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Linus Torvalds
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cb8e59cc87 |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
Augusto von Dentz.
2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.
3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.
4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.
5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.
6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.
7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.
9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
Horatiu Vultur.
10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.
12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
Carvalho Chehab.
13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
from Doug Berger.
14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
Dmitry Yakunin.
15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
userspace, from Johannes Berg.
16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.
17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.
19) Correct the return type of the ->ndo_start_xmit() method in several
drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
'int'. From Yunjian Wang.
20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
Rempel.
21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.
22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
facility.
23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.
24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
Dangaard Brouer.
25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.
26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.
27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.
28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.
29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.
30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
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Linus Torvalds
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d479c5a191 |
The changes in this cycle are:
- Optimize the task wakeup CPU selection logic, to improve scalability and
reduce wakeup latency spikes
- PELT enhancements
- CFS bandwidth handling fixes
- Optimize the wakeup path by remove rq->wake_list and replacing it with ->ttwu_pending
- Optimize IPI cross-calls by making flush_smp_call_function_queue()
process sync callbacks first.
- Misc fixes and enhancements.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2020-06-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The changes in this cycle are:
- Optimize the task wakeup CPU selection logic, to improve
scalability and reduce wakeup latency spikes
- PELT enhancements
- CFS bandwidth handling fixes
- Optimize the wakeup path by remove rq->wake_list and replacing it
with ->ttwu_pending
- Optimize IPI cross-calls by making flush_smp_call_function_queue()
process sync callbacks first.
- Misc fixes and enhancements"
* tag 'sched-core-2020-06-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
irq_work: Define irq_work_single() on !CONFIG_IRQ_WORK too
sched/headers: Split out open-coded prototypes into kernel/sched/smp.h
sched: Replace rq::wake_list
sched: Add rq::ttwu_pending
irq_work, smp: Allow irq_work on call_single_queue
smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()
smp: Move irq_work_run() out of flush_smp_call_function_queue()
smp: Optimize flush_smp_call_function_queue()
sched: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() usage for ILB
sched/core: Offload wakee task activation if it the wakee is descheduling
sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu
sched: Defend cfs and rt bandwidth quota against overflow
sched/cpuacct: Fix charge cpuacct.usage_sys
sched/fair: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
sched/pelt: Sync util/runnable_sum with PELT window when propagating
sched/cpuacct: Use __this_cpu_add() instead of this_cpu_ptr()
sched/fair: Optimize enqueue_task_fair()
sched: Make scheduler_ipi inline
sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()
sched/core: Simplify sched_init()
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Linus Torvalds
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533b220f7b |
arm64 updates for 5.8
- Branch Target Identification (BTI)
* Support for ARMv8.5-BTI in both user- and kernel-space. This
allows branch targets to limit the types of branch from which
they can be called and additionally prevents branching to
arbitrary code, although kernel support requires a very recent
toolchain.
* Function annotation via SYM_FUNC_START() so that assembly
functions are wrapped with the relevant "landing pad"
instructions.
* BPF and vDSO updates to use the new instructions.
* Addition of a new HWCAP and exposure of BTI capability to
userspace via ID register emulation, along with ELF loader
support for the BTI feature in .note.gnu.property.
* Non-critical fixes to CFI unwind annotations in the sigreturn
trampoline.
- Shadow Call Stack (SCS)
* Support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack feature, which reserves
platform register x18 to point at a separate stack for each
task that holds only return addresses. This protects function
return control flow from buffer overruns on the main stack.
* Save/restore of x18 across problematic boundaries (user-mode,
hypervisor, EFI, suspend, etc).
* Core support for SCS, should other architectures want to use it
too.
* SCS overflow checking on context-switch as part of the existing
stack limit check if CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y.
- CPU feature detection
* Removed numerous "SANITY CHECK" errors when running on a system
with mismatched AArch32 support at EL1. This is primarily a
concern for KVM, which disabled support for 32-bit guests on
such a system.
* Addition of new ID registers and fields as the architecture has
been extended.
- Perf and PMU drivers
* Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers.
- Hardware errata
* Unify KVM workarounds for VHE and nVHE configurations.
* Sort vendor errata entries in Kconfig.
- Secure Monitor Call Calling Convention (SMCCC)
* Update to the latest specification from Arm (v1.2).
* Allow PSCI code to query the SMCCC version.
- Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI)
* Unexport a bunch of unused symbols.
* Minor fixes to handling of firmware data.
- Pointer authentication
* Add support for dumping the kernel PAC mask in vmcoreinfo so
that the stack can be unwound by tools such as kdump.
* Simplification of key initialisation during CPU bringup.
- BPF backend
* Improve immediate generation for logical and add/sub
instructions.
- vDSO
- Minor fixes to the linker flags for consistency with other
architectures and support for LLVM's unwinder.
- Clean up logic to initialise and map the vDSO into userspace.
- ACPI
- Work around for an ambiguity in the IORT specification relating
to the "num_ids" field.
- Support _DMA method for all named components rather than only
PCIe root complexes.
- Minor other IORT-related fixes.
- Miscellaneous
* Initialise debug traps early for KGDB and fix KDB cacheflushing
deadlock.
* Minor tweaks to early boot state (documentation update, set
TEXT_OFFSET to 0x0, increase alignment of PE/COFF sections).
* Refactoring and cleanup
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"A sizeable pile of arm64 updates for 5.8.
Summary below, but the big two features are support for Branch Target
Identification and Clang's Shadow Call stack. The latter is currently
arm64-only, but the high-level parts are all in core code so it could
easily be adopted by other architectures pending toolchain support
Branch Target Identification (BTI):
- Support for ARMv8.5-BTI in both user- and kernel-space. This allows
branch targets to limit the types of branch from which they can be
called and additionally prevents branching to arbitrary code,
although kernel support requires a very recent toolchain.
- Function annotation via SYM_FUNC_START() so that assembly functions
are wrapped with the relevant "landing pad" instructions.
- BPF and vDSO updates to use the new instructions.
- Addition of a new HWCAP and exposure of BTI capability to userspace
via ID register emulation, along with ELF loader support for the
BTI feature in .note.gnu.property.
- Non-critical fixes to CFI unwind annotations in the sigreturn
trampoline.
Shadow Call Stack (SCS):
- Support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack feature, which reserves
platform register x18 to point at a separate stack for each task
that holds only return addresses. This protects function return
control flow from buffer overruns on the main stack.
- Save/restore of x18 across problematic boundaries (user-mode,
hypervisor, EFI, suspend, etc).
- Core support for SCS, should other architectures want to use it
too.
- SCS overflow checking on context-switch as part of the existing
stack limit check if CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y.
CPU feature detection:
- Removed numerous "SANITY CHECK" errors when running on a system
with mismatched AArch32 support at EL1. This is primarily a concern
for KVM, which disabled support for 32-bit guests on such a system.
- Addition of new ID registers and fields as the architecture has
been extended.
Perf and PMU drivers:
- Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers.
Hardware errata:
- Unify KVM workarounds for VHE and nVHE configurations.
- Sort vendor errata entries in Kconfig.
Secure Monitor Call Calling Convention (SMCCC):
- Update to the latest specification from Arm (v1.2).
- Allow PSCI code to query the SMCCC version.
Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI):
- Unexport a bunch of unused symbols.
- Minor fixes to handling of firmware data.
Pointer authentication:
- Add support for dumping the kernel PAC mask in vmcoreinfo so that
the stack can be unwound by tools such as kdump.
- Simplification of key initialisation during CPU bringup.
BPF backend:
- Improve immediate generation for logical and add/sub instructions.
vDSO:
- Minor fixes to the linker flags for consistency with other
architectures and support for LLVM's unwinder.
- Clean up logic to initialise and map the vDSO into userspace.
ACPI:
- Work around for an ambiguity in the IORT specification relating to
the "num_ids" field.
- Support _DMA method for all named components rather than only PCIe
root complexes.
- Minor other IORT-related fixes.
Miscellaneous:
- Initialise debug traps early for KGDB and fix KDB cacheflushing
deadlock.
- Minor tweaks to early boot state (documentation update, set
TEXT_OFFSET to 0x0, increase alignment of PE/COFF sections).
- Refactoring and cleanup"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (148 commits)
KVM: arm64: Move __load_guest_stage2 to kvm_mmu.h
KVM: arm64: Check advertised Stage-2 page size capability
arm64/cpufeature: Add get_arm64_ftr_reg_nowarn()
ACPI/IORT: Remove the unused __get_pci_rid()
arm64/cpuinfo: Add ID_MMFR4_EL1 into the cpuinfo_arm64 context
arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64PFR1 register
arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64PFR0 register
arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64ISAR0 register
arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_MMFR4 register
arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_PFR0 register
arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_MMFR5 CPU register
arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_DFR1 CPU register
arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_PFR2 CPU register
arm64/cpufeature: Make doublelock a signed feature in ID_AA64DFR0
arm64/cpufeature: Drop TraceFilt feature exposure from ID_DFR0 register
arm64/cpufeature: Add explicit ftr_id_isar0[] for ID_ISAR0 register
arm64: mm: Add asid_gen_match() helper
firmware: smccc: Fix missing prototype warning for arm_smccc_version_init
arm64: vdso: Fix CFI directives in sigreturn trampoline
arm64: vdso: Don't prefix sigreturn trampoline with a BTI C instruction
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Ingo Molnar
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1f8db41505 |
sched/headers: Split out open-coded prototypes into kernel/sched/smp.h
Move the prototypes for sched_ttwu_pending() and send_call_function_single_ipi() into the newly created kernel/sched/smp.h header, to make sure they are all the same, and to architectures happy that use -Wmissing-prototypes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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Peter Zijlstra
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a148866489 |
sched: Replace rq::wake_list
The recent commit:
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Peter Zijlstra
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126c2092e5 |
sched: Add rq::ttwu_pending
In preparation of removing rq->wake_list, replace the !list_empty(rq->wake_list) with rq->ttwu_pending. This is not fully equivalent as this new variable is racy. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.070399698@infradead.org |
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Peter Zijlstra
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b2a02fc43a |
smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()
Just like the ttwu_queue_remote() IPI, make use of _TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG to avoid sending IPIs to idle CPUs. [ mingo: Fix UP build bug. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.953304789@infradead.org |
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Peter Zijlstra
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19a1f5ec69 |
sched: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() usage for ILB
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Ingo Molnar
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58ef57b16d |
Merge branch 'core/rcu' into sched/core, to pick up dependency
We are going to rely on the loosening of RCU callback semantics,
introduced by this commit:
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Mel Gorman
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2ebb177175 |
sched/core: Offload wakee task activation if it the wakee is descheduling
The previous commit:
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Peter Zijlstra
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c6e7bd7afa |
sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu
Both Rik and Mel reported seeing ttwu() spend significant time on: smp_cond_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu, !VAL); Attempt to avoid this by queueing the wakeup on the CPU that owns the p->on_cpu value. This will then allow the ttwu() to complete without further waiting. Since we run schedule() with interrupts disabled, the IPI is guaranteed to happen after p->on_cpu is cleared, this is what makes it safe to queue early. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200524202956.27665-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net |
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Huaixin Chang
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d505b8af58 |
sched: Defend cfs and rt bandwidth quota against overflow
When users write some huge number into cpu.cfs_quota_us or cpu.rt_runtime_us, overflow might happen during to_ratio() shifts of schedulable checks. to_ratio() could be altered to avoid unnecessary internal overflow, but min_cfs_quota_period is less than 1 << BW_SHIFT, so a cutoff would still be needed. Set a cap MAX_BW for cfs_quota_us and rt_runtime_us to prevent overflow. Signed-off-by: Huaixin Chang <changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200425105248.60093-1-changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com |
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Thomas Gleixner
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Merge tag 'noinstr-lds-2020-05-19' into core/rcu
Get the noinstr section and annotation markers to base the RCU parts on. |
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Will Deacon
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88485be531 |
scs: Move scs_overflow_check() out of architecture code
There is nothing architecture-specific about scs_overflow_check() as it's just a trivial wrapper around scs_corrupted(). For parity with task_stack_end_corrupted(), rename scs_corrupted() to task_scs_end_corrupted() and call it from schedule_debug() when CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK_is enabled, which better reflects its purpose as a debug feature to catch inadvertent overflow of the SCS. Finally, remove the unused scs_overflow_check() function entirely. This has absolutely no impact on architectures that do not support SCS (currently arm64 only). Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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Sami Tolvanen
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d08b9f0ca6 |
scs: Add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS)
This change adds generic support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a shadow stack to protect return addresses from being overwritten by an attacker. Details are available here: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the ones documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses of shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable reading and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them and hijack control flow by modifying the stacks. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> [will: Numerous cosmetic changes] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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Thomas Gleixner
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2a0a24ebb4 |
sched: Make scheduler_ipi inline
Now that the scheduler IPI is trivial and simple again there is no point to have the little function out of line. This simplifies the effort of constraining the instrumentation nicely. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134058.453581595@linutronix.de |
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Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
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90b5363acd |
sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()
The scheduler IPI has grown weird and wonderful over the years, time for spring cleaning. Move all the non-trivial stuff out of it and into a regular smp function call IPI. This then reduces the schedule_ipi() to most of it's former NOP glory and ensures to keep the interrupt vector lean and mean. Aside of that avoiding the full irq_enter() in the x86 IPI implementation is incorrect as scheduler_ipi() can be instrumented. To work around that scheduler_ipi() had an irq_enter/exit() hack when heavy work was pending. This is gone now. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134058.361859938@linutronix.de |
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Wei Yang
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b1d1779e5e |
sched/core: Simplify sched_init()
Currently root_task_group.shares and cfs_bandwidth are initialized for each online cpu, which not necessary. Let's take it out to do it only once. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200423214443.29994-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com |
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Peter Zijlstra
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bf2c59fce4 |
sched/core: Fix illegal RCU from offline CPUs
In the CPU-offline process, it calls mmdrop() after idle entry and the subsequent call to cpuhp_report_idle_dead(). Once execution passes the call to rcu_report_dead(), RCU is ignoring the CPU, which results in lockdep complaining when mmdrop() uses RCU from either memcg or debugobjects below. Fix it by cleaning up the active_mm state from BP instead. Every arch which has CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU should have already called idle_task_exit() from AP. The only exception is parisc because it switches them to &init_mm unconditionally (see smp_boot_one_cpu() and smp_cpu_init()), but the patch will still work there because it calls mmgrab(&init_mm) in smp_cpu_init() and then should call mmdrop(&init_mm) in finish_cpu(). WARNING: suspicious RCU usage ----------------------------- kernel/workqueue.c:710 RCU or wq_pool_mutex should be held! other info that might help us debug this: RCU used illegally from offline CPU! Call Trace: dump_stack+0xf4/0x164 (unreliable) lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x140/0x164 get_work_pool+0x110/0x150 __queue_work+0x1bc/0xca0 queue_work_on+0x114/0x120 css_release+0x9c/0xc0 percpu_ref_put_many+0x204/0x230 free_pcp_prepare+0x264/0x570 free_unref_page+0x38/0xf0 __mmdrop+0x21c/0x2c0 idle_task_exit+0x170/0x1b0 pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x38/0x2e0 cpu_die+0x48/0x64 arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x30/0x50 do_idle+0x2f4/0x470 cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x40 start_secondary+0x7a8/0xa80 start_secondary_resume+0x10/0x14 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200401214033.8448-1-cai@lca.pw |
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Chen Yu
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457d1f4657 |
sched: Extract the task putting code from pick_next_task()
Introduce a new function put_prev_task_balance() to do the balance when necessary, and then put previous task back to the run queue. This function is extracted from pick_next_task() to prepare for future usage by other type of task picking logic. No functional change. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5a99860cf66293db58a397d6248bcb2eee326776.1587464698.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com |
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Daniel Borkmann
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0b54142e4b |
Merge branch 'work.sysctl' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull in Christoph Hellwig's series that changes the sysctl's ->proc_handler methods to take kernel pointers instead. It gets rid of the set_fs address space overrides used by BPF. As per discussion, pull in the feature branch into bpf-next as it relates to BPF sysctl progs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200427071508.GV23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/T/ |
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Paul E. McKenney
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2beaf3280e |
sched/core: Add function to sample state of locked-down task
A running task's state can be sampled in a consistent manner (for example, for diagnostic purposes) simply by invoking smp_call_function_single() on its CPU, which may be obtained using task_cpu(), then having the IPI handler verify that the desired task is in fact still running. However, if the task is not running, this sampling can in theory be done immediately and directly. In practice, the task might start running at any time, including during the sampling period. Gaining a consistent sample of a not-running task therefore requires that something be done to lock down the target task's state. This commit therefore adds a try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() function that invokes a specified function if the specified task can be locked down, returning true if successful and if the specified function returns true. Otherwise this function simply returns false. Given that the function passed to try_invoke_on_nonrunning_task() might be invoked with a runqueue lock held, that function had better be quite lightweight. The function is passed the target task's task_struct pointer and the argument passed to try_invoke_on_locked_down_task(), allowing easy access to task state and to a location for further variables to be passed in and out. Note that the specified function will be called even if the specified task is currently running. The function can use ->on_rq and task_curr() to quickly and easily determine the task's state, and can return false if this state is not to the function's liking. The caller of the try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() would then see the false return value, and could take appropriate action, for example, trying again later or sending an IPI if matters are more urgent. It is expected that use cases such as the RCU CPU stall warning code will simply return false if the task is currently running. However, there are use cases involving nohz_full CPUs where the specified function might instead fall back to an alternative sampling scheme that relies on heavier synchronization (such as memory barriers) in the target task. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> [ paulmck: Apply feedback from Peter Zijlstra and Steven Rostedt. ] [ paulmck: Invoke if running to handle feedback from Mathieu Desnoyers. ] Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
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Christoph Hellwig
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32927393dc |
sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler
Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit safer. As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers a lot of the changes are mechnical. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
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Quentin Perret
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eaf5a92ebd |
sched/core: Fix reset-on-fork from RT with uclamp
uclamp_fork() resets the uclamp values to their default when the
reset-on-fork flag is set. It also checks whether the task has a RT
policy, and sets its uclamp.min to 1024 accordingly. However, during
reset-on-fork, the task's policy is lowered to SCHED_NORMAL right after,
hence leading to an erroneous uclamp.min setting for the new task if it
was forked from RT.
Fix this by removing the unnecessary check on rt_task() in
uclamp_fork() as this doesn't make sense if the reset-on-fork flag is
set.
Fixes:
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Vincent Donnefort
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275b2f6723 |
sched/core: Remove unused rq::last_load_update_tick
The following commit:
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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62849a9612 |
workqueue: Remove the warning in wq_worker_sleeping()
The kernel test robot triggered a warning with the following race:
task-ctx A interrupt-ctx B
worker
-> process_one_work()
-> work_item()
-> schedule();
-> sched_submit_work()
-> wq_worker_sleeping()
-> ->sleeping = 1
atomic_dec_and_test(nr_running)
__schedule(); *interrupt*
async_page_fault()
-> local_irq_enable();
-> schedule();
-> sched_submit_work()
-> wq_worker_sleeping()
-> if (WARN_ON(->sleeping)) return
-> __schedule()
-> sched_update_worker()
-> wq_worker_running()
-> atomic_inc(nr_running);
-> ->sleeping = 0;
-> sched_update_worker()
-> wq_worker_running()
if (!->sleeping) return
In this context the warning is pointless everything is fine.
An interrupt before wq_worker_sleeping() will perform the ->sleeping
assignment (0 -> 1 > 0) twice.
An interrupt after wq_worker_sleeping() will trigger the warning and
nr_running will be decremented (by A) and incremented once (only by B, A
will skip it). This is the case until the ->sleeping is zeroed again in
wq_worker_running().
Remove the WARN statement because this condition may happen. Document
that preemption around wq_worker_sleeping() needs to be disabled to
protect ->sleeping and not just as an optimisation.
Fixes:
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Valentin Schneider
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d76343c6b2 |
sched/fair: Align rq->avg_idle and rq->avg_scan_cost
sched/core.c uses update_avg() for rq->avg_idle and sched/fair.c uses an
open-coded version (with the exact same decay factor) for
rq->avg_scan_cost. On top of that, select_idle_cpu() expects to be able to
compare these two fields.
The only difference between the two is that rq->avg_scan_cost is computed
using a pure division rather than a shift. Turns out it actually matters,
first of all because the shifted value can be negative, and the standard
has this to say about it:
"""
The result of E1 >> E2 is E1 right-shifted E2 bit positions. [...] If E1
has a signed type and a negative value, the resulting value is
implementation-defined.
"""
Not only this, but (arithmetic) right shifting a negative value (using 2's
complement) is *not* equivalent to dividing it by the corresponding power
of 2. Let's look at a few examples:
-4 -> 0xF..FC
-4 >> 3 -> 0xF..FF == -1 != -4 / 8
-8 -> 0xF..F8
-8 >> 3 -> 0xF..FF == -1 == -8 / 8
-9 -> 0xF..F7
-9 >> 3 -> 0xF..FE == -2 != -9 / 8
Make update_avg() use a division, and export it to the private scheduler
header to reuse it where relevant. Note that this still lets compilers use
a shift here, but should prevent any unwanted surprise. The disassembly of
select_idle_cpu() remains unchanged on arm64, and ttwu_do_wakeup() gains 2
instructions; the diff sort of looks like this:
- sub x1, x1, x0
+ subs x1, x1, x0 // set condition codes
+ add x0, x1, #0x7
+ csel x0, x0, x1, mi // x0 = x1 < 0 ? x0 : x1
add x0, x3, x0, asr #3
which does the right thing (i.e. gives us the expected result while still
using an arithmetic shift)
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200330090127.16294-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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Linus Torvalds
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992a1a3b45 |
CPU (hotplug) updates:
- Support for locked CSD objects in smp_call_function_single_async()
which allows to simplify callsites in the scheduler core and MIPS
- Treewide consolidation of CPU hotplug functions which ensures the
consistency between the sysfs interface and kernel state. The low level
functions cpu_up/down() are now confined to the core code and not
longer accessible from random code.
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Merge tag 'smp-core-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"CPU (hotplug) updates:
- Support for locked CSD objects in smp_call_function_single_async()
which allows to simplify callsites in the scheduler core and MIPS
- Treewide consolidation of CPU hotplug functions which ensures the
consistency between the sysfs interface and kernel state. The low
level functions cpu_up/down() are now confined to the core code and
not longer accessible from random code"
* tag 'smp-core-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
cpu/hotplug: Ignore pm_wakeup_pending() for disable_nonboot_cpus()
cpu/hotplug: Hide cpu_up/down()
cpu/hotplug: Move bringup of secondary CPUs out of smp_init()
torture: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
firmware: psci: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
xen/cpuhotplug: Replace cpu_up/down() with device_online/offline()
parisc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
sparc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
powerpc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
x86/smp: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
arm64: hibernate: Use bringup_hibernate_cpu()
cpu/hotplug: Provide bringup_hibernate_cpu()
arm64: Use reboot_cpu instead of hardconding it to 0
arm64: Don't use disable_nonboot_cpus()
ARM: Use reboot_cpu instead of hardcoding it to 0
ARM: Don't use disable_nonboot_cpus()
ia64: Replace cpu_down() with smp_shutdown_nonboot_cpus()
cpu/hotplug: Create a new function to shutdown nonboot cpus
cpu/hotplug: Add new {add,remove}_cpu() functions
sched/core: Remove rq.hrtick_csd_pending
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Johannes Weiner
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b05e75d611 |
psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups
For simplicity, cpu pressure is defined as having more than one runnable task on a given CPU. This works on the system-level, but it has limitations in a cgrouped reality: When cpu.max is in use, it doesn't capture the time in which a task is not executing on the CPU due to throttling. Likewise, it doesn't capture the time in which a competing cgroup is occupying the CPU - meaning it only reflects cgroup-internal competitive pressure, not outside pressure. Enable tracking of currently executing tasks, and then change the definition of cpu pressure in a cgroup from NR_RUNNING > 1 to NR_RUNNING > ON_CPU which will capture the effects of cpu.max as well as competition from outside the cgroup. After this patch, a cgroup running `stress -c 1` with a cpu.max setting of 5000 10000 shows ~50% continuous CPU pressure. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200316191333.115523-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org |
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Paul Turner
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46a87b3851 |
sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks
Currently, when updating the affinity of tasks via either cpusets.cpus,
or, sched_setaffinity(); tasks not currently running within the newly
specified mask will be arbitrarily assigned to the first CPU within the
mask.
This (particularly in the case that we are restricting masks) can
result in many tasks being assigned to the first CPUs of their new
masks.
This:
1) Can induce scheduling delays while the load-balancer has a chance to
spread them between their new CPUs.
2) Can antogonize a poor load-balancer behavior where it has a
difficult time recognizing that a cross-socket imbalance has been
forced by an affinity mask.
This change adds a new cpumask interface to allow iterated calls to
distribute within the intersection of the provided masks.
The cases that this mainly affects are:
- modifying cpuset.cpus
- when tasks join a cpuset
- when modifying a task's affinity via sched_setaffinity(2)
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Tested-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311010113.136465-1-joshdon@google.com
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Ingo Molnar
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14533a16c4 |
thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code
drivers/base/arch_topology.c is only built if CONFIG_GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY=y, resulting in such build failures: cpufreq_cooling.c:(.text+0x1e7): undefined reference to `arch_set_thermal_pressure' Move it to sched/core.c instead, and keep it enabled on x86 despite us not having a arch_scale_thermal_pressure() facility there, to build-test this thing. Cc: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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Peter Xu
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fd3eafda8f |
sched/core: Remove rq.hrtick_csd_pending
Now smp_call_function_single_async() provides the protection that we'll return with -EBUSY if the csd object is still pending, then we don't need the rq.hrtick_csd_pending any more. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191216213125.9536-4-peterx@redhat.com |
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Thara Gopinath
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05289b90c2 |
sched/fair: Enable tuning of decay period
Thermal pressure follows pelt signals which means the decay period for thermal pressure is the default pelt decay period. Depending on SoC characteristics and thermal activity, it might be beneficial to decay thermal pressure slower, but still in-tune with the pelt signals. One way to achieve this is to provide a command line parameter to set a decay shift parameter to an integer between 0 and 10. Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-10-thara.gopinath@linaro.org |
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Thara Gopinath
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b4eccf5f8e |
sched/fair: Enable periodic update of average thermal pressure
Introduce support in scheduler periodic tick and other CFS bookkeeping APIs to trigger the process of computing average thermal pressure for a CPU. Also consider avg_thermal.load_avg in others_have_blocked which allows for decay of pelt signals. Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-7-thara.gopinath@linaro.org |
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Vincent Guittot
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0dacee1bfa |
sched/pelt: Remove unused runnable load average
Now that runnable_load_avg is no more used, we can remove it to make space for a new signal. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: "Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>" Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net |
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Ingo Molnar
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546121b65f |
Linux 5.6-rc3
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Scott Wood
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82e0516ce3 |
sched/core: Remove duplicate assignment in sched_tick_remote()
A redundant "curr = rq->curr" was added; remove it.
Fixes:
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Mel Gorman
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52262ee567 |
sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression
The following XFS commit:
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Giovanni Gherdovich
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1567c3e346 |
x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance
Implement arch_scale_freq_capacity() for 'modern' x86. This function
is used by the scheduler to correctly account usage in the face of
DVFS.
The present patch addresses Intel processors specifically and has positive
performance and performance-per-watt implications for the schedutil cpufreq
governor, bringing it closer to, if not on-par with, the powersave governor
from the intel_pstate driver/framework.
Large performance gains are obtained when the machine is lightly loaded and
no regression are observed at saturation. The benchmarks with the largest
gains are kernel compilation, tbench (the networking version of dbench) and
shell-intensive workloads.
1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
* Without it, a task looks larger if the CPU runs slower
2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
* freq invariance accounting requires knowing the ratio freq_curr/freq_max
2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
* Use delta_APERF / delta_MPERF * freq_base (a.k.a "BusyMHz")
2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
* It varies with time (turbo). As an approximation, we set it to a
constant, i.e. 4-cores turbo frequency.
3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
* The invariant schedutil's formula has no feedback loop and reacts faster
to utilization changes
4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
* In some cases tasks can't reach max util despite how hard they try
5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
5.1 MACHINES
* Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell
5.2 SETUP
* baseline Linux v5.2 w/ non-invariant schedutil. Tested freq_max = 1-2-3-4-8-12
active cores turbo w/ invariant schedutil, and intel_pstate/powersave
5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
* NAS Parallel Benchmark (HPC), hackbench
5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
* tbench (10-30% better), kernbench (10-15% better),
shell-intensive-scripts (30-50% better)
* no regressions
5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
* dbench (5% worse on one machine), kernbench (3% worse),
tbench (5-10% better), shell-intensive-scripts (10-40% better)
6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
* Xeon Core before Scalable Performance processors line (Xeon Gold/Platinum
etc have different MSRs semantic for querying turbo levels)
7. REFERENCES
* MMTests performance testing framework, github.com/gormanm/mmtests
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
For example; suppose a CPU has two frequencies: 500 and 1000 Mhz. When
running a task that would consume 1/3rd of a CPU at 1000 MHz, it would
appear to consume 2/3rd (or 66.6%) when running at 500 MHz, giving the
false impression this CPU is almost at capacity, even though it can go
faster [*]. In a nutshell, without frequency scale-invariance tasks look
larger just because the CPU is running slower.
[*] (footnote: this assumes a linear frequency/performance relation; which
everybody knows to be false, but given realities its the best approximation
we can make.)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Accounting for frequency changes in PELT signals requires the computation of
the ratio freq_curr / freq_max. On x86 neither of those terms is readily
available.
2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
====================
Since modern x86 has hardware control over the actual frequency we run
at (because amongst other things, Turbo-Mode), we cannot simply use
the frequency as requested through cpufreq.
Instead we use the APERF/MPERF MSRs to compute the effective frequency
over the recent past. Also, because reading MSRs is expensive, don't
do so every time we need the value, but amortize the cost by doing it
every tick.
2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
=================
Obtaining freq_max is also non-trivial because at any time the hardware can
provide a frequency boost to a selected subset of cores if the package has
enough power to spare (eg: Turbo Boost). This means that the maximum frequency
available to a given core changes with time.
The approach taken in this change is to arbitrarily set freq_max to a constant
value at boot. The value chosen is the "4-cores (4C) turbo frequency" on most
microarchitectures, after evaluating the following candidates:
* 1-core (1C) turbo frequency (the fastest turbo state available)
* around base frequency (a.k.a. max P-state)
* something in between, such as 4C turbo
To interpret these options, consider that this is the denominator in
freq_curr/freq_max, and that ratio will be used to scale PELT signals such as
util_avg and load_avg. A large denominator will undershoot (util_avg looks a
bit smaller than it really is), viceversa with a smaller denominator PELT
signals will tend to overshoot. Given that PELT drives frequency selection
in the schedutil governor, we will have:
freq_max set to | effect on DVFS
--------------------+------------------
1C turbo | power efficiency (lower freq choices)
base freq | performance (higher util_avg, higher freq requests)
4C turbo | a bit of both
4C turbo proves to be a good compromise in a number of benchmarks (see below).
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Once an architecture implements a frequency scale-invariant utilization (the
PELT signal util_avg), schedutil switches its frequency selection formula from
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_curr * util [non-invariant util signal]
to
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * util [invariant util signal]
where, in the second formula, freq_max is set to the 1C turbo frequency (max
turbo). The advantage of the second formula, whose usage we unlock with this
patch, is that freq_next doesn't depend on the current frequency in an
iterative fashion, but can jump to any frequency in a single update. This
absence of feedback in the formula makes it quicker to react to utilization
changes and more robust against pathological instabilities.
Compare it to the update formula of intel_pstate/powersave:
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * Busy%
where again freq_max is 1C turbo and Busy% is the percentage of time not spent
idling (calculated with delta_MPERF / delta_TSC); essentially the same as
invariant schedutil, and largely responsible for intel_pstate/powersave good
reputation. The non-invariant schedutil formula is derived from the invariant
one by approximating util_inv with util_raw * freq_curr / freq_max, but this
has limitations.
Testing shows improved performances due to better frequency selections when
the machine is lightly loaded, and essentially no change in behaviour at
saturation / overutilization.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
It's been shown that it is possible to create pathological scenarios where a
CPU-bound task cannot reach max utilization, if the normalizing factor
freq_max is fixed to a constant value (see [Lelli-2018]).
If freq_max is set to 4C turbo as we do here, one needs to peg at least 5
cores in a package doing some busywork, and observe that none of those task
will ever reach max util (1024) because they're all running at less than the
4C turbo frequency.
While this concern still applies, we believe the performance benefit of
frequency scale-invariant PELT signals outweights the cost of this limitation.
[Lelli-2018]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180517150418.GF22493@localhost.localdomain/
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
5.1 MACHINES
============
We tested the patch on three machines, with Skylake, Broadwell and Haswell
CPUs. The details are below, together with the available turbo ratios as
reported by the appropriate MSRs.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA:
Single socket E3-1240 v5, Skylake 4 cores/8 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 800 |********
BASE 3500 |***********************************
4C 3700 |*************************************
3C 3800 |**************************************
2C 3900 |***************************************
1C 3900 |***************************************
* 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA:
Two sockets E5-2698 v4, 2x Broadwell 20 cores/40 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1200 |************
BASE 2200 |**********************
8C 2900 |*****************************
7C 3000 |******************************
6C 3100 |*******************************
5C 3200 |********************************
4C 3300 |*********************************
3C 3400 |**********************************
2C 3600 |************************************
1C 3600 |************************************
* 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Two sockets E5-2670 v3, 2x Haswell 12 cores/24 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1200 |************
BASE 2300 |***********************
12C 2600 |**************************
11C 2600 |**************************
10C 2600 |**************************
9C 2600 |**************************
8C 2600 |**************************
7C 2600 |**************************
6C 2600 |**************************
5C 2700 |***************************
4C 2800 |****************************
3C 2900 |*****************************
2C 3100 |*******************************
1C 3100 |*******************************
5.2 SETUP
=========
* The baseline is Linux v5.2 with schedutil (non-invariant) and the intel_pstate
driver in passive mode.
* The rationale for choosing the various freq_max values to test have been to
try all the 1-2-3-4C turbo levels (note that 1C and 2C turbo are identical
on all machines), plus one more value closer to base_freq but still in the
turbo range (8C turbo for both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA).
* In addition we've run all tests with intel_pstate/powersave for comparison.
* The filesystem is always XFS, the userspace is openSUSE Leap 15.1.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA is capable of HWP (Hardware-Managed P-States), so the runs
with active intel_pstate on this machine use that.
This gives, in terms of combinations tested on each machine:
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
* Baseline: Linux v5.2, non-invariant schedutil, intel_pstate passive
* intel_pstate active + powersave + HWP
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 1C turbo
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 3C turbo
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 4C turbo
* both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
* [same as 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA, but no HWP capable]
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 8C turbo
(which on 48x-HASWELL-NUMA is the same as 12C turbo, or "all cores turbo")
5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
=====================
5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
------------------------
Tests that didn't show any measurable difference in performance on any of the
test machines between non-invariant schedutil and our patch are:
* NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) using either MPI or openMP for IPC, any
computational kernel
* flexible I/O (FIO)
* hackbench (using threads or processes, and using pipes or sockets)
5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
----------------------------
What follow are summary tables where each benchmark result is given a score.
* A tilde (~) means a neutral result, i.e. no difference from baseline.
* Scores are computed with the ratio result_new / result_baseline, so a tilde
means a score of 1.00.
* The results in the score ratio are the geometric means of results running
the benchmark with different parameters (eg: for kernbench: using 1, 2, 4,
... number of processes; for pgbench: varying the number of clients, and so
on).
* The first three tables show higher-is-better kind of tests (i.e. measured in
operations/second), the subsequent three show lower-is-better kind of tests
(i.e. the workload is fixed and we measure elapsed time, think kernbench).
* "gitsource" is a name we made up for the test consisting in running the
entire unit tests suite of the Git SCM and measuring how long it takes. We
take it as a typical example of shell-intensive serialized workload.
* In the "I_PSTATE" column we have the results for intel_pstate/powersave. Other
columns show invariant schedutil for different values of freq_max. 4C turbo
is circled as it's the value we've chosen for the final implementation.
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 1.14 ~ ~ | 1.11 | 1.14
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
netperf-udp 1.06 ~ 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.07
netperf-tcp ~ 1.03 ~ | 1.01 | 1.02
tbench4 1.57 1.18 1.22 | 1.30 | 1.56
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-udp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-tcp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
tbench4 1.30 1.14 1.14 | 1.16 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 1.15 ~ ~ | 1.06 | 1.16
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
netperf-udp 1.05 0.97 1.04 | 1.04 | 1.02
netperf-tcp 0.96 1.01 1.01 | 1.01 | 1.01
tbench4 1.50 1.05 1.13 | 1.13 | 1.25
+------+
In the table above we see that active intel_pstate is slightly better than our
4C-turbo patch (both in reference to the baseline non-invariant schedutil) on
read-only pgbench and much better on tbench. Both cases are notable in which
it shows that lowering our freq_max (to 8C-turbo and 12C-turbo on
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA respectively) helps invariant
schedutil to get closer.
If we ignore active intel_pstate and focus on the comparison with baseline
alone, there are several instances of double-digit performance improvement.
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
dbench4 1.23 0.95 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.95
kernbench 0.93 0.83 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.82
gitsource 0.98 0.49 0.49 | 0.49 | 0.48
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
kernbench ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
gitsource 0.92 0.55 0.55 | 0.55 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
kernbench 0.94 0.90 0.89 | 0.90 | 0.90
gitsource 0.97 0.69 0.69 | 0.69 | 0.69
+------+
dbench is not very remarkable here, unless we notice how poorly active
intel_pstate is performing on 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA: 23% regression versus
non-invariant schedutil. We repeated that run getting consistent results. Out
of scope for the patch at hand, but deserving future investigation. Other than
that, we previously ran this campaign with Linux v5.0 and saw the patch doing
better on dbench a the time. We haven't checked closely and can only speculate
at this point.
On the NUMA boxes kernbench gets 10-15% improvements on average; we'll see in
the detailed tables that the gains concentrate on low process counts (lightly
loaded machines).
The test we call "gitsource" (running the git unit test suite, a long-running
single-threaded shell script) appears rather spectacular in this table (gains
of 30-50% depending on the machine). It is to be noted, however, that
gitsource has no adjustable parameters (such as the number of jobs in
kernbench, which we average over in order to get a single-number summary
score) and is exactly the kind of low-parallelism workload that benefits the
most from this patch. When looking at the detailed tables of kernbench or
tbench4, at low process or client counts one can see similar numbers.
5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
-----------------------------------
Machine : 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Benchmark : tbench4 (i.e. dbench4 over the network, actually loopback)
Varying parameter : number of clients
Unit : MB/sec (higher is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 126.73 +- 0.31% ( ) 315.91 +- 0.66% ( 149.28%) 125.03 +- 0.76% ( -1.34%)
Hmean 2 258.04 +- 0.62% ( ) 614.16 +- 0.51% ( 138.01%) 269.58 +- 1.45% ( 4.47%)
Hmean 4 514.30 +- 0.67% ( ) 1146.58 +- 0.54% ( 122.94%) 533.84 +- 1.99% ( 3.80%)
Hmean 8 1111.38 +- 2.52% ( ) 2159.78 +- 0.38% ( 94.33%) 1359.92 +- 1.56% ( 22.36%)
Hmean 16 2286.47 +- 1.36% ( ) 3338.29 +- 0.21% ( 46.00%) 2720.20 +- 0.52% ( 18.97%)
Hmean 32 4704.84 +- 0.35% ( ) 4759.03 +- 0.43% ( 1.15%) 4774.48 +- 0.30% ( 1.48%)
Hmean 64 7578.04 +- 0.27% ( ) 7533.70 +- 0.43% ( -0.59%) 7462.17 +- 0.65% ( -1.53%)
Hmean 128 6998.52 +- 0.16% ( ) 6987.59 +- 0.12% ( -0.16%) 6909.17 +- 0.14% ( -1.28%)
Hmean 192 6901.35 +- 0.25% ( ) 6913.16 +- 0.10% ( 0.17%) 6855.47 +- 0.21% ( -0.66%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo 5.2.0 12C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 128.43 +- 0.28% ( 1.34%) 130.64 +- 3.81% ( 3.09%) 153.71 +- 5.89% ( 21.30%)
Hmean 2 311.70 +- 6.15% ( 20.79%) 281.66 +- 3.40% ( 9.15%) 305.08 +- 5.70% ( 18.23%)
Hmean 4 641.98 +- 2.32% ( 24.83%) 623.88 +- 5.28% ( 21.31%) 906.84 +- 4.65% ( 76.32%)
Hmean 8 1633.31 +- 1.56% ( 46.96%) 1714.16 +- 0.93% ( 54.24%) 2095.74 +- 0.47% ( 88.57%)
Hmean 16 3047.24 +- 0.42% ( 33.27%) 3155.02 +- 0.30% ( 37.99%) 3634.58 +- 0.15% ( 58.96%)
Hmean 32 4734.31 +- 0.60% ( 0.63%) 4804.38 +- 0.23% ( 2.12%) 4674.62 +- 0.27% ( -0.64%)
Hmean 64 7699.74 +- 0.35% ( 1.61%) 7499.72 +- 0.34% ( -1.03%) 7659.03 +- 0.25% ( 1.07%)
Hmean 128 6935.18 +- 0.15% ( -0.91%) 6942.54 +- 0.10% ( -0.80%) 7004.85 +- 0.12% ( 0.09%)
Hmean 192 6901.62 +- 0.12% ( 0.00%) 6856.93 +- 0.10% ( -0.64%) 6978.74 +- 0.10% ( 1.12%)
This is one of the cases where the patch still can't surpass active
intel_pstate, not even when freq_max is as low as 12C-turbo. Otherwise, gains are
visible up to 16 clients and the saturated scenario is the same as baseline.
The scores in the summary table from the previous sections are ratios of
geometric means of the results over different clients, as seen in this table.
Machine : 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA
Benchmark : kernbench (kernel compilation)
Varying parameter : number of jobs
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 379.68 +- 0.06% ( ) 330.20 +- 0.43% ( 13.03%) 285.93 +- 0.07% ( 24.69%)
Amean 4 200.15 +- 0.24% ( ) 175.89 +- 0.22% ( 12.12%) 153.78 +- 0.25% ( 23.17%)
Amean 8 106.20 +- 0.31% ( ) 95.54 +- 0.23% ( 10.03%) 86.74 +- 0.10% ( 18.32%)
Amean 16 56.96 +- 1.31% ( ) 53.25 +- 1.22% ( 6.50%) 48.34 +- 1.73% ( 15.13%)
Amean 32 34.80 +- 2.46% ( ) 33.81 +- 0.77% ( 2.83%) 30.28 +- 1.59% ( 12.99%)
Amean 64 26.11 +- 1.63% ( ) 25.04 +- 1.07% ( 4.10%) 22.41 +- 2.37% ( 14.16%)
Amean 128 24.80 +- 1.36% ( ) 23.57 +- 1.23% ( 4.93%) 21.44 +- 1.37% ( 13.55%)
Amean 160 24.85 +- 0.56% ( ) 23.85 +- 1.17% ( 4.06%) 21.25 +- 1.12% ( 14.49%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo 5.2.0 8C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 284.08 +- 0.13% ( 25.18%) 283.96 +- 0.51% ( 25.21%) 285.05 +- 0.21% ( 24.92%)
Amean 4 153.18 +- 0.22% ( 23.47%) 154.70 +- 1.64% ( 22.71%) 153.64 +- 0.30% ( 23.24%)
Amean 8 87.06 +- 0.28% ( 18.02%) 86.77 +- 0.46% ( 18.29%) 86.78 +- 0.22% ( 18.28%)
Amean 16 48.03 +- 0.93% ( 15.68%) 47.75 +- 1.99% ( 16.17%) 47.52 +- 1.61% ( 16.57%)
Amean 32 30.23 +- 1.20% ( 13.14%) 30.08 +- 1.67% ( 13.57%) 30.07 +- 1.67% ( 13.60%)
Amean 64 22.59 +- 2.02% ( 13.50%) 22.63 +- 0.81% ( 13.32%) 22.42 +- 0.76% ( 14.12%)
Amean 128 21.37 +- 0.67% ( 13.82%) 21.31 +- 1.15% ( 14.07%) 21.17 +- 1.93% ( 14.63%)
Amean 160 21.68 +- 0.57% ( 12.76%) 21.18 +- 1.74% ( 14.77%) 21.22 +- 1.00% ( 14.61%)
The patch outperform active intel_pstate (and baseline) by a considerable
margin; the summary table from the previous section says 4C turbo and active
intel_pstate are 0.83 and 0.93 against baseline respectively, so 4C turbo is
0.83/0.93=0.89 against intel_pstate (~10% better on average). There is no
noticeable difference with regard to the value of freq_max.
Machine : 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
Benchmark : gitsource (time to run the git unit test suite)
Varying parameter : none
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla 5.2.0 intel_pstate/hwp 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 858.85 +- 1.16% ( ) 791.94 +- 0.21% ( 7.79%) 474.95 ( 44.70%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 475.26 +- 0.20% ( 44.66%) 474.34 +- 0.13% ( 44.77%)
In this test, which is of interest as representing shell-intensive
(i.e. fork-intensive) serialized workloads, invariant schedutil outperforms
intel_pstate/powersave by a whopping 40% margin.
5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
---------------------------------------------
The following table shows average power consumption in watt for each
benchmark. Data comes from turbostat (package average), which in turn is read
from the RAPL interface on CPUs. We know the patch affects CPU frequencies so
it's reasonable to ignore other power consumers (such as memory or I/O). Also,
we don't have a power meter available in the lab so RAPL is the best we have.
turbostat sampled average power every 10 seconds for the entire duration of
each benchmark. We took all those values and averaged them (i.e. with don't
have detail on a per-parameter granularity, only on whole benchmarks).
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 130.01 142.77 131.11 132.45 | 134.65 | 136.84
pgbench-rw 68.30 60.83 71.45 71.70 | 71.65 | 72.54
dbench4 90.25 59.06 101.43 99.89 | 101.10 | 102.94
netperf-udp 65.70 69.81 66.02 68.03 | 68.27 | 68.95
netperf-tcp 88.08 87.96 88.97 88.89 | 88.85 | 88.20
tbench4 142.32 176.73 153.02 163.91 | 165.58 | 176.07
kernbench 92.94 101.95 114.91 115.47 | 115.52 | 115.10
gitsource 40.92 41.87 75.14 75.20 | 75.40 | 75.70
+--------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro 46.49 46.68 46.56 46.59 | 46.52 |
pgbench-rw 29.34 31.38 30.98 31.00 | 31.00 |
dbench4 27.28 27.37 27.49 27.41 | 27.38 |
netperf-udp 22.33 22.41 22.36 22.35 | 22.36 |
netperf-tcp 27.29 27.29 27.30 27.31 | 27.33 |
tbench4 41.13 45.61 43.10 43.33 | 43.56 |
kernbench 42.56 42.63 43.01 43.01 | 43.01 |
gitsource 13.32 13.69 17.33 17.30 | 17.35 |
+--------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 128.84 136.04 129.87 132.43 | 132.30 | 134.86
pgbench-rw 37.68 37.92 37.17 37.74 | 37.73 | 37.31
dbench4 28.56 28.73 28.60 28.73 | 28.70 | 28.79
netperf-udp 56.70 60.44 56.79 57.42 | 57.54 | 57.52
netperf-tcp 75.49 75.27 75.87 76.02 | 76.01 | 75.95
tbench4 115.44 139.51 119.53 123.07 | 123.97 | 130.22
kernbench 83.23 91.55 95.58 95.69 | 95.72 | 96.04
gitsource 36.79 36.99 39.99 40.34 | 40.35 | 40.23
+--------+
A lower power consumption isn't necessarily better, it depends on what is done
with that energy. Here are tables with the ratio of performance-per-watt on
each machine and benchmark. Higher is always better; a tilde (~) means a
neutral ratio (i.e. 1.00).
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 1.04 1.06 0.94 | 1.07 | 1.08
pgbench-rw 1.10 0.97 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.97
dbench4 1.24 0.94 0.95 | 0.94 | 0.92
netperf-udp ~ 1.02 1.02 | ~ | 1.02
netperf-tcp ~ 1.02 ~ | ~ | 1.02
tbench4 1.26 1.10 1.06 | 1.12 | 1.26
kernbench 0.98 0.97 0.97 | 0.97 | 0.98
gitsource ~ 1.11 1.11 | 1.11 | 1.13
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
pgbench-rw 0.95 0.97 0.96 | 0.96 |
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-udp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-tcp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
tbench4 1.17 1.09 1.08 | 1.10 |
kernbench ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
gitsource 1.06 1.40 1.40 | 1.40 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 1.09 ~ 1.09 | 1.03 | 1.11
pgbench-rw ~ 0.86 ~ | ~ | 0.86
dbench4 ~ 1.02 1.02 | 1.02 | ~
netperf-udp ~ 0.97 1.03 | 1.02 | ~
netperf-tcp 0.96 ~ ~ | ~ | ~
tbench4 1.24 ~ 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.11
kernbench 0.97 0.97 0.98 | 0.97 | 0.96
gitsource 1.03 1.33 1.32 | 1.32 | 1.33
+------+
These results are overall pleasing: in plenty of cases we observe
performance-per-watt improvements. The few regressions (read/write pgbench and
dbench on the Broadwell machine) are of small magnitude. kernbench loses a few
percentage points (it has a 10-15% performance improvement, but apparently the
increase in power consumption is larger than that). tbench4 and gitsource, which
benefit the most from the patch, keep a positive score in this table which is
a welcome surprise; that suggests that in those particular workloads the
non-invariant schedutil (and active intel_pstate, too) makes some rather
suboptimal frequency selections.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The patch addresses Xeon Core processors that use MSR_PLATFORM_INFO and
MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT to advertise their base frequency and turbo frequencies
respectively. This excludes the recent Xeon Scalable Performance processors
line (Xeon Gold, Platinum etc) whose MSRs have to be parsed differently.
Subsequent patches will address:
* Xeon Scalable Performance processors and Atom Goldmont/Goldmont Plus
* Xeon Phi (Knights Landing, Knights Mill)
* Atom Silvermont
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| 7. REFERENCES
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Tests have been run with the help of the MMTests performance testing
framework, see github.com/gormanm/mmtests. The configuration file names for
the benchmark used are:
db-pgbench-timed-ro-small-xfs
db-pgbench-timed-rw-small-xfs
io-dbench4-async-xfs
network-netperf-unbound
network-tbench
scheduler-unbound
workload-kerndevel-xfs
workload-shellscripts-xfs
hpc-nas-c-class-mpi-full-xfs
hpc-nas-c-class-omp-full
All those benchmarks are generally available on the web:
pgbench: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/pgbench.html
netperf: https://hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/
dbench/tbench: https://dbench.samba.org/
gitsource: git unit test suite, github.com/git/git
NAS Parallel Benchmarks: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html
hackbench: https://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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Vincent Guittot
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2a4b03ffc6 |
sched/fair: Prevent unlimited runtime on throttled group
When a running task is moved on a throttled task group and there is no
other task enqueued on the CPU, the task can keep running using 100% CPU
whatever the allocated bandwidth for the group and although its cfs rq is
throttled. Furthermore, the group entity of the cfs_rq and its parents are
not enqueued but only set as curr on their respective cfs_rqs.
We have the following sequence:
sched_move_task
-dequeue_task: dequeue task and group_entities.
-put_prev_task: put task and group entities.
-sched_change_group: move task to new group.
-enqueue_task: enqueue only task but not group entities because cfs_rq is
throttled.
-set_next_task : set task and group_entities as current sched_entity of
their cfs_rq.
Another impact is that the root cfs_rq runnable_load_avg at root rq stays
null because the group_entities are not enqueued. This situation will stay
the same until an "external" event triggers a reschedule. Let trigger it
immediately instead.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1579011236-31256-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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Wanpeng Li
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e938b9c941 |
sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()
On a machine, CPU 0 is used for housekeeping, the other 39 CPUs in the
same socket are in nohz_full mode. We can observe huge time burn in the
loop for seaching nearest busy housekeeper cpu by ftrace.
2) | get_nohz_timer_target() {
2) 0.240 us | housekeeping_test_cpu();
2) 0.458 us | housekeeping_test_cpu();
...
2) 0.292 us | housekeeping_test_cpu();
2) 0.240 us | housekeeping_test_cpu();
2) 0.227 us | housekeeping_any_cpu();
2) + 43.460 us | }
This patch optimizes the searching logic by finding a nearest housekeeper
CPU in the housekeeping cpumask, it can minimize the worst searching time
from ~44us to < 10us in my testing. In addition, the last iterated busy
housekeeper can become a random candidate while current CPU is a better
fallback if it is a housekeeper.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578876627-11938-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com
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Qais Yousef
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b562d14064 |
sched/uclamp: Reject negative values in cpu_uclamp_write()
The check to ensure that the new written value into cpu.uclamp.{min,max}
is within range, [0:100], wasn't working because of the signed
comparison
7301 if (req.percent > UCLAMP_PERCENT_SCALE) {
7302 req.ret = -ERANGE;
7303 return req;
7304 }
# echo -1 > cpu.uclamp.min
# cat cpu.uclamp.min
42949671.96
Cast req.percent into u64 to force the comparison to be unsigned and
work as intended in capacity_from_percent().
# echo -1 > cpu.uclamp.min
sh: write error: Numerical result out of range
Fixes:
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Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
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ebc0f83c78 |
timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick
The way loadavg is tracked during nohz only pays attention to the load upon entering nohz. This can be particularly noticeable if full nohz is entered while non-idle, and then the cpu goes idle and stays that way for a long time. Use the remote tick to ensure that full nohz cpus report their deltas within a reasonable time. [ swood: Added changelog and removed recheck of stopped tick. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578736419-14628-3-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com |
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Scott Wood
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488603b815 |
sched/core: Don't skip remote tick for idle CPUs
This will be used in the next patch to get a loadavg update from nohz cpus. The delta check is skipped because idle_sched_class doesn't update se.exec_start. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578736419-14628-2-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com |
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Li Guanglei
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dcd6dffb0a |
sched/core: Fix size of rq::uclamp initialization
rq::uclamp is an array of struct uclamp_rq, make sure we clear the
whole thing.
Fixes:
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Qais Yousef
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7226017ad3 |
sched/uclamp: Fix a bug in propagating uclamp value in new cgroups
When a new cgroup is created, the effective uclamp value wasn't updated
with a call to cpu_util_update_eff() that looks at the hierarchy and
update to the most restrictive values.
Fix it by ensuring to call cpu_util_update_eff() when a new cgroup
becomes online.
Without this change, the newly created cgroup uses the default
root_task_group uclamp values, which is 1024 for both uclamp_{min, max},
which will cause the rq to to be clamped to max, hence cause the
system to run at max frequency.
The problem was observed on Ubuntu server and was reproduced on Debian
and Buildroot rootfs.
By default, Ubuntu and Debian create a cpu controller cgroup hierarchy
and add all tasks to it - which creates enough noise to keep the rq
uclamp value at max most of the time. Imitating this behavior makes the
problem visible in Buildroot too which otherwise looks fine since it's a
minimal userspace.
Fixes:
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Valentin Schneider
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686516b55e |
sched/uclamp: Make uclamp util helpers use and return UL values
Vincent pointed out recently that the canonical type for utilization values is 'unsigned long'. Internally uclamp uses 'unsigned int' values for cache optimization, but this doesn't have to be exported to its users. Make the uclamp helpers that deal with utilization use and return unsigned long values. Tested-By: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211113851.24241-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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Qian Cai
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53a23364b6 |
sched/core: Remove unused variable from set_user_nice()
This commit left behind an unused variable: |
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Frederic Weisbecker
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5443a0be61 |
sched: Use fair:prio_changed() instead of ad-hoc implementation
set_user_nice() implements its own version of fair::prio_changed() and therefore misses a specific optimization towards nohz_full CPUs that avoid sending an resched IPI to a reniced task running alone. Use the proper callback instead. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191203160106.18806-3-frederic@kernel.org |
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Linus Torvalds
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168829ad09 |
Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- A comprehensive rewrite of the robust/PI futex code's exit handling
to fix various exit races. (Thomas Gleixner et al)
- Rework the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation using
atomic_fetch_* operations so that the performance impact of the
cmpxchg() loops is mitigated for common refcount operations.
With these performance improvements the generic implementation of
refcount_t should be good enough for everybody - and this got
confirmed by performance testing, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and
REFCOUNT_FULL entirely, leaving the generic implementation enabled
unconditionally. (Will Deacon)
- Other misc changes, fixes, cleanups"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
lkdtm: Remove references to CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function
locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t
locking/refcount: Consolidate REFCOUNT_{MAX,SATURATED} definitions
locking/refcount: Move saturation warnings out of line
locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code
locking/refcount: Move the bulk of the REFCOUNT_FULL implementation into the <linux/refcount.h> header
locking/refcount: Remove unused refcount_*_checked() variants
locking/refcount: Ensure integer operands are treated as signed
locking/refcount: Define constants for saturation and max refcount values
futex: Prevent exit livelock
futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting
futex: Add mutex around futex exit
futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well
futex: Sanitize exit state handling
futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly
futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit
futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec
exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()
futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state
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