When a new task wakes-up for the first time, its initial utilization
is set to half of the spare capacity of its CPU. The current
implementation of post_init_entity_util_avg() uses SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE
directly as a capacity reference. As a result, on a big.LITTLE system, a
new task waking up on an idle little CPU will be given ~512 of util_avg,
even if the CPU's capacity is significantly less than that.
Fix this by computing the spare capacity with arch_scale_cpu_capacity().
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612112215.25448-1-quentin.perret@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When a cfs_rq is throttled, parent cfs_rq->nr_running is decreased and
everything happens at cfs_rq level. Currently util_est stays unchanged
in such case and it keeps accounting the utilization of throttled tasks.
This can somewhat make sense as we don't dequeue tasks but only throttled
cfs_rq.
If a task of another group is enqueued/dequeued and root cfs_rq becomes
idle during the dequeue, util_est will be cleared whereas it was
accounting util_est of throttled tasks before. So the behavior of util_est
is not always the same regarding throttled tasks and depends of side
activity. Furthermore, util_est will not be updated when the cfs_rq is
unthrottled as everything happens at cfs_rq level. Main results is that
util_est will stay null whereas we now have running tasks. We have to wait
for the next dequeue/enqueue of the previously throttled tasks to get an
up to date util_est.
Remove the assumption that cfs_rq's estimated utilization of a CPU is 0
if there is no running task so the util_est of a task remains until the
latter is dequeued even if its cfs_rq has been throttled.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 7f65ea42eb ("sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1528972380-16268-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When period gets restarted after some idle time, start_cfs_bandwidth()
doesn't update the expiration information, expire_cfs_rq_runtime() will
see cfs_rq->runtime_expires smaller than rq clock and go to the clock
drift logic, wasting needless CPU cycles on the scheduler hot path.
Update the global expiration in start_cfs_bandwidth() to avoid frequent
expire_cfs_rq_runtime() calls once a new period begins.
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620101834.24455-2-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
I noticed that cgroup task groups constantly get throttled even
if they have low CPU usage, this causes some jitters on the response
time to some of our business containers when enabling CPU quotas.
It's very simple to reproduce:
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
echo 100000 > cpu.cfs_quota_us
echo $$ > tasks
then repeat:
cat cpu.stat | grep nr_throttled # nr_throttled will increase steadily
After some analysis, we found that cfs_rq::runtime_remaining will
be cleared by expire_cfs_rq_runtime() due to two equal but stale
"cfs_{b|q}->runtime_expires" after period timer is re-armed.
The current condition to judge clock drift in expire_cfs_rq_runtime()
is wrong, the two runtime_expires are actually the same when clock
drift happens, so this condtion can never hit. The orginal design was
correctly done by this commit:
a9cf55b286 ("sched: Expire invalid runtime")
... but was changed to be the current implementation due to its locking bug.
This patch introduces another way, it adds a new field in both structures
cfs_rq and cfs_bandwidth to record the expiration update sequence, and
uses them to figure out if clock drift happens (true if they are equal).
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 51f2176d74 ("sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b->quota/period")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620101834.24455-1-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
After commit:
82958366cf ("sched: Replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation")
tg_unthrottle_up() did not update the weight.
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/1523423816-18322-1-git-send-email-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When a task is enqueued the estimated utilization of a CPU is updated
to better support the selection of the required frequency.
However, schedutil is (implicitly) updated by update_load_avg() which
always happens before util_est_{en,de}queue(), thus potentially
introducing a latency between estimated utilization updates and
frequency selections.
Let's update util_est at the beginning of enqueue_task_fair(),
which will ensure that all schedutil updates will see the most
updated estimated utilization value for a CPU.
Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
Fixes: 7f65ea42eb ("sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524141023.13765-3-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In the following commit:
247f2f6f3c ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs")
... we distinguish between idle_cpu() when the vCPU is not running for
scheduling threads.
However, the idle_cpu() function is used in other places for
actually checking whether the state of the CPU is idle or not.
Hence split the use of that function based on the desired return value,
by introducing the available_idle_cpu() function.
This fixes a (slight) regression in that initial vCPU commit, because
some code paths (like the load-balancer) don't care and shouldn't care
if the vCPU is preempted or not, they just want to know if there's any
tasks on the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Jain <rohit.k.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dhaval.giani@oracle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: subhra.mazumdar@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525883988-10356-1-git-send-email-rohit.k.jain@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Threads share an address space and each can change the protections of the
same address space to trap NUMA faults. This is redundant and potentially
counter-productive as any thread doing the update will suffice. Potentially
only one thread is required but that thread may be idle or it may not have
any locality concerns and pick an unsuitable scan rate.
This patch uses independent scan period but they are staggered based on
the number of address space users when the thread is created. The intent
is that threads will avoid scanning at the same time and have a chance
to adapt their scan rate later if necessary. This reduces the total scan
activity early in the lifetime of the threads.
The different in headline performance across a range of machines and
workloads is marginal but the system CPU usage is reduced as well as overall
scan activity. The following is the time reported by NAS Parallel Benchmark
using unbound openmp threads and a D size class:
4.17.0-rc1 4.17.0-rc1
vanilla stagger-v1r1
Time bt.D 442.77 ( 0.00%) 419.70 ( 5.21%)
Time cg.D 171.90 ( 0.00%) 180.85 ( -5.21%)
Time ep.D 33.10 ( 0.00%) 32.90 ( 0.60%)
Time is.D 9.59 ( 0.00%) 9.42 ( 1.77%)
Time lu.D 306.75 ( 0.00%) 304.65 ( 0.68%)
Time mg.D 54.56 ( 0.00%) 52.38 ( 4.00%)
Time sp.D 1020.03 ( 0.00%) 903.77 ( 11.40%)
Time ua.D 400.58 ( 0.00%) 386.49 ( 3.52%)
Note it's not a universal win but we have no prior knowledge of which
thread matters but the number of threads created often exceeds the size
of the node when the threads are not bound. However, there is a reducation
of overall system CPU usage:
4.17.0-rc1 4.17.0-rc1
vanilla stagger-v1r1
sys-time-bt.D 48.78 ( 0.00%) 48.22 ( 1.15%)
sys-time-cg.D 25.31 ( 0.00%) 26.63 ( -5.22%)
sys-time-ep.D 1.65 ( 0.00%) 0.62 ( 62.42%)
sys-time-is.D 40.05 ( 0.00%) 24.45 ( 38.95%)
sys-time-lu.D 37.55 ( 0.00%) 29.02 ( 22.72%)
sys-time-mg.D 47.52 ( 0.00%) 34.92 ( 26.52%)
sys-time-sp.D 119.01 ( 0.00%) 109.05 ( 8.37%)
sys-time-ua.D 51.52 ( 0.00%) 45.13 ( 12.40%)
NUMA scan activity is also reduced:
NUMA alloc local 1042828 1342670
NUMA base PTE updates 140481138 93577468
NUMA huge PMD updates 272171 180766
NUMA page range updates 279832690 186129660
NUMA hint faults 1395972 1193897
NUMA hint local faults 877925 855053
NUMA hint local percent 62 71
NUMA pages migrated 12057909 9158023
Similar observations are made for other thread-intensive workloads. System
CPU usage is lower even though the headline gains in performance tend to be
small. For example, specjbb 2005 shows almost no difference in performance
but scan activity is reduced by a third on a 4-socket box. I didn't find
a workload (thread intensive or otherwise) that suffered badly.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504154109.mvrha2qo5wdl65vr@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A mixed bag of fixes and updates for the ghosts which are hunting us.
