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Message-ID: <CAKfTPtAPdagXddz9tHj_hfg_R1R+E6uYcWX+zdbBLgCd4QQE2w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 08:58:55 +0100
From: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...el.com>,
Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>,
Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] sched/fair: select idle cpu from idle cpumask for
task wakeup
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 17:05, Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> From: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...el.com>
>
> Added idle cpumask to track idle cpus in sched domain. When a CPU
> enters idle, its corresponding bit in the idle cpumask will be set,
> and when the CPU exits idle, its bit will be cleared.
>
> When a task wakes up to select an idle cpu, scanning idle cpumask
> has low cost than scanning all the cpus in last level cache domain,
> especially when the system is heavily loaded.
>
> v2->v3:
> - change setting idle cpumask to every idle entry, otherwise schbench
> has a regression of 99th percentile latency.
> - change clearing idle cpumask to nohz_balancer_kick(), so updating
> idle cpumask is ratelimited in the idle exiting path.
> - set SCHED_IDLE cpu in idle cpumask to allow it as a wakeup target.
>
> v1->v2:
> - idle cpumask is updated in the nohz routines, by initializing idle
> cpumask with sched_domain_span(sd), nohz=off case remains the original
> behavior.
>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
> Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
> Cc: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...il.com>
> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/sched/topology.h | 13 ++++++++++
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> kernel/sched/idle.c | 1 +
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 1 +
> kernel/sched/topology.c | 3 ++-
> 5 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> index fb11091129b3..43a641d26154 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> @@ -65,8 +65,21 @@ struct sched_domain_shared {
> atomic_t ref;
> atomic_t nr_busy_cpus;
> int has_idle_cores;
> + /*
> + * Span of all idle CPUs in this domain.
> + *
> + * NOTE: this field is variable length. (Allocated dynamically
> + * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure,
> + * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with)
> + */
> + unsigned long idle_cpus_span[];
> };
>
> +static inline struct cpumask *sds_idle_cpus(struct sched_domain_shared *sds)
> +{
> + return to_cpumask(sds->idle_cpus_span);
> +}
> +
> struct sched_domain {
> /* These fields must be setup */
> struct sched_domain __rcu *parent; /* top domain must be null terminated */
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 6b3b59cc51d6..088d1995594f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -6023,6 +6023,38 @@ void __update_idle_core(struct rq *rq)
> rcu_read_unlock();
> }
>
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, cpu_idle_state);
> +/*
> + * Update cpu idle state and record this information
> + * in sd_llc_shared->idle_cpus_span.
> + */
> +void update_idle_cpumask(struct rq *rq, bool idle_state)
> +{
> + struct sched_domain *sd;
> + int cpu = cpu_of(rq);
> +
> + /*
> + * No need to update idle cpumask if the state
> + * does not change.
> + */
> + if (per_cpu(cpu_idle_state, cpu) == idle_state)
> + return;
> +
> + per_cpu(cpu_idle_state, cpu) = idle_state;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> +
> + sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu));
> + if (!sd || !sd->shared)
> + goto unlock;
> + if (idle_state)
> + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared));
> + else
> + cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared));
> +unlock:
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Scan the entire LLC domain for idle cores; this dynamically switches off if
> * there are no idle cores left in the system; tracked through
> @@ -6136,7 +6168,12 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
>
> time = cpu_clock(this);
>
> - cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), p->cpus_ptr);
> + /*
> + * sched_domain_shared is set only at shared cache level,
> + * this works only because select_idle_cpu is called with
> + * sd_llc.
> + */
> + cpumask_and(cpus, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared), p->cpus_ptr);
>
> for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target) {
> if (!--nr)
> @@ -10070,6 +10107,12 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
> if (unlikely(rq->idle_balance))
> return;
>
> + /* The CPU is not in idle, update idle cpumask */
> + if (unlikely(sched_idle_cpu(cpu))) {
> + /* Allow SCHED_IDLE cpu as a wakeup target */
> + update_idle_cpumask(rq, true);
> + } else
> + update_idle_cpumask(rq, false);
update_idle_cpumask(rq, sched_idle_cpu(cpu)); ?
> /*
> * We may be recently in ticked or tickless idle mode. At the first
> * busy tick after returning from idle, we will update the busy stats.
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> index 1ae95b9150d3..ce1f929d7fbb 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> @@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ static void put_prev_task_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
> static void set_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *next, bool first)
> {
> update_idle_core(rq);
> + update_idle_cpumask(rq, true);
> schedstat_inc(rq->sched_goidle);
> }
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index c82857e2e288..2d1655039ed5 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -1069,6 +1069,7 @@ static inline void update_idle_core(struct rq *rq)
> #else
> static inline void update_idle_core(struct rq *rq) { }
> #endif
> +void update_idle_cpumask(struct rq *rq, bool idle_state);
>
> DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct rq, runqueues);
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index 9079d865a935..f14a6ef4de57 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -1407,6 +1407,7 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
> sd->shared = *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sds, sd_id);
> atomic_inc(&sd->shared->ref);
> atomic_set(&sd->shared->nr_busy_cpus, sd_weight);
> + cpumask_copy(sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared), sched_domain_span(sd));
> }
>
> sd->private = sdd;
> @@ -1769,7 +1770,7 @@ static int __sdt_alloc(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
>
> *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sd, j) = sd;
>
> - sds = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_domain_shared),
> + sds = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_domain_shared) + cpumask_size(),
> GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(j));
> if (!sds)
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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