The following commit:
9b3c4ab304 ("sched,rcu: Rework try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()")
... renamed try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() to task_call_func(),
but forgot to update the comment in try_to_wake_up().
But it turns out that the smp_rmb() doesn't live in task_call_func()
either, it was moved to __task_needs_rq_lock() in:
91dabf33ae ("sched: Fix race in task_call_func()")
Fix that now.
Also fix the s/smb/smp typo while at it.
Reported-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230731085759.11443-1-zhangqiao22@huawei.com
The Energy Aware Scheduler (EAS) relies on the schedutil governor.
When moving to/from the schedutil governor, sched domains must be
rebuilt to allow re-evaluating the enablement conditions of EAS.
This is done through sched_cpufreq_governor_change().
Having a cpufreq governor assumes a cpufreq driver is running.
Inserting/removing a cpufreq driver should trigger a re-evaluation
of EAS enablement conditions, avoiding to see EAS enabled when
removing a running cpufreq driver.
Rebuild the sched domains in schedutil's sugov_init()/sugov_exit(),
allowing to check EAS's enablement condition whenever schedutil
governor is initialized/exited from.
Move relevant code up in schedutil.c to avoid a split and conditional
function declaration.
Rename sched_cpufreq_governor_change() to sugov_eas_rebuild_sd().
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The initialization code of the per-cpu sg_cpu struct is currently split
into two for-loop blocks. This can be simplified by merging the two
blocks into a single loop. This will make the code more maintainable.
Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
When cpufreq's policy is 'single', there is a scenario that will
cause sg_policy's next_freq to be unable to update.
When the CPU's util is always max, the cpufreq will be max,
and then if we change the policy's scaling_max_freq to be a
lower freq, indeed, the sg_policy's next_freq need change to
be the lower freq, however, because the cpu_is_busy, the next_freq
would keep the max_freq.
For example:
The cpu7 is a single CPU:
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # while true;do done& [1] 4737
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # taskset -p 80 4737
pid 4737's current affinity mask: ff
pid 4737's new affinity mask: 80
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # cat scaling_max_freq
2301000
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # cat scaling_cur_freq
2301000
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # echo 2171000 > scaling_max_freq
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # cat scaling_max_freq
2171000
At this time, the sg_policy's next_freq would stay at 2301000, which
is wrong.
To fix this, add a check for the ->need_freq_update flag.
[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]
Co-developed-by: Guohua Yan <guohua.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Guohua Yan <guohua.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719130527.8074-1-xuewen.yan@unisoc.com
The expectation is that placing a task at avg_vruntime() makes it
eligible. Turns out there is a corner case where this is not the case.
Specifically, avg_vruntime() relies on the fact that integer division
is a flooring function (eg. it discards the remainder). By this
property the value returned is slightly left of the true average.
However! when the average is a negative (relative to min_vruntime) the
effect is flipped and it becomes a ceil, with the result that the
returned value is just right of the average and thus not eligible.
Fixes: af4cf40470 ("sched/fair: Add cfs_rq::avg_vruntime")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
The validation of the value written to sched_rt_period_us was broken
because:
- the sysclt_sched_rt_period is declared as unsigned int
- parsed by proc_do_intvec()
- the range is asserted after the value parsed by proc_do_intvec()
Because of this negative values written to the file were written into a
unsigned integer that were later on interpreted as large positive
integers which did passed the check:
if (sysclt_sched_rt_period <= 0)
return EINVAL;
This commit fixes the parsing by setting explicit range for both
perid_us and runtime_us into the sched_rt_sysctls table and processes
the values with proc_dointvec_minmax() instead.
Alternatively if we wanted to use full range of unsigned int for the
period value we would have to split the proc_handler and use
proc_douintvec() for it however even the
Documentation/scheduller/sched-rt-group.rst describes the range as 1 to
INT_MAX.
As far as I can tell the only problem this causes is that the sysctl
file allows writing negative values which when read back may confuse
userspace.
