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Message-ID: <ce714341-af58-2522-69a8-321f02c82893@huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 May 2023 16:21:00 +0800
From:   Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...wei.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:     <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
        <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        <yu.c.chen@...el.com>, <gautham.shenoy@....com>, <mgorman@...e.de>,
        <vschneid@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        <bsegall@...gle.com>, <bristot@...hat.com>,
        <prime.zeng@...wei.com>, <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>,
        <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        <linuxarm@...wei.com>, <21cnbao@...il.com>,
        <kprateek.nayak@....com>, <wuyun.abel@...edance.com>,
        Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] sched/fair: Scan cluster before scanning LLC in
 wake-up path

On 2023/5/30 22:39, Yicong Yang wrote:
> On 2023/5/30 19:55, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 03:02:53PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> index 373ff5f55884..b8c129ed8b47 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> @@ -6994,6 +6994,30 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, bool
>>>  		}
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>> +	if (static_branch_unlikely(&sched_cluster_active)) {
>>> +		struct sched_domain *sdc = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_cluster, target));
>>> +
>>> +		if (sdc) {
>>> +			for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, sched_domain_span(sdc), target + 1) {
>>> +				if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpus))
>>> +					continue;
>>> +
>>> +				if (has_idle_core) {
>>> +					i = select_idle_core(p, cpu, cpus, &idle_cpu);
>>> +					if ((unsigned int)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
>>> +						return i;
>>> +				} else {
>>> +					if (--nr <= 0)
>>> +						return -1;
>>> +					idle_cpu = __select_idle_cpu(cpu, p);
>>> +					if ((unsigned int)idle_cpu < nr_cpumask_bits)
>>> +						return idle_cpu;
>>> +				}
>>> +			}
>>> +			cpumask_andnot(cpus, cpus, sched_domain_span(sdc));
>>> +		}
>>> +	}
>>
>> Would not this:
>>
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -6994,6 +6994,29 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_s
>>  		}
>>  	}
>>  
>> +	if (static_branch_unlikely(&sched_cluster_active)) {
>> +		struct sched_group *sg = sd->groups;
>> +		if (sg->flags & SD_CLUSTER) {
>> +			for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, sched_group_span(sg), target+1) {
>> +				if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpus))
>> +					continue;
>> +
>> +				if (has_idle_core) {
>> +					i = select_idle_core(p, cpu, cpus, &idle_cpu);
>> +					if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
>> +						return 1;
>> +				} else {
>> +					if (--nr <= 0)
>> +						return -1;
>> +					idle_cpu = __select_idle_cpu(cpu, p);
>> +					if ((unsigned)idle_cpu < nr_cpumask_bits)
>> +						return idle_cpu;
>> +				}
>> +			}
>> +			cpumask_andnot(cpus, cpus, sched_group_span(sg));
>> +		}
>> +	}
>> +
>>  	for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target + 1) {
>>  		if (has_idle_core) {
>>  			i = select_idle_core(p, cpu, cpus, &idle_cpu);
>>
>> also work? Then we can avoid the extra sd_cluster per-cpu variable.
>>
> 
> I thought it will be fine since sg->flags is derived from the child domain. But practically it doesn't.
> Tested on a 2P Skylake server with no clusters, add some debug messages to see how sg->flags appears:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index 69968ed9ffb9..5c443b74abf5 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ static int sched_domain_debug_one(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu, int level,
> 
>                 cpumask_or(groupmask, groupmask, sched_group_span(group));
> 
> -               printk(KERN_CONT " %d:{ span=%*pbl",
> -                               group->sgc->id,
> +               printk(KERN_CONT " %d:{ cluster: %s span=%*pbl",
> +                               group->sgc->id, group->flags & SD_CLUSTER ? "true" : "false",
>                                 cpumask_pr_args(sched_group_span(group)));
> 
>                 if ((sd->flags & SD_OVERLAP) &&
> 
> Unfortunately the result doesn't match what I expected, the MC domain's sg->flags still marked
> as cluster:
> 
> [    8.886099] CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
> [    8.889539]  domain-0: span=0,40 level=SMT
> [    8.893538]   groups: 0:{ cluster: false span=0 }, 40:{ cluster: false span=40 }
> [    8.897538]   domain-1: span=0-19,40-59 level=MC
> [    8.901538]    groups: 0:{ cluster: true span=0,40 cap=2048 }, 1:{ cluster: true span=1,41 cap=2048 }, 2:{ cluster: true span=2,42 cap=2048 }, 3:{ cluster: true span=3,43 cap=2048 }, 4:{ cluster: true span=4,44 cap=2048 }, 5:{ cluster: true span=5,45 cap=2048 }, 6:{ cluster: true span=6,46 cap=2048 }, 7:{ cluster: true span=7,47 cap=2048 }, 8:{ cluster: true span=8,48 cap=2048 }, 9:{ cluster: true span=9,49 cap=2048 }, 10:{ cluster: true span=10,50 cap=2048 }, 11:{ cluster: true span=11,51 cap=2048 }, 12:{ cluster: true span=12,52 cap=2048 }, 13:{ cluster: true span=13,53 cap=2048 }, 14:{ cluster: true span=14,54 cap=2048 }, 15:{ cluster: true span=15,55 cap=2048 }, 16:{ cluster: true span=16,56 cap=2048 }, 17:{ cluster: true span=17,57 cap=2048 }, 18:{ cluster: true span=18,58 cap=2048 }, 19:{ cluster: true span=19,59 cap=2048 }
> [    8.905538]    domain-2: span=0-79 level=NUMA
> [    8.909538]     groups: 0:{ cluster: false span=0-19,40-59 cap=40960 }, 20:{ cluster: false span=20-39,60-79 cap=40960 }
> 
> I assume we didn't handle the sg->flags correctly on the domain degeneration. Simply checked the code seems
> we've already make sg->flags = 0 on degeneration, maybe I need to check where's wrong.
> 

Currently we only update the groups' flags to 0 for the final lowest domain in [1]. The upper
domains' group won't be updated if degeneration happens. So we cannot use the suggested approach
for cluster scanning and sd_cluster per-cpu variable is still needed.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/sched/topology.c?h=v6.4-rc4#n749

Thanks.


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