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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:15:41 +0100
From: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
mgorman@...hsingularity.net, valentin.schneider@....com,
qais.yousef@....com, dietmar.eggemann@....com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
bsegall@...gle.com, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v7] sched/fair: select idle cpu from idle cpumask for
task wakeup
Le mercredi 09 déc. 2020 à 14:24:04 (+0800), Aubrey Li a écrit :
> Add idle cpumask to track idle cpus in sched domain. Every time
> a CPU enters idle, the CPU is set in idle cpumask to be a wakeup
> target. And if the CPU is not in idle, the CPU is cleared in idle
> cpumask during scheduler tick to ratelimit idle cpumask update.
>
> When a task wakes up to select an idle cpu, scanning idle cpumask
> has lower cost than scanning all the cpus in last level cache domain,
> especially when the system is heavily loaded.
>
> Benchmarks including hackbench, schbench, uperf, sysbench mysql
> and kbuild were tested on a x86 4 socket system with 24 cores per
> socket and 2 hyperthreads per core, total 192 CPUs, no regression
> found.
>
> v6->v7:
> - place the whole idle cpumask mechanism under CONFIG_SMP.
>
> v5->v6:
> - decouple idle cpumask update from stop_tick signal, set idle CPU
> in idle cpumask every time the CPU enters idle
>
> v4->v5:
> - add update_idle_cpumask for s2idle case
> - keep the same ordering of tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() and update_
> idle_cpumask() everywhere
>
> v3->v4:
> - change setting idle cpumask from every idle entry to tickless idle
> if cpu driver is available.
> - move clearing idle cpumask to scheduler_tick to decouple nohz mode.
>
> 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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> 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/core.c | 2 ++
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> kernel/sched/idle.c | 5 ++++
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 4 +++
> kernel/sched/topology.c | 3 +-
> 6 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> index 820511289857..b47b85163607 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/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index c4da7e17b906..c4c51ff3402a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -4011,6 +4011,7 @@ void scheduler_tick(void)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> rq->idle_balance = idle_cpu(cpu);
> + update_idle_cpumask(cpu, false);
Test rq->idle_balance here instead of adding the test in update_idle_cpumask which is only
relevant for this situation.
if (!rq->idle_balance)
update_idle_cpumask(cpu, false);
> trigger_load_balance(rq);
> #endif
> }
> @@ -7186,6 +7187,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
> rq->idle_stamp = 0;
> rq->avg_idle = 2*sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
> rq->max_idle_balance_cost = sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
> + rq->last_idle_state = 1;
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->cfs_tasks);
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index c0c4d9ad7da8..7306f8886120 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -6146,7 +6146,12 @@ 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)
> @@ -6806,6 +6811,50 @@ balance_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct rq_flags *rf)
>
> return newidle_balance(rq, rf) != 0;
> }
> +
> +/*
> + * Update cpu idle state and record this information
> + * in sd_llc_shared->idle_cpus_span.
> + */
> +void update_idle_cpumask(int cpu, bool set_idle)
> +{
> + struct sched_domain *sd;
> + struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> + int idle_state;
> +
> + /*
> + * If called from scheduler tick, only update
> + * idle cpumask if the CPU is busy, as idle
> + * cpumask is also updated on idle entry.
> + *
> + */
> + if (!set_idle && rq->idle_balance)
> + return;
> + /*
> + * Also set SCHED_IDLE cpu in idle cpumask to
> + * allow SCHED_IDLE cpu as a wakeup target
> + */
> + idle_state = set_idle || sched_idle_cpu(cpu);
> + /*
> + * No need to update idle cpumask if the state
> + * does not change.
> + */
> + if (rq->last_idle_state == idle_state)
> + return;
> + /*
> + * Called with irq disabled, rcu_read_lock() is not needed.
> + */
> + sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu));
> + if (unlikely(!sd))
> + return;
> +
> + if (idle_state)
> + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared));
> + else
> + cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared));
> +
> + rq->last_idle_state = idle_state;
> +}
> #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>
> static unsigned long wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *se)
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> index f324dc36fc43..2c517d6a061a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> @@ -257,6 +257,11 @@ static void do_idle(void)
> cpuhp_report_idle_dead();
> arch_cpu_idle_dead();
> }
> + /*
> + * The CPU is about to go idle, set it in idle cpumask
> + * to be a wake up target.
> + */
> + update_idle_cpumask(cpu, true);
>
> arch_cpu_idle_enter();
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index 8d1ca65db3b0..2167ca48f3aa 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -976,6 +976,7 @@ struct rq {
>
> unsigned char nohz_idle_balance;
> unsigned char idle_balance;
> + unsigned char last_idle_state;
>
> unsigned long misfit_task_load;
>
> @@ -1516,6 +1517,8 @@ static inline unsigned int group_first_cpu(struct sched_group *group)
>
> extern int group_balance_cpu(struct sched_group *sg);
>
> +void update_idle_cpumask(int cpu, bool set_idle);
> +
> #if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG) && defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL)
> void register_sched_domain_sysctl(void);
> void dirty_sched_domain_sysctl(int cpu);
> @@ -1536,6 +1539,7 @@ extern void flush_smp_call_function_from_idle(void);
>
> #else /* !CONFIG_SMP: */
> static inline void flush_smp_call_function_from_idle(void) { }
> +static inline void update_idle_cpumask(int cpu, bool set_idle) { }
> #endif
>
> #include "stats.h"
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index 1bd7e3af904f..541bd3a7de4d 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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