linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] Throttle select_idle_sibling when a target domain is overloaded

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Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:12:41 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Throttle select_idle_sibling when a target domain is overloaded

This is a follow-on from the CPU/NUMA load balancer reconcilation
after I noticed that select_idle_sibling() was doing excessive work. It
was originally part of a larger series that merged select_idle_core,
select_idle_sibling and select_idle_cpu as a single pass. Unfortunately,
fixes have invalidated the tests multiple times so this series covers
only one part for now as the tests are extremely time-consuming.

tip/sched/core as of March 13th was used as the baseline with "sched/fair:
fix condition of avg_load calculation" applied which was just picked up
by tip at the time of writing.

Patches 1-2 add schedstats to track the efficiency of
select_idle_sibling(). Ordinarily they are disabled and are only really
of use to a kernel developer. However, I find them more practical to work
with than perf.

Patch 3 is a trivial micro-optimisation that avoids clearing part of
a cpumask if a core has been found.

Patch 4 tracks whether a domain appeared to be overloaded during
select_idle_cpu() so that future scans can abort early if necessary.
This reduces the number of runqueues that are scanned uselessly when
a domain is overloaded.

 include/linux/sched/topology.h |   1 +
 kernel/sched/debug.c           |   6 +++
 kernel/sched/fair.c            | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/sched/features.h        |   3 ++
 kernel/sched/sched.h           |   8 ++++
 kernel/sched/stats.c           |   9 ++--
 6 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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