The scheduler fixes have been pulled into that branch to avoid
conflicts.
- A set of fixes to address a khread_parkme() race which caused lost
wakeups and loss of state.
- A deadlock fix for stop_machine() solved by moving the wakeups
outside of the stopper_lock held region.
- A set of Spectre V1 array access restrictions. The possible
problematic spots were discuvered by Dan Carpenters new checks in
smatch.
- Removal of an unused file which was forgotten when the rest of that
functionality was removed"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/vdso: Remove unused file
perf/x86/cstate: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for pkg_msr
perf/x86/msr: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing in the MSR driver
perf/x86: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for x86_pmu::event_map()
perf/x86: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for hw_perf_event cache_*
perf/core: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for ->aux_pages[]
sched/autogroup: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for sched_prio_to_weight[]
sched/core: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for sched_prio_to_weight[]
sched/core: Introduce set_special_state()
kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue
kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() wait-loop
sched/fair: Fix the update of blocked load when newly idle
stop_machine, sched: Fix migrate_swap() vs. active_balance() deadlock
This reverts commit 7347fc87df.
Srikar Dronamra pointed out that while the commit in question did show
a performance improvement on ppc64, it did so at the cost of disabling
active CPU migration by automatic NUMA balancing which was not the intent.
The issue was that a serious flaw in the logic failed to ever active balance
if SD_WAKE_AFFINE was disabled on scheduler domains. Even when it's enabled,
the logic is still bizarre and against the original intent.
Investigation showed that fixing the patch in either the way he suggested,
using the correct comparison for jiffies values or introducing a new
numa_migrate_deferred variable in task_struct all perform similarly to a
revert with a mix of gains and losses depending on the workload, machine
and socket count.
The original intent of the commit was to handle a problem whereby
wake_affine, idle balancing and automatic NUMA balancing disagree on the
appropriate placement for a task. This was particularly true for cases where
a single task was a massive waker of tasks but where wake_wide logic did
not apply. This was particularly noticeable when a futex (a barrier) woke
all worker threads and tried pulling the wakees to the waker nodes. In that
specific case, it could be handled by tuning MPI or openMP appropriately,
but the behavior is not illogical and was worth attempting to fix. However,
the approach was wrong. Given that we're at rc4 and a fix is not obvious,
it's better to play safe, revert this commit and retry later.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: ggherdovich@suse.cz
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509163115.6fnnyeg4vdm2ct4v@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Call sync_entity_load_avg() directly from find_idlest_cpu() instead of
select_task_rq_fair(), as that's where we need to use task's utilization
value. And call sync_entity_load_avg() only after making sure sched
domain spans over one of the allowed CPUs for the task.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cd019d1753824c81130eae7b43e2bbcec47cc1ad.1524738578.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Rearrange select_task_rq_fair() a bit to avoid executing some
conditional statements in few specific code-paths. That gets rid of the
goto as well.
This shouldn't result in any functional changes.
Tested-by: Rohit Jain <rohit.k.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20831b8d237bf3a20e4e328286f678b425ff04c9.1524738578.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
With commit:
31e77c93e4 ("sched/fair: Update blocked load when newly idle")
... we release the rq->lock when updating blocked load of idle CPUs.
This opens a time window during which another CPU can add a task to this
CPU's cfs_rq.
The check for newly added task of idle_balance() is not in the common path.
Move the out label to include this check.
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 31e77c93e4 ("sched/fair: Update blocked load when newly idle")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426103133.GA6953@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
By renaming the functions we can get rid of the skip parameter
and have better code redability. It makes zero sense to have
things such as:
rq_clock_skip_update(rq, false)
When the skip request is in fact not going to happen. Ever. Rename
things such that we end up with:
rq_clock_skip_update(rq)
rq_clock_cancel_skipupdate(rq)
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404161539.nhadkff2aats74jh@linux-n805
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The estimated utilization of a task is currently updated every time the
task is dequeued. However, to keep overheads under control, PELT signals
are effectively updated at maximum once every 1ms.
Thus, for really short running tasks, it can happen that their util_avg
value has not been updates since their last enqueue. If such tasks are
also frequently running tasks (e.g. the kind of workload generated by
hackbench) it can also happen that their util_avg is updated only every
few activations.
This means that updating util_est at every dequeue potentially introduces
not necessary overheads and it's also conceptually wrong if the util_avg
signal has never been updated during a task activation.
Let's introduce a throttling mechanism on task's util_est updates
to sync them with util_avg updates. To make the solution memory
efficient, both in terms of space and load/store operations, we encode a
synchronization flag into the LSB of util_est.enqueued.
This makes util_est an even values only metric, which is still
considered good enough for its purpose.
The synchronization bit is (re)set by __update_load_avg_se() once the
PELT signal of a task has been updated during its last activation.
Such a throttling mechanism allows to keep under control util_est
overheads in the wakeup hot path, thus making it a suitable mechanism
which can be enabled also on high-intensity workload systems.
