- 24 Nov, 2020 1 commit
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Now that the scheduler can deal with migrate disable properly, there is no real compelling reason to make it only available for RT. There are quite some code pathes which needlessly disable preemption in order to prevent migration and some constructs like kmap_atomic() enforce it implicitly. Making it available independent of RT allows to provide a preemptible variant of kmap_atomic() and makes the code more consistent in general. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Grudgingly-Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.269943012@linutronix.de
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- 19 Nov, 2020 10 commits
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Ionela Voinescu authored
In order to make accurate predictions across CPUs and for all performance states, Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) needs frequency-invariant load tracking signals. EAS task placement aims to minimize energy consumption, and does so in part by limiting the search space to only CPUs with the highest spare capacity (CPU capacity - CPU utilization) in their performance domain. Those candidates are the placement choices that will keep frequency at its lowest possible and therefore save the most energy. But without frequency invariance, a CPU's utilization is relative to the CPU's current performance level, and not relative to its maximum performance level, which determines its capacity. As a result, it will fail to correctly indicate any potential spare capacity obtained by an increase in a CPU's performance level. Therefore, a non-invariant utilization signal would render the EAS task placement logic invalid. Now that we properly report support for the Frequency Invariance Engine (FIE) through arch_scale_freq_invariant() for arm and arm64 systems, while also ensuring a re-evaluation of the EAS use conditions for possible invariance status change, we can assert this is the case when initializing EAS. Warn and bail out otherwise. Suggested-by:
Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ionela Voinescu authored
Task scheduler behavior depends on frequency invariance (FI) support and the resulting invariant load tracking signals. For example, in order to make accurate predictions across CPUs for all performance states, Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) needs frequency-invariant load tracking signals and therefore it has a direct dependency on FI. This dependency is known, but EAS enablement is not yet conditioned on the presence of FI during the built of the scheduling domain hierarchy. Before this is done, the following must be considered: while arch_scale_freq_invariant() will see changes in FI support and could be used to condition the use of EAS, it could return different values during system initialisation. For arm64, such a scenario will happen for a system that does not support cpufreq driven FI, but does support counter-driven FI. For such a system, arch_scale_freq_invariant() will return false if called before counter based FI initialisation, but change its status to true after it. If EAS becomes explicitly dependent on FI this would affect the task scheduler behavior which builds its scheduling domain hierarchy well before the late counter-based FI init. During that process, EAS would be disabled due to its dependency on FI. Two points of future early calls to arch_scale_freq_invariant() which would determine EAS enablement are: - (1) drivers/base/arch_topology.c:126 <<update_topology_flags_workfn>> rebuild_sched_domains(); This will happen after CPU capacity initialisation. - (2) kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c:917 <<rebuild_sd_workfn>> rebuild_sched_domains_energy(); -->rebuild_sched_domains(); This will happen during sched_cpufreq_governor_change() for the schedutil cpufreq governor. Therefore, before enforcing the presence of FI support for the use of EAS, ensure the following: if there is a change in FI support status after counter init, use the existing rebuild_sched_domains_energy() function to trigger a rebuild of the scheduling and performance domains that in turn will determine the enablement of EAS. Signed-off-by:Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201027180713.7642-3-ionela.voinescu@arm.com
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Ionela Voinescu authored
Add the rebuild_sched_domains_energy() function to wrap the functionality that rebuilds the scheduling domains if any of the Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) initialisation conditions change. This functionality is used when schedutil is added or removed or when EAS is enabled or disabled through the sched_energy_aware sysctl. Therefore, create a single function that is used in both these cases and that can be later reused. Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201027180713.7642-2-ionela.voinescu@arm.com
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Dietmar Eggemann authored
In case the user wants to stop controlling a uclamp constraint value for a task, use the magic value -1 in sched_util_{min,max} with the appropriate sched_flags (SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_{MIN,MAX}) to indicate the reset. The advantage over the 'additional flag' approach (i.e. introducing SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_RESET) is that no additional flag has to be exported via uapi. This avoids the need to document how this new flag has be used in conjunction with the existing uclamp related flags. The following subtle issue is fixed as well. When a uclamp constraint value is set on a !user_defined uclamp_se it is currently first reset and then set. Fix this by AND'ing !user_defined with !SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP which stands for the 'sched class change' case. The related condition 'if (uc_se->user_defined)' moved from __setscheduler_uclamp() into uclamp_reset(). Signed-off-by:Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Yun Hsiang <hsiang023167@gmail.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113113454.25868-1-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
