Re: EEVDF/vhost regression (bisected to 86bfbb7ce4f6 sched/fair: Add lag based placement)

From: Honglei Wang
Date: Sat Nov 18 2023 - 10:37:19 EST




On 2023/11/18 15:33, Abel Wu wrote:
On 11/17/23 2:58 AM, Tobias Huschle Wrote:
#################### TRACE EXCERPT ####################
The sched_place trace event was added to the end of the place_entity function and outputs:
sev -> sched_entity vruntime
sed -> sched_entity deadline
sel -> sched_entity vlag
avg -> cfs_rq avg_vruntime
min -> cfs_rq min_vruntime
cpu -> cpu of cfs_rq
nr  -> cfs_rq nr_running
---
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] d....   576.161432: sched_migrate_task: comm=vhost-2920 pid=2941 prio=120 orig_cpu=15 dest_cpu=14
--> migrates task from cpu 15 to 14
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] d....   576.161433: sched_place: comm=vhost-2920 pid=2941 sev=4242563284 sed=4245563284 sel=0 avg=4242563284 min=4242563284 cpu=14 nr=0
--> places vhost 2920 on CPU 14 with vruntime 4242563284
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] d....   576.161433: sched_place: comm= pid=0 sev=16329848593 sed=16334604010 sel=0 avg=16329848593 min=16329848593 cpu=14 nr=0
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] d....   576.161433: sched_place: comm= pid=0 sev=42560661157 sed=42627443765 sel=0 avg=42560661157 min=42560661157 cpu=14 nr=0
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] d....   576.161434: sched_place: comm= pid=0 sev=53846627372 sed=54125900099 sel=0 avg=53846627372 min=53846627372 cpu=14 nr=0
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] d....   576.161434: sched_place: comm= pid=0 sev=86640641980 sed=87255041979 sel=0 avg=86640641980 min=86640641980 cpu=14 nr=0

As the following 2 lines indicates that vhost-2920 is on_rq so can be
picked as next, thus its cfs_rq must have at least one entity.

While the above 4 lines shows nr=0, so the "comm= pid=0" task(s) can't
be in the same cgroup with vhost-2920.

Say vhost is in cgroupA, and "comm= pid=0" task with sev=86640641980
is in cgroupB ...

This looks like an hierarchy enqueue staff. The temporary trace can get comm and pid of vhost-2920, but failed for the other 4. I think the reason is they were just se but not tasks. Seems this came from the for_each_sched_entity(se) when doing enqueue vhost-2920. And the last one with cfs_rq vruntime=86640641980 might be the root cgroup which was on same level with kworkers.

So just from this tiny part of the trace log, there won't be thousands ms level difference. Actually, it might be only 86642125805-86640641980 = 1.5 ms.

correct me if there is anything wrong..

Thanks,
Honglei
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] dN...   576.161434: sched_stat_wait: comm=vhost-2920 pid=2941 delay=9958 [ns]
     CPU 3/KVM-2950    [014] d....   576.161435: sched_switch: prev_comm=CPU 3/KVM prev_pid=2950 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=vhost-2920 next_pid=2941 next_prio=120
    vhost-2920-2941    [014] D....   576.161439: sched_waking: comm=vhost-2286 pid=2309 prio=120 target_cpu=008
    vhost-2920-2941    [014] d....   576.161446: sched_waking: comm=kworker/14:0 pid=6525 prio=120 target_cpu=014
    vhost-2920-2941    [014] d....   576.161447: sched_place: comm=kworker/14:0 pid=6525 sev=86642125805 sed=86645125805 sel=0 avg=86642125805 min=86642125805 cpu=14 nr=1
--> places kworker 6525 on cpu 14 with vruntime 86642125805
-->  which is far larger than vhost vruntime of  4242563284

Here nr=1 means there is another entity in the same cfs_rq with the
newly woken kworker, but which? According to the vruntime, I would
assume kworker is in cgroupB.