sched/fair: Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan
Issue ===== On asymmetric CPU capacity topologies, we currently rely on wake_cap() to drive select_task_rq_fair() towards either: - its slow-path (find_idlest_cpu()) if either the previous or current (waking) CPU has too little capacity for the waking task - its fast-path (select_idle_sibling()) otherwise Commit: 3273163c ("sched/fair: Let asymmetric CPU configurations balance at wake-up") points out that this relies on the assumption that "[...]the CPU capacities within an SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES domain (sd_llc) are homogeneous". This assumption no longer holds on newer generations of big.LITTLE systems (DynamIQ), which can accommodate CPUs of different compute capacity within a single LLC domain. To hopefully paint a better picture, a regular big.LITTLE topology would look like this: +---------+ +---------+ | L2 | | L2 | +----+----+ +----+----+ |CPU0|CPU1| |CPU2|CPU3| +----+----+ +----+----+ ^^^ ^^^ LITTLEs bigs which would result in the following scheduler topology: DIE [ ] <- sd_asym_cpucapacity MC [ ] [ ] <- sd_llc 0 1 2 3 Conversely, a DynamIQ topology could look like: +-------------------+ | L3 | +----+----+----+----+ | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 | +----+----+----+----+ |CPU0|CPU1|CPU2|CPU3| +----+----+----+----+ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ LITTLEs bigs which would result in the following scheduler topology: MC [ ] <- sd_llc, sd_asym_cpucapacity 0 1 2 3 What this means is that, on DynamIQ systems, we could pass the wake_cap() test (IOW presume the waking task fits on the CPU capacities of some LLC domain), thus go through select_idle_sibling(). This function operates on an LLC domain, which here spans both bigs and LITTLEs, so it could very well pick a CPU of too small capacity for the task, despite there being fitting idle CPUs - it very much depends on the CPU iteration order, on which we have absolutely no guarantees capacity-wise. Implementation ============== Introduce yet another select_idle_sibling() helper function that takes CPU capacity into account. The policy is to pick the first idle CPU which is big enough for the task (task_util * margin < cpu_capacity). If no idle CPU is big enough, we pick the idle one with the highest capacity. Unlike other select_idle_sibling() helpers, this one operates on the sd_asym_cpucapacity sched_domain pointer, which is guaranteed to span all known CPU capacities in the system. As such, this will work for both "legacy" big.LITTLE (LITTLEs & bigs split at MC, joined at DIE) and for newer DynamIQ systems (e.g. LITTLEs and bigs in the same MC domain). Note that this limits the scope of select_idle_sibling() to select_idle_capacity() for asymmetric CPU capacity systems - the LLC domain will not be scanned, and no further heuristic will be applied. Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200206191957.12325-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment