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Date:   Thu, 3 Nov 2022 11:01:40 +0800
From:   Song Zhang <zhangsong34@...wei.com>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
CC:     <mingo@...hat.com>, <peterz@...radead.org>,
        <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        <keescook@...omium.org>, <yzaikin@...gle.com>,
        <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        <bsegall@...gle.com>, <mgorman@...e.de>, <bristot@...hat.com>,
        <vschneid@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Introduce priority load balance for CFS

Thanks for your reply!

On 2022/11/3 2:01, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 04:54, Song Zhang <zhangsong34@...wei.com> wrote:
>>
> 
> This really looks like a v3 of
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220810015636.3865248-1-zhangsong34@huawei.com/
> 
> Please keep versioning.
> 
>> Add a new sysctl interface:
>> /proc/sys/kernel/sched_prio_load_balance_enabled
> 
> We don't want to add more sysctl knobs for the scheduler, we even
> removed some. Knob usually means that you want to fix your use case
> but the solution doesn't make sense for all cases.
> 

OK, I will remove this knobs later.

>>
>> 0: default behavior
>> 1: enable priority load balance for CFS
>>
>> For co-location with idle and non-idle tasks, when CFS do load balance,
>> it is reasonable to prefer migrating non-idle tasks and migrating idle
>> tasks lastly. This will reduce the interference by SCHED_IDLE tasks
>> as much as possible.
> 
> I don't agree that it's always the best choice to migrate a non-idle task 1st.
> 
> CPU0 has 1 non idle task and CPU1 has 1 non idle task and hundreds of
> idle task and there is an imbalance between the 2 CPUS: migrating the
> non idle task from CPU1 to CPU0 is not the best choice
> 

If the non idle task on CPU1 is running or cache hot, it cannot be 
migrated and idle tasks can also be migrated from CPU1 to CPU0. So I 
think it does not matter.

>>
>> Testcase:
>> - Spawn large number of idle(SCHED_IDLE) tasks occupy CPUs
> 
> What do you mean by a large number ?
> 
>> - Let non-idle tasks compete with idle tasks for CPU time.
>>
>> Using schbench to test non-idle tasks latency:
>> $ ./schbench -m 1 -t 10 -r 30 -R 200
> 
> How many CPUs do you have ?
> 

OK, some details may not be mentioned.
My virtual machine has 8 CPUs running with a schbench process and 5000 
idle tasks. The idle task is a while dead loop process below:

$ cat idle_process.c
int main()
{
         int i = 0;
         while(1) {
                 usleep(500);
                 for(i = 0; i < 1000000; i++);
         }
}

You can compile and spawn 5000 idle(SCHED_IDLE) tasks occupying 8 CPUs 
and execute schbench command to test it.

>>
>> Test result:
>> 1.Default behavior
>> Latency percentiles (usec) runtime 30 (s) (4562 total samples)
>>          50.0th: 62528 (2281 samples)
>>          75.0th: 623616 (1141 samples)
>>          90.0th: 764928 (687 samples)
>>          95.0th: 824320 (225 samples)
>>          *99.0th: 920576 (183 samples)
>>          99.5th: 953344 (23 samples)
>>          99.9th: 1008640 (18 samples)
>>          min=9, max=1074466
>>
>> 2.Enable priority load balance
>> Latency percentiles (usec) runtime 30 (s) (4391 total samples)
>>          50.0th: 22624 (2204 samples)
>>          75.0th: 48832 (1092 samples)
>>          90.0th: 85376 (657 samples)
>>          95.0th: 113280 (220 samples)
>>          *99.0th: 182528 (175 samples)
>>          99.5th: 206592 (22 samples)
>>          99.9th: 290304 (17 samples)
>>          min=6, max=351815
>>
>>  From percentile details, we see the benefit of priority load balance
>> that 95% of non-idle tasks latencies stays no more than 113ms, while
> 
> But even 113ms seems quite a large number if there is anything else
> but 10 schbench workers and a bunch of idle threads that are running.
> 
>> non-idle tasks latencies has got almost 50% over 600ms if priority
>> load balance not enabled.
> 
> Als have you considered enabling sched_feature LB_MIN ?
> 

I have tried to echo LB_MIN > /sys/kernel/debug/sched/features, but this 
feature seems make no sense.

