Commit cf5f0acf authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar

sched: Add a comment to effective_load() since it's a pain

Every time I have to stare at this function I need to completely
reverse engineer its workings, about time I write a comment
explaining the thing.

Collected bits and pieces from previous changelogs, mostly:

  4be9daaa
  83378269Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318518057.27731.2.camel@twinsSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 7f80850d
......@@ -772,19 +772,32 @@ static void update_cfs_load(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, int global_update)
list_del_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
}
static inline long calc_tg_weight(struct task_group *tg, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{
long tg_weight;
/*
* Use this CPU's actual weight instead of the last load_contribution
* to gain a more accurate current total weight. See
* update_cfs_rq_load_contribution().
*/
tg_weight = atomic_read(&tg->load_weight);
tg_weight -= cfs_rq->load_contribution;
tg_weight += cfs_rq->load.weight;
return tg_weight;
}
static long calc_cfs_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct task_group *tg)
{
long load_weight, load, shares;
long tg_weight, load, shares;
tg_weight = calc_tg_weight(tg, cfs_rq);
load = cfs_rq->load.weight;
load_weight = atomic_read(&tg->load_weight);
load_weight += load;
load_weight -= cfs_rq->load_contribution;
shares = (tg->shares * load);
if (load_weight)
shares /= load_weight;
if (tg_weight)
shares /= tg_weight;
if (shares < MIN_SHARES)
shares = MIN_SHARES;
......@@ -2036,36 +2049,100 @@ static void task_waking_fair(struct task_struct *p)
* Adding load to a group doesn't make a group heavier, but can cause movement
* of group shares between cpus. Assuming the shares were perfectly aligned one
* can calculate the shift in shares.
*
* Calculate the effective load difference if @wl is added (subtracted) to @tg
* on this @cpu and results in a total addition (subtraction) of @wg to the
* total group weight.
*
* Given a runqueue weight distribution (rw_i) we can compute a shares
* distribution (s_i) using:
*
* s_i = rw_i / \Sum rw_j (1)
*
* Suppose we have 4 CPUs and our @tg is a direct child of the root group and
* has 7 equal weight tasks, distributed as below (rw_i), with the resulting
* shares distribution (s_i):
*
* rw_i = { 2, 4, 1, 0 }
* s_i = { 2/7, 4/7, 1/7, 0 }
*
* As per wake_affine() we're interested in the load of two CPUs (the CPU the
* task used to run on and the CPU the waker is running on), we need to
* compute the effect of waking a task on either CPU and, in case of a sync
* wakeup, compute the effect of the current task going to sleep.
*
* So for a change of @wl to the local @cpu with an overall group weight change
* of @wl we can compute the new shares distribution (s'_i) using:
*
* s'_i = (rw_i + @wl) / (@wg + \Sum rw_j) (2)
*
* Suppose we're interested in CPUs 0 and 1, and want to compute the load
* differences in waking a task to CPU 0. The additional task changes the
* weight and shares distributions like:
*
* rw'_i = { 3, 4, 1, 0 }
* s'_i = { 3/8, 4/8, 1/8, 0 }
*
* We can then compute the difference in effective weight by using:
*
* dw_i = S * (s'_i - s_i) (3)
*
* Where 'S' is the group weight as seen by its parent.
*
* Therefore the effective change in loads on CPU 0 would be 5/56 (3/8 - 2/7)
* times the weight of the group. The effect on CPU 1 would be -4/56 (4/8 -
* 4/7) times the weight of the group.
*/
static long effective_load(struct task_group *tg, int cpu, long wl, long wg)
{
struct sched_entity *se = tg->se[cpu];
if (!tg->parent)
if (!tg->parent) /* the trivial, non-cgroup case */
return wl;
for_each_sched_entity(se) {
long lw, w;
long w, W;
tg = se->my_q->tg;
w = se->my_q->load.weight;
/* use this cpu's instantaneous contribution */
lw = atomic_read(&tg->load_weight);
lw -= se->my_q->load_contribution;
lw += w + wg;
/*
* W = @wg + \Sum rw_j
*/
W = wg + calc_tg_weight(tg, se->my_q);
wl += w;
/*
* w = rw_i + @wl
*/
w = se->my_q->load.weight + wl;
if (lw > 0 && wl < lw)
wl = (wl * tg->shares) / lw;
/*
* wl = S * s'_i; see (2)
*/
if (W > 0 && w < W)
wl = (w * tg->shares) / W;
else
wl = tg->shares;
/* zero point is MIN_SHARES */
/*
* Per the above, wl is the new se->load.weight value; since
* those are clipped to [MIN_SHARES, ...) do so now. See
* calc_cfs_shares().
*/
if (wl < MIN_SHARES)
wl = MIN_SHARES;
/*
* wl = dw_i = S * (s'_i - s_i); see (3)
*/
wl -= se->load.weight;
/*
* Recursively apply this logic to all parent groups to compute
* the final effective load change on the root group. Since
* only the @tg group gets extra weight, all parent groups can
* only redistribute existing shares. @wl is the shift in shares
* resulting from this level per the above.
*/
wg = 0;
}
......
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