Thus, this now switches on by default the estimation utilization
scheduler feature.
Suggested-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-5-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When the scheduler looks at the CPU utilization, the current PELT value
for a CPU is returned straight away. In certain scenarios this can have
undesired side effects on task placement.
For example, since the task utilization is decayed at wakeup time, when
a long sleeping big task is enqueued it does not add immediately a
significant contribution to the target CPU.
As a result we generate a race condition where other tasks can be placed
on the same CPU while it is still considered relatively empty.
In order to reduce this kind of race conditions, this patch introduces the
required support to integrate the usage of the CPU's estimated utilization
in the wakeup path, via cpu_util_wake(), as well as in the load-balance
path, via cpu_util() which is used by update_sg_lb_stats().
The estimated utilization of a CPU is defined to be the maximum between
its PELT's utilization and the sum of the estimated utilization (at
previous dequeue time) of all the tasks currently RUNNABLE on that CPU.
This allows to properly represent the spare capacity of a CPU which, for
example, has just got a big task running since a long sleep period.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-3-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The util_avg signal computed by PELT is too variable for some use-cases.
For example, a big task waking up after a long sleep period will have its
utilization almost completely decayed. This introduces some latency before
schedutil will be able to pick the best frequency to run a task.
The same issue can affect task placement. Indeed, since the task
utilization is already decayed at wakeup, when the task is enqueued in a
CPU, this can result in a CPU running a big task as being temporarily
represented as being almost empty. This leads to a race condition where
other tasks can be potentially allocated on a CPU which just started to run
a big task which slept for a relatively long period.
Moreover, the PELT utilization of a task can be updated every [ms], thus
making it a continuously changing value for certain longer running
tasks. This means that the instantaneous PELT utilization of a RUNNING
task is not really meaningful to properly support scheduler decisions.
For all these reasons, a more stable signal can do a better job of
representing the expected/estimated utilization of a task/cfs_rq.
Such a signal can be easily created on top of PELT by still using it as
an estimator which produces values to be aggregated on meaningful
events.
This patch adds a simple implementation of util_est, a new signal built on
top of PELT's util_avg where:
util_est(task) = max(task::util_avg, f(task::util_avg@dequeue))
This allows to remember how big a task has been reported by PELT in its
previous activations via f(task::util_avg@dequeue), which is the new
_task_util_est(struct task_struct*) function added by this patch.
If a task should change its behavior and it runs longer in a new
activation, after a certain time its util_est will just track the
original PELT signal (i.e. task::util_avg).
The estimated utilization of cfs_rq is defined only for root ones.
That's because the only sensible consumer of this signal are the
scheduler and schedutil when looking for the overall CPU utilization
due to FAIR tasks.
For this reason, the estimated utilization of a root cfs_rq is simply
defined as:
util_est(cfs_rq) = max(cfs_rq::util_avg, cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued)
where:
cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued = sum(_task_util_est(task))
for each RUNNABLE task on that root cfs_rq
It's worth noting that the estimated utilization is tracked only for
objects of interests, specifically:
- Tasks: to better support tasks placement decisions
- root cfs_rqs: to better support both tasks placement decisions as
well as frequencies selection
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-2-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When NEWLY_IDLE load balance is not triggered, we might need to update the
blocked load anyway. We can kick an ilb so an idle CPU will take care of
updating blocked load or we can try to update them locally before entering
idle. In the latter case, we reuse part of the nohz_idle_balance.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: brendan.jackman@arm.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@foss.arm.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518622006-16089-4-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We're going to want to call nohz_idle_balance() or parts thereof from
idle_balance(). Since we already have a forward declaration of
idle_balance() move it down such that it's below nohz_idle_balance()
avoiding the need for a forward declaration for that.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Now that we have two back-to-back NO_HZ_COMMON blocks, merge them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This pure code movement results in two #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
sections landing next to each other.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Avoid calling update_blocked_averages() when it does not in fact have
any by re-using/extending update_nohz_stats().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Instead of using the cfs_rq_is_decayed() which monitors all *_avg
and *_sum, we create a cfs_rq_has_blocked() which only takes care of
util_avg and load_avg. We are only interested by these 2 values which are
decaying faster than the *_sum so we can stop the periodic update earlier.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: brendan.jackman@arm.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@foss.arm.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518517879-2280-3-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Stopped the periodic update of blocked load when all idle CPUs have fully
decayed. We introduce a new nohz.has_blocked that reflect if some idle
CPUs has blocked load that have to be periodiccally updated. nohz.has_blocked
is set everytime that a Idle CPU can have blocked load and it is then clear
when no more blocked load has been detected during an update. We don't need
atomic operation but only to make cure of the right ordering when updating
nohz.idle_cpus_mask and nohz.has_blocked.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: brendan.jackman@arm.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@foss.arm.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518517879-2280-2-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It was suggested that a migration hint might be usefull for the
CPU-freq governors.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The primary observation is that nohz enter/exit is always from the
current CPU, therefore NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED does not in fact need to be
an atomic.
Secondary is that we appear to have 2 nearly identical hooks in the
nohz enter code, set_cpu_sd_state_idle() and
nohz_balance_enter_idle(). Fold the whole set_cpu_sd_state thing into
nohz_balance_{enter,exit}_idle.
Removes an atomic op from both enter and exit paths.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since we already iterate CPUs looking for work on NEWIDLE, use this
iteration to age the blocked load. If the domain for which this is
done completely spand the idle set, we can push the ILB based aging
forward.
Suggested-by: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Teach the idle balancer about the need to update statistics which have
a different periodicity from regular balancing.
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The current:
if (nohz_kick_needed())
nohz_balancer_kick()
is pointless complexity, fold them into a single call and avoid the
various conditions at the call site.
When we introduce multiple different needs to kick the ilb, the above
construct also becomes a problem.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Split the NOHZ idle balancer into doing two separate actions:
- update blocked load statistic
- actually load-balance
Since the latter requires the former, ensure this happens. For now
always tag both bits at the same time.
Prepares for a future where we can toggle only the STATS bit.
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Using atomic_t allows us to use the more flexible bitops provided
there. Also its smaller.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Due to using GCC defines for configuration, some labels might be unused in
certain configurations. While adding a __maybe_unused to the label is
fine in general, the line has to be terminated with ';'. This is also
reflected in the GCC documentation, but GCC parsed the previous variant
without an error message.
This has been spotted while compiling with goto-cc, the compiler for the
CPROVER tool suite.
Signed-off-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tautschnig <tautschn@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519717660-16157-1-git-send-email-nmanthey@amazon.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Do the following cleanups and simplifications:
- sched/sched.h already includes <asm/paravirt.h>, so no need to
include it in sched/core.c again.
- order the <linux/sched/*.h> headers alphabetically
- add all <linux/sched/*.h> headers to kernel/sched/sched.h
- remove all unnecessary includes from the .c files that
are already included in kernel/sched/sched.h.
Finally, make all scheduler .c files use a single common header:
#include "sched.h"
... which now contains a union of the relied upon headers.
This makes the various .c files easier to read and easier to handle.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A good number of small style inconsistencies have accumulated
in the scheduler core, so do a pass over them to harmonize
all these details:
- fix speling in comments,
- use curly braces for multi-line statements,
- remove unnecessary parentheses from integer literals,
- capitalize consistently,
- remove stray newlines,
- add comments where necessary,
- remove invalid/unnecessary comments,
- align structure definitions and other data types vertically,
- add missing newlines for increased readability,
- fix vertical tabulation where it's misaligned,
- harmonize preprocessor conditional block labeling
and vertical alignment,
- remove line-breaks where they uglify the code,
- add newline after local variable definitions,
No change in functionality:
md5:
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.before.asm
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.after.asm
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When a CPU runs in full dynticks mode, a 1Hz tick remains in order to
keep the scheduler stats alive. However this residual tick is a burden
for bare metal tasks that can't stand any interruption at all, or want
to minimize them.
The usual boot parameters "nohz_full=" or "isolcpus=nohz" will now
outsource these scheduler ticks to the global workqueue so that a
housekeeping CPU handles those remotely. The sched_class::task_tick()
implementations have been audited and look safe to be called remotely
as the target runqueue and its current task are passed in parameter
and don't seem to be accessed locally.
Note that in the case of using isolcpus, it's still up to the user to
affine the global workqueues to the housekeeping CPUs through
/sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask or domains isolation
"isolcpus=nohz,domain".
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519186649-3242-6-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
If wake_affine() pulls a task to another node for any reason and the node is
no longer preferred then temporarily stop automatic NUMA balancing pulling
the task back. Otherwise, tasks with a strong waker/wakee relationship
may constantly fight automatic NUMA balancing over where a task should
be placed.
Once again netperf is interesting here. The performance barely changes
but automatic NUMA balancing is interesting:
Hmean send-64 354.67 ( 0.00%) 352.15 ( -0.71%)
Hmean send-128 702.91 ( 0.00%) 693.84 ( -1.29%)
Hmean send-256 1350.07 ( 0.00%) 1344.19 ( -0.44%)
Hmean send-1024 5124.38 ( 0.00%) 4941.24 ( -3.57%)
Hmean send-2048 9687.44 ( 0.00%) 9624.45 ( -0.65%)
Hmean send-3312 14577.64 ( 0.00%) 14514.35 ( -0.43%)
Hmean send-4096 16393.62 ( 0.00%) 16488.30 ( 0.58%)
Hmean send-8192 26877.26 ( 0.00%) 26431.63 ( -1.66%)
Hmean send-16384 38683.43 ( 0.00%) 38264.91 ( -1.08%)
Hmean recv-64 354.67 ( 0.00%) 352.15 ( -0.71%)
Hmean recv-128 702.91 ( 0.00%) 693.84 ( -1.29%)
Hmean recv-256 1350.07 ( 0.00%) 1344.19 ( -0.44%)
Hmean recv-1024 5124.38 ( 0.00%) 4941.24 ( -3.57%)
Hmean recv-2048 9687.43 ( 0.00%) 9624.45 ( -0.65%)
Hmean recv-3312 14577.59 ( 0.00%) 14514.35 ( -0.43%)
Hmean recv-4096 16393.55 ( 0.00%) 16488.20 ( 0.58%)
Hmean recv-8192 26876.96 ( 0.00%) 26431.29 ( -1.66%)
Hmean recv-16384 38682.41 ( 0.00%) 38263.94 ( -1.08%)
NUMA alloc hit 1465986 1423090
NUMA alloc miss 0 0
NUMA interleave hit 0 0
NUMA alloc local 1465897 1423003
NUMA base PTE updates 1473 1420
NUMA huge PMD updates 0 0
NUMA page range updates 1473 1420
NUMA hint faults 1383 1312
NUMA hint local faults 451 124
NUMA hint local percent 32 9
There is a slight degrading in performance but there are slightly fewer
NUMA faults. There is a large drop in the percentage of local faults but
the bulk of migrations for netperf are in small shared libraries so it's
reflecting the fact that automatic NUMA balancing has backed off. This is
a case where despite wake_affine() and automatic NUMA balancing fighting
for placement that there is a marginal benefit to rescheduling to local
data quickly. However, it should be noted that wake_affine() and automatic
NUMA balancing fighting each other constantly is undesirable.
However, the benefit in other cases is large. This is the result for NAS
with the D class sizing on a 4-socket machine:
nas-mpi
4.15.0 4.15.0
sdnuma-v1r23 delayretry-v1r23
Time cg.D 557.00 ( 0.00%) 431.82 ( 22.47%)
Time ep.D 77.83 ( 0.00%) 79.01 ( -1.52%)
Time is.D 26.46 ( 0.00%) 26.64 ( -0.68%)
Time lu.D 727.14 ( 0.00%) 597.94 ( 17.77%)
Time mg.D 191.35 ( 0.00%) 146.85 ( 23.26%)
4.15.0 4.15.0
sdnuma-v1r23delayretry-v1r23
User 75665.20 70413.30
System 20321.59 8861.67
Elapsed 766.13 634.92
Minor Faults 16528502 7127941
Major Faults 4553 5068
NUMA alloc local 6963197 6749135
NUMA base PTE updates 366409093 107491434
NUMA huge PMD updates 687556 198880
NUMA page range updates 718437765 209317994
NUMA hint faults 13643410 4601187
NUMA hint local faults 9212593 3063996
NUMA hint local percent 67 66
Note the massive reduction in system CPU usage even though the percentage
of local faults is barely affected. There is a massive reduction in the
number of PTE updates showing that automatic NUMA balancing has backed off.
A critical observation is also that there is a massive reduction in minor
faults which is due to far fewer NUMA hinting faults being trapped.
There were questions on NAS OMP and how it behaved related to threads
being bound to CPUs. First, there are more gains than losses with this
patch applied and a reduction in system CPU usage:
nas-omp
4.16.0-rc1 4.16.0-rc1
sdnuma-v2r1 delayretry-v2r1
Time bt.D 436.71 ( 0.00%) 430.05 ( 1.53%)
Time cg.D 201.02 ( 0.00%) 180.87 ( 10.02%)
Time ep.D 32.84 ( 0.00%) 32.68 ( 0.49%)
Time is.D 9.63 ( 0.00%) 9.64 ( -0.10%)
Time lu.D 331.20 ( 0.00%) 304.80 ( 7.97%)
Time mg.D 54.87 ( 0.00%) 52.72 ( 3.92%)
Time sp.D 1108.78 ( 0.00%) 917.10 ( 17.29%)
Time ua.D 378.81 ( 0.00%) 398.83 ( -5.28%)
4.16.0-rc1 4.16.0-rc1
sdnuma-v2r1delayretry-v2r1
User 305633.08 296751.91
System 451.75 357.80
Elapsed 2595.73 2368.13
However, it does not close the gap between binding and being unbound. There
is negligible difference between the performance of the baseline and a
patched kernel when threads are bound so it is not presented here:
4.16.0-rc1 4.16.0-rc1
delayretry-bind delayretry-unbound
Time bt.D 385.02 ( 0.00%) 430.05 ( -11.70%)
Time cg.D 144.02 ( 0.00%) 180.87 ( -25.59%)
Time ep.D 32.85 ( 0.00%) 32.68 ( 0.52%)
Time is.D 10.52 ( 0.00%) 9.64 ( 8.37%)
Time lu.D 285.31 ( 0.00%) 304.80 ( -6.83%)
Time mg.D 43.21 ( 0.00%) 52.72 ( -22.01%)
Time sp.D 820.24 ( 0.00%) 917.10 ( -11.81%)
Time ua.D 337.09 ( 0.00%) 398.83 ( -18.32%)
4.16.0-rc1 4.16.0-rc1
delayretry-binddelayretry-unbound
User 277731.25 296751.91
System 261.29 357.80
Elapsed 2100.55 2368.13
Unfortunately, while performance is improved by the patch, there is still
quite a long way to go before it's equivalent to hard binding.
Other workloads like hackbench, tbench, dbench and schbench are barely
affected. dbench shows a mix of gains and losses depending on the machine
although in general, the results are more stable.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
find_idlest_group() compares a local group with each other group to select
the one that is most idle. When comparing groups in different NUMA domains,
a very slight imbalance is enough to select a remote NUMA node even if the
runnable load on both groups is 0 or close to 0. This ignores the cost of
remote accesses entirely and is a problem when selecting the CPU for a
newly forked task to run on. This is problematic when a forking server
is almost guaranteed to run on a remote node incurring numerous remote
accesses and potentially causing automatic NUMA balancing to try migrate
the task back or migrate the data to another node. Similar weirdness is
observed if a basic shell command pipes output to another as each process
in the pipeline is likely to start on different nodes and then get adjusted
later by wake_affine().
This patch adds imbalance to remote domains when considering whether to
select CPUs from remote domains. If the local domain is selected, imbalance
will still be used to try select a CPU from a lower scheduler domain's group
instead of stacking tasks on the same CPU.
A variety of workloads and machines were tested and as expected, there is no
difference on UMA. The difference on NUMA can be dramatic. This is a comparison
of elapsed times running the git regression test suite. It's fork-intensive with
short-lived processes:
4.15.0 4.15.0
noexit-v1r23 sdnuma-v1r23
Elapsed min 1706.06 ( 0.00%) 1435.94 ( 15.83%)
Elapsed mean 1709.53 ( 0.00%) 1436.98 ( 15.94%)
Elapsed stddev 2.16 ( 0.00%) 1.01 ( 53.38%)
Elapsed coeffvar 0.13 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 44.54%)
Elapsed max 1711.59 ( 0.00%) 1438.01 ( 15.98%)
4.15.0 4.15.0
noexit-v1r23 sdnuma-v1r23
User 5434.12 5188.41
System 4878.77 3467.09
Elapsed 10259.06 8624.21
That shows a considerable reduction in elapsed times. It's important to
note that automatic NUMA balancing does not affect this load as processes
are too short-lived.
There is also a noticable impact on hackbench such as this example using
processes and pipes:
hackbench-process-pipes
4.15.0 4.15.0
noexit-v1r23 sdnuma-v1r23
Amean 1 1.0973 ( 0.00%) 0.9393 ( 14.40%)
Amean 4 1.3427 ( 0.00%) 1.3730 ( -2.26%)
Amean 7 1.4233 ( 0.00%) 1.6670 ( -17.12%)
Amean 12 3.0250 ( 0.00%) 3.3013 ( -9.13%)
Amean 21 9.0860 ( 0.00%) 9.5343 ( -4.93%)
Amean 30 14.6547 ( 0.00%) 13.2433 ( 9.63%)
Amean 48 22.5447 ( 0.00%) 20.4303 ( 9.38%)
Amean 79 29.2010 ( 0.00%) 26.7853 ( 8.27%)
Amean 110 36.7443 ( 0.00%) 35.8453 ( 2.45%)
Amean 141 45.8533 ( 0.00%) 42.6223 ( 7.05%)
Amean 172 55.1317 ( 0.00%) 50.6473 ( 8.13%)
Amean 203 64.4420 ( 0.00%) 58.3957 ( 9.38%)
Amean 234 73.2293 ( 0.00%) 67.1047 ( 8.36%)
Amean 265 80.5220 ( 0.00%) 75.7330 ( 5.95%)
Amean 296 88.7567 ( 0.00%) 82.1533 ( 7.44%)
It's not a universal win as there are occasions when spreading wide and
quickly is a benefit but it's more of a win than it is a loss. For other
workloads, there is little difference but netperf is interesting. Without
the patch, the server and client starts on different nodes but quickly get
migrated due to wake_affine. Hence, the difference is overall performance
is marginal but detectable:
4.15.0 4.15.0
noexit-v1r23 sdnuma-v1r23
Hmean send-64 349.09 ( 0.00%) 354.67 ( 1.60%)
Hmean send-128 699.16 ( 0.00%) 702.91 ( 0.54%)
Hmean send-256 1316.34 ( 0.00%) 1350.07 ( 2.56%)
Hmean send-1024 5063.99 ( 0.00%) 5124.38 ( 1.19%)
Hmean send-2048 9705.19 ( 0.00%) 9687.44 ( -0.18%)
Hmean send-3312 14359.48 ( 0.00%) 14577.64 ( 1.52%)
Hmean send-4096 16324.20 ( 0.00%) 16393.62 ( 0.43%)
Hmean send-8192 26112.61 ( 0.00%) 26877.26 ( 2.93%)
Hmean send-16384 37208.44 ( 0.00%) 38683.43 ( 3.96%)
Hmean recv-64 349.09 ( 0.00%) 354.67 ( 1.60%)
Hmean recv-128 699.16 ( 0.00%) 702.91 ( 0.54%)
Hmean recv-256 1316.34 ( 0.00%) 1350.07 ( 2.56%)
Hmean recv-1024 5063.99 ( 0.00%) 5124.38 ( 1.19%)
Hmean recv-2048 9705.16 ( 0.00%) 9687.43 ( -0.18%)
Hmean recv-3312 14359.42 ( 0.00%) 14577.59 ( 1.52%)
Hmean recv-4096 16323.98 ( 0.00%) 16393.55 ( 0.43%)
Hmean recv-8192 26111.85 ( 0.00%) 26876.96 ( 2.93%)
Hmean recv-16384 37206.99 ( 0.00%) 38682.41 ( 3.97%)
However, what is very interesting is how automatic NUMA balancing behaves.
Each netperf instance runs long enough for balancing to activate:
NUMA base PTE updates 4620 1473
NUMA huge PMD updates 0 0
NUMA page range updates 4620 1473
NUMA hint faults 4301 1383
NUMA hint local faults 1309 451
NUMA hint local percent 30 32
NUMA pages migrated 1335 491
AutoNUMA cost 21% 6%
There is an unfortunate number of remote faults although tracing indicated
that the vast majority are in shared libraries. However, the tendency to
start tasks on the same node if there is capacity means that there were
far fewer PTE updates and faults incurred overall.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When a task exits, it notifies the parent that it has exited. This is a
sync wakeup and the exiting task may pull the parent towards the wakers
CPU. For simple workloads like using a shell, it was observed that the
shell is pulled across nodes by exiting processes. This is daft as the
parent may be long-lived and properly placed. This patch special cases a
sync wakeup on exit to avoid pulling tasks across nodes. Testing on a range
of workloads and machines showed very little differences in performance
although there was a small 3% boost on some machines running a shellscript
intensive workload (git regression test suite).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
wake_affine_weight() will consider migrating a task to, or near, the current
CPU if there is a load imbalance. If the CPUs share LLC then either CPU
is valid as a search-for-idle-sibling target and equally appropriate for
stacking two tasks on one CPU if an idle sibling is unavailable. If they do
not share cache then a cross-node migration potentially impacts locality
so while they are equal from a CPU capacity point of view, they are not
equal in terms of memory locality. In either case, it's more appropriate
to migrate only if there is a difference in their effective load.
This patch modifies wake_affine_weight() to only consider migrating a task
if there is a load imbalance for normal wakeups but will allow potential
stacking if the loads are equal and it's a sync wakeup.
For the most part, the different in performance is marginal. For example,
on a 4-socket server running netperf UDP_STREAM on localhost the differences
are as follows:
4.15.0 4.15.0
16rc0 noequal-v1r23
Hmean send-64 355.47 ( 0.00%) 349.50 ( -1.68%)
Hmean send-128 697.98 ( 0.00%) 693.35 ( -0.66%)
Hmean send-256 1328.02 ( 0.00%) 1318.77 ( -0.70%)
Hmean send-1024 5051.83 ( 0.00%) 5051.11 ( -0.01%)
Hmean send-2048 9637.02 ( 0.00%) 9601.34 ( -0.37%)
Hmean send-3312 14355.37 ( 0.00%) 14414.51 ( 0.41%)
Hmean send-4096 16464.97 ( 0.00%) 16301.37 ( -0.99%)
Hmean send-8192 26722.42 ( 0.00%) 26428.95 ( -1.10%)
Hmean send-16384 38137.81 ( 0.00%) 38046.11 ( -0.24%)
Hmean recv-64 355.47 ( 0.00%) 349.50 ( -1.68%)
Hmean recv-128 697.98 ( 0.00%) 693.35 ( -0.66%)
Hmean recv-256 1328.02 ( 0.00%) 1318.77 ( -0.70%)
Hmean recv-1024 5051.83 ( 0.00%) 5051.11 ( -0.01%)
Hmean recv-2048 9636.95 ( 0.00%) 9601.30 ( -0.37%)
Hmean recv-3312 14355.32 ( 0.00%) 14414.48 ( 0.41%)
Hmean recv-4096 16464.74 ( 0.00%) 16301.16 ( -0.99%)
Hmean recv-8192 26721.63 ( 0.00%) 26428.17 ( -1.10%)
Hmean recv-16384 38136.00 ( 0.00%) 38044.88 ( -0.24%)
Stddev send-64 7.30 ( 0.00%) 4.75 ( 34.96%)
Stddev send-128 15.15 ( 0.00%) 22.38 ( -47.66%)
Stddev send-256 13.99 ( 0.00%) 19.14 ( -36.81%)
Stddev send-1024 105.73 ( 0.00%) 67.38 ( 36.27%)
Stddev send-2048 294.57 ( 0.00%) 223.88 ( 24.00%)
Stddev send-3312 302.28 ( 0.00%) 271.74 ( 10.10%)
Stddev send-4096 195.92 ( 0.00%) 121.10 ( 38.19%)
Stddev send-8192 399.71 ( 0.00%) 563.77 ( -41.04%)
Stddev send-16384 1163.47 ( 0.00%) 1103.68 ( 5.14%)
Stddev recv-64 7.30 ( 0.00%) 4.75 ( 34.96%)
Stddev recv-128 15.15 ( 0.00%) 22.38 ( -47.66%)
Stddev recv-256 13.99 ( 0.00%) 19.14 ( -36.81%)
Stddev recv-1024 105.73 ( 0.00%) 67.38 ( 36.27%)
Stddev recv-2048 294.59 ( 0.00%) 223.89 ( 24.00%)
Stddev recv-3312 302.24 ( 0.00%) 271.75 ( 10.09%)
Stddev recv-4096 196.03 ( 0.00%) 121.14 ( 38.20%)
Stddev recv-8192 399.86 ( 0.00%) 563.65 ( -40.96%)
Stddev recv-16384 1163.79 ( 0.00%) 1103.86 ( 5.15%)
The difference in overall performance is marginal but note that most
measurements are less variable. There were similar observations for other
netperf comparisons. hackbench with sockets or threads with processes or
threads showed minor difference with some reduction of migration. tbench
showed only marginal differences that were within the noise. dbench,
regardless of filesystem, showed minor differences all of which are
within noise. Multiple machines, both UMA and NUMA were tested without
any regressions showing up.
