linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: bring back select_idle

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Date:   Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:26:37 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: bring back select_idle_smt, but
 differently

On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 17:10 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 20:19, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com> wrote:
> 
> > -static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct
> > sched_domain *sd, int target)
> > +static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct
> > sched_domain *sd, int prev, int target)
> >  {
> >         struct cpumask *cpus =
> > this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(select_idle_mask);
> >         int i, cpu, idle_cpu = -1, nr = INT_MAX;
> > @@ -6136,23 +6163,32 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct
> > task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
> > 
> >         cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), p->cpus_ptr);
> > 
> > -       if (sched_feat(SIS_PROP) && !smt) {
> > -               u64 avg_cost, avg_idle, span_avg;
> > +       if (!smt) {
> > +               if (cpus_share_cache(prev, target)) {
> 
> Have you checked the impact on no smt system ? would worth a static
> branch.
> 
> Also, this doesn't need to be in select_idle_cpu() which aims to loop
> the sched_domain becaus you only compare  target and prev. So you can
> move this call to select_idle_smt() in select_idle_sibling()

After Mel's rewrite, there no longer are calls to
select_idle_core() or select_idle_smt() in select_idle_sibling().

Everything got folded into one single loop in select_idle_cpu()

I would be happy to pull the static branch out of select_idle_smt()
and place it into this if condition, though. You are right that
would save some overhead on non-smt systems.

Peter, would you prefer a follow-up patch for that or a version 4
of the patch?

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