There is also a LTP test being submitted for these sysctl files at:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/20230901144433.2526-1-chrubis@suse.cz/
Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115553.3007-2-chrubis@suse.cz
find_energy_efficient_cpu() bails out early if effective util of the
task is 0 as the delta at this point will be zero and there's nothing
for EAS to do. When uclamp is being used, this could lead to wrong
decisions when uclamp_max is set to 0. In this case the task is capped
to performance point 0, but it is actually running and consuming energy
and we can benefit from EAS energy calculations.
Rework the condition so that it bails out when both util and uclamp_min
are 0.
We can do that without needing to use uclamp_task_util(); remove it.
Fixes: d81304bc61 ("sched/uclamp: Cater for uclamp in find_energy_efficient_cpu()'s early exit condition")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230916232955.2099394-3-qyousef@layalina.io
When uclamp_max is being used, the util of the task could be higher than
the spare capacity of the CPU, but due to uclamp_max value we force-fit
it there.
The way the condition for checking for max_spare_cap in
find_energy_efficient_cpu() was constructed; it ignored any CPU that has
its spare_cap less than or _equal_ to max_spare_cap. Since we initialize
max_spare_cap to 0; this lead to never setting max_spare_cap_cpu and
hence ending up never performing compute_energy() for this cluster and
missing an opportunity for a better energy efficient placement to honour
uclamp_max setting.
max_spare_cap = 0;
cpu_cap = capacity_of(cpu) - cpu_util(p); // 0 if cpu_util(p) is high
...
util_fits_cpu(...); // will return true if uclamp_max forces it to fit
...
// this logic will fail to update max_spare_cap_cpu if cpu_cap is 0
if (cpu_cap > max_spare_cap) {
max_spare_cap = cpu_cap;
max_spare_cap_cpu = cpu;
}
prev_spare_cap suffers from a similar problem.
Fix the logic by converting the variables into long and treating -1
value as 'not populated' instead of 0 which is a viable and correct
spare capacity value. We need to be careful signed comparison is used
when comparing with cpu_cap in one of the conditions.
Fixes: 1d42509e47 ("sched/fair: Make EAS wakeup placement consider uclamp restrictions")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230916232955.2099394-2-qyousef@layalina.io
dl_rq->dl_nr_migratory is increased whenever a DL entity is enqueued and it has
nr_cpus_allowed > 1. Unlike the pushable_dl_tasks tree, dl_rq->dl_nr_migratory
includes a dl_rq's current task. This means a dl_rq can have a migratable
current, N non-migratable queued tasks, and be flagged as overloaded and have
its CPU set in the dlo_mask, despite having an empty pushable_tasks tree.
Make an dl_rq's overload logic be driven by {enqueue,dequeue}_pushable_dl_task(),
in other words make DL RQs only be flagged as overloaded if they have at
least one runnable-but-not-current migratable task.
o push_dl_task() is unaffected, as it is a no-op if there are no pushable
tasks.
o pull_dl_task() now no longer scans runqueues whose sole migratable task is
their current one, which it can't do anything about anyway.
It may also now pull tasks to a DL RQ with dl_nr_running > 1 if only its
current task is migratable.
Since dl_rq->dl_nr_migratory becomes unused, remove it.
RT had the exact same mechanism (rt_rq->rt_nr_migratory) which was dropped
in favour of relying on rt_rq->pushable_tasks, see:
612f769edd ("sched/rt: Make rt_rq->pushable_tasks updates drive rto_mask")
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928150251.463109-1-vschneid@redhat.com
During RCU-boost testing with the TREE03 rcutorture config, I found that
after a few hours, the machine locks up.
On tracing, I found that there is a live lock happening between 2 CPUs.
One CPU has an RT task running, while another CPU is being offlined
which also has an RT task running. During this offlining, all threads
are migrated. The migration thread is repeatedly scheduled to migrate
actively running tasks on the CPU being offlined. This results in a live
lock because select_fallback_rq() keeps picking the CPU that an RT task
is already running on only to get pushed back to the CPU being offlined.
It is anyway pointless to pick CPUs for pushing tasks to if they are
being offlined only to get migrated away to somewhere else. This could
also add unwanted latency to this task.
