Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: vruntime should normalize when switching from fair | From | Steve Muckle <> | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:17:29 -0700 |
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On 08/23/2018 11:54 PM, Juri Lelli wrote: >> I tried to catch this issue on my Arm64 Juno board using pi_test (and a >> slightly adapted pip_test (usleep_val = 1500 and keep low as cfs)) from >> rt-tests but wasn't able to do so. >> >> # pi_stress --inversions=1 --duration=1 --groups=1 --sched id=low,policy=cfs >> >> Starting PI Stress Test >> Number of thread groups: 1 >> Duration of test run: 1 seconds >> Number of inversions per group: 1 >> Admin thread SCHED_FIFO priority 4 >> 1 groups of 3 threads will be created >> High thread SCHED_FIFO priority 3 >> Med thread SCHED_FIFO priority 2 >> Low thread SCHED_OTHER nice 0 >> >> # ./pip_stress >> >> In both cases, the cfs task entering rt_mutex_setprio() is queued, so >> dequeue_task_fair()->dequeue_entity(), which subtracts cfs_rq->min_vruntime >> from se->vruntime, is called on it before it gets the rt prio. >> >> Maybe it requires a very specific use of the pthread library to provoke this >> issue by making sure that the cfs tasks really blocks/sleeps? > > Maybe one could play with rt-app to recreate such specific use case? > > https://github.com/scheduler-tools/rt-app/blob/master/doc/tutorial.txt#L459
This was reproduced for me on tip of mainline by using the program at the end of this mail. It was run in a 2 CPU virtualbox VM. Relevant annotated bits of the trace:
low-prio thread vruntime is 752ms pi-vruntime-tes-598 [001] d... 520.572459: sched_stat_runtime: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 runtime=29953 [ns] vruntime=752888705 [ns]
low-prio thread waits on a_sem pi-vruntime-tes-598 [001] d... 520.572465: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi-vruntime-tes prev_pid=598 prev_prio=120 prev_state=D ==> next_comm=swapper/1 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
high prio thread finishes wakeup, then sleeps for 1ms <idle>-0 [000] dNh. 520.572483: sched_wakeup: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000 <idle>-0 [000] d... 520.572486: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi-vruntime-tes next_pid=597 next_prio=19 pi-vruntime-tes-597 [000] d... 520.572498: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi-vruntime-tes prev_pid=597 prev_prio=19 prev_state=D ==> next_comm=swapper/0 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
high prio thread wakes up after 1ms sleep, posts a_sem which starts to wake low-prio thread, then tries to grab pi_mutex, which low-prio thread has <idle>-0 [000] d.h. 520.573876: sched_waking: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000 <idle>-0 [000] dNh. 520.573879: sched_wakeup: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000 <idle>-0 [000] d... 520.573887: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi-vruntime-tes next_pid=597 next_prio=19 pi-vruntime-tes-597 [000] d... 520.573895: sched_waking: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 prio=120 target_cpu=001
low-prio thread pid 598 gets pi_mutex priority inheritance, this happens while low-prio thread is in waking state pi-vruntime-tes-597 [000] d... 520.573911: sched_pi_setprio: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 oldprio=120 newprio=19
high-prio thread sleeps on pi_mutex pi-vruntime-tes-597 [000] d... 520.573919: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi-vruntime-tes prev_pid=597 prev_prio=19 prev_state=D ==> next_comm=swapper/0 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
low-prio thread finishes wakeup <idle>-0 [001] dNh. 520.573932: sched_wakeup: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 prio=19 target_cpu=001 <idle>-0 [001] d... 520.573936: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi-vruntime-tes next_pid=598 next_prio=19
low-prio thread releases pi-mutex, loses pi boost, high-prio thread wakes for pi-mutex pi-vruntime-tes-598 [001] d... 520.573946: sched_pi_setprio: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 oldprio=19 newprio=120 pi-vruntime-tes-598 [001] dN.. 520.573954: sched_waking: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000
low-prio thread vruntime is 1505ms pi-vruntime-tes-598 [001] dN.. 520.573966: sched_stat_runtime: comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 runtime=20150 [ns] vruntime=1505797560 [ns]
The timing is quite sensitive since the task being boosted has to be caught in the TASK_WAKING state. The program:
/* * Test case for vruntime management during rtmutex priority inheritance * promotion and demotion. * * build with -lpthread */
#define _GNU_SOURCE #include <pthread.h> #include <semaphore.h> #include <sched.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h>
#define ERROR_CHECK(x) \ if (x) \ fprintf(stderr, "Error at line %d", __LINE__);
pthread_mutex_t pi_mutex; sem_t a_sem; sem_t b_sem;
void *rt_thread_func(void *arg) { int policy; int i = 0; cpu_set_t cpuset;
CPU_ZERO(&cpuset); CPU_SET(0, &cpuset); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_self(), sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset));
while(i++ < 100) { sem_wait(&b_sem); usleep(1000); sem_post(&a_sem); pthread_mutex_lock(&pi_mutex); pthread_mutex_unlock(&pi_mutex); } }
void *low_prio_thread_func(void *arg) { int i = 0; cpu_set_t cpuset;
CPU_ZERO(&cpuset); CPU_SET(1, &cpuset); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_self(), sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset)); while(i++ < 100) { pthread_mutex_lock(&pi_mutex); sem_post(&b_sem); sem_wait(&a_sem); pthread_mutex_unlock(&pi_mutex); } }
int main() { pthread_t rt_thread; pthread_t low_prio_thread; pthread_attr_t rt_thread_attrs; pthread_attr_t low_prio_thread_attrs; struct sched_param rt_thread_sched_params; struct sched_param low_prio_thread_sched_params;
pthread_mutexattr_t mutex_attrs;
sem_init(&a_sem, 0, 0); sem_init(&b_sem, 0, 0);
ERROR_CHECK(pthread_mutexattr_init(&mutex_attrs)); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_mutexattr_setprotocol(&mutex_attrs, PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT)); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_mutex_init(&pi_mutex, &mutex_attrs));
rt_thread_sched_params.sched_priority = 80; low_prio_thread_sched_params.sched_priority = 0;
pthread_attr_init(&rt_thread_attrs); pthread_attr_init(&low_prio_thread_attrs);
ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&rt_thread_attrs, PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED)); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&low_prio_thread_attrs, PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED));
ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&rt_thread_attrs, SCHED_FIFO)); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&low_prio_thread_attrs, SCHED_OTHER));
ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedparam(&rt_thread_attrs, &rt_thread_sched_params)); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedparam(&low_prio_thread_attrs, &low_prio_thread_sched_params));
ERROR_CHECK(pthread_create(&rt_thread, &rt_thread_attrs, rt_thread_func, NULL)); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_create(&low_prio_thread, &low_prio_thread_attrs, low_prio_thread_func, NULL));
ERROR_CHECK(pthread_join(rt_thread, NULL)); ERROR_CHECK(pthread_join(low_prio_thread, NULL));
return 0; }
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