sched/psi: Fix avgs_work re-arm in psi_avgs_work()
authorChengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:05:51 +0000 (19:05 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:50:37 +0000 (08:50 +0200)
commit7d8bba4da1a8f11f304a15b6f0de69ac99ebd67f
tree7c2ba9c197067c6bcfae884331455085f5bd4fa7
parent45f739e8fb345cc4352da091602660f94320431f
sched/psi: Fix avgs_work re-arm in psi_avgs_work()

[ Upstream commit 2fcd7bbae90a6d844da8660a9d27079281dfbba2 ]

Pavan reported a problem that PSI avgs_work idle shutoff is not
working at all. Because PSI_NONIDLE condition would be observed in
psi_avgs_work()->collect_percpu_times()->get_recent_times() even if
only the kworker running avgs_work on the CPU.

Although commit 1b69ac6b40eb ("psi: fix aggregation idle shut-off")
avoided the ping-pong wake problem when the worker sleep, psi_avgs_work()
still will always re-arm the avgs_work, so shutoff is not working.

This patch changes to use PSI_STATE_RESCHEDULE to flag whether to
re-arm avgs_work in get_recent_times(). For the current CPU, we re-arm
avgs_work only when (NR_RUNNING > 1 || NR_IOWAIT > 0 || NR_MEMSTALL > 0),
for other CPUs we can just check PSI_NONIDLE delta. The new flag
is only used in psi_avgs_work(), so we check in get_recent_times()
that current_work() is avgs_work.

One potential problem is that the brief period of non-idle time
incurred between the aggregation run and the kworker's dequeue will
be stranded in the per-cpu buckets until avgs_work run next time.
The buckets can hold 4s worth of time, and future activity will wake
the avgs_work with a 2s delay, giving us 2s worth of data we can leave
behind when shut off the avgs_work. If the kworker run other works after
avgs_work shut off and doesn't have any scheduler activities for 2s,
this maybe a problem.

Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti <quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Tested-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221014110551.22695-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com
Stable-dep-of: aff037078eca ("sched/psi: use kernfs polling functions for PSI trigger polling")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/linux/psi_types.h
kernel/sched/psi.c