When dequeue_task() is delayed it becomes possible to exit a task (or
cgroup) that is still enqueued. Ensure things are dequeued before
freeing.
Thanks to Valentin for asking the obvious questions and making
switched_from_fair() less weird.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105029.631948434@infradead.org
Just a little sanity test..
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105029.486423066@infradead.org
Working towards delaying dequeue, notably also inside the hierachy,
rework dequeue_task_fair() such that it can 'resume' an interrupted
hierarchy walk.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105028.977256873@infradead.org
Change the function signature of sched_class::dequeue_task() to return
a boolean, allowing future patches to 'fail' dequeue.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105028.864630153@infradead.org
Implement pick_next_task_fair() in terms of pick_task_fair() to
de-duplicate the pick loop.
More importantly, this makes all the pick loops use the
state-invariant form, which is useful to introduce further re-try
conditions in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105028.725062368@infradead.org
With 4c456c9ad3 ("sched/fair: Remove unused 'curr' argument from
pick_next_entity()") curr is no longer being used, so no point in
clearing it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105028.614707623@infradead.org
Per 54d27365ca ("sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early
pick_next_task_fair()") the reason check_cfs_rq_runtime() is under the
'if (curr)' check is to ensure the (downward) traversal does not
result in an empty cfs_rq.
But then the pick_task_fair() 'copy' of all this made it restart the
traversal anyway, so that seems to solve the issue too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105028.501679876@infradead.org
Since commit e8f331bcc2 ("sched/smp: Use lag to simplify
cross-runqueue placement") the min_vruntime_copy is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105028.395297941@infradead.org
balance_fair() skips newidle balancing if rq->nr_running - there are already
tasks on the rq, so no need to try to pull tasks. This tests the total
number of queued tasks on the CPU instead of only the fair class, but is
still correct as the rq can currently only have fair class tasks while
balance_fair() is running.
However, with the addition of sched_ext below the fair class, this will not
hold anymore and make put_prev_task_balance() skip sched_ext's balance()
incorrectly as, when a CPU has only lower priority class tasks,
rq->nr_running would still be positive and balance_fair() would return 1
even when fair doesn't have any tasks to run.
Update balance_fair() to use sched_fair_runnable() which tests
rq->cfs.nr_running which is updated by bandwidth throttling. Note that
pick_next_task_fair() already uses sched_fair_runnable() in its optimized
path for the same purpose.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZrFUjlCf7x3TNXB8@slm.duckdns.org
Pull tip/sched/core to resolve the following four conflicts. While 2-4 are
simple context conflicts, 1 is a bit subtle and easy to resolve incorrectly.
1. 2c8d046d5d ("sched: Add normal_policy()")
vs.
faa42d2941 ("sched/fair: Make SCHED_IDLE entity be preempted in strict hierarchy")
The former converts direct test on p->policy to use the helper
normal_policy(). The latter moves the p->policy test to a different
location. Resolve by converting the test on p->plicy in the new location to
use normal_policy().
2. a7a9fc5492 ("sched_ext: Add boilerplate for extensible scheduler class")
vs.
a110a81c52 ("sched/deadline: Deferrable dl server")
Both add calls to put_prev_task_idle() and set_next_task_idle(). Simple
context conflict. Resolve by taking changes from both.
3. a7a9fc5492 ("sched_ext: Add boilerplate for extensible scheduler class")
vs.
c245910049 ("sched/core: Add clearing of ->dl_server in put_prev_task_balance()")
The former changes for_each_class() itertion to use for_each_active_class().
The latter moves away the adjacent dl_server handling code. Simple context
conflict. Resolve by taking changes from both.
4. 60c27fb59f ("sched_ext: Implement sched_ext_ops.cpu_online/offline()")
vs.
31b164e2e4 ("sched/smt: Introduce sched_smt_present_inc/dec() helper")
2f02735412 ("sched/core: Introduce sched_set_rq_on/offline() helper")
The former adds scx_rq_deactivate() call. The latter two change code around
it. Simple context conflict. Resolve by taking changes from both.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The throttle interaction made my brain hurt, make it consistently
about 0 transitions of h_nr_running.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
* Use simple CFS pick_task for DL pick_task
DL server's pick_task calls CFS's pick_next_task_fair(), this is wrong
because core scheduling's pick_task only calls CFS's pick_task() for
evaluation / checking of the CFS task (comparing across CPUs), not for
actually affirmatively picking the next task. This causes RB tree
corruption issues in CFS that were found by syzbot.
* Make pick_task_fair clear DL server
A DL task pick might set ->dl_server, but it is possible the task will
never run (say the other HT has a stop task). If the CFS task is picked
in the future directly (say without DL server), ->dl_server will be
set. So clear it in pick_task_fair().
This fixes the KASAN issue reported by syzbot in set_next_entity().
(DL refactoring suggestions by Vineeth Pillai).
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@bitbyteword.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b10489ab1f03d23e08e6097acea47442e7d6466f.1716811044.git.bristot@kernel.org
Among the motivations for the DL servers is the real-time throttling
mechanism. This mechanism works by throttling the rt_rq after
running for a long period without leaving space for fair tasks.
The base dl server avoids this problem by boosting fair tasks instead
of throttling the rt_rq. The point is that it boosts without waiting
for potential starvation, causing some non-intuitive cases.
For example, an IRQ dispatches two tasks on an idle system, a fair
and an RT. The DL server will be activated, running the fair task
before the RT one. This problem can be avoided by deferring the
dl server activation.
By setting the defer option, the dl_server will dispatch an
SCHED_DEADLINE reservation with replenished runtime, but throttled.
The dl_timer will be set for the defer time at (period - runtime) ns
from start time. Thus boosting the fair rq at defer time.
If the fair scheduler has the opportunity to run while waiting
for defer time, the dl server runtime will be consumed. If
the runtime is completely consumed before the defer time, the
server will be replenished while still in a throttled state. Then,
the dl_timer will be reset to the new defer time
If the fair server reaches the defer time without consuming
its runtime, the server will start running, following CBS rules
(thus without breaking SCHED_DEADLINE). Then the server will
continue the running state (without deferring) until it fair
tasks are able to execute as regular fair scheduler (end of
the starvation).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dd175943c72533cd9f0b87767c6499204879cc38.1716811044.git.bristot@kernel.org
Use deadline servers to service fair tasks.
This patch adds a fair_server deadline entity which acts as a container
for fair entities and can be used to fix starvation when higher priority
(wrt fair) tasks are monopolizing CPU(s).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6b0bcefaf25391bcf5b6ecdb9f1218de402d42e.1716811044.git.bristot@kernel.org
Consider the following cgroup:
root
|
------------------------
| |
normal_cgroup idle_cgroup
| |
SCHED_IDLE task_A SCHED_NORMAL task_B
According to the cgroup hierarchy, A should preempt B. But current
check_preempt_wakeup_fair() treats cgroup se and task separately, so B
will preempt A unexpectedly.
Unify the wakeup logic by {c,p}se_is_idle only. This makes SCHED_IDLE of
a task a relative policy that is effective only within its own cgroup,
similar to the behavior of NICE.
Also fix se_is_idle() definition when !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.
Fixes: 304000390f ("sched: Cgroup SCHED_IDLE support")
Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626023505.1332596-1-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com
As a hedge against unexpected user issues commit 88c56cfeae
("sched/fair: Block nohz tick_stop when cfs bandwidth in use")
included a scheduler feature to disable the new functionality.
It's been a few releases (v6.6) and no screams, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515133705.3632915-1-pauld@redhat.com
When creating a new task, we initialize vruntime of the newly task at
sched_cgroup_fork(). However, the timing of executing this action is too
early and may not be accurate.
Because it uses current CPU to init the vruntime, but the new task
actually runs on the cpu which be assigned at wake_up_new_task().
To optimize this case, we pass ENQUEUE_INITIAL flag to activate_task()
in wake_up_new_task(), in this way, when place_entity is called in
enqueue_entity(), the vruntime of the new task will be initialized.
In addition, place_entity() in task_fork_fair() was introduced for two
reasons:
1. Previously, the __enqueue_entity() was in task_new_fair(),
in order to provide vruntime for enqueueing the newly task, the
vruntime assignment equation "se->vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime" was
introduced by commit e9acbff648 ("sched: introduce se->vruntime").
This is the initial state of place_entity().
2. commit 4d78e7b656 ("sched: new task placement for vruntime") added
child_runs_first task placement feature which based on vruntime, this
also requires the new task's vruntime value.
After removing the child_runs_first and enqueue_entity() from
task_fork_fair(), this place_entity() no longer makes sense, so remove
it also.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240627133359.1370598-1-zhangqiao22@huawei.com
d329605287 ("sched/fair: set_load_weight() must also call reweight_task()
for SCHED_IDLE tasks") applied to sched/core changes how reweight_task() is
called causing conflicts with e83edbf88f ("sched: Add
sched_class->reweight_task()"). Resolve the conflicts by taking
set_load_weight() changes from d329605287 and updating
sched_class->reweight_task() to take pointer to struct load_weight instead
of int prio.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo<tj@kernel.org>
When a task's weight is being changed, set_load_weight() is called with
@update_load set. As weight changes aren't trivial for the fair class,
set_load_weight() calls fair.c::reweight_task() for fair class tasks.
However, set_load_weight() first tests task_has_idle_policy() on entry and
skips calling reweight_task() for SCHED_IDLE tasks. This is buggy as
SCHED_IDLE tasks are just fair tasks with a very low weight and they would
incorrectly skip load, vlag and position updates.
Fix it by updating reweight_task() to take struct load_weight as idle weight
can't be expressed with prio and making set_load_weight() call
reweight_task() for SCHED_IDLE tasks too when @update_load is set.
Fixes: 9059393e4e ("sched/fair: Use reweight_entity() for set_user_nice()")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240624102331.GI31592@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
This reverts commit b0defa7ae0.
b0defa7ae0 changed the load balancing logic to ignore env.max_loop if
all tasks examined to that point were pinned. The goal of the patch was
to make it more likely to be able to detach a task buried in a long list
of pinned tasks. However, this has the unfortunate side effect of
creating an O(n) iteration in detach_tasks(), as we now must fully
iterate every task on a cpu if all or most are pinned. Since this load
balance code is done with rq lock held, and often in softirq context, it
is very easy to trigger hard lockups. We observed such hard lockups with
a user who affined O(10k) threads to a single cpu.
When I discussed this with Vincent he initially suggested that we keep
the limit on the number of tasks to detach, but increase the number of
tasks we can search. However, after some back and forth on the mailing
list, he recommended we instead revert the original patch, as it seems
likely no one was actually getting hit by the original issue.
Fixes: b0defa7ae0 ("sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task")
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620214450.316280-1-joshdon@google.com
A new BPF extensible sched_class will need to dynamically change how a task
picks its sched_class. For example, if the loaded BPF scheduler progs fail,
the tasks will be forced back on CFS even if the task's policy is set to the
new sched_class. To support such mapping, add normal_policy() which wraps
testing for %SCHED_NORMAL. This doesn't cause any behavior changes.
v2: Update the description with more details on the expected use.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
RT, DL, thermal and irq load and utilization metrics need to be decayed and
updated periodically and before consumption to keep the numbers reasonable.
This is currently done from __update_blocked_others() as a part of the fair
class load balance path. Let's factor it out to update_other_load_avgs().