Fix these issues by not selecting CPUs in RT if they are not 'active'
for scheduling, using the cpu_active_mask. Other parts in core.c already
use cpu_active_mask to prevent tasks from being put on CPUs going
offline.
With this fix I ran the tests for days and could not reproduce the
hang. Without the patch, I hit it in a few hours.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230923011409.3522762-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Sebastian noted that the rto_push_work IRQ work can be queued for a CPU
that has an empty pushable_tasks list, which means nothing useful will be
done in the IPI other than queue the work for the next CPU on the rto_mask.
rto_push_irq_work_func() only operates on tasks in the pushable_tasks list,
but the conditions for that irq_work to be queued (and for a CPU to be
added to the rto_mask) rely on rq_rt->nr_migratory instead.
nr_migratory is increased whenever an RT task entity is enqueued and it has
nr_cpus_allowed > 1. Unlike the pushable_tasks list, nr_migratory includes a
rt_rq's current task. This means a rt_rq can have a migratible current, N
non-migratible queued tasks, and be flagged as overloaded / have its CPU
set in the rto_mask, despite having an empty pushable_tasks list.
Make an rt_rq's overload logic be driven by {enqueue,dequeue}_pushable_task().
Since rt_rq->{rt_nr_migratory,rt_nr_total} become unused, remove them.
Note that the case where the current task is pushed away to make way for a
migration-disabled task remains unchanged: the migration-disabled task has
to be in the pushable_tasks list in the first place, which means it has
nr_cpus_allowed > 1.
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230811112044.3302588-1-vschneid@redhat.com
Simplify the conditional logic for checking worker flags
by splitting the original compound `if` statement into
separate `if` and `else if` clauses.
This modification not only retains the previous functionality,
but also reduces a single `if` check, improving code clarity
and potentially enhancing performance.
Signed-off-by: Wang Jinchao <wangjinchao@xfusion.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZOIMvURE99ZRAYEj@fedora
We've observed the following warning being hit in
distribute_cfs_runtime():
SCHED_WARN_ON(cfs_rq->runtime_remaining > 0)
We have the following race:
- CPU 0: running bandwidth distribution (distribute_cfs_runtime).
Inspects the local cfs_rq and makes its runtime_remaining positive.
However, we defer unthrottling the local cfs_rq until after
considering all remote cfs_rq's.
- CPU 1: starts running bandwidth distribution from the slack timer. When
it finds the cfs_rq for CPU 0 on the throttled list, it observers the
that the cfs_rq is throttled, yet is not on the CSD list, and has a
positive runtime_remaining, thus triggering the warning in
distribute_cfs_runtime.
To fix this, we can rework the local unthrottling logic to put the local
cfs_rq on a local list, so that any future bandwidth distributions will
realize that the cfs_rq is about to be unthrottled.
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922230535.296350-2-joshdon@google.com
With PREEMPT_RT there is a rt_mutex recursion problem where
sched_submit_work() can use an rtlock (aka spinlock_t). More
specifically what happens is:
mutex_lock() /* really rt_mutex */
...
__rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
// enqueue current task as waiter
// do PI chain walk
rt_mutex_slowlock_block()
schedule()
sched_submit_work()
...
spin_lock() /* really rtlock */
...
__rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
// enqueue current task as waiter *AGAIN*
// *CONFUSION*
Fix this by making rt_mutex do the sched_submit_work() early, before
it enqueues itself as a waiter -- before it even knows *if* it will
wait.
[[ basically Thomas' patch but with different naming and a few asserts
added ]]
Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908162254.999499-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Initial booting is setting the task flag to idle (PF_IDLE) by the call
path sched_init() -> init_idle(). Having the task idle and calling
call_rcu() in kernel/rcu/tiny.c means that TIF_NEED_RESCHED will be
set. Subsequent calls to any cond_resched() will enable IRQs,
potentially earlier than the IRQ setup has completed. Recent changes
have caused just this scenario and IRQs have been enabled early.
This causes a warning later in start_kernel() as interrupts are enabled
before they are fully set up.
Fix this issue by setting the PF_IDLE flag later in the boot sequence.
