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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:03:05 +0100
From: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@....com>,
Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Gautham Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Adjust the allowed NUMA imbalance when
SD_NUMA spans multiple LLCs
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 10:44, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net> wrote:
>
> Commit 7d2b5dd0bcc4 ("sched/numa: Allow a floating imbalance between NUMA
> nodes") allowed an imbalance between NUMA nodes such that communicating
> tasks would not be pulled apart by the load balancer. This works fine when
> there is a 1:1 relationship between LLC and node but can be suboptimal
> for multiple LLCs if independent tasks prematurely use CPUs sharing cache.
>
> Zen* has multiple LLCs per node with local memory channels and due to
> the allowed imbalance, it's far harder to tune some workloads to run
> optimally than it is on hardware that has 1 LLC per node. This patch
> allows an imbalance to exist up to the point where LLCs should be balanced
> between nodes.
>
> On a Zen3 machine running STREAM parallelised with OMP to have on instance
> per LLC the results and without binding, the results are
>
> 5.17.0-rc0 5.17.0-rc0
> vanilla sched-numaimb-v6
> MB/sec copy-16 162596.94 ( 0.00%) 580559.74 ( 257.05%)
> MB/sec scale-16 136901.28 ( 0.00%) 374450.52 ( 173.52%)
> MB/sec add-16 157300.70 ( 0.00%) 564113.76 ( 258.62%)
> MB/sec triad-16 151446.88 ( 0.00%) 564304.24 ( 272.61%)
>
> STREAM can use directives to force the spread if the OpenMP is new
> enough but that doesn't help if an application uses threads and
> it's not known in advance how many threads will be created.
>
> Coremark is a CPU and cache intensive benchmark parallelised with
> threads. When running with 1 thread per core, the vanilla kernel
> allows threads to contend on cache. With the patch;
>
> 5.17.0-rc0 5.17.0-rc0
> vanilla sched-numaimb-v5
> Min Score-16 368239.36 ( 0.00%) 389816.06 ( 5.86%)
> Hmean Score-16 388607.33 ( 0.00%) 427877.08 * 10.11%*
> Max Score-16 408945.69 ( 0.00%) 481022.17 ( 17.62%)
> Stddev Score-16 15247.04 ( 0.00%) 24966.82 ( -63.75%)
> CoeffVar Score-16 3.92 ( 0.00%) 5.82 ( -48.48%)
>
> It can also make a big difference for semi-realistic workloads
> like specjbb which can execute arbitrary numbers of threads without
> advance knowledge of how they should be placed. Even in cases where
> the average performance is neutral, the results are more stable.
>
> 5.17.0-rc0 5.17.0-rc0
> vanilla sched-numaimb-v6
> Hmean tput-1 71631.55 ( 0.00%) 73065.57 ( 2.00%)
> Hmean tput-8 582758.78 ( 0.00%) 556777.23 ( -4.46%)
> Hmean tput-16 1020372.75 ( 0.00%) 1009995.26 ( -1.02%)
> Hmean tput-24 1416430.67 ( 0.00%) 1398700.11 ( -1.25%)
> Hmean tput-32 1687702.72 ( 0.00%) 1671357.04 ( -0.97%)
> Hmean tput-40 1798094.90 ( 0.00%) 2015616.46 * 12.10%*
> Hmean tput-48 1972731.77 ( 0.00%) 2333233.72 ( 18.27%)
> Hmean tput-56 2386872.38 ( 0.00%) 2759483.38 ( 15.61%)
> Hmean tput-64 2909475.33 ( 0.00%) 2925074.69 ( 0.54%)
> Hmean tput-72 2585071.36 ( 0.00%) 2962443.97 ( 14.60%)
> Hmean tput-80 2994387.24 ( 0.00%) 3015980.59 ( 0.72%)
> Hmean tput-88 3061408.57 ( 0.00%) 3010296.16 ( -1.67%)
> Hmean tput-96 3052394.82 ( 0.00%) 2784743.41 ( -8.77%)
> Hmean tput-104 2997814.76 ( 0.00%) 2758184.50 ( -7.99%)
> Hmean tput-112 2955353.29 ( 0.00%) 2859705.09 ( -3.24%)
> Hmean tput-120 2889770.71 ( 0.00%) 2764478.46 ( -4.34%)
> Hmean tput-128 2871713.84 ( 0.00%) 2750136.73 ( -4.23%)
> Stddev tput-1 5325.93 ( 0.00%) 2002.53 ( 62.40%)
> Stddev tput-8 6630.54 ( 0.00%) 10905.00 ( -64.47%)
> Stddev tput-16 25608.58 ( 0.00%) 6851.16 ( 73.25%)
