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Message-Id: <1266628424.4729.23.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:13:44 -0800
From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Ma, Ling" <ling.ma@...el.com>,
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
"ego@...ibm.com" <ego@...ibm.com>,
"svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: change in sched cpu_power causing regressions with SCHED_MC
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 12:02 -0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:50 -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:47 -0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 10:36 -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > > > exec/fork balance is not broken. i.e., during exec/fork we balance the
> > > > load equally among sockets/cores etc. What is broken is:
> > > >
> > > > a) In SMT case, once we end up in a situation where both the threads of
> > > > the core are busy , with another core completely idle, load balance is
> > > > not moving one of the threads to the idle core. This unbalanced
> > > > situation can happen because of a previous wake-up decision and/or
> > > > threads on other core went to sleep/died etc. Once we end up in this
> > > > unbalanced situation, we continue in that state with out fixing it.
> > > >
> > > > b) Similar to "a", this is MC case where we end up four cores busy in
> > > > one socket with other 4 cores in another socket completely idle. And
> > > > this is the situation which we are trying to solve in this patch.
> > > >
> > > > In your above example, we test mostly fork/exec balance but not the
> > > > above sleep/wakeup scenarios.
> > >
> > > Ah, indeed. Let me extend my script to cover that.
> > >
> > > The below script does indeed show a change, but the result still isn't
> > > perfect, when I do ./show-loop 8, it starts 8 loops nicely spread over 2
> > > sockets, the difference is that all 4 remaining would stay on socket 0,
> > > the patched kernel gets 1 over to socket 1.
> >
> > Peter, Have you applied both my smt patch and mc patch?
>
> Yes, find_busiest_queue() has the wl fixup in (as per tip/master).
Ok Peter. There is another place that is scaling load_per_task with
cpu_power but later comparing with the difference of max and min of the
actual cpu load. :(
avg_load_per_task = (sum_avg_load_per_task * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE) /
group->cpu_power;
if ((max_cpu_load - min_cpu_load) > 2*avg_load_per_task)
sgs->group_imb = 1;
Fixing this seems to have fixed the problem you mentioned. Can you
please checkout the appended patch? If everything seems ok, then I will
send the patch (against -tip tree) on monday morning with the detailed
changelog.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
---
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 3a8fb30..213b445 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3423,6 +3423,7 @@ struct sd_lb_stats {
unsigned long max_load;
unsigned long busiest_load_per_task;
unsigned long busiest_nr_running;
+ unsigned long busiest_group_capacity;
int group_imb; /* Is there imbalance in this sd */
#if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_MC) || defined(CONFIG_SCHED_SMT)
@@ -3742,8 +3743,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
unsigned long load, max_cpu_load, min_cpu_load;
int i;
unsigned int balance_cpu = -1, first_idle_cpu = 0;
- unsigned long sum_avg_load_per_task;
- unsigned long avg_load_per_task;
+ unsigned long avg_load_per_task = 0;
if (local_group) {
balance_cpu = group_first_cpu(group);
@@ -3752,7 +3752,6 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
}
/* Tally up the load of all CPUs in the group */
- sum_avg_load_per_task = avg_load_per_task = 0;
max_cpu_load = 0;
min_cpu_load = ~0UL;
@@ -3782,7 +3781,6 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
sgs->sum_nr_running += rq->nr_running;
sgs->sum_weighted_load += weighted_cpuload(i);
- sum_avg_load_per_task += cpu_avg_load_per_task(i);
}
/*
@@ -3801,6 +3799,9 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
sgs->avg_load = (sgs->group_load * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE) / group->cpu_power;
+ if (sgs->sum_nr_running)
+ avg_load_per_task =
+ sgs->sum_weighted_load / sgs->sum_nr_running;
/*
* Consider the group unbalanced when the imbalance is larger
* than the average weight of two tasks.
@@ -3810,9 +3811,6 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
* normalized nr_running number somewhere that negates
* the hierarchy?
*/
- avg_load_per_task = (sum_avg_load_per_task * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE) /
- group->cpu_power;
-
if ((max_cpu_load - min_cpu_load) > 2*avg_load_per_task)
sgs->group_imb = 1;
@@ -3880,6 +3878,7 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu,
sds->max_load = sgs.avg_load;
sds->busiest = group;
sds->busiest_nr_running = sgs.sum_nr_running;
+ sds->busiest_group_capacity = sgs.group_capacity;
sds->busiest_load_per_task = sgs.sum_weighted_load;
sds->group_imb = sgs.group_imb;
}
@@ -3902,6 +3901,7 @@ static inline void fix_small_imbalance(struct sd_lb_stats *sds,
{
unsigned long tmp, pwr_now = 0, pwr_move = 0;
unsigned int imbn = 2;
+ unsigned long scaled_busy_load_per_task;
if (sds->this_nr_running) {
sds->this_load_per_task /= sds->this_nr_running;
@@ -3912,8 +3912,12 @@ static inline void fix_small_imbalance(struct sd_lb_stats *sds,
sds->this_load_per_task =
cpu_avg_load_per_task(this_cpu);
- if (sds->max_load - sds->this_load + sds->busiest_load_per_task >=
- sds->busiest_load_per_task * imbn) {
+ scaled_busy_load_per_task = sds->busiest_load_per_task
+ * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE;
+ scaled_busy_load_per_task /= sds->busiest->cpu_power;
+
+ if (sds->max_load - sds->this_load + scaled_busy_load_per_task >=
+ (scaled_busy_load_per_task * imbn)) {
*imbalance = sds->busiest_load_per_task;
return;
}
@@ -3964,7 +3968,7 @@ static inline void fix_small_imbalance(struct sd_lb_stats *sds,
static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct sd_lb_stats *sds, int this_cpu,
unsigned long *imbalance)
{
- unsigned long max_pull;
+ unsigned long max_pull, load_above_capacity = ~0UL;
/*
* In the presence of smp nice balancing, certain scenarios can have
* max load less than avg load(as we skip the groups at or below
@@ -3975,9 +3979,30 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct sd_lb_stats *sds, int this_cpu,
return fix_small_imbalance(sds, this_cpu, imbalance);
}
- /* Don't want to pull so many tasks that a group would go idle */
- max_pull = min(sds->max_load - sds->avg_load,
- sds->max_load - sds->busiest_load_per_task);
+ if (!sds->group_imb) {
+ /*
+ * Don't want to pull so many tasks that a group would go idle.
+ */
+ load_above_capacity = (sds->busiest_nr_running -
+ sds->busiest_group_capacity);
+
+ load_above_capacity *= (SCHED_LOAD_SCALE * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE);
+
+ load_above_capacity /= sds->busiest->cpu_power;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * We're trying to get all the cpus to the average_load, so we don't
+ * want to push ourselves above the average load, nor do we wish to
+ * reduce the max loaded cpu below the average load, as either of these
+ * actions would just result in more rebalancing later, and ping-pong
+ * tasks around. Thus we look for the minimum possible imbalance.
+ * Negative imbalances (*we* are more loaded than anyone else) will
+ * be counted as no imbalance for these purposes -- we can't fix that
+ * by pulling tasks to us. Be careful of negative numbers as they'll
+ * appear as very large values with unsigned longs.
+ */
+ max_pull = min(sds->max_load - sds->avg_load, load_above_capacity);
/* How much load to actually move to equalise the imbalance */
*imbalance = min(max_pull * sds->busiest->cpu_power,
@@ -4069,19 +4094,6 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu,
sds.busiest_load_per_task =
min(sds.busiest_load_per_task, sds.avg_load);
- /*
- * We're trying to get all the cpus to the average_load, so we don't
- * want to push ourselves above the average load, nor do we wish to
- * reduce the max loaded cpu below the average load, as either of these
- * actions would just result in more rebalancing later, and ping-pong
- * tasks around. Thus we look for the minimum possible imbalance.
- * Negative imbalances (*we* are more loaded than anyone else) will
- * be counted as no imbalance for these purposes -- we can't fix that
- * by pulling tasks to us. Be careful of negative numbers as they'll
- * appear as very large values with unsigned longs.
- */
- if (sds.max_load <= sds.busiest_load_per_task)
- goto out_balanced;
/* Looks like there is an imbalance. Compute it */
calculate_imbalance(&sds, this_cpu, imbalance);
--
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