Pure refactor. No functional changes.
This will be used by the new BPF extensible scheduling class to ensure that
the above metrics are properly maintained.
v2: Refreshed on top of tip:sched/core.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Currently, during a task weight change, sched core directly calls
reweight_task() defined in fair.c if @p is on CFS. Let's make it a proper
sched_class operation instead. CFS's reweight_task() is renamed to
reweight_task_fair() and now called through sched_class.
While it turns a direct call into an indirect one, set_load_weight() isn't
called from a hot path and this change shouldn't cause any noticeable
difference. This will be used to implement reweight_task for a new BPF
extensible sched_class so that it can keep its cached task weight
up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
We observed that the overhead on trigger_load_balance(), now renamed
sched_balance_trigger(), has risen with a system's core counts.
For an OLTP workload running 6.8 kernel on a 2 socket x86 systems
having 96 cores/socket, we saw that 0.7% cpu cycles are spent in
trigger_load_balance(). On older systems with fewer cores/socket, this
function's overhead was less than 0.1%.
The cause of this overhead was that there are multiple cpus calling
kick_ilb(flags), updating the balancing work needed to a common idle
load balancer cpu. The ilb_cpu's flags field got updated unconditionally
with atomic_fetch_or(). The atomic read and writes to ilb_cpu's flags
causes much cache bouncing and cpu cycles overhead. This is seen in the
annotated profile below.
kick_ilb():
if (ilb_cpu < 0)
test %r14d,%r14d
↑ js 6c
flags = atomic_fetch_or(flags, nohz_flags(ilb_cpu));
mov $0x2d600,%rdi
movslq %r14d,%r8
mov %rdi,%rdx
add -0x7dd0c3e0(,%r8,8),%rdx
arch_atomic_read():
0.01 mov 0x64(%rdx),%esi
35.58 add $0x64,%rdx
arch_atomic_fetch_or():
static __always_inline int arch_atomic_fetch_or(int i, atomic_t *v)
{
int val = arch_atomic_read(v);
do { } while (!arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg(v, &val, val | i));
0.03 157: mov %r12d,%ecx
arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg():
return arch_try_cmpxchg(&v->counter, old, new);
0.00 mov %esi,%eax
arch_atomic_fetch_or():
do { } while (!arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg(v, &val, val | i));
or %esi,%ecx
arch_atomic_try_cmpxchg():
return arch_try_cmpxchg(&v->counter, old, new);
0.01 lock cmpxchg %ecx,(%rdx)
42.96 ↓ jne 2d2
kick_ilb():
With instrumentation, we found that 81% of the updates do not result in
any change in the ilb_cpu's flags. That is, multiple cpus are asking
the ilb_cpu to do the same things over and over again, before the ilb_cpu
has a chance to run NOHZ load balance.
Skip updates to ilb_cpu's flags if no new work needs to be done.
Such updates do not change ilb_cpu's NOHZ flags. This requires an extra
atomic read but it is less expensive than frequent unnecessary atomic
updates that generate cache bounces.
We saw that on the OLTP workload, cpu cycles from trigger_load_balance()
(or sched_balance_trigger()) got reduced from 0.7% to 0.2%.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240531205452.65781-1-tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Summary
* Removed sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*
Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size and
runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for net/, io_uring/,
mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline through their respective
subsystems making the next release the most likely place where the final
series that removes the check for proc_name == NULL will land. This PR adds
to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.
* Adjusted ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
Adjustments:
- Removing unused ctl_table function arguments
- Moving non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
- Making ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure
Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by keeping the
pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no ctl_tables where
made const in this PR, the ground work for making that possible has started
with these changes sent by Thomas Weißschuh.
Testing
* These changes went into linux-next after v6.9-rc4; giving it a good month of
testing.
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Remove sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*
Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for
net/, io_uring/, mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline
through their respective subsystems making the next release the most
likely place where the final series that removes the check for
proc_name == NULL will land.
This adds to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.
- Adjust ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
- Remove unused ctl_table function arguments
- Move non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
- Make ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure
Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by
keeping the pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no
ctl_tables where made const in this PR, the ground work for making
that possible has started with these changes sent by Thomas
Weißschuh.
* tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check
sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header
sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table
sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
bpf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
delayacct: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
scheduler: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
umh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
On 05/03/2024 15:05, Vincent Guittot wrote:
I'm fine with either and that was my first thought here, too, but it did seem like
the comment was mostly placed there to justify the 'unexpected' high utilization
when explicitly passing FREQUENCY_UTIL and the need to clamp it then.
So removing did feel slightly more natural to me anyway.
So alternatively:
From: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 09:34:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Remove stale FREQUENCY_UTIL mention
effective_cpu_util() flags were removed, so remove mentioning of the
flag.
commit 9c0b4bb7f6 ("sched/cpufreq: Rework schedutil governor performance estimation")
reworked effective_cpu_util() removing enum cpu_util_type. Modify the
comment accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0e2833ee-0939-44e0-82a2-520a585a0153@arm.com
Change se->load.weight to se_weight(se) in the calculation for the
initial util_avg to avoid unnecessarily inflating the util_avg by 1024
times.
The reason is that se->load.weight has the unit/scale as the scaled-up
load, while cfs_rg->avg.load_avg has the unit/scale as the true task
weight (as mapped directly from the task's nice/priority value). With
CONFIG_32BIT, the scaled-up load is equal to the true task weight. With
CONFIG_64BIT, the scaled-up load is 1024 times the true task weight.
Thus, the current code may inflate the util_avg by 1024 times. The
follow-up capping will not allow the util_avg value to go wild. But the
calculation should have the correct logic.
Signed-off-by: Dawei Li <daweilics@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240315015916.21545-1-daweilics@gmail.com
- Add cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler
- Rework misfit load-balancing wrt. affinity restrictions
- Clean up and simplify the code around ::overutilized and
::overload access.
- Simplify sched_balance_newidle()
- Bump SCHEDSTAT_VERSION to 16 due to a cleanup of CPU_MAX_IDLE_TYPES
handling that changed the output.
- Rework & clean up <asm/vtime.h> interactions wrt. arch_vtime_task_switch()
- Reorganize, clean up and unify most of the higher level
scheduler balancing function names around the sched_balance_*()
prefix.
- Simplify the balancing flag code (sched_balance_running)
- Miscellaneous cleanups & fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Add cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler
- Rework misfit load-balancing wrt affinity restrictions
- Clean up and simplify the code around ::overutilized and
::overload access.
- Simplify sched_balance_newidle()
- Bump SCHEDSTAT_VERSION to 16 due to a cleanup of CPU_MAX_IDLE_TYPES
handling that changed the output.
- Rework & clean up <asm/vtime.h> interactions wrt arch_vtime_task_switch()
- Reorganize, clean up and unify most of the higher level
scheduler balancing function names around the sched_balance_*()
prefix
- Simplify the balancing flag code (sched_balance_running)
- Miscellaneous cleanups & fixes
* tag 'sched-core-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
sched/pelt: Remove shift of thermal clock
sched/cpufreq: Rename arch_update_thermal_pressure() => arch_update_hw_pressure()
thermal/cpufreq: Remove arch_update_thermal_pressure()
sched/cpufreq: Take cpufreq feedback into account
cpufreq: Add a cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler
sched/fair: Fix update of rd->sg_overutilized
sched/vtime: Do not include <asm/vtime.h> header
s390/irq,nmi: Include <asm/vtime.h> header directly
s390/vtime: Remove unused __ARCH_HAS_VTIME_TASK_SWITCH leftover
sched/vtime: Get rid of generic vtime_task_switch() implementation
sched/vtime: Remove confusing arch_vtime_task_switch() declaration
sched/balancing: Simplify the sg_status bitmask and use separate ->overloaded and ->overutilized flags
sched/fair: Rename set_rd_overutilized_status() to set_rd_overutilized()
sched/fair: Rename SG_OVERLOAD to SG_OVERLOADED
sched/fair: Rename {set|get}_rd_overload() to {set|get}_rd_overloaded()
sched/fair: Rename root_domain::overload to ::overloaded
sched/fair: Use helper functions to access root_domain::overload
sched/fair: Check root_domain::overload value before update
sched/fair: Combine EAS check with root_domain::overutilized access
sched/fair: Simplify the continue_balancing logic in sched_balance_newidle()
...
The optional shift of the clock used by thermal/hw load avg has been
introduced to handle case where the signal was not always a high frequency
hw signal. Now that cpufreq provides a signal for firmware and
SW pressure, we can remove this exception and always keep this PELT signal
aligned with other signals.
Mark sysctl_sched_migration_cost boot parameter as deprecated
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326091616.3696851-6-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Now that cpufreq provides a pressure value to the scheduler, rename
arch_update_thermal_pressure into HW pressure to reflect that it returns
a pressure applied by HW (i.e. with a high frequency change) and not
always related to thermal mitigation but also generated by max current
limitation as an example. Such high frequency signal needs filtering to be
smoothed and provide an value that reflects the average available capacity
into the scheduler time scale.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326091616.3696851-5-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Aggregate the different pressures applied on the capacity of CPUs and
create a new function that returns the actual capacity of the CPU:
get_actual_cpu_capacity().
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326091616.3696851-3-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
sg_overloaded is used instead of sg_overutilized to update
rd->sg_overutilized.
Fixes: 4475cd8bfd ("sched/balancing: Simplify the sg_status bitmask and use separate ->overloaded and ->overutilized flags")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240404155738.2866102-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)
rm sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
It was possible to have pick_eevdf() return NULL, which then causes a
NULL-deref. This turned out to be due to entity_eligible() returning
falsely negative because of a s64 multiplcation overflow.
Specifically, reweight_eevdf() computes the vlag without considering
the limit placed upon vlag as update_entity_lag() does, and then the
scaling multiplication (remember that weight is 20bit fixed point) can
overflow. This then leads to the new vruntime being weird which then
causes the above entity_eligible() to go side-ways and claim nothing
is eligible.
Thus limit the range of vlag accordingly.
All this was quite rare, but fatal when it does happen.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZhuYyrh3mweP_Kd8@nz.home/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+9S74ih+45M_2TPUY_mPPVDhNvyYfy1J1ftSix+KjiTVxg8nw@mail.gmail.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202401301012.2ed95df0-oliver.sang@intel.com/
Fixes: eab03c23c2 ("sched/eevdf: Fix vruntime adjustment on reweight")
Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Igor Raits <igor@gooddata.com>
Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240422082238.5784-1-xuewen.yan@unisoc.com
reweight_eevdf() only keeps V unchanged inside itself. When se !=
cfs_rq->curr, it would be dequeued from rb tree first. So that V is
changed and the result is wrong. Pass the original V to reweight_eevdf()
to fix this issue.
Fixes: eab03c23c2 ("sched/eevdf: Fix vruntime adjustment on reweight")
Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>
[peterz: flip if() condition for clarity]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240306022133.81008-3-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com
reweight_eevdf() needs the latest V to do accurate calculation for new
ve and vd. So update V unconditionally when se is runnable.
Fixes: eab03c23c2 ("sched/eevdf: Fix vruntime adjustment on reweight")
Suggested-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306022133.81008-2-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com
SG_OVERLOADED and SG_OVERUTILIZED flags plus the sg_status bitmask are an
unnecessary complication that only make the code harder to read and slower.
