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sched/rt: Fix Deadline utilization tracking during policy change
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DL keeps track of the utilization on a per-rq basis with the structure
avg_dl. This utilization is updated during task_tick_dl(),
put_prev_task_dl() and set_next_task_dl(). However, when the current
running task changes its policy, set_next_task_dl() which would usually
take care of updating the utilization when the rq starts running DL
tasks, will not see a such change, leaving the avg_dl structure outdated.
When that very same task will be dequeued later, put_prev_task_dl() will
then update the utilization, based on a wrong last_update_time, leading to
a huge spike in the DL utilization signal.

The signal would eventually recover from this issue after few ms. Even
if no DL tasks are run, avg_dl is also updated in
__update_blocked_others(). But as the CPU capacity depends partly on the
avg_dl, this issue has nonetheless a significant impact on the scheduler.

Fix this issue by ensuring a load update when a running task changes
its policy to DL.

Fixes: 3727e0e ("sched/dl: Add dl_rq utilization tracking")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1624271872-211872-3-git-send-email-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Vincent Donnefort authored and gregkh committed Jul 14, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -2470,6 +2470,8 @@ static void switched_to_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
check_preempt_curr_dl(rq, p, 0);
else
resched_curr(rq);
} else {
update_dl_rq_load_avg(rq_clock_pelt(rq), rq, 0);
}
}

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