20 Mar, 2018
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The estimated utilization of a task is currently updated every time the
task is dequeued. However, to keep overheads under control, PELT signals
are effectively updated at maximum once every 1ms.Thus, for really short running tasks, it can happen that their util_avg
value has not been updates since their last enqueue. If such tasks are
also frequently running tasks (e.g. the kind of workload generated by
hackbench) it can also happen that their util_avg is updated only every
few activations.This means that updating util_est at every dequeue potentially introduces
not necessary overheads and it's also conceptually wrong if the util_avg
signal has never been updated during a task activation.Let's introduce a throttling mechanism on task's util_est updates
to sync them with util_avg updates. To make the solution memory
efficient, both in terms of space and load/store operations, we encode a
synchronization flag into the LSB of util_est.enqueued.
This makes util_est an even values only metric, which is still
considered good enough for its purpose.
The synchronization bit is (re)set by __update_load_avg_se() once the
PELT signal of a task has been updated during its last activation.Such a throttling mechanism allows to keep under control util_est
overheads in the wakeup hot path, thus making it a suitable mechanism
which can be enabled also on high-intensity workload systems.
Thus, this now switches on by default the estimation utilization
scheduler feature.Suggested-by: Chris Redpath
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Juri Lelli
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Morten Rasmussen
Cc: Paul Turner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki
Cc: Steve Muckle
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Todd Kjos
Cc: Vincent Guittot
Cc: Viresh Kumar
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-5-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
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The util_avg signal computed by PELT is too variable for some use-cases.
For example, a big task waking up after a long sleep period will have its
utilization almost completely decayed. This introduces some latency before
schedutil will be able to pick the best frequency to run a task.The same issue can affect task placement. Indeed, since the task
utilization is already decayed at wakeup, when the task is enqueued in a
CPU, this can result in a CPU running a big task as being temporarily
represented as being almost empty. This leads to a race condition where
other tasks can be potentially allocated on a CPU which just started to run
a big task which slept for a relatively long period.Moreover, the PELT utilization of a task can be updated every [ms], thus
making it a continuously changing value for certain longer running
tasks. This means that the instantaneous PELT utilization of a RUNNING
task is not really meaningful to properly support scheduler decisions.For all these reasons, a more stable signal can do a better job of
representing the expected/estimated utilization of a task/cfs_rq.
Such a signal can be easily created on top of PELT by still using it as
an estimator which produces values to be aggregated on meaningful
events.This patch adds a simple implementation of util_est, a new signal built on
top of PELT's util_avg where:util_est(task) = max(task::util_avg, f(task::util_avg@dequeue))
This allows to remember how big a task has been reported by PELT in its
previous activations via f(task::util_avg@dequeue), which is the new
_task_util_est(struct task_struct*) function added by this patch.If a task should change its behavior and it runs longer in a new
activation, after a certain time its util_est will just track the
original PELT signal (i.e. task::util_avg).The estimated utilization of cfs_rq is defined only for root ones.
That's because the only sensible consumer of this signal are the
scheduler and schedutil when looking for the overall CPU utilization
due to FAIR tasks.For this reason, the estimated utilization of a root cfs_rq is simply
defined as:util_est(cfs_rq) = max(cfs_rq::util_avg, cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued)
where:
cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued = sum(_task_util_est(task))
for each RUNNABLE task on that root cfs_rqIt's worth noting that the estimated utilization is tracked only for
objects of interests, specifically:- Tasks: to better support tasks placement decisions
- root cfs_rqs: to better support both tasks placement decisions as
well as frequencies selectionSigned-off-by: Patrick Bellasi