We only ever set them separately:
thule:~/tip> git grep SG_OVER kernel/sched/
kernel/sched/fair.c: set_rd_overutilized_status(rq->rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED);
kernel/sched/fair.c: *sg_status |= SG_OVERLOADED;
kernel/sched/fair.c: *sg_status |= SG_OVERUTILIZED;
kernel/sched/fair.c: *sg_status |= SG_OVERLOADED;
kernel/sched/fair.c: set_rd_overloaded(env->dst_rq->rd, sg_status & SG_OVERLOADED);
kernel/sched/fair.c: sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED);
kernel/sched/fair.c: } else if (sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED) {
kernel/sched/fair.c: set_rd_overutilized_status(env->dst_rq->rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED);
kernel/sched/sched.h:#define SG_OVERLOADED 0x1 /* More than one runnable task on a CPU. */
kernel/sched/sched.h:#define SG_OVERUTILIZED 0x2 /* One or more CPUs are over-utilized. */
kernel/sched/sched.h: set_rd_overloaded(rq->rd, SG_OVERLOADED);
And use them separately, which results in suboptimal code:
/* update overload indicator if we are at root domain */
set_rd_overloaded(env->dst_rq->rd, sg_status & SG_OVERLOADED);
/* Update over-utilization (tipping point, U >= 0) indicator */
set_rd_overutilized_status(env->dst_rq->rd,
Introduce separate sg_overloaded and sg_overutilized flags in update_sd_lb_stats()
and its lower level functions, and change all of them to 'bool'.
Remove the now unused SG_OVERLOADED and SG_OVERUTILIZED flags.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZgVPhODZ8/nbsqbP@gmail.com
The _status() postfix has no real meaning, simplify the naming
and harmonize it with set_rd_overloaded().
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZgVHq65XKsOZpfgK@gmail.com
Follow the rename of the root_domain::overloaded flag.
Note that this also matches the SG_OVERUTILIZED flag better.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZgVHq65XKsOZpfgK@gmail.com
Introduce two helper functions to access & set the root_domain::overload flag:
get_rd_overload()
set_rd_overload()
To make sure code is always following READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() access methods.
No change in functionality intended.
[ mingo: Renamed the accessors to get_/set_rd_overload(), tidied up the changelog. ]
Suggested-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325054505.201995-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
The root_domain::overload flag is 1 when there's any rq
in the root domain that has 2 or more running tasks. (Ie. it's overloaded.)
The root_domain structure itself is a global structure per cpuset island.
The ::overload flag is maintained the following way:
- Set when adding a second task to the runqueue.
- It is cleared in update_sd_lb_stats() during load balance,
if none of the rqs have 2 or more running tasks.
This flag is used during newidle balance to see if its worth doing a full
load balance pass, which can be an expensive operation. If it is set,
then newidle balance will try to aggressively pull a task.
Since commit:
630246a06a ("sched/fair: Clean-up update_sg_lb_stats parameters")
::overload is being written unconditionally, even if it has the same
value. The change in value of this depends on the workload, but on
typical workloads, it doesn't change all that often: a system is
either dominantly overloaded for substantial amounts of time, or not.
Extra writes to this semi-global structure cause unnecessary overhead, extra
bus traffic, etc. - so avoid it as much as possible.
Perf probe stats show that it's worth making this change (numbers are
with patch applied):
1M probe:sched_balance_newidle_L38
139 probe:update_sd_lb_stats_L53 <====== 1->0 writes
129K probe:add_nr_running_L12
74 probe:add_nr_running_L13 <====== 0->1 writes
54K probe:update_sd_lb_stats_L50 <====== reads
These numbers prove that actual change in the ::overload value is (much) less
frequent: L50 is much larger at ~54,000 accesses vs L53+L13 of 139+74.
[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325054505.201995-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
Access to root_domainoverutilized is always used with sched_energy_enabled in
the pattern:
if (sched_energy_enabled && !overutilized)
do something
So modify the helper function to utilize this pattern. This is more
readable code as it would say, do something when root domain is not
overutilized. This function always return true when EAS is disabled.
No change in functionality intended.
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326152616.380999-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
newidle(CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) balancing doesn't stop the load-balancing if the
continue_balancing flag is reset, but the other two balancing (IDLE, BUSY)
cases do that.
newidle balance stops the load balancing if rq has a task or there
is wakeup pending. The same checks are present in should_we_balance for
newidle. Hence use the return value and simplify continue_balancing
mechanism for newidle. Update the comment surrounding it as well.
No change in functionality intended.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325153926.274284-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
The root_domain::overutilized field is READ_ONCE() accessed in
multiple places, which could be simplified with a helper function.
This might also make it more apparent that it needs to be used
only in case of EAS.
No change in functionality intended.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307085725.444486-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
root_domain::overutilized is only used for EAS(energy aware scheduler)
to decide whether to do load balance or not. It is not used if EAS
not possible.
Currently enqueue_task_fair and task_tick_fair accesses, sometime updates
this field. In update_sd_lb_stats it is updated often. This causes cache
contention due to true sharing and burns a lot of cycles. ::overload and
::overutilized are part of the same cacheline. Updating it often invalidates
the cacheline. That causes access to ::overload to slow down due to
false sharing. Hence add EAS check before accessing/updating this field.
EAS check is optimized at compile time or it is a static branch.
Hence it shouldn't cost much.
With the patch, both enqueue_task_fair and newidle_balance don't show
up as hot routines in perf profile.
6.8-rc4:
7.18% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] enqueue_task_fair
6.78% s [kernel.vmlinux] [k] newidle_balance
+patch:
0.14% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] enqueue_task_fair
0.00% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] newidle_balance
While at it: trace_sched_overutilized_tp expect that second argument to
be bool. So do a int to bool conversion for that.
Fixes: 2802bf3cd9 ("sched/fair: Add over-utilization/tipping point indicator")
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307085725.444486-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
It is not necessarily an indication of the system being busy and
requires a backoff of the load balancer activities. But pushing it high
could mean generally delaying other misfit activities or other type of
imbalances.
Also don't pollute nr_balance_failed because of misfit failures. The
value is used for enabling cache hot migration and in migrate_util/load
types. None of which should be impacted (skewed) by misfit failures.
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240324004552.999936-5-qyousef@layalina.io
If a misfit task is affined to a subset of the possible CPUs, we need to
verify that one of these CPUs can fit it. Otherwise the load balancer
code will continuously trigger needlessly leading the balance_interval
to increase in return and eventually end up with a situation where real
imbalances take a long time to address because of this impossible
imbalance situation.
This can happen in Android world where it's common for background tasks
to be restricted to little cores.
Similarly if we can't fit the biggest core, triggering misfit is
pointless as it is the best we can ever get on this system.
To be able to detect that; we use asym_cap_list to iterate through
capacities in the system to see if the task is able to run at a higher
capacity level based on its p->cpus_ptr. We do that when the affinity
change, a fair task is forked, or when a task switched to fair policy.
We store the max_allowed_capacity in task_struct to allow for cheap
comparison in the fast path.
Improve check_misfit_status() function by removing redundant checks.
misfit_task_load will be 0 if the task can't move to a bigger CPU. And
nohz_balancer_kick() already checks for cpu_check_capacity() before
calling check_misfit_status().
Test:
=====
Add
trace_printk("balance_interval = %lu\n", interval)
in get_sd_balance_interval().
run
if [ "$MASK" != "0" ]; then
adb shell "taskset -a $MASK cat /dev/zero > /dev/null"
fi
sleep 10
// parse ftrace buffer counting the occurrence of each valaue
Where MASK is either:
* 0: no busy task running
* 1: busy task is pinned to 1 cpu; handled today to not cause
misfit
* f: busy task pinned to little cores, simulates busy background
task, demonstrates the problem to be fixed
Results:
========
Note how occurrence of balance_interval = 128 overshoots for MASK = f.
BEFORE
------
MASK=0
1 balance_interval = 175
120 balance_interval = 128
846 balance_interval = 64
55 balance_interval = 63
215 balance_interval = 32
2 balance_interval = 31
2 balance_interval = 16
4 balance_interval = 8
1870 balance_interval = 4
65 balance_interval = 2
MASK=1
27 balance_interval = 175
37 balance_interval = 127
840 balance_interval = 64
167 balance_interval = 63
449 balance_interval = 32
84 balance_interval = 31
304 balance_interval = 16
1156 balance_interval = 8
2781 balance_interval = 4
428 balance_interval = 2
MASK=f
1 balance_interval = 175
1328 balance_interval = 128
44 balance_interval = 64
101 balance_interval = 63
25 balance_interval = 32
5 balance_interval = 31
23 balance_interval = 16
23 balance_interval = 8
4306 balance_interval = 4
177 balance_interval = 2
AFTER
-----
Note how the high values almost disappear for all MASK values. The
system has background tasks that could trigger the problem without
simulate it even with MASK=0.
MASK=0
103 balance_interval = 63
19 balance_interval = 31
194 balance_interval = 8
4827 balance_interval = 4
179 balance_interval = 2
MASK=1
131 balance_interval = 63
1 balance_interval = 31
87 balance_interval = 8
3600 balance_interval = 4
7 balance_interval = 2
MASK=f
8 balance_interval = 127
182 balance_interval = 63
3 balance_interval = 31
9 balance_interval = 16
415 balance_interval = 8
3415 balance_interval = 4
21 balance_interval = 2
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240324004552.999936-3-qyousef@layalina.io
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
"implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".
- More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series
"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
scalability of zswap rb-tree".
- Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
swap-intensive situations.
- And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.
- zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series "mm:
zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".
- In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is hotplugged
as system memory.
- Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
which does that.
- More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series
"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"
- In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving policy
wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion rather
than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory environments
appearing with CXL.
- Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".
- Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
tools to parse and process out selftesting results.
- Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the process
has a large number of pte-mapped folios.
- David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown situations.
The microbenchmark improvements are nice.
- And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings" Ryan
Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's series
"Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.
- In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page faults.
He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.
- In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction test",
Mark Brown did what the title claims.
- Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and refactoring".
- Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
zswap kselftests" does as claimed.
- In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess in
our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing data
caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.
- Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides dramatic
improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during certain
userfaultfd operations.
- Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
in his series
"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"
- Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability improvements
in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It realizes a 12x
improvement for a certain microbenchmark.
- Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".
- Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series
"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"
- Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging of
large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio
memory compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages() to
an iterator".
- Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
"Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".
- Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".
- David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
total_mapcount()", a cleanup.
- Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".
- Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which are
configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.
- Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.
- Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
also. S390 is affected.
- Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
"mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".
- Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM Selftests".
- Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
the individual changelogs for details.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
"implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".
- More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series
"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
scalability of zswap rb-tree".
- Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
swap-intensive situations.
- And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.
- zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
"mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".
- In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
hotplugged as system memory.
- Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
which does that.
- More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series
"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"
- In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
environments appearing with CXL.
- Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".
- Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
tools to parse and process out selftesting results.
- Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.
- David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.
- And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.
- In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.
- In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.
- Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
refactoring".
- Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
zswap kselftests" does as claimed.
- In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.
- Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
certain userfaultfd operations.
- Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
in his series
"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"
- Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.
- Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".
- Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series
"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"
- Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio
memory compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
to an iterator".
- Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
"Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".
- Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".