> Stddev tput-24 12117.69 ( 0.00%) 4227.79 ( 65.11%)
> Stddev tput-32 27577.16 ( 0.00%) 8761.05 ( 68.23%)
> Stddev tput-40 59505.86 ( 0.00%) 2048.49 ( 96.56%)
> Stddev tput-48 168330.30 ( 0.00%) 93058.08 ( 44.72%)
> Stddev tput-56 219540.39 ( 0.00%) 30687.02 ( 86.02%)
> Stddev tput-64 121750.35 ( 0.00%) 9617.36 ( 92.10%)
> Stddev tput-72 223387.05 ( 0.00%) 34081.13 ( 84.74%)
> Stddev tput-80 128198.46 ( 0.00%) 22565.19 ( 82.40%)
> Stddev tput-88 136665.36 ( 0.00%) 27905.97 ( 79.58%)
> Stddev tput-96 111925.81 ( 0.00%) 99615.79 ( 11.00%)
> Stddev tput-104 146455.96 ( 0.00%) 28861.98 ( 80.29%)
> Stddev tput-112 88740.49 ( 0.00%) 58288.23 ( 34.32%)
> Stddev tput-120 186384.86 ( 0.00%) 45812.03 ( 75.42%)
> Stddev tput-128 78761.09 ( 0.00%) 57418.48 ( 27.10%)
>
> Similarly, for embarassingly parallel problems like NPB-ep, there are
> improvements due to better spreading across LLC when the machine is not
> fully utilised.
>
> vanilla sched-numaimb-v6
> Min ep.D 31.79 ( 0.00%) 26.11 ( 17.87%)
> Amean ep.D 31.86 ( 0.00%) 26.17 * 17.86%*
> Stddev ep.D 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.05 ( 24.41%)
> CoeffVar ep.D 0.22 ( 0.00%) 0.20 ( 7.97%)
> Max ep.D 31.93 ( 0.00%) 26.21 ( 17.91%)
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Good to see that you have been able to move on SD_NUMA instead of
SD_PREFER_SIBLING.
The allowed imbalance looks also more consistent whatever the number of LLC
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guitto@...aro.org>
> ---
> include/linux/sched/topology.h | 1 +
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 22 +++++++-------
> kernel/sched/topology.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> index 8054641c0a7b..56cffe42abbc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ struct sched_domain {
> unsigned int busy_factor; /* less balancing by factor if busy */
> unsigned int imbalance_pct; /* No balance until over watermark */
> unsigned int cache_nice_tries; /* Leave cache hot tasks for # tries */
> + unsigned int imb_numa_nr; /* Nr running tasks that allows a NUMA imbalance */
>
> int nohz_idle; /* NOHZ IDLE status */
> int flags; /* See SD_* */
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 4592ccf82c34..538756bd8e7f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -1489,6 +1489,7 @@ struct task_numa_env {
>
> int src_cpu, src_nid;
> int dst_cpu, dst_nid;
> + int imb_numa_nr;
>
> struct numa_stats src_stats, dst_stats;
>
> @@ -1503,7 +1504,7 @@ struct task_numa_env {
> static unsigned long cpu_load(struct rq *rq);
> static unsigned long cpu_runnable(struct rq *rq);
> static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance,
> - int dst_running, int dst_weight);
> + int dst_running, int imb_numa_nr);
>
> static inline enum
> numa_type numa_classify(unsigned int imbalance_pct,
> @@ -1884,7 +1885,7 @@ static void task_numa_find_cpu(struct task_numa_env *env,
> dst_running = env->dst_stats.nr_running + 1;
> imbalance = max(0, dst_running - src_running);
> imbalance = adjust_numa_imbalance(imbalance, dst_running,
> - env->dst_stats.weight);
> + env->imb_numa_nr);
>
> /* Use idle CPU if there is no imbalance */
> if (!imbalance) {
> @@ -1949,8 +1950,10 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
> */
> rcu_read_lock();
> sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_numa, env.src_cpu));
> - if (sd)
> + if (sd) {
> env.imbalance_pct = 100 + (sd->imbalance_pct - 100) / 2;
> + env.imb_numa_nr = sd->imb_numa_nr;
> + }
> rcu_read_unlock();
>
> /*
> @@ -9003,10 +9006,9 @@ static bool update_pick_idlest(struct sched_group *idlest,
> * This is an approximation as the number of running tasks may not be
> * related to the number of busy CPUs due to sched_setaffinity.