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Tal Zussman authored
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Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Barry Song authored
This document seems to be out of date for many, many years. Even it has misspelled from the first day. ARCH_HASH_SCHED_TUNE should be ARCH_HAS_SCHED_TUNE ARCH_HASH_SCHED_DOMAIN should be ARCH_HAS_SCHED_DOMAIN Since v2.6.14, kernel completely deleted the relevant code and even arch_init_sched_domains() was deleted. Right now, kernel is asking architectures to call set_sched_topology() to override the default sched domains. On the other hand, to print the schedule debug information, users need to set sched_debug cmdline or enable it by sysfs entry. So this patch also adds the description for sched_debug. Signed-off-by:
Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by:
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113115018.1628-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
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Valentin Schneider authored
NUMA topologies where the shortest path between some two nodes requires three or more hops (i.e. diameter > 2) end up being misrepresented in the scheduler topology structures. This is currently detected when booting a kernel with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y + sched_debug on the cmdline, although this will only yield a warning about sched_group spans not matching sched_domain spans: ERROR: groups don't span domain->span Add an explicit warning for that case, triggered regardless of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, and decorate it with an appropriate comment. The topology described in the comment can be booted up on QEMU by appending the following to your usual QEMU incantation: -smp cores=4 \ -numa node,cpus=0,nodeid=0 -numa node,cpus=1,nodeid=1, \ -numa node,cpus=2,nodeid=2, -numa node,cpus=3,nodeid=3, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=1,val=20, -numa dist,src=0,dst=2,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=3,val=40, -numa dist,src=1,dst=2,val=20, \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=3,val=30, -numa dist,src=2,dst=3,val=20 A somewhat more realistic topology (6-node mesh) with the same affliction can be conjured with: -smp cores=6 \ -numa node,cpus=0,nodeid=0 -numa node,cpus=1,nodeid=1, \ -numa node,cpus=2,nodeid=2, -numa node,cpus=3,nodeid=3, \ -numa node,cpus=4,nodeid=4, -numa node,cpus=5,nodeid=5, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=1,val=20, -numa dist,src=0,dst=2,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=3,val=40, -numa dist,src=0,dst=4,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=5,val=20, \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=2,val=20, -numa dist,src=1,dst=3,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=4,val=20, -numa dist,src=1,dst=5,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=2,dst=3,val=20, -numa dist,src=2,dst=4,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=2,dst=5,val=40, \ -numa dist,src=3,dst=4,val=20, -numa dist,src=3,dst=5,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=4,dst=5,val=20 Signed-off-by:Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/jhjtux5edo2.mognet@arm.com
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Daniel Jordan authored
One of our machines keeled over trying to rebuild the scheduler domains. Mainline produces the same splat: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000607f820054db CPU: 2 PID: 149 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 5.10.0-rc1-master+ #6 Workqueue: events cpuset_hotplug_workfn RIP: build_sched_domains Call Trace: partition_sched_domains_locked rebuild_sched_domains_locked cpuset_hotplug_workfn It happens with cgroup2 and exclusive cpusets only. This reproducer triggers it on an 8-cpu vm and works most effectively with no preexisting child cgroups: cd $UNIFIED_ROOT mkdir cg1 echo 4-7 > cg1/cpuset.cpus echo root > cg1/cpuset.cpus.partition # with smt/control reading 'on', echo off > /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control RIP maps to sd->shared = *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sds, sd_id); from sd_init(). sd_id is calculated earlier in the same function: cpumask_and(sched_domain_span(sd), cpu_map, tl->mask(cpu)); sd_id = cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd)); tl->mask(cpu), which reads cpu_sibling_map on x86, returns an empty mask and so cpumask_first() returns >= nr_cpu_ids, which leads to the bogus value from per_cpu_ptr() above. The problem is a race between cpuset_hotplug_workfn() and a later offline of CPU N. cpuset_hotplug_workfn() updates the effective masks when N is still online, the offline clears N from cpu_sibling_map, and then the worker uses the stale effective masks that still have N to generate the scheduling domains, leading the worker to read N's empty cpu_sibling_map in sd_init(). rebuild_sched_domains_locked() prevented the race during the cgroup2 cpuset series up until the Fixes commit changed its check. Make the check more robust so that it can detect an offline CPU in any exclusive cpuset's effective mask, not just the top one. Fixes: 0ccea8fe ("cpuset: Make generate_sched_domains() work with partition") Signed-off-by:
