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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:52:14 +0530
From: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@....com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@....com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
mpe@...erman.id.au, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Make ASYM_PACKING compile-time arch config
On 10/18/24 03:16, Christian Loehle wrote:
> Only x86 and Power7 set SD_ASYM_PACKING at boot-time depending on the
Power10 on Shared Processor LPAR also enables that.
> system. All other platforms don't make use of asym-packing anyway,
> so introduce auxiliary ARCH_HAS_SCHED_ASYM_PACKING and guard all the
> related logic behind that so it isn't compiled when not needed.
>
> On arm64 this reduces
> size kernel/sched/fair.o
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 74120 4097 88 78305 131e1 kernel/sched/fair.o
> to
> size kernel/sched/fair.o
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 72896 4065 88 77049 12cf9 kernel/sched/fair.o
>
> Most of that is on the load-balance hot-path, in particular
> need_active_balance() reduces from 141 to 84 instructions.
This patch sprinkes #ifdef across the code. IMHO it makes the code
difficult to read. Its possible to do slight such reductions for other
group types as well, such as group_misfit_task(which allows right load
balancing when SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY is on, except for a case when
capacity is reduced due to side activity).
sd->flags should be cache hot and its a percpu variable. Hence the
access to it shouldn't be costly. the branch predictors should do a good
job since it doesn't change often. Correct me if i am wrong.
>
> hackbench -pTl 20000 on a rk3399 goes from
> 58.4664 to 57.6056 (-1.5%), mean over 20 iterations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@....com>
> ---
> arch/Kconfig | 3 ++
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 8 ++++-
> 5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 8af374ea1adc..9f6ec10723a3 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -1684,4 +1684,7 @@ config CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT
> config ARCH_NEED_CMPXCHG_1_EMU
> bool
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