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Message-Id: <af576e6ac2d8c45c5aef6889f818e956f9c804e5.1764801860.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed,  3 Dec 2025 15:07:21 -0800
From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>,
	"Gautham R . Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
	Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
	Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@...look.com>,
	Yangyu Chen <cyy@...self.name>,
	Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@...il.com>,
	Vern Hao <vernhao@...cent.com>,
	Vern Hao <haoxing990@...il.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...el.com>,
	Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@...el.com>,
	Chen Yu <yu.chen.surf@...il.com>,
	Adam Li <adamli@...amperecomputing.com>,
	Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@...edance.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 02/23] sched/cache: Record per-LLC utilization to guide cache-aware scheduling decisions

From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>

When a system becomes busy and a process’s preferred LLC is
saturated with too many threads, tasks within that LLC migrate
frequently. These in LLC migrations introduce latency and degrade
performance. To avoid this, task aggregation should be suppressed when
the preferred LLC is overloaded, which requires a metric to indicate
LLC utilization.

Record per LLC utilization/cpu capacity during periodic load
balancing. These statistics will be used in later patches to decide
whether tasks should be aggregated into their preferred LLC.

Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
---

Notes:
    v1->v2:
       Refine the comments in record_sg_llc_stats().(Peter Zijlstra).

 include/linux/sched/topology.h |  4 ++
 kernel/sched/fair.c            | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
index bbcfdf12aa6e..0ba4697d74ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ struct sched_domain_shared {
 	atomic_t	nr_busy_cpus;
 	int		has_idle_cores;
 	int		nr_idle_scan;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
+	unsigned long	util_avg;
+	unsigned long	capacity ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+#endif
 };
 
 struct sched_domain {
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index cb82f558dc5b..b9f336300f14 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9622,6 +9622,29 @@ static inline int task_is_ineligible_on_dst_cpu(struct task_struct *p, int dest_
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
+/* Called from load balancing paths with rcu_read_lock held */
+static __maybe_unused bool get_llc_stats(int cpu, unsigned long *util,
+					 unsigned long *cap)
+{
+	struct sched_domain_shared *sd_share;
+
+	sd_share = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu));
+	if (!sd_share)
+		return false;
+
+	*util = READ_ONCE(sd_share->util_avg);
+	*cap = READ_ONCE(sd_share->capacity);
+
+	return true;
+}
+#else
+static inline bool get_llc_stats(int cpu, unsigned long *util,
+				 unsigned long *cap)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+#endif
 /*
  * can_migrate_task - may task p from runqueue rq be migrated to this_cpu?
  */
@@ -10592,6 +10615,51 @@ sched_reduced_capacity(struct rq *rq, struct sched_domain *sd)
 	return check_cpu_capacity(rq, sd);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
+/*
+ * Record the statistics for this scheduler group for later
+ * use. These values guide load balancing on aggregating tasks
+ * to a LLC.
+ */
+static void record_sg_llc_stats(struct lb_env *env,
+				struct sg_lb_stats *sgs,
+				struct sched_group *group)
+{
+	struct sched_domain_shared *sd_share;
+
+	if (!sched_cache_enabled() || env->idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE)
+		return;
+
+	/* Only care about sched domain spanning multiple LLCs */
+	if (env->sd->child != rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc, env->dst_cpu)))
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * At this point we know this group spans a LLC domain.
+	 * Record the statistic of this group in its corresponding
+	 * shared LLC domain.
+	 * Note: sd_share cannot be obtained via sd->child->shared, because
+	 * it refers to the domain that covers the local group, while
+	 * sd_share could represent any of the LLC group.
+	 */
+	sd_share = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared,
+					   cpumask_first(sched_group_span(group))));
+	if (!sd_share)
+		return;
+
+	if (READ_ONCE(sd_share->util_avg) != sgs->group_util)
+		WRITE_ONCE(sd_share->util_avg, sgs->group_util);
+
+	if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(sd_share->capacity) != sgs->group_capacity))
+		WRITE_ONCE(sd_share->capacity, sgs->group_capacity);
+}
+#else
+static inline void record_sg_llc_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs,
+				       struct sched_group *group)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 /**
  * update_sg_lb_stats - Update sched_group's statistics for load balancing.
  * @env: The load balancing environment.
@@ -10681,6 +10749,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
 
 	sgs->group_type = group_classify(env->sd->imbalance_pct, group, sgs);
 
+	record_sg_llc_stats(env, sgs, group);
 	/* Computing avg_load makes sense only when group is overloaded */
 	if (sgs->group_type == group_overloaded)
 		sgs->avg_load = (sgs->group_load * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE) /
-- 
2.32.0


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