linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC

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Message-ID: <20190618104319.GB4772@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:43:19 +0100
From:   Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:     "Lendacky, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Suthikulpanit, Suravee" <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC

On Tue, 11 Jun, at 05:22:21PM, Lendacky, Thomas wrote:
> On 6/10/19 4:26 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 Jun, at 08:00:35PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>
> >> And then we had two magic values :/
> >>
> >> Should we not 'fix' RECLAIM_DISTANCE for EPYC or something? Because
> >> surely, if we want to load-balance agressively over 30, then so too
> >> should we do node_reclaim() I'm thikning.
> > 
> > Yeah we can fix it just for EPYC, Mel suggested that approach originally.
> > 
> > Suravee, Tom, what's the best way to detect these EPYC machines that need to
> > override RECLAIM_DISTANCE?
> 
> You should be able to do it based on the family. There's an init_amd_zn()
> function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c.  You can add something there or,
> since init_amd_zn() sets X86_FEATURE_ZEN, you could check for that if you
> prefer putting it in a different location.

This works for me under all my tests. Thoughts?

--->8---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index 80a405c2048a..4db4e9e7654b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/topology.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/apic.h>
 #include <asm/cacheinfo.h>
@@ -824,6 +825,8 @@ static void init_amd_zn(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
 	set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_ZEN);
 
+	node_reclaim_distance = 32;
+
 	/* Fix erratum 1076: CPB feature bit not being set in CPUID. */
 	if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CPB))
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_CPB);
diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
index cb0775e1ee4b..74b484354ac9 100644
--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void);
  */
 #define RECLAIM_DISTANCE 30
 #endif
+
+extern int __read_mostly node_reclaim_distance;
+
 #ifndef PENALTY_FOR_NODE_WITH_CPUS
 #define PENALTY_FOR_NODE_WITH_CPUS	(1)
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index f53f89df837d..20f0f8f6792b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -1284,6 +1284,7 @@ static int			sched_domains_curr_level;
 int				sched_max_numa_distance;
 static int			*sched_domains_numa_distance;
 static struct cpumask		***sched_domains_numa_masks;
+int __read_mostly		node_reclaim_distance = RECLAIM_DISTANCE;
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -1410,7 +1411,7 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
 
 		sd->flags &= ~SD_PREFER_SIBLING;
 		sd->flags |= SD_SERIALIZE;
-		if (sched_domains_numa_distance[tl->numa_level] > RECLAIM_DISTANCE) {
+		if (sched_domains_numa_distance[tl->numa_level] > node_reclaim_distance) {
 			sd->flags &= ~(SD_BALANCE_EXEC |
 				       SD_BALANCE_FORK |
 				       SD_WAKE_AFFINE);
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index a335f7c1fac4..67f5f09d70ed 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ static bool khugepaged_scan_abort(int nid)
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NUMNODES; i++) {
 		if (!khugepaged_node_load[i])
 			continue;
-		if (node_distance(nid, i) > RECLAIM_DISTANCE)
+		if (node_distance(nid, i) > node_reclaim_distance)
 			return true;
 	}
 	return false;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d66bc8abe0af..8ccaaf3a47f2 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3450,7 +3450,7 @@ bool zone_watermark_ok_safe(struct zone *z, unsigned int order,
 static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
 {
 	return node_distance(zone_to_nid(local_zone), zone_to_nid(zone)) <=
-				RECLAIM_DISTANCE;
+				node_reclaim_distance;
 }
 #else	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
 static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)