Re: [Resend PATCH] psi : calc cfs task memstall time more precisely

[Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan94@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 8:29 PM Dietmar Eggemann
<dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/11/2021 10:20, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 4:49 PM Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan94@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Dietmar
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 1:20 AM Dietmar Eggemann
> >> <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 05/11/2021 06:58, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>>>> This will let the idle task (swapper) pass. Is this indented? Or do you
> >>>>> want to only let CFS tasks (including SCHED_IDLE) pass?
> >>>> idle tasks will NOT call psi_memstall_xxx. We just want CFS tasks to
> >>>> scale the STALL time.
> >>>
> >>> Not sure I  get this.
> >>>
> >>> __schedule() -> psi_sched_switch() -> psi_task_change() ->
> >>> psi_group_change() -> record_times() -> psi_memtime_fixup()
> >>>
> >>> is something else than calling psi_memstall_enter() or _leave()?
> >>>
> >>> IMHO, at least record_times() can be called with current equal
> >>> swapper/X. Or is it that PSI_MEM_SOME is never set for the idle task in
> >>> this callstack? I don't know the PSI internals.
> > According to my understanding, PSI_MEM_SOME represents the CORE's
> > state within which there is at least one task trapped in memstall
> > path(only counted in by calling PSI_MEMSTALL_ENTER). record_times is
> > responsible for collecting the delta time of the CORE since it start.
> > What we are doing is to make the delta time more precise. So idle task
> > is irrelevant for these.
>
> Coming back to the original snippet of the patch.
>
> static unsigned long psi_memtime_fixup(u32 growth)
> {
>
>     if (!(current->policy == SCHED_NORMAL ||
>           current->policy == SCHED_BATCH))
>         return growth_fixed;
>
> With this condition:
>
> (1) you're not bailing when current is the idle task. It has policy
>     equal 0 (SCHED_NORMAL)
>
> (2) But you're bailing for a SCHED_IDLE (CFS) task.
>
> I'm not sure that this is indented here?
>
> Since you want to do the scaling later based on whats left for CFS tasks
> from the CPU capacity my hunch is that you want to rather do:
>
>     if (current->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
>         return growth_fixed;

Yes, It is the correct method!

Thanks!
>
> What's the possible sched classes of current in psi_memtime_fixup?