svn commit: r197652 - stable/7/sys/kern
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 19:53:02 UTC 2009
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:40:51PM +0000, Zachary Loafman wrote:
> Author: zml
> Date: Wed Sep 30 19:40:51 2009
> New Revision: 197652
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197652
>
> Log:
> sched_ule in stable/7 has a bug (introduced in r180607) where a thread
> that is running often will appear to not be running much at all.
Why is this not a problem on HEAD ?
>
> sched_ule has a much less accurate mechanism for determining how much
> various threads are running. Every tick, hardclock_cpu() calls
> sched_tick(), and the currently running thread gets it's ts_ticks
> incremented. Whenever an event of interest happens to a thread, the
> ts_ticks value may be decayed; it's supposed to be a rough running
> average of the last 10 seconds. So there's a ts_ltick which is the last
> tick we looked at decaying ts_ticks.
>
> The increment in sched_tick() was slightly buggy on SMP, because a
> thread could get incremented on two different CPUs in the rare case
> where it was swapped from one which had run sched_tick() this tick to
> one which hadn't. The fix that was used relied on ts_ltick and only
> incremented ts_ticks if ts_ltick was not from the current tick.
> This is buggy, because any time the thread began running on a CPU in the
> current tick, we would have set ts_ltick to ticks, so if it was still
> running at sched_tick() we wouldn't increment.
>
> A system with a single process that hogs the CPU and is otherwise idle,
> therefore, would look like all threads were at 0%. The threads not
> running are really at 0%, and the hog is not getting its ts_ticks
> incremented since it went through some other runq stats that set
> ts_ltick. On a 2-way SMP the thread used to get shuffled regularly
> between CPUs (I think fallout from this bug), so it would appear a
> little over 50% busy.
>
> The fix is to use a separate variable to record when the last
> sched_tick() increment happened.
>
> Submitted by: Matthew Fleming (matthew.fleming at isilon.com)
> Reviewed by: zml, dfr
> Approved by: dfr (mentor)
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