.c by yet another significant amount (~600 lines).

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366398650-31599-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar