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> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.