linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/1] Reduce cost of accessing tg->load

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:08:31 +0800
From:   Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Cc:     Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Nitin Tekchandani <nitin.tekchandani@...el.com>,
        Yu Chen <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Deng Pan <pan.deng@...el.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        "Gautham R . Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
        David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Reduce cost of accessing tg->load_avg

RFC v2 -> v1:
- drop RFC;
- move cfs_rq->last_update_tg_load_avg before cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib;
- add Vincent's reviewed-by tag.

RFC v2:
Nitin Tekchandani noticed some scheduler functions have high cost                                                      
according to perf/cycles while running postgres_sysbench workload.                                                     
I perf/annotated the high cost functions: update_cfs_group() and                                                       
update_load_avg() and found the costs were ~90% due to accessing to                                                    
tg->load_avg. This series is an attempt to reduce the overhead of                                                      
the two functions.                                                                                                     

Thanks to Vincent's suggestion from v1, this revision used a simpler way                                               
to solve the overhead problem by limiting updates to tg->load_avg to at                                                
most once per ms. Benchmark shows that it has good results and with the                                                
rate limit in place, other optimizations in v1 don't improve performance                                               
further so they are dropped from this revision.

Aaron Lu (1):
  sched/fair: ratelimit update to tg->load_avg

 kernel/sched/fair.c  | 13 ++++++++++++-
 kernel/sched/sched.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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