Although the boot task was marked as idle since (at least) d80e4fda576d,
I am not sure that it is wrong to do so. The forced context-switch on
idle task was introduced in the tiny_rcu update, so I'm going to claim
this fixes 5f6130fa52.
Fixes: 5f6130fa52 ("tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAMuHMdWpvpWoDa=Ox-do92czYRvkok6_x6pYUH+ZouMcJbXy+Q@mail.gmail.com/
The name is a bit opaque - make it clear that this is about wakeup
preemption.
Also rename the ->check_preempt_curr() methods similarly.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Other scheduling classes already postfix their similar methods
with the class name.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
When using sysbench to benchmark Postgres in a single docker instance
with sysbench's nr_threads set to nr_cpu, it is observed there are times
update_cfs_group() and update_load_avg() shows noticeable overhead on
a 2sockets/112core/224cpu Intel Sapphire Rapids(SPR):
13.75% 13.74% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_cfs_group
10.63% 10.04% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_load_avg
Annotate shows the cycles are mostly spent on accessing tg->load_avg
with update_load_avg() being the write side and update_cfs_group() being
the read side. tg->load_avg is per task group and when different tasks
of the same taskgroup running on different CPUs frequently access
tg->load_avg, it can be heavily contended.
E.g. when running postgres_sysbench on a 2sockets/112cores/224cpus Intel
Sappire Rapids, during a 5s window, the wakeup number is 14millions and
migration number is 11millions and with each migration, the task's load
will transfer from src cfs_rq to target cfs_rq and each change involves
an update to tg->load_avg. Since the workload can trigger as many wakeups
and migrations, the access(both read and write) to tg->load_avg can be
unbound. As a result, the two mentioned functions showed noticeable
overhead. With netperf/nr_client=nr_cpu/UDP_RR, the problem is worse:
during a 5s window, wakeup number is 21millions and migration number is
14millions; update_cfs_group() costs ~25% and update_load_avg() costs ~16%.
Reduce the overhead by limiting updates to tg->load_avg to at most once
per ms. The update frequency is a tradeoff between tracking accuracy and
overhead. 1ms is chosen because PELT window is roughly 1ms and it
delivered good results for the tests that I've done. After this change,
the cost of accessing tg->load_avg is greatly reduced and performance
improved. Detailed test results below.
==============================
postgres_sysbench on SPR:
25%
base: 42382±19.8%
patch: 50174±9.5% (noise)
50%
base: 67626±1.3%
patch: 67365±3.1% (noise)
75%
base: 100216±1.2%
patch: 112470±0.1% +12.2%
100%
base: 93671±0.4%
patch: 113563±0.2% +21.2%
==============================
hackbench on ICL:
group=1
base: 114912±5.2%
patch: 117857±2.5% (noise)
group=4
base: 359902±1.6%
patch: 361685±2.7% (noise)
group=8
base: 461070±0.8%
patch: 491713±0.3% +6.6%
group=16
base: 309032±5.0%
patch: 378337±1.3% +22.4%
=============================
hackbench on SPR:
group=1
base: 100768±2.9%
patch: 103134±2.9% (noise)
group=4
base: 413830±12.5%
patch: 378660±16.6% (noise)
group=8
base: 436124±0.6%
patch: 490787±3.2% +12.5%
group=16
base: 457730±3.2%
patch: 680452±1.3% +48.8%
============================
netperf/udp_rr on ICL
25%
base: 114413±0.1%
patch: 115111±0.0% +0.6%
50%
base: 86803±0.5%
patch: 86611±0.0% (noise)
75%
base: 35959±5.3%
patch: 49801±0.6% +38.5%
100%
base: 61951±6.4%
patch: 70224±0.8% +13.4%
===========================
netperf/udp_rr on SPR
25%
base: 104954±1.3%
patch: 107312±2.8% (noise)
50%
base: 55394±4.6%
patch: 54940±7.4% (noise)
75%
base: 13779±3.1%
patch: 36105±1.1% +162%
100%
base: 9703±3.7%
patch: 28011±0.2% +189%
==============================================
netperf/tcp_stream on ICL (all in noise range)
25%
base: 43092±0.1%
patch: 42891±0.5%
50%
base: 19278±14.9%
patch: 22369±7.2%
75%
base: 16822±3.0%
patch: 17086±2.3%
100%
base: 18216±0.6%
patch: 18078±2.9%
===============================================
netperf/tcp_stream on SPR (all in noise range)
25%
base: 34491±0.3%
patch: 34886±0.5%
50%
base: 19278±14.9%
patch: 22369±7.2%
75%
base: 16822±3.0%
patch: 17086±2.3%
100%
base: 18216±0.6%
patch: 18078±2.9%
