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, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index e6539736af5..664ff39195f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ struct cfs_rq {
 	 * 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 */