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Song Zhang <zhangsong34@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>   include/linux/sched/sysctl.h |  4 +++
>>   init/Kconfig                 | 10 ++++++
>>   kernel/sched/core.c          |  3 ++
>>   kernel/sched/fair.c          | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   kernel/sched/sched.h         |  3 ++
>>   kernel/sysctl.c              | 11 +++++++
>>   6 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
>> index 303ee7dd0c7e..9b3673269ecc 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
>> @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_promote_rate_limit;
>>   #define sysctl_numa_balancing_mode     0
>>   #endif
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_prio_load_balance_enabled;
>> +#endif
>> +
>>   int sysctl_numa_balancing(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
>>                  size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
>>
>> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
>> index 694f7c160c9c..b0dfe6701218 100644
>> --- a/init/Kconfig
>> +++ b/init/Kconfig
>> @@ -1026,6 +1026,16 @@ config CFS_BANDWIDTH
>>            restriction.
>>            See Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst for more information.
>>
>> +config SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       bool "Priority load balance for CFS"
>> +       depends on SMP
>> +       default n
>> +       help
>> +         This feature enable CFS priority load balance to reduce
>> +         non-idle tasks latency interferenced by SCHED_IDLE tasks.
>> +         It prefer migrating non-idle tasks firstly and
>> +         migrating SCHED_IDLE tasks lastly.
>> +
>>   config RT_GROUP_SCHED
>>          bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO"
>>          depends on CGROUP_SCHED
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
>> index 5800b0623ff3..9be35431fdd5 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
>> @@ -9731,6 +9731,9 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
>>                  rq->max_idle_balance_cost = sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
>>
>>                  INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->cfs_tasks);
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->cfs_idle_tasks);
>> +#endif
>>
>>                  rq_attach_root(rq, &def_root_domain);
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> index e4a0b8bd941c..bdeb04324f0c 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ static int __init setup_sched_thermal_decay_shift(char *str)
>>   }
>>   __setup("sched_thermal_decay_shift=", setup_sched_thermal_decay_shift);
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +unsigned int sysctl_sched_prio_load_balance_enabled;
>> +#endif
>> +
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>>   /*
>>    * For asym packing, by default the lower numbered CPU has higher priority.
>> @@ -3199,6 +3203,21 @@ static inline void update_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
>>
>>   #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +static void
>> +adjust_rq_cfs_tasks(
>> +       void (*list_op)(struct list_head *, struct list_head *),
>> +       struct rq *rq,
>> +       struct sched_entity *se)
>> +{
>> +       if (sysctl_sched_prio_load_balance_enabled &&
>> +               task_has_idle_policy(task_of(se)))
>> +               (*list_op)(&se->group_node, &rq->cfs_idle_tasks);
>> +       else
>> +               (*list_op)(&se->group_node, &rq->cfs_tasks);
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>>   static void
>>   account_entity_enqueue(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>>   {
>> @@ -3208,7 +3227,11 @@ account_entity_enqueue(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>>                  struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq);
>>
>>                  account_numa_enqueue(rq, task_of(se));
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +               adjust_rq_cfs_tasks(list_add, rq, se);
>> +#else
>>                  list_add(&se->group_node, &rq->cfs_tasks);
>> +#endif
>>          }
>>   #endif
>>          cfs_rq->nr_running++;
>> @@ -7631,7 +7654,11 @@ done: __maybe_unused;
>>           * the list, so our cfs_tasks list becomes MRU
>>           * one.
>>           */
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       adjust_rq_cfs_tasks(list_move, rq, &p->se);
>> +#else
>>          list_move(&p->se.group_node, &rq->cfs_tasks);
>> +#endif
>>   #endif
>>
>>          if (hrtick_enabled_fair(rq))
