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File 5e86f7b7-credit2-avoid-vCPUs-with-lower-creds-than-idle.patch of Package xen.14764
# Commit 36f3662f27dec32d76c0edb4c6b62b9628d6869d # Date 2020-04-03 10:45:43 +0200 # Author Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com> # Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> credit2: avoid vCPUs to ever reach lower credits than idle There have been report of stalls of guest vCPUs, when Credit2 was used. It seemed like these vCPUs were not getting scheduled for very long time, even under light load conditions (e.g., during dom0 boot). Investigations led to the discovery that --although rarely-- it can happen that a vCPU manages to run for very long timeslices. In Credit2, this means that, when runtime accounting happens, the vCPU will lose a large quantity of credits. This in turn may lead to the vCPU having less credits than the idle vCPUs (-2^30). At this point, the scheduler will pick the idle vCPU, instead of the ready to run vCPU, for a few "epochs", which often times is enough for the guest kernel to think the vCPU is not responding and crashing. An example of this situation is shown here. In fact, we can see d0v1 sitting in the runqueue while all the CPUs are idle, as it has -1254238270 credits, which is smaller than -2^30 = −1073741824: (XEN) Runqueue 0: (XEN) ncpus = 28 (XEN) cpus = 0-27 (XEN) max_weight = 256 (XEN) pick_bias = 22 (XEN) instload = 1 (XEN) aveload = 293391 (~111%) (XEN) idlers: 00,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,0fffffff (XEN) tickled: 00,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000 (XEN) fully idle cores: 00,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,0fffffff [...] (XEN) Runqueue 0: (XEN) CPU[00] runq=0, sibling=00,..., core=00,... (XEN) CPU[01] runq=0, sibling=00,..., core=00,... [...] (XEN) CPU[26] runq=0, sibling=00,..., core=00,... (XEN) CPU[27] runq=0, sibling=00,..., core=00,... (XEN) RUNQ: (XEN) 0: [0.1] flags=0 cpu=5 credit=-1254238270 [w=256] load=262144 (~100%) We certainly don't want, under any circumstance, this to happen. Let's, therefore, define a minimum amount of credits a vCPU can have. During accounting, we make sure that, for however long the vCPU has run, it will never get to have less than such minimum amount of credits. Then, we set the credits of the idle vCPU to an even smaller value. NOTE: investigations have been done about _how_ it is possible for a vCPU to execute for so much time that its credits becomes so low. While still not completely clear, there are evidence that: - it only happens very rarely, - it appears to be both machine and workload specific, - it does not look to be a Credit2 (e.g., as it happens when running with Credit1 as well) issue, or a scheduler issue. This patch makes Credit2 more robust to events like this, whatever the cause is, and should hence be backported (as far as possible). Reported-by: Glen <glenbarney@gmail.com> Reported-by: Tomas Mozes <hydrapolic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com> Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com> --- a/tools/xentrace/formats +++ b/tools/xentrace/formats @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ 0x00022204 CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:credit_add 0x00022205 CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:tickle_check [ dom:vcpu = 0x%(1)08x, credit = %(2)d, score = %(3)d ] 0x00022206 CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:tickle [ cpu = %(1)d ] -0x00022207 CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:credit_reset [ dom:vcpu = 0x%(1)08x, cr_start = %(2)d, cr_end = %(3)d, mult = %(4)d ] +0x00022207 CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:credit_reset [ dom:vcpu = 0x%(1)08x, cr_start = %(2)d, cr_end = %(3)d ] 0x00022208 CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:sched_tasklet 0x00022209 CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:update_load 0x0002220a CPU%(cpu)d %(tsc)d (+%(reltsc)8d) csched2:runq_assign [ dom:vcpu = 0x%(1)08x, rq_id = %(2)d ] --- a/tools/xentrace/xenalyze.c +++ b/tools/xentrace/xenalyze.c @@ -7718,13 +7718,12 @@ void sched_process(struct pcpu_info *p) struct { unsigned int vcpuid:16, domid:16; int credit_start, credit_end; - unsigned int multiplier; } *r = (typeof(r))ri->d; printf(" %s csched2:reset_credits d%uv%u, " - "credit_start = %d, credit_end = %d, mult = %u\n", + "credit_start = %d, credit_end = %d\n", ri->dump_header, r->domid, r->vcpuid, - r->credit_start, r->credit_end, r->multiplier); + r->credit_start, r->credit_end); } break; case TRC_SCHED_CLASS_EVT(CSCHED2, 8): /* SCHED_TASKLET */ --- a/xen/common/sched_credit2.c +++ b/xen/common/sched_credit2.c @@ -228,11 +228,21 @@ */ #define CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT MILLISECS(10) /* + * Minimum amount of credits VMs can have. Ideally, no VM would get + * close to this (unless a vCPU manages to execute for really long + * time uninterrupted). In case it happens, it makes no sense to + * track even deeper undershoots. + * + * NOTE: If making this smaller than -CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT, adjust + * reset_credit() accordingly. + */ +#define CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN (-CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT) +/* * Amount of credit the idle vcpus have. It never changes, as idle * vcpus does not consume credits, and it must be lower than whatever * amount of credit 'regular' vcpu would end up with. */ -#define CSCHED2_IDLE_CREDIT (-(1U<<30)) +#define CSCHED2_IDLE_CREDIT (CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN-1) /* * Carryover: How much "extra" credit may be carried over after * a reset. @@ -775,10 +785,15 @@ static int get_fallback_cpu(struct csche static void t2c_update(struct csched2_runqueue_data *rqd, s_time_t time, struct csched2_vcpu *svc) { - uint64_t val = time * rqd->max_weight + svc->residual; + int64_t val = time * rqd->max_weight + svc->residual; svc->residual = do_div(val, svc->weight); - svc->credit -= val; + /* Getting to lower credit than CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN makes no sense. */ + val = svc->credit - val; + if ( unlikely(val < CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN) ) + svc->credit = CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN; + else + svc->credit = val; } static s_time_t c2t(struct csched2_runqueue_data *rqd, s_time_t credit, struct csched2_vcpu *svc) @@ -1618,28 +1633,25 @@ static void reset_credit(const struct sc { struct csched2_runqueue_data *rqd = c2rqd(ops, cpu); struct list_head *iter; - int m; + int reset = CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT; /* * Under normal circumstances, snext->credit should never be less * than -CSCHED2_MIN_TIMER. However, under some circumstances, a * vcpu with low credits may be allowed to run long enough that - * its credits are actually less than -CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT. + * its credits are actually much lower than that. * (Instances have been observed, for example, where a vcpu with * 200us of credit was allowed to run for 11ms, giving it -10.8ms * of credit. Thus it was still negative even after the reset.) * * If this is the case for snext, we simply want to keep moving - * everyone up until it is in the black again. This fair because - * none of the other vcpus want to run at the moment. - * - * Rather than looping, however, we just calculate a multiplier, - * avoiding an integer division and multiplication in the common - * case. + * everyone up until it is in the black again. This means that, + * since CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN is -CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT, we need to + * actually add 2*CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT. */ - m = 1; - if ( snext->credit < -CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT ) - m += (-snext->credit) / CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT; + ASSERT(snext->credit >= CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN); + if ( unlikely(snext->credit == CSCHED2_CREDIT_MIN) ) + reset += CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT; list_for_each( iter, &rqd->svc ) { @@ -1670,15 +1682,7 @@ static void reset_credit(const struct sc } start_credit = svc->credit; - - /* - * Add INIT * m, avoiding integer multiplication in the common case. - */ - if ( likely(m==1) ) - svc->credit += CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT; - else - svc->credit += m * CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT; - + svc->credit += reset; /* "Clip" credits to max carryover */ if ( svc->credit > CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT + CSCHED2_CARRYOVER_MAX ) svc->credit = CSCHED2_CREDIT_INIT + CSCHED2_CARRYOVER_MAX; @@ -1690,19 +1694,18 @@ static void reset_credit(const struct sc struct { unsigned vcpu:16, dom:16; int credit_start, credit_end; - unsigned multiplier; } d; d.dom = svc->vcpu->domain->domain_id; d.vcpu = svc->vcpu->vcpu_id; d.credit_start = start_credit; d.credit_end = svc->credit; - d.multiplier = m; __trace_var(TRC_CSCHED2_CREDIT_RESET, 1, sizeof(d), (unsigned char *)&d); } } + ASSERT(snext->credit > 0); SCHED_STAT_CRANK(credit_reset); /* No need to resort runqueue, as everyone's order should be the same. */
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