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

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Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:54:37 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: bring back select_idle_smt, but
 differently

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 11:42:17AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> I would really prefer to keep that out of select_idle_cpu which aims to merge in one
> single loop the walk through sd_llc. In the case of select_idle_smt, this is done outside
> the loop:

Fair enough.

> @@ -6317,11 +6339,21 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	if (static_branch_likely(&sched_smt_present)) {
> +		smt = test_idle_cores(target, false);
> +		if (!smt && cpus_share_cache(prev, target)) {
> +			/* No idle core. Check if prev has an idle sibling. */
> +			i = select_idle_smt(p, sd, prev);
> +			if ((unsigned int)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
> +				return i;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
>  	sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc, target));
>  	if (!sd)
>  		return target;

It needs to be here, otherwise you're using @sd uninitialized.

> -	i = select_idle_cpu(p, sd, target);
> +	i = select_idle_cpu(p, sd, smt, target);
>  	if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
>  		return i;

Let me have another poke at it.