sched/cfs: Make util/load_avg more stable
In the current implementation of load/util_avg, we assume that the ongoing time segment has fully elapsed, and util/load_sum is divided by LOAD_AVG_MAX, even if part of the time segment still remains to run. As a consequence, this remaining part is considered as idle time and generates unexpected variations of util_avg of a busy CPU in the range [1002..1024[ whereas util_avg should stay at 1023. In order to keep the metric stable, we should not consider the ongoing time segment when computing load/util_avg but only the segments that have already fully elapsed. But to not consider the current time segment adds unwanted latency in the load/util_avg responsivness especially when the time is scaled instead of the contribution. Instead of waiting for the current time segment to have fully elapsed before accounting it in load/util_avg, we can already account the elapsed part but change the range used to compute load/util_avg accordingly. At the very beginning of a new time segment, the past segments have been decayed and the max value is LOAD_AVG_MAX*y. At the very end of the current time segment, the max value becomes: LOAD_AVG_MAX*y + 1024(us) (== LOAD_AVG_MAX) In fact, the max value is: LOAD_AVG_MAX*y + sa->period_contrib at any time in the time segment. Taking advantage of the fact that: LOAD_AVG_MAX*y == LOAD_AVG_MAX-1024 the range becomes [0..LOAD_AVG_MAX-1024+sa->period_contrib]. As the elapsed part is already accounted in load/util_sum, we update the max value according to the current position in the time segment instead of removing its contribution. Suggested-by:Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493188076-2767-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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