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Juri Lelli
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Morten Rasmussen
Cc: Paul Turner
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki
Cc: Steve Muckle
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Todd Kjos
Cc: Vincent Guittot
Cc: Viresh Kumar
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-2-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
02 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
10 Oct, 2017
2 commits
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The trivial wake_affine_idle() implementation is very good for a
number of workloads, but it comes apart at the moment there are no
idle CPUs left, IOW. the overloaded case.hackbench:
NO_WA_WEIGHT WA_WEIGHT
hackbench-20 : 7.362717561 seconds 6.450509391 seconds
(win)
netperf:
NO_WA_WEIGHT WA_WEIGHT
TCP_SENDFILE-1 : Avg: 54524.6 Avg: 52224.3
TCP_SENDFILE-10 : Avg: 48185.2 Avg: 46504.3
TCP_SENDFILE-20 : Avg: 29031.2 Avg: 28610.3
TCP_SENDFILE-40 : Avg: 9819.72 Avg: 9253.12
TCP_SENDFILE-80 : Avg: 5355.3 Avg: 4687.4TCP_STREAM-1 : Avg: 41448.3 Avg: 42254
TCP_STREAM-10 : Avg: 24123.2 Avg: 25847.9
TCP_STREAM-20 : Avg: 15834.5 Avg: 18374.4
TCP_STREAM-40 : Avg: 5583.91 Avg: 5599.57
TCP_STREAM-80 : Avg: 2329.66 Avg: 2726.41TCP_RR-1 : Avg: 80473.5 Avg: 82638.8
TCP_RR-10 : Avg: 72660.5 Avg: 73265.1
TCP_RR-20 : Avg: 52607.1 Avg: 52634.5
TCP_RR-40 : Avg: 57199.2 Avg: 56302.3
TCP_RR-80 : Avg: 25330.3 Avg: 26867.9UDP_RR-1 : Avg: 108266 Avg: 107844
UDP_RR-10 : Avg: 95480 Avg: 95245.2
UDP_RR-20 : Avg: 68770.8 Avg: 68673.7
UDP_RR-40 : Avg: 76231 Avg: 75419.1
UDP_RR-80 : Avg: 34578.3 Avg: 35639.1UDP_STREAM-1 : Avg: 64684.3 Avg: 66606
UDP_STREAM-10 : Avg: 52701.2 Avg: 52959.5
UDP_STREAM-20 : Avg: 30376.4 Avg: 29704
UDP_STREAM-40 : Avg: 15685.8 Avg: 15266.5
UDP_STREAM-80 : Avg: 8415.13 Avg: 7388.97(wins and losses)
sysbench:
NO_WA_WEIGHT WA_WEIGHT
sysbench-mysql-2 : 2135.17 per sec. 2142.51 per sec.
sysbench-mysql-5 : 4809.68 per sec. 4800.19 per sec.
sysbench-mysql-10 : 9158.59 per sec. 9157.05 per sec.
sysbench-mysql-20 : 14570.70 per sec. 14543.55 per sec.
sysbench-mysql-40 : 22130.56 per sec. 22184.82 per sec.
sysbench-mysql-80 : 20995.56 per sec. 21904.18 per sec.sysbench-psql-2 : 1679.58 per sec. 1705.06 per sec.
sysbench-psql-5 : 3797.69 per sec. 3879.93 per sec.
sysbench-psql-10 : 7253.22 per sec. 7258.06 per sec.
sysbench-psql-20 : 11166.75 per sec. 11220.00 per sec.
sysbench-psql-40 : 17277.28 per sec. 17359.78 per sec.
sysbench-psql-80 : 17112.44 per sec. 17221.16 per sec.(increase on the top end)
tbench:
NO_WA_WEIGHT
Throughput 685.211 MB/sec 2 clients 2 procs max_latency=0.123 ms
Throughput 1596.64 MB/sec 5 clients 5 procs max_latency=0.119 ms
Throughput 2985.47 MB/sec 10 clients 10 procs max_latency=0.262 ms
Throughput 4521.15 MB/sec 20 clients 20 procs max_latency=0.506 ms
Throughput 9438.1 MB/sec 40 clients 40 procs max_latency=2.052 ms
Throughput 8210.5 MB/sec 80 clients 80 procs max_latency=8.310 msWA_WEIGHT
Throughput 697.292 MB/sec 2 clients 2 procs max_latency=0.127 ms
Throughput 1596.48 MB/sec 5 clients 5 procs max_latency=0.080 ms
Throughput 2975.22 MB/sec 10 clients 10 procs max_latency=0.254 ms
Throughput 4575.14 MB/sec 20 clients 20 procs max_latency=0.502 ms
Throughput 9468.65 MB/sec 40 clients 40 procs max_latency=2.069 ms
Throughput 8631.73 MB/sec 80 clients 80 procs max_latency=8.605 ms(increase on the top end)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Eric reported a sysbench regression against commit:
3fed382b46ba ("sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()")
Similarly, Rik was looking at the NAS-lu.C benchmark, which regressed
against his v3.10 enterprise kernel.PRE (current tip/master):
ivb-ep sysbench:
2: [30 secs] transactions: 64110 (2136.94 per sec.)
5: [30 secs] transactions: 143644 (4787.99 per sec.)
10: [30 secs] transactions: 274298 (9142.93 per sec.)
20: [30 secs] transactions: 418683 (13955.45 per sec.)
40: [30 secs] transactions: 320731 (10690.15 per sec.)
80: [30 secs] transactions: 355096 (11834.28 per sec.)hsw-ex NAS:
OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds = 18.01
OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds = 17.89
OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds = 17.93
lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds = 434.68
lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds = 405.36
lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds = 433.83POST (+patch):
ivb-ep sysbench:
2: [30 secs] transactions: 64494 (2149.75 per sec.)
5: [30 secs] transactions: 145114 (4836.99 per sec.)
10: [30 secs] transactions: 278311 (9276.69 per sec.)
20: [30 secs] transactions: 437169 (14571.60 per sec.)
