sched: Maintain the load contribution of blocked entities

We are currently maintaining:

  runnable_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum task_load(t)

For all running children t of cfs_rq.  While this can be naturally updated for
tasks in a runnable state (as they are scheduled); this does not account for
the load contributed by blocked task entities.

This can be solved by introducing a separate accounting for blocked load:

  blocked_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum runnable(b) * weight(b)

Obviously we do not want to iterate over all blocked entities to account for
their decay, we instead observe that:

  runnable_load(t) = \Sum p_i*y^i

and that to account for an additional idle period we only need to compute:

  y*runnable_load(t).

This means that we can compute all blocked entities at once by evaluating:

  blocked_load(cfs_rq)` = y * blocked_load(cfs_rq)

Finally we maintain a decay counter so that when a sleeping entity re-awakens
we can determine how much of its load should be removed from the blocked sum.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.585389902@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index c953a89f94a..2d2e2b3c1be 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ static void print_cfs_group_stats(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct task_group
 	P(se->avg.runnable_avg_sum);
 	P(se->avg.runnable_avg_period);
 	P(se->avg.load_avg_contrib);
+	P(se->avg.decay_count);
 #endif
 #undef PN
 #undef P
@@ -227,6 +228,8 @@ void print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 			atomic_read(&cfs_rq->tg->load_weight));
 	SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-30s: %lld\n", "runnable_load_avg",
 			cfs_rq->runnable_load_avg);
+	SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-30s: %lld\n", "blocked_load_avg",
+			cfs_rq->blocked_load_avg);
 #endif
 
 	print_cfs_group_stats(m, cpu, cfs_rq->tg);