Reported-by: Nitin Tekchandani <nitin.tekchandani@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Tested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Tested-by: Swapnil Sapkal <Swapnil.Sapkal@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230912065808.2530-2-aaron.lu@intel.com
After commit f5d39b0208 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic"),
tasks that transition directly from TASK_FREEZABLE to TASK_FROZEN are
always woken up on the thaw path. Prior to that commit, tasks could ask
freezer to consider them "frozen enough" via freezer_do_not_count(). The
commit replaced freezer_do_not_count() with a TASK_FREEZABLE state which
allows freezer to immediately mark the task as TASK_FROZEN without
waking up the task. This is efficient for the suspend path, but on the
thaw path, the task is always woken up even if the task didn't need to
wake up and goes back to its TASK_(UN)INTERRUPTIBLE state. Although
these tasks are capable of handling of the wakeup, we can observe a
power/perf impact from the extra wakeup.
We observed on Android many tasks wait in the TASK_FREEZABLE state
(particularly due to many of them being binder clients). We observed
nearly 4x the number of tasks and a corresponding linear increase in
latency and power consumption when thawing the system. The latency
increased from ~15ms to ~50ms.
Avoid the spurious wakeups by saving the state of TASK_FREEZABLE tasks.
If the task was running before entering TASK_FROZEN state
(__refrigerator()) or if the task received a wake up for the saved
state, then the task is woken on thaw. saved_state from PREEMPT_RT locks
can be re-used because freezer would not stomp on the rtlock wait flow:
TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT isn't considered freezable.
Reported-by: Prakash Viswalingam <quic_prakashv@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In preparation for freezer to also use saved_state, remove the
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT compilation guard around saved_state.
On the arm64 platform I tested which did not have CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT,
there was no statistically significant deviation by applying this patch.
Test methodology:
perf bench sched message -g 40 -l 40
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() doesn't handle NUMA_NO_NODE properly, and
may crash kernel if passed with it. On the other hand, the only user
of sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() has to check NUMA_NO_NODE case explicitly.
It would be easier for users if this logic will get moved into
sched_numa_find_nth_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230819141239.287290-6-yury.norov@gmail.com
For SMT4, any group with more than 2 tasks will be marked as
group_smt_balance. Retain the behaviour of group_has_spare by marking
the busiest group as the group which has the least number of idle_cpus.
Also, handle rounding effect of adding (ncores_local + ncores_busy) when
the local is fully idle and busy group imbalance is less than 2 tasks.
Local group should try to pull at least 1 task in this case so imbalance
should be set to 2 instead.
Fixes: fee1759e4f ("sched/fair: Determine active load balance for SMT sched groups")
Acked-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6cd1633036bb6b651af575c32c2a9608a106702c.camel@linux.intel.com
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.
None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.
While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.
There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.
So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
should_we_balance() is called in load_balance() to find out if the CPU that
is trying to do the load balance is the right one or not.
With commit:
b1bfeab9b002("sched/fair: Consider the idle state of the whole core for load balance")
the code tries to find an idle core to do the load balancing
and falls back on an idle sibling CPU if there is no idle core.
However, on larger SMT systems, it could be needlessly iterating to find a
idle by scanning all the CPUs in an non-idle core. If the core is not idle,
and first SMT sibling which is idle has been found, then its not needed to
check other SMT siblings for idleness
Lets say in SMT4, Core0 has 0,2,4,6 and CPU0 is BUSY and rest are IDLE.
balancing domain is MC/DIE. CPU2 will be set as the first idle_smt and
same process would be repeated for CPU4 and CPU6 but this is unnecessary.