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112171711.639541-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Oleksandr reported hitting the WARN in the 'task_rq(p) != rq' branch of migration_cpu_stop(). Valentin noted that using cpu_of(rq) in that case is just plain wrong to begin with, since per the earlier branch that isn't the actual CPU of the task. Replace both instances of is_cpu_allowed() by a direct p->cpus_mask test using task_cpu(). Reported-by:
Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Debugged-by:
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Valentin Schneider authored
Qian reported that some fuzzer issuing sched_setaffinity() ends up stuck on a wait_for_completion(). The problematic pattern seems to be: affine_move_task() // task_running() case stop_one_cpu(); wait_for_completion(&pending->done); Combined with, on the stopper side: migration_cpu_stop() // Task moved between unlocks and scheduling the stopper task_rq(p) != rq && // task_running() case dest_cpu >= 0 => no complete_all() This can happen with both PREEMPT and !PREEMPT, although !PREEMPT should be more likely to see this given the targeted task has a much bigger window to block and be woken up elsewhere before the stopper runs. Make migration_cpu_stop() always look at pending affinity requests; signal their completion if the stopper hits a rq mismatch but the task is still within its allowed mask. When Migrate-Disable isn't involved, this matches the previous set_cpus_allowed_ptr() vs migration_cpu_stop() behaviour. Fixes: 6d337eab ("sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs set_cpus_allowed_ptr()") Reported-by:Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 10 Nov, 2020 24 commits
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Valentin Schneider authored
The CFS wakeup code will only ever go through EAS / its fast path on "regular" wakeups (i.e. not on forks or execs). These are currently gated by a check against 'sd_flag', which would be SD_BALANCE_WAKE at wakeup. However, we now have a flag that explicitly tells us whether a wakeup is a "regular" one, so hinge those conditions on that flag instead. Signed-off-by:
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Valentin Schneider authored
Only select_task_rq_fair() uses that parameter to do an actual domain search, other classes only care about what kind of wakeup is happening (fork, exec, or "regular") and thus just translate the flag into a wakeup type. WF_TTWU and WF_EXEC have just been added, use these along with WF_FORK to encode the wakeup types we care about. For select_task_rq_fair(), we can simply use the shiny new WF_flag : SD_flag mapping. Signed-off-by:
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Valentin Schneider authored
To remove the sd_flag parameter of select_task_rq(), we need another way of encoding wakeup types. There already is a WF_FORK flag, add the missing two. With that said, we still need an easy way to turn WF_foo into SD_bar (e.g. WF_TTWU into SD_BALANCE_WAKE). As suggested by Peter, let's make our lives easier and make them match exactly, and throw in some compile-time checks for good measure. Signed-off-by:
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Hui Su authored
Since ab93a4bc ("sched/fair: Remove distribute_running fromCFS bandwidth"), there is nothing to protect between raw_spin_lock_irqsave/store() in do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(). Signed-off-by:
Hui Su <sh_def@163.com> Signed-off-by:
Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030144621.GA96974@rlk
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Peter Zijlstra authored
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Valentin Schneider authored
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Valentin Schneider authored
migrate_disable(); set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, {something excluding task_cpu(current)}); affine_move_task(); <-- never returns Signed-off-by: -
Peter Zijlstra authored
Ensure /proc/*/status doesn't print 'random' cpumasks due to migrate_disable(). Signed-off-by:
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102347.593984734@infradead.org
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to minimize the interference of migrate_disable() on lower priority tasks, which can be deprived of runtime due to being stuck below a higher priority task. Teach the RT/DL balancers to push away these higher priority tasks when a lower priority task gets selected to run on a freshly demoted CPU (pull). This adds migration interference to the higher priority task, but restores bandwidth to system that would otherwise be irrevocably lost. Without this it would be possible to have all tasks on the system stuck on a single CPU, each task preempted in a migrate_disable() section with a single high priority task running. This way we can still approximate running the M highest priority tasks on the system. Migrating the top task away is (ofcourse) still subject to migrate_disable() too, which means the lower task is subject to an interference equivalent to the worst case migrate_disable() section. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
There's a valid ->pi_lock recursion issue where the actual PI code tries to wake up the stop task. Make lockdep aware so it doesn't complain about this. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
We want migrate_disable() tasks to get PULLs in order for them to PUSH away the higher priority task. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Replace a bunch of cpumask_any*() instances with cpumask_any*_distribute(), by injecting this little bit of random in cpu selection, we reduce the chance two competing balance operations working off the same lowest_mask pick the same CPU. Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
On CPU unplug tasks which are in a migrate disabled region cannot be pushed to a different CPU until they returned to migrateable state. Account the number of tasks on a runqueue which are in a migrate disabled section and make the hotplug wait mechanism respect that. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Concurrent migrate_disable() and set_cpus_allowed_ptr() has interesting features. We rely on set_cpus_allowed_ptr() to not return until the task runs inside the provided mask. This expectation is exported to userspace. This means that any set_cpus_allowed_ptr() caller must wait until migrate_enable() allows migrations. At the same time, we don't want migrate_enable() to schedule, due to patterns like: preempt_disable(); migrate_disable(); ... migrate_enable(); preempt_enable(); And: raw_spin_lock(&B); spin_unlock(&A); this means that when migrate_enable() must restore the affinity mask, it cannot wait for completion thereof. Luck will have it that that is exactly the case where there is a pending set_cpus_allowed_ptr(), so let that provide storage for the async stop machine. Much thanks to Valentin who used TLA+ most effective and found lots of 'interesting' cases. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Add the base migrate_disable() support (under protest). While migrate_disable() is (currently) required for PREEMPT_RT, it is also one of the biggest flaws in the system. Notably this is just the base implementation, it is broken vs sched_setaffinity() and hotplug, both solved in additional patches for ease of review. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Thread a u32 flags word through the *set_cpus_allowed*() callchain. This will allow adding behavioural tweaks for future users. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Since we now migrate tasks away before DYING, we should also move bandwidth unthrottle, otherwise we can gain tasks from unthrottle after we expect all tasks to be gone already. Also; it looks like the RT balancers don't respect cpu_active() and instead rely on rq->online in part, complete this. This too requires we do set_rq_offline() earlier to match the cpu_active() semantics. (The bigger patch is to convert RT to cpu_active() entirely) Since set_rq_online() is called from sched_cpu_activate(), place set_rq_offline() in sched_cpu_deactivate(). Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
With the new mechanism which kicks tasks off the outgoing CPU at the end of schedule() the situation on an outgoing CPU right before the stopper thread brings it down completely is: - All user tasks and all unbound kernel threads have either been migrated away or are not running and the next wakeup will move them to a online CPU. - All per CPU kernel threads, except cpu hotplug thread and the stopper thread have either been unbound or parked by the responsible CPU hotplug callback. That means that at the last step before the stopper thread is invoked the cpu hotplug thread is the last legitimate running task on the outgoing CPU. Add a final wait step right before the stopper thread is kicked which ensures that any still running tasks on the way to park or on the way to kick themself of the CPU are either sleeping or gone. This allows to remove the migrate_tasks() crutch in sched_cpu_dying(). If sched_cpu_dying() detects that there is still another running task aside of the stopper thread then it will explode with the appropriate fireworks. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Don't rely on the scheduler to force break affinity for us -- it will stop doing that for per-cpu-kthreads. Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
RT kernels need to ensure that all tasks which are not per CPU kthreads have left the outgoing CPU to guarantee that no tasks are force migrated within a migrate disabled section. There is also some desire to (ab)use fine grained CPU hotplug control to clear a CPU from active state to force migrate tasks which are not per CPU kthreads away for power control purposes. Add a mechanism which waits until all tasks which should leave the CPU after the CPU active flag is cleared have moved to a different online CPU. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In preparation for migrate_disable(), make sure only per-cpu kthreads are allowed to run on !active CPUs. This is ran (as one of the very first steps) from the cpu-hotplug task which is a per-cpu kthread and completion of the hotplug operation only requires such tasks. This constraint enables the migrate_disable() implementation to wait for completion of all migrate_disable regions on this CPU at hotplug time without fear of any new ones starting. This replaces the unlikely(rq->balance_callbacks) test at the tail of context_switch with an unlikely(rq->balance_work), the fast path is not affected. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The intent of balance_callback() has always been to delay executing balancing operations until the end of the current rq->lock section. This is because balance operations must often drop rq->lock, and that isn't safe in general. However, as noted by Scott, there were a few holes in that scheme; balance_callback() was called after rq->lock was dropped, which means another CPU can interleave and touch the callback list. Rework code to call the balance callbacks before dropping rq->lock where possible, and otherwise splice the balance list onto a local stack. This guarantees that the balance list must be empty when we take rq->lock. IOW, we'll only ever run our own balance callbacks. Reported-by:
Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Crashes in stop-machine are hard to connect to the calling code, add a little something to help with that. Signed-off-by:
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Peng Wang authored
As commit: 39f23ce0 ("sched/fair: Fix unthrottle_cfs_rq() for leaf_cfs_rq list") does in unthrottle_cfs_rq(), throttle_cfs_rq() can also use the same pattern as dequeue_task_fair(). No functional changes. Signed-off-by:
Peng Wang <rocking@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f11dd2e3ab35cc538e2eb57bf0c99b6eaffce127.1604973978.git.rocking@linux.alibaba.com
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- 29 Oct, 2020 5 commits
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Julia Lawall authored
In the case of a thread wakeup, wake_affine determines whether a core will be chosen for the thread on the socket where the thread ran previously or on the socket of the waker. This is done primarily by comparing the load of the core where th thread ran previously (prev) and the load of the waker (this). commit 11f10e54 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load in wakeup path") changed the load computation from the runnable load to the load average, where the latter includes the load of threads that have already blocked on the core. When a short-running daemon processes happens to run on prev, this change raised the situation that prev could appear to have a greater load than this, even when prev is actually idle. When prev and this are on the same socket, the idle prev is detected later, in select_idle_sibling. But if that does not hold, prev is completely ignored, causing the waking thread to move to the socket of the waker. In the case of N mostly active threads on N cores, this triggers other migrations and hurts performance. In contrast, before commit 11f10e54, the load on an idle core was 0, and in the case of a non-idle waker core, the effect of wake_affine was to select prev as the target for searching for a core for the waking thread. To avoid unnecessary migrations, extend wake_affine_idle to check whether the core where the thread previously ran is currently idle, and if so simply return that core as the target. [1] commit 11f10e54 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load in wakeup path") This particularly has an impact when using the ondemand power manager, where kworkers run every 0.004 seconds on all cores, increasing the likelihood that an idle core will be considered to have a load. The following numbers were obtained with the benchmarking tool hyperfine (https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine) on the NAS parallel benchmarks (https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html). The tests were run on an 80-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8870 v4 @ 2.10GHz. Active (intel_pstate) and passive (intel_cpufreq) power management were used. Times are in seconds. All experiments use all 160 hardware threads. v5.9/intel-pstate v5.9+patch/intel-pstate bt.C.c 24.725724+-0.962340 23.349608+-1.607214 lu.C.x 29.105952+-4.804203 25.249052+-5.561617 sp.C.x 31.220696+-1.831335 30.227760+-2.429792 ua.C.x 26.606118+-1.767384 25.778367+-1.263850 v5.9/ondemand v5.9+patch/ondemand bt.C.c 25.330360+-1.028316 23.544036+-1.020189 lu.C.x 35.872659+-4.872090 23.719295+-3.883848 sp.C.x 32.141310+-2.289541 29.125363+-0.872300 ua.C.x 29.024597+-1.667049 25.728888+-1.539772 On the smaller data sets (A and B) and on the other NAS benchmarks there is no impact on performance. This also has a major impact on the splash2x.volrend benchmark of the parsec benchmark suite that goes from 1m25 without this patch to 0m45, in active (intel_pstate) mode. Fixes: 11f10e54 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load in wakeup path") Signed-off-by:
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1603372550-14680-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Florian reported that all of kernel/sched/ is rebuild when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is changed, which, while not a bug is unexpected. This is due to us including vmlinux.lds.h. Jakub explained that the problem is that we put the alignment requirement on the type instead of on a variable. Type alignment is a minimum, the compiler is free to pick any larger alignment for a specific instance of the type (eg. the variable). So force the type alignment on all individual variable definitions and remove the undesired dependency on vmlinux.lds.h. Fixes: 85c2ce91 ("sched, vmlinux.lds: Increase STRUCT_ALIGNMENT to 64 bytes for GCC-4.9") Reported-by:
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Suggested-by:
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
do_sched_yield() invokes schedule() with interrupts disabled which is not allowed. This goes back to the pre git era to commit a6efb709 ("[PATCH] irqlock patch 2.5.27-H6") in the history tree. Reenable interrupts and remove the misleading comment which "explains" it. Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by:
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Document membarrier ordering scenarios in membarrier.c. Thanks to Alan Stern for refreshing my memory. Now that I have those in mind, it seems appropriate to serialize them to comments for posterity. Signed-off-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
Add comments and memory barrier to kthread_use_mm and kthread_unuse_mm to allow the effect of membarrier(2) to apply to kthreads accessing user-space memory as well. Given that no prior kthread use this guarantee and that it only affects kthreads, adding this guarantee does not affect user-space ABI. Refine the check in membarrier_global_expedited to exclude runqueues running the idle thread rather than all kthreads from the IPI cpumask. Now that membarrier_global_expedited can IPI kthreads, the scheduler also needs to update the runqueue's membarrier_state when entering lazy TLB state. Signed-off-by:
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