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Commit c06f04c7 authored by Ben Segall's avatar Ben Segall Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop



distribute_cfs_runtime() intentionally only hands out enough runtime to
bring each cfs_rq to 1 ns of runtime, expecting the cfs_rqs to then take
the runtime they need only once they actually get to run. However, if
they get to run sufficiently quickly, the period timer is still in
distribute_cfs_runtime() and no runtime is available, causing them to
throttle. Then distribute has to handle them again, and this can go on
until distribute has handed out all of the runtime 1ns at a time, which
takes far too long.

Instead allow access to the same runtime that distribute is handing out,
accepting that corner cases with very low quota may be able to spend the
entire cfs_b->runtime during distribute_cfs_runtime, meaning that the
runtime directly handed out by distribute_cfs_runtime was over quota. In
addition, if a cfs_rq does manage to throttle like this, make sure the
existing distribute_cfs_runtime no longer loops over it again.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140620222120.13814.21652.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 541b8264
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