Since calling is_core_idle loops through all CPU's in the SMT mask, effect
is multiplied by weight of smt_mask. For example,when say 1 CPU is busy,
we would skip loop for 2 CPU's and skip iterating over 8CPU's. That
effect would be more in DIE/NUMA domain where there are more cores.
Testing and performance evaluation
==================================
The test has been done on this system which has 12 cores, i.e 24 small
cores with SMT=4:
lscpu
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 96
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-95
Model name: POWER10 (architected), altivec supported
Thread(s) per core: 8
Used funclatency bcc tool to evaluate the time taken by should_we_balance(). For
base tip/sched/core the time taken is collected by making the
should_we_balance() noinline. time is in nanoseconds. The values are
collected by running the funclatency tracer for 60 seconds. values are
average of 3 such runs. This represents the expected reduced time with
patch.
tip/sched/core was at commit:
2f88c8e802 ("sched/eevdf/doc: Modify the documented knob to base_slice_ns as well")
Results:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
workload tip/sched/core with_patch(%gain)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
idle system 809.3 695.0(16.45)
stress ng – 12 threads -l 100 1013.5 893.1(13.49)
stress ng – 24 threads -l 100 1073.5 980.0(9.54)
stress ng – 48 threads -l 100 683.0 641.0(6.55)
stress ng – 96 threads -l 100 2421.0 2300(5.26)
stress ng – 96 threads -l 15 375.5 377.5(-0.53)
stress ng – 96 threads -l 25 635.5 637.5(-0.31)
stress ng – 96 threads -l 35 934.0 891.0(4.83)
Ran schbench(old), hackbench and stress_ng to evaluate the workload
performance between tip/sched/core and with patch.
No modification to tip/sched/core
TL;DR:
Good improvement is seen with schbench. when hackbench and stress_ng
runs for longer good improvement is seen.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
schbench(old) tip +patch(%gain)
10 iterations sched/core
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Threads
50.0th: 8.00 9.00(-12.50)
75.0th: 9.60 9.00(6.25)
90.0th: 11.80 10.20(13.56)
95.0th: 12.60 10.40(17.46)
99.0th: 13.60 11.90(12.50)
99.5th: 14.10 12.60(10.64)
99.9th: 15.90 14.60(8.18)
2 Threads
50.0th: 9.90 9.20(7.07)
75.0th: 12.60 10.10(19.84)
90.0th: 15.50 12.00(22.58)
95.0th: 17.70 14.00(20.90)
99.0th: 21.20 16.90(20.28)
99.5th: 22.60 17.50(22.57)
99.9th: 30.40 19.40(36.18)
4 Threads
50.0th: 12.50 10.60(15.20)
75.0th: 15.30 12.00(21.57)
90.0th: 18.60 14.10(24.19)
95.0th: 21.30 16.20(23.94)
99.0th: 26.00 20.70(20.38)
99.5th: 27.60 22.50(18.48)
99.9th: 33.90 31.40(7.37)
8 Threads
50.0th: 16.30 14.30(12.27)
75.0th: 20.20 17.40(13.86)
90.0th: 24.50 21.90(10.61)
95.0th: 27.30 24.70(9.52)
99.0th: 35.00 31.20(10.86)
99.5th: 46.40 33.30(28.23)
99.9th: 89.30 57.50(35.61)
16 Threads
50.0th: 22.70 20.70(8.81)
75.0th: 30.10 27.40(8.97)
90.0th: 36.00 32.80(8.89)
95.0th: 39.60 36.40(8.08)
99.0th: 49.20 44.10(10.37)
99.5th: 64.90 50.50(22.19)
99.9th: 143.50 100.60(29.90)
32 Threads
50.0th: 34.60 35.50(-2.60)
75.0th: 48.20 50.50(-4.77)
90.0th: 59.20 62.40(-5.41)
95.0th: 65.20 69.00(-5.83)
99.0th: 80.40 83.80(-4.23)
99.5th: 102.10 98.90(3.13)
99.9th: 727.10 506.80(30.30)
schbench does improve in general. There is some run to run variation with
schbench. Did a validation run to confirm that trend is similar.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hackbench tip +patch(%gain)