>> @@ -8156,11 +8183,18 @@ static void detach_task(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
>>   static struct task_struct *detach_one_task(struct lb_env *env)
>>   {
>>          struct task_struct *p;
>> +       struct list_head *tasks = &env->src_rq->cfs_tasks;
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       bool has_detach_idle_tasks = false;
>> +#endif
>>
>>          lockdep_assert_rq_held(env->src_rq);
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +again:
>> +#endif
>>          list_for_each_entry_reverse(p,
>> -                       &env->src_rq->cfs_tasks, se.group_node) {
>> +                       tasks, se.group_node) {
>>                  if (!can_migrate_task(p, env))
>>                          continue;
>>
>> @@ -8175,6 +8209,13 @@ static struct task_struct *detach_one_task(struct lb_env *env)
>>                  schedstat_inc(env->sd->lb_gained[env->idle]);
>>                  return p;
>>          }
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       if (sysctl_sched_prio_load_balance_enabled && !has_detach_idle_tasks) {
>> +               has_detach_idle_tasks = true;
>> +               tasks = &env->src_rq->cfs_idle_tasks;
>> +               goto again;
>> +       }
>> +#endif
>>          return NULL;
>>   }
>>
>> @@ -8190,6 +8231,9 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *env)
>>          unsigned long util, load;
>>          struct task_struct *p;
>>          int detached = 0;
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       bool has_detach_idle_tasks = false;
>> +#endif
>>
>>          lockdep_assert_rq_held(env->src_rq);
>>
>> @@ -8205,6 +8249,9 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *env)
>>          if (env->imbalance <= 0)
>>                  return 0;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +again:
>> +#endif
>>          while (!list_empty(tasks)) {
>>                  /*
>>                   * We don't want to steal all, otherwise we may be treated likewise,
>> @@ -8310,6 +8357,14 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *env)
>>                  list_move(&p->se.group_node, tasks);
>>          }
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       if (sysctl_sched_prio_load_balance_enabled &&
>> +               !has_detach_idle_tasks && env->imbalance > 0) {
>> +               has_detach_idle_tasks = true;
>> +               tasks = &env->src_rq->cfs_idle_tasks;
>> +               goto again;
>> +       }
>> +#endif
>>          /*
>>           * Right now, this is one of only two places we collect this stat
>>           * so we can safely collect detach_one_task() stats here rather
>> @@ -11814,7 +11869,11 @@ static void set_next_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool first)
>>                   * Move the next running task to the front of the list, so our
>>                   * cfs_tasks list becomes MRU one.
>>                   */
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +               adjust_rq_cfs_tasks(list_move, rq, se);
>> +#else
>>                  list_move(&se->group_node, &rq->cfs_tasks);
>> +#endif
>>          }
>>   #endif
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
>> index 1644242ecd11..1b831c05ba30 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
>> @@ -1053,6 +1053,9 @@ struct rq {
>>          int                     online;
>>
>>          struct list_head cfs_tasks;
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       struct list_head cfs_idle_tasks;
>> +#endif
>>
>>          struct sched_avg        avg_rt;
>>          struct sched_avg        avg_dl;
>> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
>> index 188c305aeb8b..5fc0f9ffb675 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
>> @@ -2090,6 +2090,17 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
>>                  .extra1         = SYSCTL_ONE,
>>                  .extra2         = SYSCTL_INT_MAX,
>>          },
>> +#endif
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_PRIO_LB
>> +       {
>> +               .procname       = "sched_prio_load_balance_enabled",
>> +               .data           = &sysctl_sched_prio_load_balance_enabled,
>> +               .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
>> +               .mode           = 0644,
>> +               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
>> +               .extra1         = SYSCTL_ZERO,
>> +               .extra2         = SYSCTL_ONE,
>> +       },
>>   #endif
>>          { }
>>   };
>> --
>> 2.27.0
>>
> .

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