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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/7] sched: support schedstats for RT sched class
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:08 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:29:39AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > Hi Ingo, Peter,
> >
> > This feature is useful to trace the sched details of RT tasks. Hopefully
> > you can give some feedback on it.
> >
> > We want to measure the latency of RT tasks in our production
> > environment with schedstats facility, but currently schedstats is only
> > supported for fair sched class. In order to support if for other sched
> > classes, we should make it independent of fair sched class. The struct
> > sched_statistics is the schedular statistics of a task_struct or a
> > task_group, both of which are independent of sched class. So we can move
> > struct sched_statistics into struct task_struct and struct task_group to
> > achieve the goal.
>
> Do you really want schedstats or do you want the tracepoints?

I really want the schedstats, which is very helpful to help us profile
thread-level latency.
The tracepoints is a bonus.

> In general
> I really want to cut back on the built-in statistics crud we carry,

Pls. don't.
There are really use cases of statistics.
Our use case as follows,

Userspace Code Scope Profiler

{
user_func_abc(); <---- uprobe_begin() get the start statistics
...
user_func_xyz(); <---- uprobe_end() get the end statistics
}

Then with this profiler we can easily get what happened in this scope
and why its latency was great:
scope_latency = Wait + Sleep + Blocked [1] + Run (stime + utime)

If there is no schedstats, we have to trace the heavy sched::sched_switch.

[1]. With patch #5 and don't include sum_block_runtime in sum_sleep_runtime

> there's too much and it seems to keep growing forever :-(
>
> (as is the case here, you're extending it as well)
>
> That said; making schedstats cover the other classes can be seen as
> fixing an inconsistency, but then you forgot deadline.
>

There's no deadline task on our server, so I didn't support it for deadline.
But with this patchset, it is very easy to extend it to deadline and
any other sched classes.


> > After the patchset, schestats are orgnized as follows,
> > struct task_struct {
> > ...
> > struct sched_statistics statistics;
> > ...
> > struct sched_entity *se;
> > struct sched_rt_entity *rt;
> > ...
> > };
> >
> > struct task_group { |---> stats[0] : of CPU0
> > ... |
> > struct sched_statistics **stats; --|---> stats[1] : of CPU1
> > ... |
> > |---> stats[n] : of CPUn
> > #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
> > struct sched_entity **se;
> > #endif
> > #ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
> > struct sched_rt_entity **rt_se;
> > #endif
> > ...
> > };
>
> Yeah, this seems to give a terrible mess, let me see if I can come up
> with anything less horrible.



--
Thanks
Yafang

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