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>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index e653973..664ff39 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@
* This allows for the description of both thread and group usage (in
* the FAIR_GROUP_SCHED case).
*/
- u64 runnable_load_avg;
+ u64 runnable_load_avg, blocked_load_avg;
+ atomic64_t decay_counter;
+ u64 last_decay;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
struct rq *rq; /* cpu runqueue to which this cfs_rq is attached */