- David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
total_mapcount()", a cleanup.
- Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".
- Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.
- Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.
- Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
also. S390 is affected.
- Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
"mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".
- Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
Selftests".
- Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
the individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
...
The 'idle_balance()' function hasn't existed for years, and there's no
load_balance_newidle() either - both are sched_balance_newidle() today.
Reported-by: Honglei Wang <jameshongleiwang@126.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZfAwNufbiyt/5biu@gmail.com
Standardize scheduler load-balancing function names on the
sched_balance_() prefix.
Also use 'dst' instead of 'idlest', because it's not really
true that we return the 'idlest' group or CPU, we sort by
idle-exit latency and only return the idlest CPUs from the
lowest-latency set of CPUs.
The true 'idlest' CPUs often remain idle for a long time
and are never returned as long as the system is under-loaded.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-14-mingo@kernel.org
Standardize scheduler load-balancing function names on the
sched_balance_() prefix.
Also use 'dst' instead of 'idlest', because it's not really
true that we return the 'idlest' group or CPU, we sort by
idle-exit latency and only return the idlest CPUs from the
lowest-latency set of CPUs.
The true 'idlest' CPUs often remain idle for a long time
and are never returned as long as the system is under-loaded.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-13-mingo@kernel.org
Standardize scheduler load-balancing function names on the
sched_balance_() prefix.
Also use 'dst' instead of 'idlest': while historically correct,
today it's not really true anymore that we return the 'idlest'
group or CPU, we sort by idle-exit latency and only return the
idlest CPUs from the lowest-latency set of CPUs.
The true 'idlest' CPUs often remain idle for a long time
and are never returned as long as the system is under-loaded.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-12-mingo@kernel.org
Make two naming changes:
1)
Standardize scheduler load-balancing function names on the
sched_balance_() prefix.
2)
Similar to find_busiest_queue(), the find_busiest_group() naming
has become a bit of a misnomer: the 'busiest' qualifier to this
function was historically correct but in the current code
in quite a few cases we will not pick the 'busiest' group - but the best
(possible) group we can balance from based on a complex set of
constraints.
So name it a bit more neutrally, similar to the 'src/dst' nomenclature
we are already using when moving tasks between runqueues, and also
use the sched_balance_ prefix: sched_balance_find_src_group().
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-9-mingo@kernel.org
The find_busiest_queue() naming has two small quirks:
- Scheduler functions that deal with runqueues usually have a rq_ prefix
or _rq postfix, but this function has neither.
- Plus the 'busiest' qualifier to this function was historically
correct, but has become somewhat of a misnomer: in quite a few
cases we will not pick the busiest runqueue - but the best
(possible) runqueue we can balance tasks from. So name it a
bit more neutrally, similar to the 'src/dst' nomenclature
we are already using when moving tasks between runqueues.
To fix both quirks, and to standardize scheduler load-balancing
function names on the sched_balance_() prefix, rename the
function to sched_balance_find_src_rq().
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-7-mingo@kernel.org
Standardize scheduler load-balancing function names on the
sched_balance_() prefix.
Also load_balance() has become somewhat of a misnomer: historically
it was the first and primary load-balancing function that was called,
but with the introduction of sched domains, it's become a lower
layer function that balances runqueues.
Rename it to sched_balance_rq() accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-6-mingo@kernel.org
run_rebalance_domains() is a misnomer, as it doesn't only
run rebalance_domains(), but since the introduction of the
NOHZ code it also runs nohz_idle_balance().
Rename it to sched_balance_softirq(), reflecting its more
generic purpose and that it's a softirq handler.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-2-mingo@kernel.org
The first sentence of the comment explaining run_rebalance_domains()
is historic and not true anymore:
* run_rebalance_domains is triggered when needed from the scheduler tick.
... contradicted/modified by the second sentence:
* Also triggered for NOHZ idle balancing (with NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK set).
Avoid that kind of confusion straight away and explain from what
places sched_balance_softirq() is triggered.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308105901.1096078-9-mingo@kernel.org
Fix two typos:
- There's no such thing as 'nohz_balancing_kick', the
flag is named 'BALANCE' and is capitalized: NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK.
- Likewise there's no such thing as a 'pending nohz_balance_kick'
either, the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag is all upper-case.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308105901.1096078-8-mingo@kernel.org
So the scheduler has two such comment blocks, with '=' used as a double underline:
/*
* VRUNTIME
* ========
*
'========' also happens to be a Git conflict marker, throwing off a simple
search in an editor for this pattern.
Change them to '-------' type of underline instead - it looks just as good.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308105901.1096078-7-mingo@kernel.org
The cpu_idle_type enum has the confusingly inverted property
that 'not idle' is 1, and 'idle' is '0'.
This resulted in a number of unnecessary complications in the code.
Reverse the order, remove the CPU_NOT_IDLE type, and convert
all code to a natural boolean form.
It's much more readable:
- enum cpu_idle_type idle = this_rq->idle_balance ?
- CPU_IDLE : CPU_NOT_IDLE;
-
+ enum cpu_idle_type idle = this_rq->idle_balance;
--------------------------------
- if (env->idle == CPU_NOT_IDLE || !busiest->sum_nr_running)
+ if (!env->idle || !busiest->sum_nr_running)
--------------------------------
And gets rid of the double negation in these usages:
- if (env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE && env->src_rq->nr_running <= 1)
+ if (env->idle && env->src_rq->nr_running <= 1)
Furthermore, this makes code much more obvious where there's
differentiation between CPU_IDLE and CPU_NEWLY_IDLE.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308105901.1096078-4-mingo@kernel.org
The 'balancing' spinlock added in:
08c183f31b ("[PATCH] sched: add option to serialize load balancing")
... is taken when the SD_SERIALIZE flag is set in a domain, but in reality it
is a glorified global atomic flag serializing the load-balancing of
those domains.
It doesn't have any explicit locking semantics per se: we just
spin_trylock() it.
Turn it into a ... global atomic flag. This makes it more
clear what is going on here, and reduces overhead and code
size a bit:
# kernel/sched/fair.o: [x86-64 defconfig]
text data bss dec hex filename
60730 2721 104 63555 f843 fair.o.before
60718 2721 104 63543 f837 fair.o.after
Also document the flag a bit.
No change in functionality intended.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308105901.1096078-2-mingo@kernel.org
Memoryless nodes do not have any memory to migrate to, so, as an
optimization, stop trying it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219041920.1183-1-byungchul@sk.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240216111502.79759-1-byungchul@sk.com
Fixes: c574bbe917 ("NUMA balancing: optimize page placement for memory tiering system")
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES is a bit of a misnomer: its naming suggests that
it's sharing all 'package resources' - while in reality it's specifically
for sharing the LLC only.
Rename it to SD_SHARE_LLC to reduce confusion.
[ mingo: Rewrote the confusing changelog as well. ]
Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210113924.1130448-5-alexs@kernel.org
sched_use_asym_prio() checks whether CPU priorities should be used. It
makes sense to check for the SD_ASYM_PACKING() inside the function.
Since both sched_asym() and sched_group_asym() use sched_use_asym_prio(),
remove the now superfluous checks for the flag in various places.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210113924.1130448-4-alexs@kernel.org
sched_use_asym_prio() and sched_asym_prefer() are used together in various
places. Consolidate them into a single function sched_asym().
The existing sched_asym() function is only used when collecting statistics
of a scheduling group. Rename it as sched_group_asym(), and remove the
obsolete function description.
This makes the code easier to read. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210113924.1130448-3-alexs@kernel.org
The 'sds' argument is not used in the sched_asym() function anymore, remove it.
Fixes: c9ca07886a ("sched/fair: Do not even the number of busy CPUs via asym_packing")
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210113924.1130448-2-alexs@kernel.org
When comparing the current struct sched_group with the yet-busiest
domain in update_sd_pick_busiest(), if the two groups have the same
group type, we're currently doing a bit of unnecessary work for any
group >= group_misfit_task. We're comparing the two groups, and then
returning only if false (the group in question is not the busiest).
Otherwise, we break out, do an extra unnecessary conditional check that's
vacuously false for any group type > group_fully_busy, and then always
return true.
Let's just return directly in the switch statement instead. This doesn't
change the size of vmlinux with llvm 17 (not surprising given that all
of this is inlined in load_balance()), but it does shrink load_balance()
by 88 bytes on x86. Given that it also improves readability, this seems
worth doing.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206043921.850302-4-void@manifault.com
In update_sd_pick_busiest(), when comparing two sched groups that are
both of type group_misfit_task, we currently consider the new group as
busier than the current busiest group even if the new group has the
same misfit task load as the current busiest group. We can avoid some
unnecessary writes if we instead only consider the newest group to be
the busiest if it has a higher load than the current busiest. This
matches the behavior of other group types where we compare load, such as
two groups that are both overloaded.
Let's update the group_misfit_task type comparison to also only update
the busiest group in the event of strict inequality.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206043921.850302-3-void@manifault.com
In update_sd_lb_stats(), when we're iterating over the sched groups that
comprise a sched domain, we're skipping the call to
update_sd_pick_busiest() for the sched group that contains the local /
destination CPU. We use a goto to skip the call, but we could just as
easily check !local_group, as there's no other logic that we need to
skip with the goto. Let's remove the goto, and check for !local_group in
the if statement instead.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206043921.850302-2-void@manifault.com
When picking a CPU on task wakeup, select_idle_core() has to take
into account the scheduling domain where the function looks for the CPU.
This is because the "isolcpus" kernel command line option can remove CPUs
from the domain to isolate them from other SMT siblings.
This change replaces the set of CPUs allowed to run the task from
p->cpus_ptr by the intersection of p->cpus_ptr and sched_domain_span(sd)
which is stored in the 'cpus' argument provided by select_idle_cpu().
Fixes: 9fe1f127b9 ("sched/fair: Merge select_idle_core/cpu()")
Signed-off-by: Keisuke Nishimura <keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110131707.437301-2-keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr
When picking a CPU on task wakeup, select_idle_smt() has to take
into account the scheduling domain of @target. This is because the
"isolcpus" kernel command line option can remove CPUs from the domain to
isolate them from other SMT siblings.
This fix checks if the candidate CPU is in the target scheduling domain.
Commit:
df3cb4ea1f ("sched/fair: Fix wrong cpu selecting from isolated domain")
... originally introduced this fix by adding the check of the scheduling
domain in the loop.
However, commit:
3e6efe87cd ("sched/fair: Remove redundant check in select_idle_smt()")
... accidentally removed the check. Bring it back.
Fixes: 3e6efe87cd ("sched/fair: Remove redundant check in select_idle_smt()")
Signed-off-by: Keisuke Nishimura <keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110131707.437301-1-keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr
Use existing helper function cpu_util_irq() instead of open-coding
access to ->avg_irq.
During review it was noted that ->avg_irq could be updated by a
different CPU than the one which is trying to access it.
->avg_irq is updated with WRITE_ONCE(), use READ_ONCE to access it
in order to avoid any compiler optimizations.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240101154624.100981-3-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com
There are helper functions called cpu_util_dl() and cpu_util_rt() which give
the average utilization of DL and RT respectively. But there are a few
places in code where access to these variables is open-coded.
Instead use the helper function so that code becomes simpler and easier to
maintain later on.