The biggest risk with a patch like this is affecting wakeup latencies.
However, the schbench load from Facebook which is very sensitive to wakeup
latency showed a mixed result with mostly improvements in wakeup latency:
4.15.0 4.15.0
16rc0 noequal-v1r23
Lat 50.00th-qrtle-1 38.00 ( 0.00%) 38.00 ( 0.00%)
Lat 75.00th-qrtle-1 49.00 ( 0.00%) 41.00 ( 16.33%)
Lat 90.00th-qrtle-1 52.00 ( 0.00%) 50.00 ( 3.85%)
Lat 95.00th-qrtle-1 54.00 ( 0.00%) 51.00 ( 5.56%)
Lat 99.00th-qrtle-1 63.00 ( 0.00%) 60.00 ( 4.76%)
Lat 99.50th-qrtle-1 66.00 ( 0.00%) 61.00 ( 7.58%)
Lat 99.90th-qrtle-1 78.00 ( 0.00%) 65.00 ( 16.67%)
Lat 50.00th-qrtle-2 38.00 ( 0.00%) 38.00 ( 0.00%)
Lat 75.00th-qrtle-2 42.00 ( 0.00%) 43.00 ( -2.38%)
Lat 90.00th-qrtle-2 46.00 ( 0.00%) 48.00 ( -4.35%)
Lat 95.00th-qrtle-2 49.00 ( 0.00%) 50.00 ( -2.04%)
Lat 99.00th-qrtle-2 55.00 ( 0.00%) 57.00 ( -3.64%)
Lat 99.50th-qrtle-2 58.00 ( 0.00%) 60.00 ( -3.45%)
Lat 99.90th-qrtle-2 65.00 ( 0.00%) 68.00 ( -4.62%)
Lat 50.00th-qrtle-4 41.00 ( 0.00%) 41.00 ( 0.00%)
Lat 75.00th-qrtle-4 45.00 ( 0.00%) 46.00 ( -2.22%)
Lat 90.00th-qrtle-4 50.00 ( 0.00%) 50.00 ( 0.00%)
Lat 95.00th-qrtle-4 54.00 ( 0.00%) 53.00 ( 1.85%)
Lat 99.00th-qrtle-4 61.00 ( 0.00%) 61.00 ( 0.00%)
Lat 99.50th-qrtle-4 65.00 ( 0.00%) 64.00 ( 1.54%)
Lat 99.90th-qrtle-4 76.00 ( 0.00%) 82.00 ( -7.89%)
Lat 50.00th-qrtle-8 48.00 ( 0.00%) 46.00 ( 4.17%)
Lat 75.00th-qrtle-8 55.00 ( 0.00%) 54.00 ( 1.82%)
Lat 90.00th-qrtle-8 60.00 ( 0.00%) 59.00 ( 1.67%)
Lat 95.00th-qrtle-8 63.00 ( 0.00%) 63.00 ( 0.00%)
Lat 99.00th-qrtle-8 71.00 ( 0.00%) 69.00 ( 2.82%)
Lat 99.50th-qrtle-8 74.00 ( 0.00%) 73.00 ( 1.35%)
Lat 99.90th-qrtle-8 98.00 ( 0.00%) 90.00 ( 8.16%)
Lat 50.00th-qrtle-16 56.00 ( 0.00%) 55.00 ( 1.79%)
Lat 75.00th-qrtle-16 68.00 ( 0.00%) 67.00 ( 1.47%)
Lat 90.00th-qrtle-16 77.00 ( 0.00%) 78.00 ( -1.30%)
Lat 95.00th-qrtle-16 82.00 ( 0.00%) 84.00 ( -2.44%)
Lat 99.00th-qrtle-16 90.00 ( 0.00%) 93.00 ( -3.33%)
Lat 99.50th-qrtle-16 93.00 ( 0.00%) 97.00 ( -4.30%)
Lat 99.90th-qrtle-16 110.00 ( 0.00%) 110.00 ( 0.00%)
Lat 50.00th-qrtle-32 68.00 ( 0.00%) 62.00 ( 8.82%)
Lat 75.00th-qrtle-32 90.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 7.78%)
Lat 90.00th-qrtle-32 110.00 ( 0.00%) 100.00 ( 9.09%)
Lat 95.00th-qrtle-32 122.00 ( 0.00%) 111.00 ( 9.02%)
Lat 99.00th-qrtle-32 145.00 ( 0.00%) 133.00 ( 8.28%)
Lat 99.50th-qrtle-32 154.00 ( 0.00%) 143.00 ( 7.14%)
Lat 99.90th-qrtle-32 2316.00 ( 0.00%) 515.00 ( 77.76%)
Lat 50.00th-qrtle-35 69.00 ( 0.00%) 72.00 ( -4.35%)
Lat 75.00th-qrtle-35 92.00 ( 0.00%) 95.00 ( -3.26%)
Lat 90.00th-qrtle-35 111.00 ( 0.00%) 114.00 ( -2.70%)
Lat 95.00th-qrtle-35 122.00 ( 0.00%) 124.00 ( -1.64%)
Lat 99.00th-qrtle-35 142.00 ( 0.00%) 144.00 ( -1.41%)
Lat 99.50th-qrtle-35 150.00 ( 0.00%) 154.00 ( -2.67%)
Lat 99.90th-qrtle-35 6104.00 ( 0.00%) 5640.00 ( 7.60%)
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On sync wakeups, the previous CPU effective load may not be used so delay
the calculation until it's needed.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The only caller of wake_affine() knows the CPU ID. Pass it in instead of
rechecking it.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Remove a useless space in # ifdef and align it with others.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518512382-29426-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The select_idle_sibling() (SIS) rewrite in commit:
10e2f1acd0 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()")
... replaced a domain iteration with a search that broadly speaking
does a wrapped walk of the scheduler domain sharing a last-level-cache.
