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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched/core: forced idle accounting
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 5:27 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 05:12:43PM -0700, Josh Don wrote:
>
> > > > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!nr_running)) {
> > > > + /* can't be forced idle without a running task */
> > > > + } else {
> > > > + delta *= nr_forced_idle;
> > > > + delta /= nr_running;
> > > > + }
> > >
> > > Now the comment sayeth:
> > >
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * For larger SMT configurations, we need to scale the charged
> > > > + * forced idle amount since there can be more than one forced idle
> > > > + * sibling and more than one running cookied task.
> > > > + */
> > >
> > > But why?
> >
> > We scale by the number of cpus actually forced idle, since we don't
> > want to falsely over or under charge forced idle time (defined
> > strictly as time where we have a runnable task but idle the cpu). The
> > more important scaling here though is the division over the number of
> > running entities. This is done so that the aggregate amount of forced
> > idle over some group of threads makes sense. Ie if we have a cpu with
> > SMT8, and a group of 7 threads sharing a cookie, we don't want to
> > accrue 7 units of forced idle time per unit time while the 8th SMT is
> > forced idle.
>
> So why not simply compute the strict per-cpu force-idle time and let
> userspace sort out the rest?

Do you mean to compute force idle solely as a per-cpu value? I think
that would be fine in addition to the per-thread field, but a
desirable property here is proper attribution to the cause of the
force idle. That lets system management understand which jobs are the
most antagonistic from a coresched perspective, and is a signal
(albeit noisy, due to system state and load balancing decisions) for
scaling their capacity requirements.

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