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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 23:29:03 +0200
From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
To: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
peterz@...radead.org, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
vschneid@...hat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ionela.voinescu@....com,
quentin.perret@....com, srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
mgorman@...hsingularity.net, mingo@...nel.org,
pierre.gondois@....com, yu.c.chen@...el.com,
tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, pauld@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] sched/topology: change behaviour of sysctl
sched_energy_aware based on the platform
On 26/09/2023 12:00, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> sysctl sched_energy_aware is available for the admin to disable/enable
> energy aware scheduling(EAS). EAS is enabled only if few conditions are
> met by the platform. They are, asymmetric CPU capacity, no SMT,
> valid cpufreq policy, frequency invariant load tracking etc. A platform may
s/valid cpufreq policy/Schedutil CPUfreq governor
+ EM complexity < EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY
> boot without EAS capability, but could gain such capability at runtime
> For example, changing/registering the cpufreq policy.
s/cpufreq policy/CPUfreq governor to Schedutil
> At present, though platform doesn't support EAS, this sysctl returns 1
> and it ends up calling rebuild of sched domain on write to 1 and
sched domains are not rebuild in this case, i.e.
partition_sched_domains_locked() does not call detach_destroy_domains()
or build_sched_domains(). Only build_perf_domains() is called which
bails out if !sysctl_sched_energy_aware or one of the EAS conditions is
not true.
> NOP when writing to 0. That is confusing and un-necessary.
>
> Desired behavior would be to, have this sysctl to enable/disable the EAS
> on supported platform. On Non supported platform write to the sysctl
> would return not supported error and read of the sysctl would return
> empty. So
> sched_energy_aware returns empty - EAS is not possible at this moment
> sched_energy_aware returns 0 - EAS is supported but disabled by admin.
> sched_energy_aware returns 1 - EAS is supported and enabled.
> User can find out the reason why EAS is not possible by checking
> info messages.
This will include EAS capable platforms which have at least one EAS
condition false during startup, e.g. using a Performance CPUfreq governor:
root@...o:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_energy_aware
root@...o:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_energy_aware
echo: write error: Operation not supported
log messages:
...
[ 160.902138] rd 0-5: Checking EAS, schedutil is mandatory
...
[ 324.467341] rd 0-5: Checking EAS, schedutil is mandatory
...
root@...o:~# echo schedutil >
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
root@...o:~# echo schedutil >
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy1/scaling_governor
log messages:
...
[ 414.195073] root_domain 0-5: pd1:{ cpus=1-2 nr_pstate=5 } pd0:{
cpus=0,3-5 nr_pstate=5 }
[ 414.210877] sched_energy_set: starting EAS
...
root@...o:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_energy_aware
1
root@...o:~# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_energy_aware
log messages:
...
[ 414.195073] root_domain 0-5: pd1:{ cpus=1-2 nr_pstate=5 } pd0:{
cpus=0,3-5 nr_pstate=5 }
[ 414.210877] sched_energy_set: starting EAS
...
[ 544.482690] rd 0-5: Disabling EAS
[ 544.493729] sched_energy_set: stopping EAS
> sched_is_eas_possible return if the platform can do EAS at this moment.
sched_is_eas_possible() returns
> It takes most of the cases into account except one where EM complexity is
> too high as the code was bit tricky to separate that.
I remember that there was a patch from Pierre to get rid of the EM
complexity check:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221121094336.3250917-1-pierre.gondois@arm.com
If this makes this patch easier, maybe both patches can go in as a
patch-set together?
Although I don't see that not checking EM complexity in
sched_energy_aware_handler() -> sched_is_eas_possible() is an issue.
>
> v3->v4:
> valentin suggested it would be better to consider simpler approach that
> was mentioned in v2. It is a standard approach to keep the knob visible
> but change how read and write are handled. Did that and Refactored the
> code to use a common function in build_perf_domains and in sysctl handler.
> v2->v3:
> Chen Yu and Pierre Gondois both pointed out that if platform becomes
> capable of EAS later, this patch was not allowing that to happen.
> Addressed that by using a variable to indicate the sysctl change
> and re-worded the commit message with desired behaviour,
> v1->v2:
> Chen Yu had pointed out that this will not destroy the perf domains on
> architectures where EAS is supported by changing the sysctl.
> [v1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230829065040.920629-1-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
> [v2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230901065249.137242-1-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
> [v3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230913114807.665094-1-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
[...]
> @@ -231,6 +289,14 @@ static int sched_energy_aware_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> return -EPERM;
>
> ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> + if (!sched_is_eas_possible(cpu_active_mask)) {
This is using `cpu_active_mask` so EAS can only be disabled system-wide.
So I experimented with an exclusive cpuset setup creating a symmetric
(cs1) and an asymmetric (cs2) island on my Juno with its cpumask = [l B
B l l l] (l - little CPU, B - Big CPU).
root@...o:~# cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# mkdir cs1
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# echo 1 > cs1/cpuset.cpu_exclusive
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# echo 0 > cs1/cpuset.mems
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# echo 4,5 > cs1/cpuset.cpus
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# mkdir cs2
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# echo 1 > cs2/cpuset.cpu_exclusive
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# echo 0 > cs2/cpuset.mems
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# echo 0-3 > cs2/cpuset.cpus
root@...o:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset# echo 0 > cpuset.sched_load_balance
[ 3021.761278] root_domain 0-3: pd1:{ cpus=1-2 nr_pstate=5 } pd0:{
cpus=0,3-5 nr_pstate=5 }
root@...o:~# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_energy_aware
log messages:
...
[ 3143.538583] rd 4-5: Disabling EAS
[ 3143.549569] rd 0-3: Disabling EAS
[ 3143.560681] sched_energy_set: stopping EAS
...
root@...o:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_energy_aware
log messages:
...
[ 3223.277521] root_domain 0-3: pd1:{ cpus=1-2 nr_pstate=5 } pd0:{
cpus=0,3-5 nr_pstate=5 }
[ 3223.293409] sched_energy_set: starting EAS
Seems still to work correctly.
[...]
> @@ -458,6 +487,8 @@ static bool build_perf_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
> return !!pd;
>
> free:
> + if (sched_debug())
> + pr_warn("rd %*pbl: Disabling EAS", cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map));
Shouldn't this be used in condition `if (!sysctl_sched_energy_aware)`?
Otherwise we have 2 warnings when the other conditions which leads to
`goto free` aren't met.
[...]
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