Currently, sugov_next_freq_shared() uses last_freq_update_time as a
reference to decide when to start considering CPU contributions as
stale.
However, since last_freq_update_time is set by the last CPU that issued
a frequency transition, this might cause problems in certain cases. In
practice, the detection of stale utilization values fails whenever the
CPU with such values was the last to update the policy. For example (and
please note again that the SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT flag is not the problem
here, but only the detection of after how much time that flag has to be
considered stale), suppose a policy with 2 CPUs:
CPU0 | CPU1
|
| RT task scheduled
| SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT is set
| CPU1->last_update = now
| freq transition to max
| last_freq_update_time = now
|
more than TICK_NSEC nsecs
|
a small CFS wakes up |
CPU0->last_update = now1 |
delta_ns(CPU0) < TICK_NSEC* |
CPU0's util is considered |
delta_ns(CPU1) = |
last_freq_update_time - |
CPU1->last_update = 0 |
< TICK_NSEC |
CPU1 is still considered |
CPU1->SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT is set |
we stay at max (until CPU1 |
exits from idle) |
* delta_ns is actually negative as now1 > last_freq_update_time
While last_freq_update_time is a sensible reference for rate limiting,
it doesn't seem to be useful for working around stale CPU states.
Fix the problem by always considering now (time) as the reference for
deciding when CPUs have stale contributions.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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