sched/deadline: Base GRUB reclaiming on the inactive utilization
authorLuca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Thu, 18 May 2017 20:13:35 +0000 (22:13 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:31:54 +0000 (10:31 +0200)
commit9f0d1a5077399143aad7e1244bb031e29116074e
treed439dd7ad92ad3c3ec88b13b600dfe89fcca74f2
parent8fd27231c3302e0c7e1907df1252db97b65eb241
sched/deadline: Base GRUB reclaiming on the inactive utilization

Instead of decreasing the runtime as "dq = -Uact dt" (eventually
divided by the maximum utilization available for deadline tasks),
decrease it as "dq = -max{u, (1 - Uinact)} dt", where u is the task
utilization and Uinact is the "inactive utilization".
In this way, the maximum fraction of CPU time that can be reclaimed
is given by the total utilization of deadline tasks.
This approach solves a fairness issue with "traditional" global GRUB
reclaiming: using the traditional GRUB algorithm, if tasks are
allocated to the various cores in a non-uniform way, the
reclaiming mechanism allows some tasks to reclaim more time than
others. This issue is visible starting 11 time-consuming tasks with
runtime 10ms and period 30ms (total utilization 3.666) on a 4-cores
system: some tasks will receive much more than the reserved runtime
(thanks to the reclaiming mechanism), while other tasks will receive
less than the reserved runtime.

Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495138417-6203-9-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/deadline.c