Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] sched/pelt: Change PELT halflife at runtime

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 12:16:26PM +0100, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> On 07/11/2022 14:41, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:41:47PM +0100, Kajetan Puchalski wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > @@ -2956,13 +2958,26 @@ static inline unsigned long cpu_util_dl(struct rq *rq)
> >   */
> >  static inline unsigned long cpu_util_cfs(int cpu)
> >  {
> > +	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> >  	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
> >  	unsigned long util;
> >  
> > -	cfs_rq = &cpu_rq(cpu)->cfs;
> > +	cfs_rq = &rq->cfs;
> >  	util = READ_ONCE(cfs_rq->avg.util_avg);
> >  
> >  	if (sched_feat(UTIL_EST)) {
> > +		if (sched_feat(UTIL_EST_FASTER)) {
> > +			struct task_struct *curr;
> > +
> > +			rcu_read_lock();
> > +			curr = rcu_dereference(rq->curr);
> > +			if (likely(curr->sched_class == &fair_sched_class)) {
> > +				u64 runtime = curr->se.sum_exec_runtime - curr->se.exec_start;
> 
> Don't we and up with gigantic runtime numbers here?
> 
> oot@juno:~# cat /proc/1676/task/1676/schedstat
> 36946300 1150620 11
> root@juno:~# cat /proc/1676/task/1676/sched
> rt-app (1676, #threads: 2)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> se.exec_start                                :         77766.964240 <- !
> se.vruntime                                  :           563.587883
> e.sum_exec_runtime                          :            36.946300  <- !
> se.nr_migrations                             :                    0
> ...
> 
> I expect cpu_util_cfs() to be ~1024 almost all the time now.

Duh, obviously I meant to measure the runtime of the current activation
and messed up.

We don't appear to have the right information to compute this atm :/