2 * kernel/sched/loadavg.c
4 * This file contains the magic bits required to compute the global loadavg
5 * figure. Its a silly number but people think its important. We go through
6 * great pains to make it work on big machines and tickless kernels.
9 #include <linux/export.h>
14 * Global load-average calculations
16 * We take a distributed and async approach to calculating the global load-avg
17 * in order to minimize overhead.
19 * The global load average is an exponentially decaying average of nr_running +
22 * Once every LOAD_FREQ:
25 * for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
26 * nr_active += cpu_of(cpu)->nr_running + cpu_of(cpu)->nr_uninterruptible;
28 * avenrun[n] = avenrun[0] * exp_n + nr_active * (1 - exp_n)
30 * Due to a number of reasons the above turns in the mess below:
32 * - for_each_possible_cpu() is prohibitively expensive on machines with
33 * serious number of cpus, therefore we need to take a distributed approach
34 * to calculating nr_active.
36 * \Sum_i x_i(t) = \Sum_i x_i(t) - x_i(t_0) | x_i(t_0) := 0
37 * = \Sum_i { \Sum_j=1 x_i(t_j) - x_i(t_j-1) }
39 * So assuming nr_active := 0 when we start out -- true per definition, we
40 * can simply take per-cpu deltas and fold those into a global accumulate
41 * to obtain the same result. See calc_load_fold_active().
43 * Furthermore, in order to avoid synchronizing all per-cpu delta folding
44 * across the machine, we assume 10 ticks is sufficient time for every
45 * cpu to have completed this task.
47 * This places an upper-bound on the IRQ-off latency of the machine. Then
48 * again, being late doesn't loose the delta, just wrecks the sample.
50 * - cpu_rq()->nr_uninterruptible isn't accurately tracked per-cpu because
51 * this would add another cross-cpu cacheline miss and atomic operation
52 * to the wakeup path. Instead we increment on whatever cpu the task ran
53 * when it went into uninterruptible state and decrement on whatever cpu
54 * did the wakeup. This means that only the sum of nr_uninterruptible over
55 * all cpus yields the correct result.
57 * This covers the NO_HZ=n code, for extra head-aches, see the comment below.
60 /* Variables and functions for calc_load */
61 atomic_long_t calc_load_tasks
;
62 unsigned long calc_load_update
;
63 unsigned long avenrun
[3];
64 EXPORT_SYMBOL(avenrun
); /* should be removed */
67 * get_avenrun - get the load average array
68 * @loads: pointer to dest load array
69 * @offset: offset to add
70 * @shift: shift count to shift the result left
72 * These values are estimates at best, so no need for locking.
74 void get_avenrun(unsigned long *loads
, unsigned long offset
, int shift
)
76 loads
[0] = (avenrun
[0] + offset
) << shift
;
77 loads
[1] = (avenrun
[1] + offset
) << shift
;
78 loads
[2] = (avenrun
[2] + offset
) << shift
;
81 long calc_load_fold_active(struct rq
*this_rq
)
83 long nr_active
, delta
= 0;
85 nr_active
= this_rq
->nr_running
;
86 nr_active
+= (long)this_rq
->nr_uninterruptible
;
88 if (nr_active
!= this_rq
->calc_load_active
) {
89 delta
= nr_active
- this_rq
->calc_load_active
;
90 this_rq
->calc_load_active
= nr_active
;
97 * a1 = a0 * e + a * (1 - e)
100 calc_load(unsigned long load
, unsigned long exp
, unsigned long active
)
103 load
+= active
* (FIXED_1
- exp
);
104 load
+= 1UL << (FSHIFT
- 1);
105 return load
>> FSHIFT
;
108 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
110 * Handle NO_HZ for the global load-average.
112 * Since the above described distributed algorithm to compute the global
113 * load-average relies on per-cpu sampling from the tick, it is affected by
116 * The basic idea is to fold the nr_active delta into a global idle-delta upon
117 * entering NO_HZ state such that we can include this as an 'extra' cpu delta
118 * when we read the global state.