While this had a number of improvements, one consequence is that two tasks
that share a waker/wakee relationship push each other around a socket. Even
though two tasks may be active, all cores are evenly used. This is great from
a search perspective and spreads a load across individual cores, but it has
adverse consequences for cpufreq. As each CPU has relatively low utilisation,
cpufreq may decide the utilisation is too low to used a higher P-state and
overall computation throughput suffers.
While individual cpufreq and cpuidle drivers may compensate by artifically
boosting P-state (at c0) or avoiding lower C-states (during idle), it does
not help if hardware-based cpufreq (e.g. HWP) is used.
This patch tracks a recently used CPU based on what CPU a task was running
on when it last was a waker a CPU it was recently using when a task is a
wakee. During SIS, the recently used CPU is used as a target if it's still
allowed by the task and is idle.
The benefit may be non-obvious so consider an example of two tasks
communicating back and forth. Task A may be an application doing IO where
task B is a kworker or kthread like journald. Task A may issue IO, wake
B and B wakes up A on completion. With the existing scheme this may look
like the following (potentially different IDs if SMT is in use but similar
principal applies).
A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1)
B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 2)
A (cpu 2) wake B (wakes on cpu 3)
etc.
A careful reader may wonder why CPU 0 was not idle when B wakes A the
first time and it's simply due to the fact that A can be rescheduled to
another CPU and the pattern is that prev == target when B tries to wakeup A
and the information about CPU 0 has been lost.
With this patch, the pattern is more likely to be:
A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1)
B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 0)
A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1)
etc
i.e. two communicating casts are more likely to use just two cores instead
of all available cores sharing a LLC.
The most dramatic speedup was noticed on dbench using the XFS filesystem on
UMA as clients interact heavily with workqueues in that configuration. Note
that a similar speedup is not observed on ext4 as the wakeup pattern
is different:
4.15.0-rc9 4.15.0-rc9
waprev-v1 biasancestor-v1
Hmean 1 287.54 ( 0.00%) 817.01 ( 184.14%)
Hmean 2 1268.12 ( 0.00%) 1781.24 ( 40.46%)
Hmean 4 1739.68 ( 0.00%) 1594.47 ( -8.35%)
Hmean 8 2464.12 ( 0.00%) 2479.56 ( 0.63%)
Hmean 64 1455.57 ( 0.00%) 1434.68 ( -1.44%)
The results can be less dramatic on NUMA where automatic balancing interferes
with the test. It's also known that network benchmarks running on localhost
also benefit quite a bit from this patch (roughly 10% on netperf RR for UDP
and TCP depending on the machine). Hackbench also seens small improvements
(6-11% depending on machine and thread count). The facebook schbench was also
tested but in most cases showed little or no different to wakeup latencies.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
wake_affine_idle() prefers to move a task to the current CPU if the
wakeup is due to an interrupt. The expectation is that the interrupt
data is cache hot and relevant to the waking task as well as avoiding
a search. However, there is no way to determine if there was cache hot
data on the previous CPU that may exceed the interrupt data. Furthermore,
round-robin delivery of interrupts can migrate tasks around a socket where
each CPU is under-utilised. This can interact badly with cpufreq which
makes decisions based on per-cpu data. It has been observed on machines
with HWP that p-states are not boosted to their maximum levels even though
the workload is latency and throughput sensitive.
This patch uses the previous CPU for the task if it's idle and cache-affine
with the current CPU even if the current CPU is idle due to the wakup
being related to the interrupt. This reduces migrations at the cost of
the interrupt data not being cache hot when the task wakes.
A variety of workloads were tested on various machines and no adverse
impact was noticed that was outside noise. dbench on ext4 on UMA showed
roughly 10% reduction in the number of CPU migrations and it is a case
where interrupts are frequent for IO competions. In most cases, the
difference in performance is quite small but variability is often
reduced. For example, this is the result for pgbench running on a UMA
machine with different numbers of clients.
4.15.0-rc9 4.15.0-rc9
baseline waprev-v1
Hmean 1 22096.28 ( 0.00%) 22734.86 ( 2.89%)
Hmean 4 74633.42 ( 0.00%) 75496.77 ( 1.16%)
Hmean 7 115017.50 ( 0.00%) 113030.81 ( -1.73%)
Hmean 12 126209.63 ( 0.00%) 126613.40 ( 0.32%)
Hmean 16 131886.91 ( 0.00%) 130844.35 ( -0.79%)
Stddev 1 636.38 ( 0.00%) 417.11 ( 34.46%)
Stddev 4 614.64 ( 0.00%) 583.24 ( 5.11%)
Stddev 7 542.46 ( 0.00%) 435.45 ( 19.73%)
Stddev 12 173.93 ( 0.00%) 171.50 ( 1.40%)
Stddev 16 671.42 ( 0.00%) 680.30 ( -1.32%)
CoeffVar 1 2.88 ( 0.00%) 1.83 ( 36.26%)
Note that the different in performance is marginal but for low utilisation,
there is less variability.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This is a preparation patch that has wake_affine*() return a CPU ID instead of
a boolean. The intent is to allow the wake_affine() helpers to be avoided
if a decision is already made. This patch has no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
wake_affine_idle() takes parameters it never uses so clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Vincent Guittot
Quentin Perret
Ingo Molnar
Xunlei Pang
Li RongQing
Kees Cook
Patrick Bellasi
Rohit Jain
Mel Gorman
Linus Torvalds
Viresh Kumar
Davidlohr Bueso
Peter Zijlstra
Norbert Manthey
Frederic Weisbecker