linux-kernel - [ 052/110] sched/x86: Optimize switch

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Message-Id: <20130925001329.046577656@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:14:50 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Joe Mario <jmario@...hat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [ 052/110] sched/x86: Optimize switch_mm() for multi-threaded workloads

3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

commit 8f898fbbe5ee5e20a77c4074472a1fd088dc47d1 upstream.

Dick Fowles, Don Zickus and Joe Mario have been working on
improvements to perf, and noticed heavy cache line contention
on the mm_cpumask, running linpack on a 60 core / 120 thread
system.

The cause turned out to be unnecessary atomic accesses to the
mm_cpumask. When in lazy TLB mode, the CPU is only removed from
the mm_cpumask if there is a TLB flush event.

Most of the time, no such TLB flush happens, and the kernel
skips the TLB reload. It can also skip the atomic memory
set & test.

Here is a summary of Joe's test results:

 * The __schedule function dropped from 24% of all program cycles down
   to 5.5%.

 * The cacheline contention/hotness for accesses to that bitmask went
   from being the 1st/2nd hottest - down to the 84th hottest (0.3% of
   all shared misses which is now quite cold)

 * The average load latency for the bit-test-n-set instruction in
   __schedule dropped from 10k-15k cycles down to an average of 600 cycles.

 * The linpack program results improved from 133 GFlops to 144 GFlops.
   Peak GFlops rose from 133 to 153.

Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Reported-by: Joe Mario <jmario@...hat.com>
Tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731221421.616d3d20@annuminas.surriel.com
[ Made the comments consistent around the modified code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h |   20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -45,22 +45,28 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_s
 		/* Re-load page tables */
 		load_cr3(next->pgd);

-		/* stop flush ipis for the previous mm */
+		/* Stop flush ipis for the previous mm */
 		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(prev));

-		/*
-		 * load the LDT, if the LDT is different:
-		 */
+		/* Load the LDT, if the LDT is different: */
 		if (unlikely(prev->context.ldt != next->context.ldt))
 			load_LDT_nolock(&next->context);
 	}
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-	else {
+	  else {
 		this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK);
 		BUG_ON(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm) != next);

-		if (!cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))) {
-			/* We were in lazy tlb mode and leave_mm disabled
+		if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))) {
+			/*
+			 * On established mms, the mm_cpumask is only changed
+			 * from irq context, from ptep_clear_flush() while in
+			 * lazy tlb mode, and here. Irqs are blocked during
+			 * schedule, protecting us from simultaneous changes.
+			 */
+			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
+			/*
+			 * We were in lazy tlb mode and leave_mm disabled
 			 * tlb flush IPI delivery. We must reload CR3
 			 * to make sure to use no freed page tables.
 			 */

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