No functional changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240101154624.100981-2-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com
There's a few cases of nested #ifdefs in the scheduler code
that can be simplified:
#ifdef DEFINE_A
...code block...
#ifdef DEFINE_A <-- This is a duplicate.
...code block...
#endif
#else
#ifndef DEFINE_A <-- This is also duplicate.
...code block...
#endif
#endif
More details about the script and methods used to find these code
patterns can be found at:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240118080326.13137-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com/
No change in functionality intended.
[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240216061433.535522-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
many places. The notable patch series are:
- nilfs2 folio conversion from Matthew Wilcox in "nilfs2: Folio
conversions for file paths".
- Additional nilfs2 folio conversion from Ryusuke Konishi in "nilfs2:
Folio conversions for directory paths".
- IA64 remnant removal in Heiko Carstens's "Remove unused code after
IA-64 removal".
- Arnd Bergmann has enabled the -Wmissing-prototypes warning everywhere
in "Treewide: enable -Wmissing-prototypes". This had some followup
fixes:
- Nathan Chancellor has cleaned up the hexagon build in the series
"hexagon: Fix up instances of -Wmissing-prototypes".
- Nathan also addressed some s390 warnings in "s390: A couple of
fixes for -Wmissing-prototypes".
- Arnd Bergmann addresses the same warnings for MIPS in his series
"mips: address -Wmissing-prototypes warnings".
- Baoquan He has made kexec_file operate in a top-down-fitting manner
similar to kexec_load in the series "kexec_file: Load kernel at top of
system RAM if required"
- Baoquan He has also added the self-explanatory "kexec_file: print out
debugging message if required".
- Some checkstack maintenance work from Tiezhu Yang in the series
"Modify some code about checkstack".
- Douglas Anderson has disentangled the watchdog code's logging when
multiple reports are occurring simultaneously. The series is "watchdog:
Better handling of concurrent lockups".
- Yuntao Wang has contributed some maintenance work on the crash code in
"crash: Some cleanups and fixes".
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in
many places. The notable patch series are:
- nilfs2 folio conversion from Matthew Wilcox in 'nilfs2: Folio
conversions for file paths'.
- Additional nilfs2 folio conversion from Ryusuke Konishi in 'nilfs2:
Folio conversions for directory paths'.
- IA64 remnant removal in Heiko Carstens's 'Remove unused code after
IA-64 removal'.
- Arnd Bergmann has enabled the -Wmissing-prototypes warning
everywhere in 'Treewide: enable -Wmissing-prototypes'. This had
some followup fixes:
- Nathan Chancellor has cleaned up the hexagon build in the series
'hexagon: Fix up instances of -Wmissing-prototypes'.
- Nathan also addressed some s390 warnings in 's390: A couple of
fixes for -Wmissing-prototypes'.
- Arnd Bergmann addresses the same warnings for MIPS in his series
'mips: address -Wmissing-prototypes warnings'.
- Baoquan He has made kexec_file operate in a top-down-fitting manner
similar to kexec_load in the series 'kexec_file: Load kernel at top
of system RAM if required'
- Baoquan He has also added the self-explanatory 'kexec_file: print
out debugging message if required'.
- Some checkstack maintenance work from Tiezhu Yang in the series
'Modify some code about checkstack'.
- Douglas Anderson has disentangled the watchdog code's logging when
multiple reports are occurring simultaneously. The series is
'watchdog: Better handling of concurrent lockups'.
- Yuntao Wang has contributed some maintenance work on the crash code
in 'crash: Some cleanups and fixes'"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (157 commits)
crash_core: fix and simplify the logic of crash_exclude_mem_range()
x86/crash: use SZ_1M macro instead of hardcoded value
x86/crash: remove the unused image parameter from prepare_elf_headers()
kdump: remove redundant DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE
scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: strip unexpected CR from lines
watchdog: if panicking and we dumped everything, don't re-enable dumping
watchdog/hardlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
watchdog/softlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
watchdog/hardlockup: adopt softlockup logic avoiding double-dumps
kexec_core: fix the assignment to kimage->control_page
x86/kexec: fix incorrect end address passed to kernel_ident_mapping_init()
lib/trace_readwrite.c:: replace asm-generic/io with linux/io
nilfs2: cpfile: fix some kernel-doc warnings
stacktrace: fix kernel-doc typo
scripts/checkstack.pl: fix no space expression between sp and offset
x86/kexec: fix incorrect argument passed to kexec_dprintk()
x86/kexec: use pr_err() instead of kexec_dprintk() when an error occurs
nilfs2: add missing set_freezable() for freezable kthread
kernel: relay: remove relay_file_splice_read dead code, doesn't work
docs: submit-checklist: remove all of "make namespacecheck"
...
When a CPU is taken offline, the contribution of its cfs_rqs to task_groups'
load may remain and will negatively impact the calculation of the share of
the online CPUs.
To fix this bug, clear the contribution of an offlining CPU to task groups'
load and skip its contribution while it is inactive.
Here's the reproducer of the anomaly, by Imran Khan:
"So far I have encountered only one rather lengthy way of reproducing this issue,
which is as follows:
1. Take a KVM guest (booted with 4 CPUs and can be scaled up to 124 CPUs) and
create 2 custom cgroups: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test_group_1 and /sys/fs/cgroup/
cpu/test_group_2
2. Assign a CPU intensive workload to each of these cgroups and start the
workload.
For my tests I am using following app:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
unsigned long count, i, val;
if (argc != 2) {
printf("usage: ./a.out <number of random nums to generate> \n");
return 0;
}
count = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 10);
printf("Generating %lu random numbers \n", count);
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
val = rand();
val = val % 2;
//usleep(1);
}
printf("Generated %lu random numbers \n", count);
return 0;
}
Also since the system is booted with 4 CPUs, in order to completely load the
system I am also launching 4 instances of same test app under:
/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/
3. We can see that both of the cgroups get similar CPU time:
# systemd-cgtop --depth 1
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 659 - 5.5G - -
/system.slice - - 5.7G - -
/test_group_1 4 - - - -
/test_group_2 3 - - - -
/user.slice 31 - 56.5M - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 659 394.6 5.5G - -
/test_group_2 3 65.7 - - -
/user.slice 29 55.1 48.0M - -
/test_group_1 4 47.3 - - -
/system.slice - 2.2 5.7G - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 659 394.8 5.5G - -
/test_group_1 4 62.9 - - -
/user.slice 28 44.9 54.2M - -
/test_group_2 3 44.7 - - -
/system.slice - 0.9 5.7G - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 659 394.4 5.5G - -
/test_group_2 3 58.8 - - -
/test_group_1 4 51.9 - - -
/user.slice 30 39.3 59.6M - -
/system.slice - 1.9 5.7G - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 659 394.7 5.5G - -
/test_group_1 4 60.9 - - -
/test_group_2 3 57.9 - - -
/user.slice 28 43.5 36.9M - -
/system.slice - 3.0 5.7G - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 659 395.0 5.5G - -
/test_group_1 4 66.8 - - -
/test_group_2 3 56.3 - - -
/user.slice 29 43.1 51.8M - -
/system.slice - 0.7 5.7G - -
4. Now move systemd-udevd to one of these test groups, say test_group_1, and
perform scale up to 124 CPUs followed by scale down back to 4 CPUs from the
host side.
5. Run the same workload i.e 4 instances of CPU hogger under /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu
and one instance of CPU hogger each in /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test_group_1 and
/sys/fs/cgroup/test_group_2.
It can be seen that test_group_1 (the one where systemd-udevd was moved) is getting
much less CPU time than the test_group_2, even though at this point of time both of
these groups have only CPU hogger running:
# systemd-cgtop --depth 1
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1219 - 5.4G - -
/system.slice - - 5.6G - -
/test_group_1 4 - - - -
/test_group_2 3 - - - -
/user.slice 26 - 91.3M - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1221 394.3 5.4G - -
/test_group_2 3 82.7 - - -
/test_group_1 4 14.3 - - -
/system.slice - 0.8 5.6G - -
/user.slice 26 0.4 91.2M - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1221 394.6 5.4G - -
/test_group_2 3 67.4 - - -
/system.slice - 24.6 5.6G - -
/test_group_1 4 12.5 - - -
/user.slice 26 0.4 91.2M - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1221 395.2 5.4G - -
/test_group_2 3 60.9 - - -
/system.slice - 27.9 5.6G - -
/test_group_1 4 12.2 - - -
/user.slice 26 0.4 91.2M - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1221 395.2 5.4G - -
/test_group_2 3 69.4 - - -
/test_group_1 4 13.9 - - -
/user.slice 28 1.6 92.0M - -
/system.slice - 1.0 5.6G - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1221 395.6 5.4G - -
/test_group_2 3 59.3 - - -
/test_group_1 4 14.1 - - -
/user.slice 28 1.3 92.2M - -
/system.slice - 0.7 5.6G - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1221 395.5 5.4G - -
/test_group_2 3 67.2 - - -
/test_group_1 4 11.5 - - -
/user.slice 28 1.3 92.5M - -
/system.slice - 0.6 5.6G - -
Path Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/ 1221 395.1 5.4G - -
/test_group_2 3 76.8 - - -
/test_group_1 4 12.9 - - -
/user.slice 28 1.3 92.8M - -
/system.slice - 1.2 5.6G - -
From sched_debug data it can be seen that in bad case the load.weight of per-CPU
sched entities corresponding to test_group_1 has reduced significantly and
also load_avg of test_group_1 remains much higher than that of test_group_2,
even though systemd-udevd stopped running long time back and at this point of
time both cgroups just have the CPU hogger app as running entity."
[ mingo: Added details from the original discussion, plus minor edits to the patch. ]
Reported-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231223111545.62135-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Running N CPU-bound tasks on an N CPUs platform:
- with asymmetric CPU capacity
- not being a DynamIq system (i.e. having a PKG level sched domain
without the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES flag set)
.. might result in a task placement where two tasks run on a big CPU
and none on a little CPU. This placement could be more optimal by
using all CPUs.
Testing platform:
Juno-r2:
- 2 big CPUs (1-2), maximum capacity of 1024
- 4 little CPUs (0,3-5), maximum capacity of 383
Testing workload ([1]):
Spawn 6 CPU-bound tasks. During the first 100ms (step 1), each tasks
is affine to a CPU, except for:
- one little CPU which is left idle.
- one big CPU which has 2 tasks affine.
After the 100ms (step 2), remove the cpumask affinity.
Behavior before the patch:
During step 2, the load balancer running from the idle CPU tags sched
domains as:
- little CPUs: 'group_has_spare'. Cf. group_has_capacity() and
group_is_overloaded(), 3 CPU-bound tasks run on a 4 CPUs
sched-domain, and the idle CPU provides enough spare capacity
regarding the imbalance_pct
- big CPUs: 'group_overloaded'. Indeed, 3 tasks run on a 2 CPUs
sched-domain, so the following path is used:
group_is_overloaded()
\-if (sgs->sum_nr_running <= sgs->group_weight) return true;
The following path which would change the migration type to
'migrate_task' is not taken:
calculate_imbalance()
\-if (env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE && env->imbalance == 0)
as the local group has some spare capacity, so the imbalance
is not 0.