> */
> -static inline bool
> -allow_numa_imbalance(unsigned int running, unsigned int weight)
> +static inline bool allow_numa_imbalance(int running, int imb_numa_nr)
> {
> - return (running < (weight >> 2));
> + return running <= imb_numa_nr;
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -9146,7 +9148,7 @@ find_idlest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int this_cpu)
> * allowed. If there is a real need of migration,
> * periodic load balance will take care of it.
> */
> - if (allow_numa_imbalance(local_sgs.sum_nr_running + 1, local_sgs.group_weight))
> + if (allow_numa_imbalance(local_sgs.sum_nr_running + 1, sd->imb_numa_nr))
> return NULL;
> }
>
> @@ -9238,9 +9240,9 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *sd
> #define NUMA_IMBALANCE_MIN 2
>
> static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance,
> - int dst_running, int dst_weight)
> + int dst_running, int imb_numa_nr)
> {
> - if (!allow_numa_imbalance(dst_running, dst_weight))
> + if (!allow_numa_imbalance(dst_running, imb_numa_nr))
> return imbalance;
>
> /*
> @@ -9352,7 +9354,7 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *s
> /* Consider allowing a small imbalance between NUMA groups */
> if (env->sd->flags & SD_NUMA) {
> env->imbalance = adjust_numa_imbalance(env->imbalance,
> - local->sum_nr_running + 1, local->group_weight);
> + local->sum_nr_running + 1, env->sd->imb_numa_nr);
> }
>
> return;
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index d201a7052a29..e6cd55951304 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -2242,6 +2242,59 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
> }
> }
>
> + /*
> + * Calculate an allowed NUMA imbalance such that LLCs do not get
> + * imbalanced.
> + */
> + for_each_cpu(i, cpu_map) {
> + unsigned int imb = 0;
> + unsigned int imb_span = 1;
> +
> + for (sd = *per_cpu_ptr(d.sd, i); sd; sd = sd->parent) {
> + struct sched_domain *child = sd->child;
> +
> + if (!(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES) && child &&
> + (child->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)) {
> + struct sched_domain *top, *top_p;
> + unsigned int nr_llcs;
> +
> + /*
> + * For a single LLC per node, allow an
> + * imbalance up to 25% of the node. This is an
> + * arbitrary cutoff based on SMT-2 to balance
> + * between memory bandwidth and avoiding
> + * premature sharing of HT resources and SMT-4
> + * or SMT-8 *may* benefit from a different
> + * cutoff.
> + *
> + * For multiple LLCs, allow an imbalance
> + * until multiple tasks would share an LLC
> + * on one node while LLCs on another node
> + * remain idle.
> + */
> + nr_llcs = sd->span_weight / child->span_weight;
> + if (nr_llcs == 1)
> + imb = sd->span_weight >> 2;
> + else
> + imb = nr_llcs;
> + sd->imb_numa_nr = imb;
> +
> + /* Set span based on the first NUMA domain. */
> + top = sd;
> + top_p = top->parent;
> + while (top_p && !(top_p->flags & SD_NUMA)) {
> + top = top->parent;
> + top_p = top->parent;
> + }
> + imb_span = top_p ? top_p->span_weight : sd->span_weight;
> + } else {
> + int factor = max(1U, (sd->span_weight / imb_span));
> +
> + sd->imb_numa_nr = imb * factor;
> + }
> + }
> + }
> +
> /* Calculate CPU capacity for physical packages and nodes */
> for (i = nr_cpumask_bits-1; i >= 0; i--) {
> if (!cpumask_test_cpu(i, cpu_map))
> --
> 2.31.1
>
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