This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: sched-deadline-throttle-a-constrained-deadline-task-activated-after-the-deadline.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017
From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@redhat.com Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:10:58 +0100 Subject: sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline
From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit df8eac8cafce7d086be3bd5cf5a838fa37594dfb ]
During the activation, CBS checks if it can reuse the current task's runtime and period. If the deadline of the task is in the past, CBS cannot use the runtime, and so it replenishes the task. This rule works fine for implicit deadline tasks (deadline == period), and the CBS was designed for implicit deadline tasks. However, a task with constrained deadline (deadine < period) might be awakened after the deadline, but before the next period. In this case, replenishing the task would allow it to run for runtime / deadline. As in this case deadline < period, CBS enables a task to run for more than the runtime / period. In a very loaded system, this can cause a domino effect, making other tasks miss their deadlines.
To avoid this problem, in the activation of a constrained deadline task after the deadline but before the next period, throttle the task and set the replenishing timer to the begin of the next period, unless it is boosted.
Reproducer:
--------------- %< --------------- int main (int argc, char **argv) { int ret; int flags = 0; unsigned long l = 0; struct timespec ts; struct sched_attr attr;
memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr)); attr.size = sizeof(attr);
attr.sched_policy = SCHED_DEADLINE; attr.sched_runtime = 2 * 1000 * 1000; /* 2 ms */ attr.sched_deadline = 2 * 1000 * 1000; /* 2 ms */ attr.sched_period = 2 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000; /* 2 s */
ts.tv_sec = 0; ts.tv_nsec = 2000 * 1000; /* 2 ms */
ret = sched_setattr(0, &attr, flags);
if (ret < 0) { perror("sched_setattr"); exit(-1); }
for(;;) { /* XXX: you may need to adjust the loop */ for (l = 0; l < 150000; l++); /* * The ideia is to go to sleep right before the deadline * and then wake up before the next period to receive * a new replenishment. */ nanosleep(&ts, NULL); }
exit(0); } --------------- >% ---------------
On my box, this reproducer uses almost 50% of the CPU time, which is obviously wrong for a task with 2/2000 reservation.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: Juri Lelli juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Luca Abeni luca.abeni@santannapisa.it Cc: Mike Galbraith efault@gmx.de Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br Cc: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/edf58354e01db46bf42df8d2dd32418833f68c89.1488392936... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/sched/deadline.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c @@ -704,6 +704,37 @@ void init_dl_task_timer(struct sched_dl_ timer->function = dl_task_timer; }
+/* + * During the activation, CBS checks if it can reuse the current task's + * runtime and period. If the deadline of the task is in the past, CBS + * cannot use the runtime, and so it replenishes the task. This rule + * works fine for implicit deadline tasks (deadline == period), and the + * CBS was designed for implicit deadline tasks. However, a task with + * constrained deadline (deadine < period) might be awakened after the + * deadline, but before the next period. In this case, replenishing the + * task would allow it to run for runtime / deadline. As in this case + * deadline < period, CBS enables a task to run for more than the + * runtime / period. In a very loaded system, this can cause a domino + * effect, making other tasks miss their deadlines. + * + * To avoid this problem, in the activation of a constrained deadline + * task after the deadline but before the next period, throttle the + * task and set the replenishing timer to the begin of the next period, + * unless it is boosted. + */ +static inline void dl_check_constrained_dl(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se) +{ + struct task_struct *p = dl_task_of(dl_se); + struct rq *rq = rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq_of_se(dl_se)); + + if (dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq)) && + dl_time_before(rq_clock(rq), dl_next_period(dl_se))) { + if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted || !start_dl_timer(p))) + return; + dl_se->dl_throttled = 1; + } +} + static int dl_runtime_exceeded(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se) { @@ -958,6 +989,11 @@ static void dequeue_dl_entity(struct sch __dequeue_dl_entity(dl_se); }
+static inline bool dl_is_constrained(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se) +{ + return dl_se->dl_deadline < dl_se->dl_period; +} + static void enqueue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags) { struct task_struct *pi_task = rt_mutex_get_top_task(p); @@ -984,6 +1020,15 @@ static void enqueue_task_dl(struct rq *r }
/* + * Check if a constrained deadline task was activated + * after the deadline but before the next period. + * If that is the case, the task will be throttled and + * the replenishment timer will be set to the next period. + */ + if (!p->dl.dl_throttled && dl_is_constrained(&p->dl)) + dl_check_constrained_dl(&p->dl); + + /* * If p is throttled, we do nothing. In fact, if it exhausted * its budget it needs a replenishment and, since it now is on * its rq, the bandwidth timer callback (which clearly has not
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bristot@redhat.com are
queue-4.4/sched-deadline-make-sure-the-replenishment-timer-fires-in-the-next-period.patch queue-4.4/sched-deadline-throttle-a-constrained-deadline-task-activated-after-the-deadline.patch queue-4.4/sched-deadline-use-deadline-instead-of-period-when-calculating-overflow.patch