The migration type requested is 'migrate_util' and the busiest
runqueue is the big CPU's runqueue having 2 tasks (each having a
utilization of 512). The idle little CPU cannot pull one of these
task as its capacity is too small for the task. The following path
is used:
detach_tasks()
\-case migrate_util:
\-if (util > env->imbalance) goto next;
After the patch:
As the number of failed balancing attempts grows (with
'nr_balance_failed'), progressively make it easier to migrate
a big task to the idling little CPU. A similar mechanism is
used for the 'migrate_load' migration type.
Improvement:
Running the testing workload [1] with the step 2 representing
a ~10s load for a big CPU:
Before patch: ~19.3s
After patch: ~18s (-6.7%)
Similar issue reported at:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230716014125.139577-1-qyousef@layalina.io/
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
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: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206090043.634697-1-pierre.gondois@arm.com
With UTIL_EST_FASTUP now being permanent, we can take advantage of the
fact that the ewma jumps directly to a higher utilization at dequeue to
simplify util_est and remove the enqueued field.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia2@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201161652.1241695-3-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
sched_feat(UTIL_EST_FASTUP) has been added to easily disable the feature
in order to check for possibly related regressions. After 3 years, it has
never been used and no regression has been reported. Let's remove it
and make fast increase a permanent behavior.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia2@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> [for the Chinese translation]
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201161652.1241695-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
These four functions have a normal definition for CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED,
and empty one that is only referenced when FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is disabled
but CGROUP_SCHED is still enabled. If both are turned off, the functions
are still defined but the misisng prototype causes a W=1 warning:
kernel/sched/fair.c:12544:6: error: no previous prototype for 'free_fair_sched_group'
kernel/sched/fair.c:12546:5: error: no previous prototype for 'alloc_fair_sched_group'
kernel/sched/fair.c:12553:6: error: no previous prototype for 'online_fair_sched_group'
kernel/sched/fair.c:12555:6: error: no previous prototype for 'unregister_fair_sched_group'
Move the alternatives into the header as static inline functions with the
correct combination of #ifdef checks to avoid the warning without adding
even more complexity.
[A different patch with the same description got applied by accident
and was later reverted, but the original patch is still missing]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231123110506.707903-4-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 7aa55f2a59 ("sched/fair: Move unused stub functions to header")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Since reweight_entity() may have chance to change the weight of
cfs_rq->curr entity, we should also update_min_vruntime() if
this is the case
Fixes: eab03c23c2 ("sched/eevdf: Fix vruntime adjustment on reweight")
Signed-off-by: Yiwei Lin <s921975628@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231117080106.12890-1-s921975628@gmail.com
The current method to take into account uclamp hints when estimating the
target frequency can end in a situation where the selected target
frequency is finally higher than uclamp hints, whereas there are no real
needs. Such cases mainly happen because we are currently mixing the
traditional scheduler utilization signal with the uclamp performance
hints. By adding these 2 metrics, we loose an important information when
it comes to select the target frequency, and we have to make some
assumptions which can't fit all cases.
Rework the interface between the scheduler and schedutil governor in order
to propagate all information down to the cpufreq governor.
effective_cpu_util() interface changes and now returns the actual
utilization of the CPU with 2 optional inputs:
- The minimum performance for this CPU; typically the capacity to handle
the deadline task and the interrupt pressure. But also uclamp_min
request when available.
- The maximum targeting performance for this CPU which reflects the
maximum level that we would like to not exceed. By default it will be
the CPU capacity but can be reduced because of some performance hints
set with uclamp. The value can be lower than actual utilization and/or
min performance level.
A new sugov_effective_cpu_perf() interface is also available to compute
the final performance level that is targeted for the CPU, after applying
some cpufreq headroom and taking into account all inputs.
With these 2 functions, schedutil is now able to decide when it must go
above uclamp hints. It now also has a generic way to get the min
performance level.
The dependency between energy model and cpufreq governor and its headroom
policy doesn't exist anymore.
eenv_pd_max_util() asks schedutil for the targeted performance after
applying the impact of the waking task.
[ mingo: Refined the changelog & C comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122133904.446032-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Lukasz Luba reported that a thread's util_est can significantly decrease as
a result of sharing the CPU with other threads.
The use case can be easily reproduced with a periodic task TA that runs 1ms
and sleeps 100us. When the task is alone on the CPU, its max utilization and
its util_est is around 888. If another similar task starts to run on the
same CPU, TA will have to share the CPU runtime and its maximum utilization
will decrease around half the CPU capacity (512) then TA's util_est will
follow this new maximum trend which is only the result of sharing the CPU
with others tasks.
Such situation can be detected with runnable_avg wich is close or
equal to util_avg when TA is alone, but increases above util_avg when TA
shares the CPU with other threads and wait on the runqueue.
[ We prefer an util_est that overestimate rather than under estimate
because in 1st case we will not provide enough performance to the
task which will remain under-provisioned, whereas in the other case we
will create some idle time which will enable to reduce contention and
as a result reduces the util_est so the overestimate will be transient
whereas the underestimate will remain. ]
[ mingo: Refined the changelog, added comments from the LKML discussion. ]
Reported-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKfTPtDd-HhF-YiNTtL9i5k0PfJbF819Yxu4YquzfXgwi7voyw@mail.gmail.com/#t
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122140119.472110-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia2@arm.com>
Low priority tasks (e.g., SCHED_OTHER) can suffer starvation if tasks
with higher priority (e.g., SCHED_FIFO) monopolize CPU(s).
RT Throttling has been introduced a while ago as a (mostly debug)
countermeasure one can utilize to reserve some CPU time for low priority
tasks (usually background type of work, e.g. workqueues, timers, etc.).
It however has its own problems (see documentation) and the undesired
effect of unconditionally throttling FIFO tasks even when no lower
priority activity needs to run (there are mechanisms to fix this issue
as well, but, again, with their own problems).
Introduce deadline servers to service low priority tasks needs under
starvation conditions. Deadline servers are built extending SCHED_DEADLINE
implementation to allow 2-level scheduling (a sched_deadline entity
becomes a container for lower priority scheduling entities).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4968601859d920335cf85822eb573a5f179f04b8.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org
Now that trace_sched_stat_runtime() no longer takes a vruntime
argument, the task specific bits are identical between
update_curr_common() and update_curr().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tracing the runtime delta makes sense, observer can sum over time.
Tracing the absolute vruntime makes less sense, inconsistent:
absolute-vs-delta, but also vruntime delta can be computed from
runtime delta.
Removing the vruntime thing also makes the two tracepoint sites
identical, allowing to unify the code in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
All classes use sched_entity::exec_start to track runtime and have
copies of the exact same code around to compute runtime.
Collapse all that.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/54d148a144f26d9559698c4dd82d8859038a7380.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org
Since the RB-tree is now sorted by deadline, let's first try the
leftmost entity which has the earliest virtual deadline. I've done
some benchmarks to see its effectiveness.
All the benchmarks are done inside a normal cpu cgroup in a clean
environment with cpu turbo disabled, on a dual-CPU Intel Xeon(R)
Platinum 8260 with 2 NUMA nodes each of which has 24C/48T.
hackbench: process/thread + pipe/socket + 1/2/4/8 groups
netperf: TCP/UDP + STREAM/RR + 24/48/72/96/192 threads
tbench: loopback 24/48/72/96/192 threads
schbench: 1/2/4/8 mthreads
direct: cfs_rq has only one entity
parity: RUN_TO_PARITY
fast: O(1) fastpath
slow: heap search
(%) direct parity fast slow
hackbench 92.95 2.02 4.91 0.12
netperf 68.08 6.60 24.18 1.14
tbench 67.55 11.22 20.61 0.62
schbench 69.91 2.65 25.73 1.71
The above results indicate that this fastpath really makes task
selection more efficient.
Signed-off-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231115033647.80785-4-wuyun.abel@bytedance.com
Sort the task timeline by virtual deadline and keep the min_vruntime
in the augmented tree, so we can avoid doubling the worst case cost
and make full use of the cached leftmost node to enable O(1) fastpath
picking in next patch.
Signed-off-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231115033647.80785-3-wuyun.abel@bytedance.com
Since commit fc137c0dda ("sched/numa: enhance vma scanning logic")
NUMA Balancing allows updating PTEs to trap NUMA hinting faults if the
task had previously accessed VMA. However unconditional scan of VMAs are
allowed during initial phase of VMA creation until process's
mm numa_scan_seq reaches 2 even though current task had not accessed VMA.
Rationale:
- Without initial scan subsequent PTE update may never happen.
- Give fair opportunity to all the VMAs to be scanned and subsequently
understand the access pattern of all the VMAs.
But it has a corner case where, if a VMA is created after some time,
process's mm numa_scan_seq could be already greater than 2.
For e.g., values of mm numa_scan_seq when VMAs are created by running
mmtest autonuma benchmark briefly looks like:
start_seq=0 : 459
start_seq=2 : 138
start_seq=3 : 144
start_seq=4 : 8
start_seq=8 : 1
start_seq=9 : 1
This results in no unconditional PTE updates for those VMAs created after
some time.
Fix:
- Note down the initial value of mm numa_scan_seq in per VMA start_seq.
- Allow unconditional scan till start_seq + 2.
Result:
SUT: AMD EPYC Milan with 2 NUMA nodes 256 cpus.
base kernel: upstream 6.6-rc6 with Mels patches [1] applied.
kernbench
========== base patched %gain
Amean elsp-128 165.09 ( 0.00%) 164.78 * 0.19%*
Duration User 41404.28 41375.08
Duration System 9862.22 9768.48
Duration Elapsed 519.87 518.72
Ops NUMA PTE updates 1041416.00 831536.00
Ops NUMA hint faults 263296.00 220966.00
Ops NUMA pages migrated 258021.00 212769.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost 1328.67 1114.69
autonumabench
NUMA01_THREADLOCAL
==================
Amean elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 81.79 (0.00%) 67.74 * 17.18%*
Duration User 54832.73 47379.67
Duration System 75.00 185.75
Duration Elapsed 576.72 476.09
Ops NUMA PTE updates 394429.00 11121044.00
Ops NUMA hint faults 1001.00 8906404.00
Ops NUMA pages migrated 288.00 2998694.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost 7.77 44666.84
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2ea7cbce80ac7c62e90cbfb9653a7972f902439f.1697816692.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
should_we_balance is called for the decision to do load-balancing.
When sched ticks invoke this function, only one CPU should return
true. However, in the current code, two CPUs can return true. The
following situation, where b means busy and i means idle, is an
example, because CPU 0 and CPU 2 return true.
[0, 1] [2, 3]
b b i b
This fix checks if there exists an idle CPU with busy sibling(s)
after looking for a CPU on an idle core. If some idle CPUs with busy
siblings are found, just the first one should do load-balancing.
Fixes: b1bfeab9b0 ("sched/fair: Consider the idle state of the whole core for load balance")
Signed-off-by: Keisuke Nishimura <keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231031133821.1570861-1-keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr
vruntime of the (on_rq && !0-lag) entity needs to be adjusted when
it gets re-weighted, and the calculations can be simplified based
on the fact that re-weight won't change the w-average of all the
entities. Please check the proofs in comments.
But adjusting vruntime can also cause position change in RB-tree
hence require re-queue to fix up which might be costly. This might
be avoided by deferring adjustment to the time the entity actually
leaves tree (dequeue/pick), but that will negatively affect task
selection and probably not good enough either.
Fixes: 147f3efaa2 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Signed-off-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107090510.71322-2-wuyun.abel@bytedance.com
included in this merge do the following:
- Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
series "Fixes and cleanups to compaction".
- Joel Fernandes has a patchset ("Optimize mremap during mutual
alignment within PMD") which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
implementation which Linus suggested.
- More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i the
following patch series:
mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval
- In the series "Do not try to access unaccepted memory" Adrian Hunter
provides some fixups for the recently-added "unaccepted memory' feature.
To increase the feature's checking coverage. "Plug a few gaps where
RAM is exposed without checking if it is unaccepted memory".
- In the series "cleanups for lockless slab shrink" Qi Zheng has done
some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
shrinking code.
- Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
shrinking lockless in the series "use refcount+RCU method to implement
lockless slab shrink".
- David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap code
in the series "Anon rmap cleanups".
- Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work in
the migration code. Series "mm: migrate: more folio conversion and
unification".
- Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
were added on the way. Series "Add and use bdev_getblk()".
- In the series "Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
manipulation" Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
manipulation of hugetlb page frames.
- In the series "mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
struct pages if freed by HVO" has improved our handling of gigantic
pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of gigantic
pages are in use.
- Matthew Wilcox has sent the series "Small hugetlb cleanups" - code
rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code.
- Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
series "support large folio for mlock"
- In the series "Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1" Liu Shixin has
added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and useful)
under memcg v2.
- Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named "MDWE
without inheritance".
- Kefeng Wang has provided the series "mm: convert numa balancing
functions to use a folio" which does what it says.
- In the series "mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl" Stefan Roesch
makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment across
exec().
- Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use "high
bandwidth memory" in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent Memory
Modules (DCPMM). The series is named "memory tiering: calculate
abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT"
- In the series "Smart scanning mode for KSM" Stefan Roesch has
optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
information from previous scans.
- Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in the
series "mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates values".
- In the series "Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about
PTEs" Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap which permits
us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty state. This is mainly
used by CRIU.
- Hugh Dickins contributed the series "shmem,tmpfs: general maintenance"
- a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to this code.
- Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over file-backed
page faults in the series "Handle more faults under the VMA lock". Some
rationalizations of the fault path became possible as a result.
- In the series "mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
folio_move_anon_rmap()" David Hildenbrand has implemented some cleanups
and folio conversions.
- In the series "various improvements to the GUP interface" Lorenzo
Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye to
providing groundwork for future improvements.
- Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series "kasan: assorted fixes and
improvements" which does those things.
- Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
"Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages".
- In thes series "New selftest for mm" Breno Leitao has developed
another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise() and
page faults.
- In the series "Add folio_end_read" Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
and an optimization to the core pagecache code.
- Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the series
"hugetlb memcg accounting".
- Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
Stoakes, in the series "Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()".
- Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
series "Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps".
- Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed files
in the series "permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings".
- Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
series "Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations".
- Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in
the series "Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition".
- As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the series
"mm: PCP high auto-tuning".
- Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset "mm: improve performance
of accounted kernel memory allocations" which improves their performance
by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark.
- folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series "mm: convert page
cpupid functions to folios".
- Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series "Some bugfix about
kmemleak".
- Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping them
off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series "handle
memoryless nodes more appropriately".
- khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series "Some
khugepaged folio conversions".
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
included in this merge do the following:
- Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'
- Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
implementation which Linus suggested
- More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
the following patch series:
mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval
- In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
unaccepted memory'
- In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
shrinking code
- Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
implement lockless slab shrink'
- David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'
- Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
and unification'
- Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'
- In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
manipulation of hugetlb page frames
- In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
gigantic pages are in use
- Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code
- Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
series 'support large folio for mlock'
- In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
useful) under memcg v2
- Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
without inheritance'
- Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
functions to use a folio' which does what it says
- In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
across exec()
- Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'
- In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
information from previous scans
- Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
values'
- In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap
which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
state. This is mainly used by CRIU
- Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
this code
- Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
as a result
- In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
cleanups and folio conversions
- In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
to providing groundwork for future improvements
- Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
and improvements' which does those things
- Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'
- In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
and page faults
- In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
and an optimization to the core pagecache code
- Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'
- Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'
- Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'
- Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
mappings'
- Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'
- Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'
- As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'
- Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark
- folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
cpupid functions to folios'
- Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
kmemleak'
- Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'
- khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
khugepaged folio conversions'"
[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/
with help from Qi Zheng.
The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
zswap: export compression failure stats
Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
...
Convert to use folio_xchg_last_cpupid() in should_numa_migrate_memory().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018140806.2783514-14-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Convert to use folio_xchg_access_time() in numa_hint_fault_latency().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018140806.2783514-9-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Chen Yu reports a hackbench regression of cluster wakeup when
hackbench threads equal to the CPU number [1]. Analysis shows
it's because we wake up more on the target CPU even if the
prev_cpu is a good wakeup candidate and leads to the decrease
of the CPU utilization.
Generally if the task's prev_cpu is idle we'll wake up the task
on it without scanning. On cluster machines we'll try to wake up
the task in the same cluster of the target for better cache
affinity, so if the prev_cpu is idle but not sharing the same
cluster with the target we'll still try to find an idle CPU within
the cluster. This will improve the performance at low loads on
cluster machines. But in the issue above, if the prev_cpu is idle
but not in the cluster with the target CPU, we'll try to scan an
idle one in the cluster. But since the system is busy, we're
likely to fail the scanning and use target instead, even if
the prev_cpu is idle. Then leads to the regression.
This patch solves this in 2 steps:
o record the prev_cpu/recent_used_cpu if they're good wakeup
candidates but not sharing the cluster with the target.
o on scanning failure use the prev_cpu/recent_used_cpu if
they're recorded as idle
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZGzDLuVaHR1PAYDt@chenyu5-mobl1/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZGsLy83wPIpamy6x@chenyu5-mobl1/
Reported-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019033323.54147-4-yangyicong@huawei.com
For platforms having clusters like Kunpeng920, CPUs within the same cluster
have lower latency when synchronizing and accessing shared resources like
cache. Thus, this patch tries to find an idle cpu within the cluster of the
target CPU before scanning the whole LLC to gain lower latency. This
will be implemented in 2 steps in select_idle_sibling():
1. When the prev_cpu/recent_used_cpu are good wakeup candidates, use them
if they're sharing cluster with the target CPU. Otherwise trying to
scan for an idle CPU in the target's cluster.
2. Scanning the cluster prior to the LLC of the target CPU for an
idle CPU to wakeup.
Testing has been done on Kunpeng920 by pinning tasks to one numa and two
numa. On Kunpeng920, Each numa has 8 clusters and each cluster has 4 CPUs.
With this patch, We noticed enhancement on tbench and netperf within one
numa or cross two numa on top of tip-sched-core commit
9b46f1abc6d4 ("sched/debug: Print 'tgid' in sched_show_task()")
tbench results (node 0):
baseline patched
1: 327.2833 372.4623 ( 13.80%)
4: 1320.5933 1479.8833 ( 12.06%)
8: 2638.4867 2921.5267 ( 10.73%)
16: 5282.7133 5891.5633 ( 11.53%)
32: 9810.6733 9877.3400 ( 0.68%)
64: 7408.9367 7447.9900 ( 0.53%)
128: 6203.2600 6191.6500 ( -0.19%)
tbench results (node 0-1):
baseline patched
1: 332.0433 372.7223 ( 12.25%)
4: 1325.4667 1477.6733 ( 11.48%)
8: 2622.9433 2897.9967 ( 10.49%)
16: 5218.6100 5878.2967 ( 12.64%)
32: 10211.7000 11494.4000 ( 12.56%)
64: 13313.7333 16740.0333 ( 25.74%)
128: 13959.1000 14533.9000 ( 4.12%)
netperf results TCP_RR (node 0):
baseline patched
1: 76546.5033 90649.9867 ( 18.42%)
4: 77292.4450 90932.7175 ( 17.65%)
8: 77367.7254 90882.3467 ( 17.47%)
16: 78519.9048 90938.8344 ( 15.82%)
32: 72169.5035 72851.6730 ( 0.95%)
64: 25911.2457 25882.2315 ( -0.11%)
128: 10752.6572 10768.6038 ( 0.15%)
netperf results TCP_RR (node 0-1):
baseline patched
1: 76857.6667 90892.2767 ( 18.26%)
4: 78236.6475 90767.3017 ( 16.02%)
8: 77929.6096 90684.1633 ( 16.37%)
16: 77438.5873 90502.5787 ( 16.87%)
32: 74205.6635 88301.5612 ( 19.00%)
64: 69827.8535 71787.6706 ( 2.81%)
128: 25281.4366 25771.3023 ( 1.94%)
netperf results UDP_RR (node 0):
baseline patched
1: 96869.8400 110800.8467 ( 14.38%)
4: 97744.9750 109680.5425 ( 12.21%)
8: 98783.9863 110409.9637 ( 11.77%)
16: 99575.0235 110636.2435 ( 11.11%)
32: 95044.7250 97622.8887 ( 2.71%)
64: 32925.2146 32644.4991 ( -0.85%)
128: 12859.2343 12824.0051 ( -0.27%)
netperf results UDP_RR (node 0-1):
baseline patched
1: 97202.4733 110190.1200 ( 13.36%)
4: 95954.0558 106245.7258 ( 10.73%)
8: 96277.1958 105206.5304 ( 9.27%)
16: 97692.7810 107927.2125 ( 10.48%)
32: 79999.6702 103550.2999 ( 29.44%)
64: 80592.7413 87284.0856 ( 8.30%)
128: 27701.5770 29914.5820 ( 7.99%)
Note neither Kunpeng920 nor x86 Jacobsville supports SMT, so the SMT branch
in the code has not been tested but it supposed to work.
Chen Yu also noticed this will improve the performance of tbench and
netperf on a 24 CPUs Jacobsville machine, there are 4 CPUs in one
cluster sharing L2 Cache.
[https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Ytfjs+m1kUs0ScSn@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net]
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Tested-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019033323.54147-3-yangyicong@huawei.com
The 'curr' argument of pick_next_entity() has become unused after
the EEVDF changes.
[ mingo: Updated the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Yiwei Lin <s921975628@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231020055617.42064-1-s921975628@gmail.com
How ILB is triggered without IPIs is cryptic. Out of mercy for future
code readers, document it in code comments.
The comments are derived from a discussion with Vincent in a past
review.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231020014031.919742-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
The cpupid (or access time) is stored in the head page for THP, so it is
safely to make should_numa_migrate_memory() and numa_hint_fault_latency()
to take a folio. This is in preparation for large folio numa balancing.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230921074417.24004-7-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Kuyo reported sporadic failures on a sched_setaffinity() vs CPU
hotplug stress-test -- notably affine_move_task() remains stuck in
wait_for_completion(), leading to a hung-task detector warning.
Specifically, it was reported that stop_one_cpu_nowait(.fn =
migration_cpu_stop) returns false -- this stopper is responsible for
the matching complete().
The race scenario is:
CPU0 CPU1
// doing _cpu_down()
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
task_rq_lock();
takedown_cpu()
stop_machine_cpuslocked(take_cpu_down..)
<PREEMPT: cpu_stopper_thread()
MULTI_STOP_PREPARE
...
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked()
affine_move_task()
task_rq_unlock();
<PREEMPT: cpu_stopper_thread()\>
ack_state()
MULTI_STOP_RUN
take_cpu_down()
__cpu_disable();
stop_machine_park();
stopper->enabled = false;
/>
/>
stop_one_cpu_nowait(.fn = migration_cpu_stop);
if (stopper->enabled) // false!!!
That is, by doing stop_one_cpu_nowait() after dropping rq-lock, the
stopper thread gets a chance to preempt and allows the cpu-down for
the target CPU to complete.
OTOH, since stop_one_cpu_nowait() / cpu_stop_queue_work() needs to
issue a wakeup, it must not be ran under the scheduler locks.
Solve this apparent contradiction by keeping preemption disabled over
the unlock + queue_stopper combination:
preempt_disable();
task_rq_unlock(...);
if (!stop_pending)
stop_one_cpu_nowait(...)
preempt_enable();
This respects the lock ordering contraints while still avoiding the
above race. That is, if we find the CPU is online under rq-lock, the
targeted stop_one_cpu_nowait() must succeed.
Apply this pattern to all similar stop_one_cpu_nowait() invocations.
Fixes: 6d337eab04 ("sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs set_cpus_allowed_ptr()")
Reported-by: "Kuyo Chang (張建文)" <Kuyo.Chang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: "Kuyo Chang (張建文)" <Kuyo.Chang@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231010200442.GA16515@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
While reworking the x86 topology code Thomas tripped over creating a 'DIE' domain
for the package mask. :-)
Since these names are CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y only, rename them to make the
name less ambiguous.
[ Shrikanth Hegde: rename on s390 as well. ]
[ Valentin Schneider: also rename it in the comments. ]
[ mingo: port to recent kernels & find all remaining occurances. ]
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712141056.GI3100107@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
VMAs are skipped if there is no recent fault activity but this represents
a chicken-and-egg problem as there may be no fault activity if the PTEs
are never updated to trap NUMA hints. There is an indirect reliance on
scanning to be forced early in the lifetime of a task but this may fail
to detect changes in phase behaviour. Force inactive VMAs to be scanned
when all other eligible VMAs have been updated within the same scan
sequence.
Test results in general look good with some changes in performance, both
negative and positive, depending on whether the additional scanning and
faulting was beneficial or not to the workload. The autonuma benchmark
workload NUMA01_THREADLOCAL was picked for closer examination. The workload
creates two processes with numerous threads and thread-local storage that
is zero-filled in a loop. It exercises the corner case where unrelated
threads may skip VMAs that are thread-local to another thread and still
has some VMAs that inactive while the workload executes.
The VMA skipping activity frequency with and without the patch:
6.6.0-rc2-sched-numabtrace-v1
=============================
649 reason=scan_delay
9,094 reason=unsuitable
48,915 reason=shared_ro
143,919 reason=inaccessible
193,050 reason=pid_inactive
6.6.0-rc2-sched-numabselective-v1
=============================
146 reason=seq_completed
622 reason=ignore_pid_inactive
624 reason=scan_delay
6,570 reason=unsuitable
16,101 reason=shared_ro
27,608 reason=inaccessible
41,939 reason=pid_inactive
Note that with the patch applied, the PID activity is ignored
(ignore_pid_inactive) to ensure a VMA with some activity is completely
scanned. In addition, a small number of VMAs are scanned when no other
eligible VMA is available during a single scan window (seq_completed).
The number of times a VMA is skipped due to no PID activity from the
scanning task (pid_inactive) drops dramatically. It is expected that
this will increase the number of PTEs updated for NUMA hinting faults
as well as hinting faults but these represent PTEs that would otherwise
have been missed. The tradeoff is scan+fault overhead versus improving
locality due to migration.
On a 2-socket Cascade Lake test machine, the time to complete the
workload is as follows;
6.6.0-rc2 6.6.0-rc2
sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1
Min elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 174.22 ( 0.00%) 117.64 ( 32.48%)
Amean elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 175.68 ( 0.00%) 123.34 * 29.79%*
Stddev elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 1.20 ( 0.00%) 4.06 (-238.20%)
CoeffVar elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 0.68 ( 0.00%) 3.29 (-381.70%)
Max elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 177.18 ( 0.00%) 128.03 ( 27.74%)
The time to complete the workload is reduced by almost 30%:
6.6.0-rc2 6.6.0-rc2
sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1 /
Duration User 91201.80 63506.64
Duration System 2015.53 1819.78
Duration Elapsed 1234.77 868.37
In this specific case, system CPU time was not increased but it's not
universally true.
From vmstat, the NUMA scanning and fault activity is as follows;
6.6.0-rc2 6.6.0-rc2
sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1
Ops NUMA base-page range updates 64272.00 26374386.00
Ops NUMA PTE updates 36624.00 55538.00
Ops NUMA PMD updates 54.00 51404.00
Ops NUMA hint faults 15504.00 75786.00
Ops NUMA hint local faults % 14860.00 56763.00
Ops NUMA hint local percent 95.85 74.90
Ops NUMA pages migrated 1629.00 6469222.00
Both the number of PTE updates and hint faults is dramatically
increased. While this is superficially unfortunate, it represents
ranges that were simply skipped without the patch. As a result
of the scanning and hinting faults, many more pages were also
migrated but as the time to completion is reduced, the overhead
is offset by the gain.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
NUMA Balancing skips VMAs when the current task has not trapped a NUMA
fault within the VMA. If the VMA is skipped then mm->numa_scan_offset
advances and a task that is trapping faults within the VMA may never
fully update PTEs within the VMA.
Force tasks to update PTEs for partially scanned PTEs. The VMA will
be tagged for NUMA hints by some task but this removes some of the
benefit of tracking PID activity within a VMA. A follow-on patch
will mitigate this problem.
The test cases and machines evaluated did not trigger the corner case so
the performance results are neutral with only small changes within the
noise from normal test-to-test variance. However, the next patch makes
the corner case easier to trigger.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Recent NUMA hinting faulting activity is reset approximately every
VMA_PID_RESET_PERIOD milliseconds. However, if the current task has not
accessed a VMA then the reset check is missed and the reset is potentially
deferred forever. Check if the PID activity information should be reset
before checking if the current task recently trapped a NUMA hinting fault.
[ mgorman@techsingularity.net: Rewrite changelog ]
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
NUMA balancing skips or scans VMAs for a variety of reasons. In preparation
for completing scans of VMAs regardless of PID access, trace the reasons
why a VMA was skipped. In a later patch, the tracing will be used to track
if a VMA was forcibly scanned.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
The access_pids[] field name is somewhat ambiguous as no PIDs are accessed.
Similarly, it's not clear that next_pid_reset is related to access_pids[].
Rename the fields to more accurately reflect their purpose.
[ mingo: Rename in the comments too. ]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Remove the rq::cpu_capacity_orig field and use arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
instead.
The scheduler uses 3 methods to get access to a CPU's max compute capacity:
- arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu) which is the default way to get a CPU's capacity.
- cpu_capacity_orig field which is periodically updated with
arch_scale_cpu_capacity().
- capacity_orig_of(cpu) which encapsulates rq->cpu_capacity_orig.
There is no real need to save the value returned by arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
in struct rq. arch_scale_cpu_capacity() returns:
- either a per_cpu variable.
- or a const value for systems which have only one capacity.
Remove rq::cpu_capacity_orig and use arch_scale_cpu_capacity() everywhere.
No functional changes.
Some performance tests on Arm64:
- small SMP device (hikey): no noticeable changes
- HMP device (RB5): hackbench shows minor improvement (1-2%)
- large smp (thx2): hackbench and tbench shows minor improvement (1%)
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009103621.374412-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
find_new_ilb() returns nr_cpu_ids on failure - which is the usual
cpumask bitops return pattern, but is weird & unnecessary in this
context: not only is it a global variable, it it is a +1 out of
bounds CPU index and also has different signedness ...
Its only user, kick_ilb(), then checks the return against nr_cpu_ids
to decide to return. There's no other use.
So instead of this, use a standard -1 return on failure to find an
idle CPU, as the argument is signed already.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231006102518.2452758-4-mingo@kernel.org
The old pick_eevdf() could fail to find the actual earliest eligible
deadline when it descended to the right looking for min_deadline, but
it turned out that that min_deadline wasn't actually eligible. In that
case we need to go back and search through any left branches we
skipped looking for the actual best _eligible_ min_deadline.
This is more expensive, but still O(log n), and at worst should only
involve descending two branches of the rbtree.
I've run this through a userspace stress test (thank you
tools/lib/rbtree.c), so hopefully this implementation doesn't miss any
corner cases.
Fixes: 147f3efaa2 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm261qego72d.fsf_-_@google.com
Marek and Biju reported instances of:
"EEVDF scheduling fail, picking leftmost"
which Mike correlated with cgroup scheduling and the min_deadline heap
getting corrupted; some trace output confirms:
> And yeah, min_deadline is hosed somehow:
>
> validate_cfs_rq: --- /
> __print_se: ffff88845cf48080 w: 1024 ve: -58857638 lag: 870381 vd: -55861854 vmd: -66302085 E (11372/tr)
> __print_se: ffff88810d165800 w: 25 ve: -80323686 lag: 22336429 vd: -41496434 vmd: -66302085 E (-1//autogroup-31)
> __print_se: ffff888108379000 w: 25 ve: 0 lag: -57987257 vd: 114632828 vmd: 114632828 N (-1//autogroup-33)
> validate_cfs_rq: min_deadline: -55861854 avg_vruntime: -62278313462 / 1074 = -57987256
Turns out that reweight_entity(), which tries really hard to be fast,
does not do the normal dequeue+update+enqueue pattern but *does* scale
the deadline.
However, it then fails to propagate the updated deadline value up the
heap.
Fixes: 147f3efaa2 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006192445.GE743@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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>
Tasks that never consume their full slice would not update their slice value.
This means that tasks that are spawned before the sysctl scaling keep their
original (UP) slice length.
Fixes: 147f3efaa2 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915124822.847197830@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
It was useful to track feec() placement decision and debug the spare
capacity and optimization issues vs uclamp_max.
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230916232955.2099394-4-qyousef@layalina.io
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
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
This makes the following patch cleaner by avoiding extra CONFIG_SMP
conditionals on the availability of rq->throttled_csd_list.
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922230535.296350-1-joshdon@google.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
We don't need to maintain per-queue leaf_cfs_rq_list on !SMP, since
it's used for cfs_rq load tracking & balancing on SMP.
But sched debug interface uses it to print per-cfs_rq stats.
This patch fixes the !SMP version of cfs_rq_is_decayed(), so the
per-queue leaf_cfs_rq_list is also maintained correctly on !SMP,
to fix the warning in assert_list_leaf_cfs_rq().
Fixes: 0a00a35464 ("sched/fair: Delete useless condition in tg_unthrottle_up()")
Reported-by: Leo Yu-Chi Liang <ycliang@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yu-Chi Liang <ycliang@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZN87UsqkWcFLDxea@swlinux02/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230913132031.2242151-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
task_numa_placement() searches for a nearest node to migrate by calling
for_each_node_state(). Now that we have numa_nearest_node(), switch to
using it.
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/20230819141239.287290-3-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
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.
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stress_ng tip +patch(%gain)
10 iterations 100000 cpu_ops sched/core
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--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
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.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'x86-cleanups-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
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
