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From:   Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Cc:     ltp@lists.linux.it, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>,
        Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>, Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2 RESEND] sched/rt: Fix sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice intial value
Date:   Wed,  2 Aug 2023 17:19:05 +0200
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There is a 10% rounding error in the intial value of the
sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice with CONFIG_HZ_300=y.

This was found with LTP test sched_rr_get_interval01:

sched_rr_get_interval01.c:57: TPASS: sched_rr_get_interval() passed
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:64: TPASS: Time quantum 0s 99999990ns
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:72: TFAIL: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms != 100 got 90
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:57: TPASS: sched_rr_get_interval() passed
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:64: TPASS: Time quantum 0s 99999990ns
sched_rr_get_interval01.c:72: TFAIL: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms != 100 got 90

What this test does is to compare the return value from the
sched_rr_get_interval() and the sched_rr_timeslice_ms sysctl file and
fails if they do not match.

The problem it found is the intial sysctl file value which was computed as:

static int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * RR_TIMESLICE;

which works fine as long as MSEC_PER_SEC is multiple of HZ, however it
introduces 10% rounding error for CONFIG_HZ_300:

(MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * (100 * HZ / 1000)

(1000 / 300) * (100 * 300 / 1000)

3 * 30 = 90

This can be easily fixed by reversing the order of the multiplication
and division. After this fix we get:

(MSEC_PER_SEC * (100 * HZ / 1000)) / HZ

(1000 * (100 * 300 / 1000)) / 300

(1000 * 30) / 300 = 100

CC: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Fixes: 975e155ed873 ("sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds")
Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/sched/rt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 00e0e5074115..185d3d749f6b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ unsigned int sysctl_sched_rt_period = 1000000;
 int sysctl_sched_rt_runtime = 950000;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
-static int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) * RR_TIMESLICE;
+static int sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice = (MSEC_PER_SEC * RR_TIMESLICE) / HZ;
 static int sched_rt_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
 		size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
 static int sched_rr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
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