On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:43 PM Singh, Balbir [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 07:35:20AM -0800, Eduardo Valentin wrote:

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Hey Peter,

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:50:11AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 11:45:26PM +0000, Anchal Agarwal wrote:

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From: Eduardo Valentin <redacted>

System instability are seen during resume from hibernation when system
is under heavy CPU load. This is due to the lack of update of sched
clock data, and the scheduler would then think that heavy CPU hog
tasks need more time in CPU, causing the system to freeze
during the unfreezing of tasks. For example, threaded irqs,
and kernel processes servicing network interface may be delayed
for several tens of seconds, causing the system to be unreachable.
The fix for this situation is to mark the sched clock as unstable
as early as possible in the resume path, leaving it unstable
for the duration of the resume process. This will force the
scheduler to attempt to align the sched clock across CPUs using
the delta with time of day, updating sched clock data. In a post
hibernation event, we can then mark the sched clock as stable
again, avoiding unnecessary syncs with time of day on systems
in which TSC is reliable.

This makes no frigging sense what so bloody ever. If the clock is
stable, we don't care about sched_clock_data. When it is stable you get
a linear function of the TSC without complicated bits on.

When it is unstable, only then do we care about the sched_clock_data.

Yeah, maybe what is not clear here is that we covering for situation
where clock stability changes over time, e.g. at regular boot clock is
stable, hibernation happens, then restore happens in a non-stable clock.

Still confused, who marks the thing unstable? The patch seems to suggest
you do yourself, but it is not at all clear why.

If TSC really is unstable, then it needs to remain unstable. If the TSC
really is stable then there is no point in marking is unstable.

Either way something is off, and you're not telling me what.

Hi, Peter

For your original comment, just wanted to clarify the following:

1. After hibernation, the machine can be resumed on a different but compatible
host (these are VM images hibernated)
2. This means the clock between host1 and host2 can/will be different

So the problem is specific to this particular use case.

I'm not sure why to impose this hack on hibernation in all cases.