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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2018-01-30 10:45:55 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-02-06 10:20:37 +0100 |
commit | 32e839dda3ba576943365f0f5817ce5c843137dc (patch) | |
tree | 022e93f73250d0fabca329b1d80f9e5ca581ea1d /kernel/sched | |
parent | 806486c377e33ab662de6d47902e9e2a32b79368 (diff) | |
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sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS
The select_idle_sibling() (SIS) rewrite in commit:
10e2f1acd010 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()")
... replaced a domain iteration with a search that broadly speaking
does a wrapped walk of the scheduler domain sharing a last-level-cache.
While this had a number of improvements, one consequence is that two tasks
that share a waker/wakee relationship push each other around a socket. Even
though two tasks may be active, all cores are evenly used. This is great from
a search perspective and spreads a load across individual cores, but it has
adverse consequences for cpufreq. As each CPU has relatively low utilisation,
cpufreq may decide the utilisation is too low to used a higher P-state and
overall computation throughput suffers.
While individual cpufreq and cpuidle drivers may compensate by artifically
boosting P-state (at c0) or avoiding lower C-states (during idle), it does
not help if hardware-based cpufreq (e.g. HWP) is used.
This patch tracks a recently used CPU based on what CPU a task was running
on when it last was a waker a CPU it was recently using when a task is a
wakee. During SIS, the recently used CPU is used as a target if it's still
allowed by the task and is idle.
The benefit may be non-obvious so consider an example of two tasks
communicating back and forth. Task A may be an application doing IO where
task B is a kworker or kthread like journald. Task A may issue IO, wake
B and B wakes up A on completion. With the existing scheme this may look
like the following (potentially different IDs if SMT is in use but similar
principal applies).
A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1)
B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 2)
A (cpu 2) wake B (wakes on cpu 3)
etc.
A careful reader may wonder why CPU 0 was not idle when B wakes A the
first time and it's simply due to the fact that A can be rescheduled to
another CPU and the pattern is that prev == target when B tries to wakeup A
and the information about CPU 0 has been lost.
With this patch, the pattern is more likely to be:
A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1)
B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 0)
A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1)
etc
i.e. two communicating casts are more likely to use just two cores instead
of all available cores sharing a LLC.
The most dramatic speedup was noticed on dbench using the XFS filesystem on
UMA as clients interact heavily with workqueues in that configuration. Note
that a similar speedup is not observed on ext4 as the wakeup pattern
is different:
4.15.0-rc9 4.15.0-rc9
waprev-v1 biasancestor-v1
Hmean 1 287.54 ( 0.00%) 817.01 ( 184.14%)
Hmean 2 1268.12 ( 0.00%) 1781.24 ( 40.46%)
Hmean 4 1739.68 ( 0.00%) 1594.47 ( -8.35%)
Hmean 8 2464.12 ( 0.00%) 2479.56 ( 0.63%)
Hmean 64 1455.57 ( 0.00%) 1434.68 ( -1.44%)
The results can be less dramatic on NUMA where automatic balancing interferes
with the test. It's also known that network benchmarks running on localhost
also benefit quite a bit from this patch (roughly 10% on netperf RR for UDP
and TCP depending on the machine). Hackbench also seens small improvements
(6-11% depending on machine and thread count). The facebook schbench was also
tested but in most cases showed little or no different to wakeup latencies.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/core.c | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/fair.c | 22 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index b40540e..36f113a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -2461,6 +2461,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p) * Use __set_task_cpu() to avoid calling sched_class::migrate_task_rq, * as we're not fully set-up yet. */ + p->recent_used_cpu = task_cpu(p); __set_task_cpu(p, select_task_rq(p, task_cpu(p), SD_BALANCE_FORK, 0)); #endif rq = __task_rq_lock(p, &rf); diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index db45b35..5eb3ffc 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -6197,7 +6197,7 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target) { struct sched_domain *sd; - int i; + int i, recent_used_cpu; if (idle_cpu(target)) return target; @@ -6208,6 +6208,21 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target) if (prev != target && cpus_share_cache(prev, target) && idle_cpu(prev)) return prev; + /* Check a recently used CPU as a potential idle candidate */ + recent_used_cpu = p->recent_used_cpu; + if (recent_used_cpu != prev && + recent_used_cpu != target && + cpus_share_cache(recent_used_cpu, target) && + idle_cpu(recent_used_cpu) && + cpumask_test_cpu(p->recent_used_cpu, &p->cpus_allowed)) { + /* + * Replace recent_used_cpu with prev as it is a potential + * candidate for the next wake. + */ + p->recent_used_cpu = prev; + return recent_used_cpu; + } + sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc, target)); if (!sd) return target; @@ -6375,9 +6390,12 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f if (!sd) { pick_cpu: - if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) /* XXX always ? */ + if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) { /* XXX always ? */ new_cpu = select_idle_sibling(p, prev_cpu, new_cpu); + if (want_affine) + current->recent_used_cpu = cpu; + } } else { new_cpu = find_idlest_cpu(sd, p, cpu, prev_cpu, sd_flag); } |