linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 06/52] sched/fair: Make select_idle

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Message-ID: <20171129172100.28819-6-alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:21:14 +0000
From:   alexander.levin@...izon.com
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, alexander.levin@...izon.com
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 06/52] sched/fair: Make select_idle_cpu() more
 aggressive

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

[ Upstream commit 4c77b18cf8b7ab37c7d5737b4609010d2ceec5f0 ]

Kitsunyan reported desktop latency issues on his Celeron 887 because
of commit:

  1b568f0aabf2 ("sched/core: Optimize SCHED_SMT")

... even though his CPU doesn't do SMT.

The effect of running the SMT code on a !SMT part is basically a more
aggressive select_idle_cpu(). Removing the avg condition fixed things
for him.

I also know FB likes this test gone, even though other workloads like
having it.

For now, take it out by default, until we get a better idea.

Reported-by: kitsunyan <kitsunyan@...ox.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c     | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/features.h | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7a68c631d5b5..3d862f5b0331 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5451,7 +5451,7 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
 	 * Due to large variance we need a large fuzz factor; hackbench in
 	 * particularly is sensitive here.
 	 */
-	if ((avg_idle / 512) < avg_cost)
+	if (sched_feat(SIS_AVG_CPU) && (avg_idle / 512) < avg_cost)
 		return -1;
 
 	time = local_clock();
diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index 69631fa46c2f..1b3c8189b286 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ SCHED_FEAT(NONTASK_CAPACITY, true)
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true)
 
+/*
+ * When doing wakeups, attempt to limit superfluous scans of the LLC domain.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(SIS_AVG_CPU, false)
+
 #ifdef HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI
 /*
  * In order to avoid a thundering herd attack of CPUs that are
-- 
2.11.0