nohz/full, sched/rt: Fix missed tick-reenabling bug in sched_can_stop_tick()

Peter Zijlstra · Ingo Molnar · commit 2548d546d40c · 2016-04-28T10:28:55.000+02:00
Chris Metcalf reported a that sched_can_stop_tick() sometimes fails to re-enable the tick. His observed problem is that rq->cfs.nr_running can be 1 even though there are multiple runnable CFS tasks. This happens in the cgroup case, in which case cfs.nr_running is the number of runnable entities for that level. If there is a single runnable cgroup (which can have an arbitrary number of runnable child entries itself) rq->cfs.nr_running will be 1. However, looking at that function I think there's more problems with it. It seems to assume that if there's FIFO tasks, those will run. This is incorrect. The FIFO task can have a lower prio than an RR task, in which case the RR task will run. So the whole fifo_nr_running test seems misplaced, it should go after the rr_nr_running tests. That is, only if !rr_nr_running, can we use fifo_nr_running like this. Reported-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Tested-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Fixes: 76d92ac ("sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160421160315.GK24771@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -596,17 +596,8 @@ bool sched_can_stop_tick(struct rq *rq)
 		return false;
 
 	/*
-	 * FIFO realtime policy runs the highest priority task (after DEADLINE).
-	 * Other runnable tasks are of a lower priority. The scheduler tick
-	 * isn't needed.
-	 */
-	fifo_nr_running = rq->rt.rt_nr_running - rq->rt.rr_nr_running;
-	if (fifo_nr_running)
-		return true;
-
-	/*
-	 * Round-robin realtime tasks time slice with other tasks at the same
-	 * realtime priority.
+	 * If there are more than one RR tasks, we need the tick to effect the
+	 * actual RR behaviour.
 	 */
 	if (rq->rt.rr_nr_running) {
 		if (rq->rt.rr_nr_running == 1)
@@ -615,8 +606,20 @@ bool sched_can_stop_tick(struct rq *rq)
 			return false;
 	}
 
-	/* Normal multitasking need periodic preemption checks */
-	if (rq->cfs.nr_running > 1)
+	/*
+	 * If there's no RR tasks, but FIFO tasks, we can skip the tick, no
+	 * forced preemption between FIFO tasks.
+	 */
+	fifo_nr_running = rq->rt.rt_nr_running - rq->rt.rr_nr_running;
+	if (fifo_nr_running)
+		return true;
+
+	/*
+	 * If there are no DL,RR/FIFO tasks, there must only be CFS tasks left;
+	 * if there's more than one we need the tick for involuntary
+	 * preemption.
+	 */
+	if (rq->nr_running > 1)
 		return false;
 
 	return true;
