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Date:	Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:30:47 +0800
From:	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: wake-affine throttle

Log since RFC:
	1. Throttle only when wake-affine failed. (thanks to PeterZ)
	2. Do throttle inside wake_affine(). (thanks to PeterZ)
	3. Other small fix.

Recently testing show that wake-affine stuff cause regression on pgbench, the
hiding rat was finally catched out.

wake-affine stuff is always trying to pull wakee close to waker, by theory,
this will benefit us if waker's cpu cached hot data for wakee, or the extreme
ping-pong case.

However, the whole stuff is somewhat blindly, load balance is the only factor
to be guaranteed, and since the stuff itself is time-consuming, some workload
suffered, pgbench is just the one who has been found.

Thus, throttle the wake-affine stuff for such workload is necessary.

This patch introduced a new knob 'sysctl_sched_wake_affine_interval' with the
default value 1ms (default minimum balance interval), which means wake-affine
will keep silent for 1ms after it returned false.

By turning the new knob, those workload who suffered will have the chance to
stop the regression.

Test:
	Test with 12 cpu X86 server and tip 3.9.0-rc2.

				default
		    base	1ms interval	 10ms interval	 100ms interval
| db_size | clients |  tps  |	|  tps  | 	 |  tps  |	   |  tps  |
+---------+---------+-------+-  +-------+        +-------+         +-------+
| 21 MB   |       1 | 10572 |   | 10804 |        | 10802 |         | 10801 |
| 21 MB   |       2 | 21275 |   | 21533 |        | 21400 |         | 21498 |
| 21 MB   |       4 | 41866 |   | 42158 |        | 42410 |         | 42306 |
| 21 MB   |       8 | 53931 |   | 55796 |        | 58608 | +8.67%  | 59916 | +11.10%
| 21 MB   |      12 | 50956 |   | 52266 |        | 54586 | +7.12%  | 55982 | +9.86%
| 21 MB   |      16 | 49911 |   | 52862 | +5.91% | 55668 | +11.53% | 57255 | +14.71%
| 21 MB   |      24 | 46046 |   | 48820 | +6.02% | 54269 | +17.86% | 58113 | +26.21%
| 21 MB   |      32 | 43405 |   | 46635 | +7.44% | 53690 | +23.70% | 57729 | +33.00%
| 7483 MB |       1 |  7734 |   |  8013 |        |  8046 |         |  7879 |
| 7483 MB |       2 | 19375 |   | 19459 |        | 19448 |         | 19421 |
| 7483 MB |       4 | 37408 |   | 37780 |        | 37937 |         | 37819 |
| 7483 MB |       8 | 49033 |   | 50389 |        | 51636 | +5.31%  | 52294 | +6.65%
| 7483 MB |      12 | 45525 |   | 47794 | +4.98% | 49828 | +9.45%  | 50571 | +11.08%
| 7483 MB |      16 | 45731 |   | 47921 | +4.79% | 50203 | +9.78%  | 52033 | +13.78%
| 7483 MB |      24 | 41533 |   | 44301 | +6.67% | 49697 | +19.66% | 53833 | +29.62%
| 7483 MB |      32 | 36370 |   | 38301 | +5.31% | 48146 | +32.38% | 52795 | +45.16%
| 15 GB   |       1 |  7576 |   |  7926 |        |  7722 |         |  7969 |
| 15 GB   |       2 | 19157 |   | 19284 |        | 19294 |         | 19304 |
| 15 GB   |       4 | 37285 |   | 37539 |        | 37281 |         | 37508 |
| 15 GB   |       8 | 48718 |   | 49176 |        | 50836 | +4.35%  | 51239 | +5.17%
| 15 GB   |      12 | 45167 |   | 47180 | +4.45% | 49206 | +8.94%  | 50126 | +10.98%
| 15 GB   |      16 | 45270 |   | 47293 | +4.47% | 49638 | +9.65%  | 51748 | +14.31%
| 15 GB   |      24 | 40984 |   | 43366 | +5.81% | 49356 | +20.43% | 53157 | +29.70%
| 15 GB   |      32 | 35918 |   | 37632 | +4.77% | 47923 | +33.42% | 52241 | +45.45%

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    5 +++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c   |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sysctl.c       |   10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d35d2b6..e9efd3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1197,6 +1197,10 @@ enum perf_event_task_context {
 	perf_nr_task_contexts,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_wake_affine_interval;
+#endif
+
 struct task_struct {
 	volatile long state;	/* -1 unrunnable, 0 runnable, >0 stopped */
 	void *stack;
@@ -1207,6 +1211,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	struct llist_node wake_entry;
 	int on_cpu;
+	unsigned long next_wake_affine;
 #endif
 	int on_rq;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7a33e59..68eedd7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3087,6 +3087,22 @@ static inline unsigned long effective_load(struct task_group *tg, int cpu,
 
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Default is 1ms, to prevent the wake_affine() stuff working too frequently.
+ */
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_wake_affine_interval = 1U;
+
+static inline int wake_affine_throttled(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	return time_before(jiffies, p->next_wake_affine);
+}
+
+static inline void wake_affine_throttle(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	p->next_wake_affine = jiffies +
+			msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_sched_wake_affine_interval);
+}
+
 static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
 {
 	s64 this_load, load;
@@ -3096,6 +3112,9 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
 	unsigned long weight;
 	int balanced;
 
+	if (wake_affine_throttled(p))
+		return 0;
+
 	idx	  = sd->wake_idx;
 	this_cpu  = smp_processor_id();
 	prev_cpu  = task_cpu(p);
@@ -3167,6 +3186,18 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
 
 		return 1;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * wake_affine() stuff try to pull wakee to the cpu
+	 * around waker, this will benefit us if the data
+	 * cached on waker cpu is hot for wakee, or the extreme
+	 * ping-pong case.
+	 *
+	 * However, do such blindly work too frequently will
+	 * cause regression to some workload, thus, each time
+	 * when wake_affine() failed, throttle it for a while.
+	 */
+	wake_affine_throttle(p);
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index afc1dc6..6ebfc18 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -437,6 +437,16 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= &one,
 	},
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	{
+		.procname	= "sched_wake_affine_interval",
+		.data		= &sysctl_sched_wake_affine_interval,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &zero,
+	},
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
 	{
 		.procname	= "prove_locking",
-- 
1.7.4.1

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