sched: fix accounting in task delay accounting & migration

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:50 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote:
>
> > Thanks Peter for the explanation...
> >
> > I agree with the above and that is the reason why I did not see weird
> > values with cpu_time. But, run_delay still would suffer skews as the end
> > points for delta could be taken on different cpus due to migration (more
> > so on RT kernel due to the push-pull operations). With the below patch,
> > I could not reproduce the issue I had seen earlier. After every dequeue,
> > we take the delta and start wait measurements from zero when moved to a
> > different rq.
>
> OK, so task delay delay accounting is broken because it doesn't take
> migration into account.
>
> What you've done is make it symmetric wrt enqueue, and account it like
>
>   cpu0      cpu1
>
> enqueue
>  <wait-d1>
> dequeue
>             enqueue
>              <wait-d2>
>             run
>
> Where you add both d1 and d2 to the run_delay,.. right?
>

Thanks for reviewing the patch. The above is exactly what I have done.

> This seems like a good fix, however it looks like the patch will break
> compilation in !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS && !CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, of it
> failing to provide a stub for sched_info_dequeue() in that case.

Fixed. Pl. find the new patch below.
Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: David Bahi <DBahi@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

kernel/sched.c

@@ -1714,6 +1714,7 @@ static void dequeue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sleep)
 		p->se.last_wakeup = 0;
 	}
 
+	sched_info_dequeued(p);
 	p->sched_class->dequeue_task(rq, p, sleep);
 	p->se.on_rq = 0;
 }

kernel/sched_stats.h

@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ rq_sched_info_depart(struct rq *rq, unsigned long long delta)
 	if (rq)
 		rq->rq_sched_info.cpu_time += delta;
 }
+
+static inline void
+rq_sched_info_dequeued(struct rq *rq, unsigned long long delta)
+{
+	if (rq)
+		rq->rq_sched_info.run_delay += delta;
+}
 # define schedstat_inc(rq, field)	do { (rq)->field++; } while (0)
 # define schedstat_add(rq, field, amt)	do { (rq)->field += (amt); } while (0)
 # define schedstat_set(var, val)	do { var = (val); } while (0)
@@ -126,6 +133,9 @@ static inline void
 rq_sched_info_arrive(struct rq *rq, unsigned long long delta)
 {}
 static inline void
+rq_sched_info_dequeued(struct rq *rq, unsigned long long delta)
+{}
+static inline void
 rq_sched_info_depart(struct rq *rq, unsigned long long delta)
 {}
 # define schedstat_inc(rq, field)	do { } while (0)
@@ -134,6 +144,11 @@ rq_sched_info_depart(struct rq *rq, unsigned long long delta)
 #endif
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS) || defined(CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT)
+static inline void sched_info_reset_dequeued(struct task_struct *t)
+{
+	t->sched_info.last_queued = 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * Called when a process is dequeued from the active array and given
  * the cpu.  We should note that with the exception of interactive
@@ -143,15 +158,22 @@ rq_sched_info_depart(struct rq *rq, unsigned long long delta)
  * active queue, thus delaying tasks in the expired queue from running;
  * see scheduler_tick()).
  *
- * This function is only called from sched_info_arrive(), rather than
- * dequeue_task(). Even though a task may be queued and dequeued multiple
- * times as it is shuffled about, we're really interested in knowing how
- * long it was from the *first* time it was queued to the time that it
- * finally hit a cpu.
+ * Though we are interested in knowing how long it was from the *first* time a
+ * task was queued to the time that it finally hit a cpu, we call this routine
+ * from dequeue_task() to account for possible rq->clock skew across cpus. The
+ * delta taken on each cpu would annul the skew.
  */
 static inline void sched_info_dequeued(struct task_struct *t)
 {
-	t->sched_info.last_queued = 0;
+	unsigned long long now = task_rq(t)->clock, delta = 0;
+
+	if (unlikely(sched_info_on()))
+		if (t->sched_info.last_queued)
+			delta = now - t->sched_info.last_queued;
+	sched_info_reset_dequeued(t);
+	t->sched_info.run_delay += delta;
+
+	rq_sched_info_dequeued(task_rq(t), delta);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -165,7 +187,7 @@ static void sched_info_arrive(struct task_struct *t)
 
 	if (t->sched_info.last_queued)
 		delta = now - t->sched_info.last_queued;
-	sched_info_dequeued(t);
+	sched_info_reset_dequeued(t);
 	t->sched_info.run_delay += delta;
 	t->sched_info.last_arrival = now;
 	t->sched_info.pcount++;
@@ -243,6 +265,8 @@ sched_info_switch(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next)
 }
 #else
 #define sched_info_queued(t)			do { } while (0)
+#define sched_info_reset_dequeued(t)	do { } while (0)
+#define sched_info_dequeued(t)			do { } while (0)
 #define sched_info_switch(t, next)		do { } while (0)
 #endif /* CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS || CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT */