linux-kernel - Re: sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle

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Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:36:21 -0800
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 08:38 -0800, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 16:56 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Something like the below maybe, although I'm certain it all can be
> > written much nicer indeed.
> 
> I'll give it a go.
> 
> Squabbling with bouncing buddies in an isolated and otherwise idle
> cpuset ate my day.
>  

Well looks like I managed to have the similar issue in my patch too.
Anyways here is the updated cleaned up version of the patch ;)
---

Avoid select_idle_sibling() from picking a sibling thread if there's
an idle core that shares cache.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
---
 kernel/sched.c      |    2 +
 kernel/sched_fair.c |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 0e9344a..4b0bc6a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -734,6 +734,8 @@ static inline int cpu_of(struct rq *rq)
 #define for_each_domain(cpu, __sd) \
 	for (__sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(cpu_rq(cpu)->sd); __sd; __sd = __sd->parent)
 
+#define for_each_lower_domain(sd) for (; sd; sd = sd->child)
+
 #define cpu_rq(cpu)		(&per_cpu(runqueues, (cpu)))
 #define this_rq()		(&__get_cpu_var(runqueues))
 #define task_rq(p)		cpu_rq(task_cpu(p))
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 5c9e679..020483a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -2241,6 +2241,28 @@ find_idlest_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct *p, int this_cpu)
 	return idlest;
 }
 
+/**
+ * highest_flag_domain - Return highest sched_domain containing flag.
+ * @cpu:	The cpu whose highest level of sched domain is to
+ *		be returned.
+ * @flag:	The flag to check for the highest sched_domain
+ *		for the given cpu.
+ *
+ * Returns the highest sched_domain of a cpu which contains the given flag.
+ */
+static inline struct sched_domain *highest_flag_domain(int cpu, int flag)
+{
+	struct sched_domain *sd, *hsd = NULL;
+
+	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
+		if (!(sd->flags & flag))
+			break;
+		hsd = sd;
+	}
+
+	return hsd;
+}
+
 /*
  * Try and locate an idle CPU in the sched_domain.
  */
@@ -2249,6 +2271,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int target)
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	int prev_cpu = task_cpu(p);
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	struct sched_group *sg;
 	int i;
 
 	/*
@@ -2269,25 +2292,27 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int target)
 	 * Otherwise, iterate the domains and find an elegible idle cpu.
 	 */
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	for_each_domain(target, sd) {
-		if (!(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES))
-			break;
+	sd = highest_flag_domain(target, SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES);
+	for_each_lower_domain(sd) {
+		sg = sd->groups;
+		do {
+			if (!cpumask_intersects(sched_group_cpus(sg),
+						tsk_cpus_allowed(p)))
+				goto next;
 
-		for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_domain_span(sd), tsk_cpus_allowed(p)) {
-			if (idle_cpu(i)) {
-				target = i;
-				break;
+			for_each_cpu(i, sched_group_cpus(sg)) {
+				if (!idle_cpu(i))
+					goto next;
 			}
-		}
 
-		/*
-		 * Lets stop looking for an idle sibling when we reached
-		 * the domain that spans the current cpu and prev_cpu.
-		 */
-		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, sched_domain_span(sd)) &&
-		    cpumask_test_cpu(prev_cpu, sched_domain_span(sd)))
-			break;
+			target = cpumask_first_and(sched_group_cpus(sg),
+					tsk_cpus_allowed(p));
+			goto done;
+next:
+			sg = sg->next;
+		} while (sg != sd->groups);
 	}
+done:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return target;


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