120 * Obviously reality has to ruin such a delightfully simple scheme:
122 * - When we go NO_HZ idle during the window, we can negate our sample
123 * contribution, causing under-accounting.
125 * We avoid this by keeping two idle-delta counters and flipping them
126 * when the window starts, thus separating old and new NO_HZ load.
128 * The only trick is the slight shift in index flip for read vs write.
132 * |-|-----------|-|-----------|-|-----------|-|
133 * r:0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0
134 * w:0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
136 * This ensures we'll fold the old idle contribution in this window while
137 * accumlating the new one.
139 * - When we wake up from NO_HZ idle during the window, we push up our
140 * contribution, since we effectively move our sample point to a known
143 * This is solved by pushing the window forward, and thus skipping the
144 * sample, for this cpu (effectively using the idle-delta for this cpu which
145 * was in effect at the time the window opened). This also solves the issue
146 * of having to deal with a cpu having been in NOHZ idle for multiple
147 * LOAD_FREQ intervals.
149 * When making the ILB scale, we should try to pull this in as well.
151 static atomic_long_t calc_load_idle
[2];
152 static int calc_load_idx
;
154 static inline int calc_load_write_idx(void)
156 int idx
= calc_load_idx
;
159 * See calc_global_nohz(), if we observe the new index, we also
160 * need to observe the new update time.
165 * If the folding window started, make sure we start writing in the
168 if (!time_before(jiffies
, calc_load_update
))
174 static inline int calc_load_read_idx(void)
176 return calc_load_idx
& 1;
179 void calc_load_enter_idle(void)
181 struct rq
*this_rq
= this_rq();
185 * We're going into NOHZ mode, if there's any pending delta, fold it
186 * into the pending idle delta.
188 delta
= calc_load_fold_active(this_rq
);
190 int idx
= calc_load_write_idx();
192 atomic_long_add(delta
, &calc_load_idle
[idx
]);
196 void calc_load_exit_idle(void)
198 struct rq
*this_rq
= this_rq();
201 * If we're still before the sample window, we're done.
203 if (time_before(jiffies
, this_rq
->calc_load_update
))
207 * We woke inside or after the sample window, this means we're already
208 * accounted through the nohz accounting, so skip the entire deal and
209 * sync up for the next window.
211 this_rq
->calc_load_update
= calc_load_update
;
212 if (time_before(jiffies
, this_rq
->calc_load_update
+ 10))
213 this_rq
->calc_load_update
+= LOAD_FREQ
;
216 static long calc_load_fold_idle(void)
218 int idx
= calc_load_read_idx();
221 if (atomic_long_read(&calc_load_idle
[idx
]))
222 delta
= atomic_long_xchg(&calc_load_idle
[idx
], 0);
228 * fixed_power_int - compute: x^n, in O(log n) time
230 * @x: base of the power
231 * @frac_bits: fractional bits of @x
232 * @n: power to raise @x to.
234 * By exploiting the relation between the definition of the natural power
235 * function: x^n := x*x*...*x (x multiplied by itself for n times), and
236 * the binary encoding of numbers used by computers: n := \Sum n_i * 2^i,
237 * (where: n_i \elem {0, 1}, the binary vector representing n),
238 * we find: x^n := x^(\Sum n_i * 2^i) := \Prod x^(n_i * 2^i), which is
239 * of course trivially computable in O(log_2 n), the length of our binary
243 fixed_power_int(unsigned long x
, unsigned int frac_bits
, unsigned int n
)
245 unsigned long result
= 1UL << frac_bits
;
251 result
+= 1UL << (frac_bits
- 1);
252 result
>>= frac_bits
;
258 x
+= 1UL << (frac_bits
- 1);
267 * a1 = a0 * e + a * (1 - e)
269 * a2 = a1 * e + a * (1 - e)
270 * = (a0 * e + a * (1 - e)) * e + a * (1 - e)
271 * = a0 * e^2 + a * (1 - e) * (1 + e)
273 * a3 = a2 * e + a * (1 - e)
274 * = (a0 * e^2 + a * (1 - e) * (1 + e)) * e + a * (1 - e)
275 * = a0 * e^3 + a * (1 - e) * (1 + e + e^2)
279 * an = a0 * e^n + a * (1 - e) * (1 + e + ... + e^n-1) [1]
280 * = a0 * e^n + a * (1 - e) * (1 - e^n)/(1 - e)
281 * = a0 * e^n + a * (1 - e^n)
283 * [1] application of the geometric series:
286 * S_n := \Sum x^i = -------------
290 calc_load_n(unsigned long load
, unsigned long exp
,
291 unsigned long active
, unsigned int n
)
293 return calc_load(load
, fixed_power_int(exp
, FSHIFT
, n
), active
);
297 * NO_HZ can leave us missing all per-cpu ticks calling
298 * calc_load_account_active(), but since an idle CPU folds its delta into
299 * calc_load_tasks_idle per calc_load_account_idle(), all we need to do is fold
300 * in the pending idle delta if our idle period crossed a load cycle boundary.
302 * Once we've updated the global active value, we need to apply the exponential
303 * weights adjusted to the number of cycles missed.
305 static void calc_global_nohz(void)
307 long delta
, active
, n
;
309 if (!time_before(jiffies
, calc_load_update
+ 10)) {
311 * Catch-up, fold however many we are behind still
313 delta
= jiffies
- calc_load_update
- 10;
314 n
= 1 + (delta
/ LOAD_FREQ
);
316 active
= atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks
);
317 active
= active
> 0 ? active
* FIXED_1
: 0;
319 avenrun
[0] = calc_load_n(avenrun
[0], EXP_1
, active
, n
);
320 avenrun
[1] = calc_load_n(avenrun
[1], EXP_5
, active
, n
);
321 avenrun
[2] = calc_load_n(avenrun
[2], EXP_15
, active
, n
);
323 calc_load_update
+= n
* LOAD_FREQ
;
327 * Flip the idle index...
329 * Make sure we first write the new time then flip the index, so that
330 * calc_load_write_idx() will see the new time when it reads the new
331 * index, this avoids a double flip messing things up.
336 #else /* !CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
338 static inline long calc_load_fold_idle(void) { return 0; }
339 static inline void calc_global_nohz(void) { }
341 #endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
344 * calc_load - update the avenrun load estimates 10 ticks after the
345 * CPUs have updated calc_load_tasks.
347 * Called from the global timer code.
349 void calc_global_load(unsigned long ticks
)
353 if (time_before(jiffies
, calc_load_update
+ 10))
357 * Fold the 'old' idle-delta to include all NO_HZ cpus.
359 delta
= calc_load_fold_idle();
361 atomic_long_add(delta
, &calc_load_tasks
);
363 active
= atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks
);
364 active
= active
> 0 ? active
* FIXED_1
: 0;
366 avenrun
[0] = calc_load(avenrun
[0], EXP_1
, active
);
367 avenrun
[1] = calc_load(avenrun
[1], EXP_5
, active
);
368 avenrun
[2] = calc_load(avenrun
[2], EXP_15
, active
);
370 calc_load_update
+= LOAD_FREQ
;
373 * In case we idled for multiple LOAD_FREQ intervals, catch up in bulk.
379 * Called from scheduler_tick() to periodically update this CPU's
382 void calc_global_load_tick(struct rq
*this_rq
)
386 if (time_before(jiffies
, this_rq
->calc_load_update
))
389 delta
= calc_load_fold_active(this_rq
);
391 atomic_long_add(delta
, &calc_load_tasks
);
393 this_rq
->calc_load_update
+= LOAD_FREQ
;