20 iterations, 50000 loops sched/core
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Process 10 groups : 11.74 11.70(0.34)
Process 20 groups : 22.73 22.69(0.18)
Process 30 groups : 33.39 33.40(-0.03)
Process 40 groups : 43.73 43.61(0.27)
Process 50 groups : 53.82 54.35(-0.98)
Process 60 groups : 64.16 65.29(-1.76)
thread 10 Time : 12.81 12.79(0.16)
thread 20 Time : 24.63 24.47(0.65)
Process(Pipe) 10 Time : 6.40 6.34(0.94)
Process(Pipe) 20 Time : 10.62 10.63(-0.09)
Process(Pipe) 30 Time : 15.09 14.84(1.66)
Process(Pipe) 40 Time : 19.42 19.01(2.11)
Process(Pipe) 50 Time : 24.04 23.34(2.91)
Process(Pipe) 60 Time : 28.94 27.51(4.94)
thread(Pipe) 10 Time : 6.96 6.87(1.29)
thread(Pipe) 20 Time : 11.74 11.73(0.09)
hackbench shows slight improvement with pipe. Slight degradation in process.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stress_ng tip +patch(%gain)
10 iterations 100000 cpu_ops sched/core
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--cpu=96 -util=100 Time taken : 5.30, 5.01(5.47)
--cpu=48 -util=100 Time taken : 7.94, 6.73(15.24)
--cpu=24 -util=100 Time taken : 11.67, 8.75(25.02)
--cpu=12 -util=100 Time taken : 15.71, 15.02(4.39)
--cpu=96 -util=10 Time taken : 22.71, 22.19(2.29)
--cpu=96 -util=20 Time taken : 12.14, 12.37(-1.89)
--cpu=96 -util=30 Time taken : 8.76, 8.86(-1.14)
--cpu=96 -util=40 Time taken : 7.13, 7.14(-0.14)
--cpu=96 -util=50 Time taken : 6.10, 6.13(-0.49)
--cpu=96 -util=60 Time taken : 5.42, 5.41(0.18)
--cpu=96 -util=70 Time taken : 4.94, 4.94(0.00)
--cpu=96 -util=80 Time taken : 4.56, 4.53(0.66)
--cpu=96 -util=90 Time taken : 4.27, 4.26(0.23)
Good improvement seen with 24 CPUs. In this case only one CPU is busy,
and no core is idle. Decent improvement with 100% utilization case. no
difference in other utilization.
Fixes: b1bfeab9b0 ("sched/fair: Consider the idle state of the whole core for load balance")
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230902081204.232218-1-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Pull misc x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"The following commit deserves special mention:
22dc02f81c Revert "sched/fair: Move unused stub functions to header"
This is in x86/cleanups, because the revert is a re-application of a
number of cleanups that got removed inadvertedly"
[ This also effectively undoes the amd_check_microcode() microcode
declaration change I had done in my microcode loader merge in commit
42a7f6e3ff ("Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.6_rc1' [...]").
I picked the declaration change by Arnd from this branch instead,
which put it in <asm/processor.h> instead of <asm/microcode.h> like I
had done in my merge resolution - Linus ]
* tag 'x86-cleanups-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/platform/uv: Refactor code using deprecated strncpy() interface to use strscpy()
x86/hpet: Refactor code using deprecated strncpy() interface to use strscpy()
x86/platform/uv: Refactor code using deprecated strcpy()/strncpy() interfaces to use strscpy()
x86/qspinlock-paravirt: Fix missing-prototype warning
x86/paravirt: Silence unused native_pv_lock_init() function warning
x86/alternative: Add a __alt_reloc_selftest() prototype
x86/purgatory: Include header for warn() declaration
x86/asm: Avoid unneeded __div64_32 function definition
Revert "sched/fair: Move unused stub functions to header"
x86/apic: Hide unused safe_smp_processor_id() on 32-bit UP
x86/cpu: Fix amd_check_microcode() declaration
