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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:00:15 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@...adcom.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rcu: move SRCU grace period work to power efficient
 workqueue

On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 05:50 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: 
> On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 08:41 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> > So maybe start with Kevin's patch, but augment with something else for
> > the !NO_HZ_FULL case?
> 
> Sure (hm, does it work without workqueue.disable_numa ?).

I took patch out for a spin on a 40 core box +SMT, with CPUs 4-79
isolated via exclusive cpuset with load balancing off.  Worker bees
ignored patch either way.

-Mike

Perturbation measurement hog pinned to CPU4.

With patch:

#           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||||  TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
#              | |       |   ||||||     |         |
            pert-9949  [004] ....113   405.120164: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a5c4ecc08 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=4
            pert-9949  [004] ....113   405.120166: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a5c4ecc08
            pert-9949  [004] d.L.313   405.120169: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/4:2 pid=2119 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=004
            pert-9949  [004] d.Lh213   405.120170: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
            pert-9949  [004] d.L.213   405.120172: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
            pert-9949  [004] d...3..   405.120173: sched_switch: prev_comm=pert prev_pid=9949 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=kworker/4:2 next_pid=2119 next_prio=120
     kworker/4:2-2119  [004] ....1..   405.120174: workqueue_execute_start: work struct ffff880a5c4ecc08: function flush_to_ldisc
     kworker/4:2-2119  [004] d...311   405.120176: sched_wakeup: comm=sshd pid=6620 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
     kworker/4:2-2119  [004] ....1..   405.120176: workqueue_execute_end: work struct ffff880a5c4ecc08
     kworker/4:2-2119  [004] d...3..   405.120177: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/4:2 prev_pid=2119 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pert next_pid=9949 next_prio=120
            pert-9949  [004] ....113   405.120178: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a5c4ecc08 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=4
            pert-9949  [004] ....113   405.120179: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a5c4ecc08
            pert-9949  [004] d.L.313   405.120179: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/4:2 pid=2119 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=004
            pert-9949  [004] d.L.213   405.120181: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
            pert-9949  [004] d...3..   405.120181: sched_switch: prev_comm=pert prev_pid=9949 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=kworker/4:2 next_pid=2119 next_prio=120
     kworker/4:2-2119  [004] ....1..   405.120182: workqueue_execute_start: work struct ffff880a5c4ecc08: function flush_to_ldisc
     kworker/4:2-2119  [004] ....1..   405.120183: workqueue_execute_end: work struct ffff880a5c4ecc08
     kworker/4:2-2119  [004] d...3..   405.120183: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/4:2 prev_pid=2119 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pert next_pid=9949 next_prio=120
            pert-9949  [004] d...1..   405.120736: tick_stop: success=yes msg= 
            pert-9949  [004] ....113   410.121082: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a5c4ecc08 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=4
            pert-9949  [004] ....113   410.121082: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a5c4ecc08
            pert-9949  [004] d.L.313   410.121084: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/4:2 pid=2119 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=004
            pert-9949  [004] d.Lh213   410.121085: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
            pert-9949  [004] d.L.213   410.121087: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
            ...and so on until tick time


(extra cheezy) hack kinda sorta works iff workqueue.disable_numa:

---
 kernel/workqueue.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1328,8 +1328,11 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 retry:
-	if (req_cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
+	if (req_cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND) {
 		cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+		if (runqueue_is_isolated(cpu))
+			cpu = 0;
+	}
 
 	/* pwq which will be used unless @work is executing elsewhere */
 	if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND))


#           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||||  TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
#              | |       |   ||||||     |         |
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5555.889694: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a596eb008 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=0
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5555.889695: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a596eb008
           <...>-33824 [004] d...313  5555.889697: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/0:2 pid=2105 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5560.890594: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a596eb008 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=0
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5560.890595: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a596eb008
           <...>-33824 [004] d...313  5560.890596: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/0:2 pid=2105 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5565.891493: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a596eb008 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=0
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5565.891493: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a596eb008
           <...>-33824 [004] d...313  5565.891494: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/0:2 pid=2105 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5570.892401: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a596eb008 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=0
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5570.892401: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a596eb008
           <...>-33824 [004] d...313  5570.892403: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/0:2 pid=2105 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5575.893300: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880a596eb008 function=flush_to_ldisc workqueue=ffff88046f40ba00 req_cpu=256 cpu=0
           <...>-33824 [004] ....113  5575.893301: workqueue_activate_work: work struct ffff880a596eb008
           <...>-33824 [004] d...313  5575.893302: sched_wakeup: comm=kworker/0:2 pid=2105 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
           <...>-33824 [004] d..h1..  5578.854979: softirq_raise: vec=1 [action=TIMER]
           <...>-33824 [004] dN..3..  5578.854981: sched_wakeup: comm=sirq-timer/4 pid=319 prio=69 success=1 target_cpu=004
           <...>-33824 [004] dN..1..  5578.854982: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
           <...>-33824 [004] dN.h1..  5578.854983: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
           <...>-33824 [004] dN..1..  5578.854985: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
           <...>-33824 [004] d...3..  5578.854986: sched_switch: prev_comm=pert prev_pid=33824 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=sirq-timer/4 next_pid=319 next_prio=69
    sirq-timer/4-319   [004] d..h3..  5578.854987: softirq_raise: vec=1 [action=TIMER]
    sirq-timer/4-319   [004] d...3..  5578.854989: tick_stop: success=no msg=more than 1 task in runqueue
    sirq-timer/4-319   [004] ....111  5578.854990: softirq_entry: vec=1 [action=TIMER]
    sirq-timer/4-319   [004] ....111  5578.855194: softirq_exit: vec=1 [action=TIMER]     <== 204us tick, not good... to_stare_at++
    sirq-timer/4-319   [004] d...3..  5578.855196: sched_switch: prev_comm=sirq-timer/4 prev_pid=319 prev_prio=69 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pert next_pid=33824 next_prio=120
           <...>-33824 [004] d...1..  5578.855987: tick_stop: success=yes msg= 
           ...etc


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