40: [30 secs] transactions: 669837 (22326.73 per sec.)
80: [30 secs] transactions: 631739 (21055.88 per sec.)hsw-ex NAS:
lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds = 23.36
lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds = 22.96
lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds = 22.52This patch takes out all the shiny wake_affine() stuff and goes back to
utter basics. Between the two CPUs involved with the wakeup (the CPU
doing the wakeup and the CPU we ran on previously) pick the CPU we can
run on _now_.This restores much of the regressions against the older kernels,
but leaves some ground in the overloaded case. The default-enabled
WA_WEIGHT (which will be introduced in the next patch) is an attempt
to address the overloaded situation.Reported-by: Eric Farman
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Christian Borntraeger
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Matthew Rosato
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: jinpuwang@gmail.com
Cc: vcaputo@pengaru.com
Fixes: 3fed382b46ba ("sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
08 Jun, 2017
1 commit
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Hackbench recently suffered a bunch of pain, first by commit:
4c77b18cf8b7 ("sched/fair: Make select_idle_cpu() more aggressive")
and then by commit:
c743f0a5c50f ("sched/fair, cpumask: Export for_each_cpu_wrap()")
which fixed a bug in the initial for_each_cpu_wrap() implementation
that made select_idle_cpu() even more expensive. The bug was that it
would skip over CPUs when bits were consequtive in the bitmask.This however gave me an idea to fix select_idle_cpu(); where the old
scheme was a cliff-edge throttle on idle scanning, this introduces a
more gradual approach. Instead of stopping to scan entirely, we limit
how many CPUs we scan.Initial benchmarks show that it mostly recovers hackbench while not
hurting anything else, except Mason's schbench, but not as bad as the
old thing.It also appears to recover the tbench high-end, which also suffered like
hackbench.Tested-by: Matt Fleming
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: kitsunyan
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lvenanci@redhat.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: xiaolong.ye@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517105350.hk5m4h4jb6dfr65a@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
15 May, 2017
1 commit
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Its an obsolete debug mechanism and future code wants to rely on
properties this undermines.Namely, it would be good to assume that SD_OVERLAP domains have
children, but if we build the entire hierarchy with SD_OVERLAP this is
obviously false.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
16 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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Now that we have no missing calls, add a warning to find multiple
calls.By having only a single update_rq_clock() call per rq-lock section,
the section appears 'atomic' wrt time.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
02 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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Kitsunyan reported desktop latency issues on his Celeron 887 because
of commit:1b568f0aabf2 ("sched/core: Optimize SCHED_SMT")
... even though his CPU doesn't do SMT.
The effect of running the SMT code on a !SMT part is basically a more
aggressive select_idle_cpu(). Removing the avg condition fixed things
for him.I also know FB likes this test gone, even though other workloads like
having it.For now, take it out by default, until we get a better idea.
Reported-by: kitsunyan
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
13 Sep, 2015
3 commits
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Bring arch_scale_cpu_capacity() in line with the recent change of its
arch_scale_freq_capacity() sibling in commit dfbca41f3479 ("sched:
Optimize freq invariant accounting") from weak function to #define to
allow inlining of the function.While at it, remove the ARCH_CAPACITY sched_feature as well. With the
change to #define there isn't a straightforward way to allow runtime
switch between an arch implementation and the default implementation of
arch_scale_cpu_capacity() using sched_feature. The default was to use
the arch-specific implementation, but only the arm architecture provides
one and that is essentially equivalent to the default implementation.Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann
Cc: Juri Lelli
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: mturquette@baylibre.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439569394-11974-3-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Variable sched_numa_balancing is available for both CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
and !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. All code paths now check for
sched_numa_balancing. Hence remove sched_feat(NUMA).Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439290813-6683-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
In case there are problems with the aging on attach, provide a debug
knob to turn it off.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Byungchul Park
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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The current load balancer may not try to prevent a task from moving
out of a preferred node to a less preferred node. The reason for this
being:- Since sched features NUMA and NUMA_RESIST_LOWER are disabled by
default, migrate_degrades_locality() always returns false.- Even if NUMA_RESIST_LOWER were to be enabled, if its cache hot,
migrate_degrades_locality() never gets called.The above behaviour can mean that tasks can move out of their
preferred node but they may be eventually be brought back to their
preferred node by numa balancer (due to higher numa faults).To avoid the above, this commit merges migrate_degrades_locality() and
migrate_improves_locality(). It also replaces 3 sched features NUMA,
NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER and NUMA_RESIST_LOWER by a single sched feature
NUMA.Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434455762-30857-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
23 Mar, 2015
1 commit
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When debugging the latencies on a 40 core box, where we hit 300 to
500 microsecond latencies, I found there was a huge contention on the
runqueue locks.Investigating it further, running ftrace, I found that it was due to
the pulling of RT tasks.The test that was run was the following:
cyclictest --numa -p95 -m -d0 -i100
This created a thread on each CPU, that would set its wakeup in iterations
of 100 microseconds. The -d0 means that all the threads had the same
interval (100us). Each thread sleeps for 100us and wakes up and measures
its latencies.cyclictest is maintained at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clrkwllms/rt-tests.gitWhat happened was another RT task would be scheduled on one of the CPUs
that was running our test, when the other CPU tests went to sleep and
scheduled idle. This caused the "pull" operation to execute on all
these CPUs. Each one of these saw the RT task that was overloaded on
the CPU of the test that was still running, and each one tried
to grab that task in a thundering herd way.To grab the task, each thread would do a double rq lock grab, grabbing
its own lock as well as the rq of the overloaded CPU. As the sched
domains on this box was rather flat for its size, I saw up to 12 CPUs
block on this lock at once. This caused a ripple affect with the
rq locks especially since the taking was done via a double rq lock, which
means that several of the CPUs had their own rq locks held while trying
to take this rq lock. As these locks were blocked, any wakeups or load
balanceing on these CPUs would also block on these locks, and the wait
time escalated.I've tried various methods to lessen the load, but things like an
atomic counter to only let one CPU grab the task wont work, because
the task may have a limited affinity, and we may pick the wrong
CPU to take that lock and do the pull, to only find out that the
CPU we picked isn't in the task's affinity.Instead of doing the PULL, I now have the CPUs that want the pull to
send over an IPI to the overloaded CPU, and let that CPU pick what
CPU to push the task to. No more need to grab the rq lock, and the
push/pull algorithm still works fine.With this patch, the latency dropped to just 150us over a 20 hour run.
Without the patch, the huge latencies would trigger in seconds.I've created a new sched feature called RT_PUSH_IPI, which is enabled
by default.When RT_PUSH_IPI is not enabled, the old method of grabbing the rq locks
and having the pulling CPU do the work is implemented. When RT_PUSH_IPI
is enabled, the IPI is sent to the overloaded CPU to do a push.To enabled or disable this at run time:
# mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
# echo RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
or
# echo NO_RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_featuresUpdate: This original patch would send an IPI to all CPUs in the RT overload
list. But that could theoretically cause the reverse issue. That is, there
could be lots of overloaded RT queues and one CPU lowers its priority. It would
then send an IPI to all the overloaded RT queues and they could then all try
to grab the rq lock of the CPU lowering its priority, and then we have the
same problem.The latest design sends out only one IPI to the first overloaded CPU. It tries to
push any tasks that it can, and then looks for the next overloaded CPU that can
push to the source CPU. The IPIs stop when all overloaded CPUs that have pushable
tasks that have priorities greater than the source CPU are covered. In case the
source CPU lowers its priority again, a flag is set to tell the IPI traversal to
restart with the first RT overloaded CPU after the source CPU.Parts-suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Joern Engel
Cc: Clark Williams
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150318144946.2f3cc982@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
05 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent
to "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler work may create
confusion with the notion of energy consumption if "power" is used too
liberally.Let's rename the following feature flags since they do relate to capacity:
SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER -> SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY
ARCH_POWER -> ARCH_CAPACITY
NONTASK_POWER -> NONTASK_CAPACITYSigned-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Vincent Guittot
Cc: Daniel Lezcano
Cc: Morten Rasmussen
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: Andy Fleming
Cc: Anton Blanchard
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Grant Likely
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Preeti U Murthy
Cc: Rob Herring
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Cc: Toshi Kani
Cc: Vasant Hegde
Cc: Vincent Guittot
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e93lpnxb87owfievqatey6b5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
09 Oct, 2013
3 commits
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Just as "sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node" favours
moving tasks towards nodes with a higher number of recorded NUMA hinting
faults, this patch resists moving tasks towards nodes with lower faults.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-24-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher
number of NUMA faults during active load balancing. Ideally this is
self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults
it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that
node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded
and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate
to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so
for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred
node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count
sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule
is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced.[srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju
[ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
PTE scanning and NUMA hinting fault handling is expensive so commit
5bca2303 ("mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled
on a new node") deferred the PTE scan until a task had been scheduled on
another node. The problem is that in the purely shared memory case that
this may never happen and no NUMA hinting fault information will be
captured. We are not ruling out the possibility that something better
can be done here but for now, this patch needs to be reverted and depend
entirely on the scan_delay to avoid punishing short-lived processes.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-16-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
19 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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As mentioned by Ingo, the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN scheduler
feature bit was really just an early hack to make with/without
mutex-spinning testable. So it is no longer necessary.This patch removes the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN feature bit and
move the mutex spinning code from kernel/sched/core.c back to
kernel/mutex.c which is where they should belong.Signed-off-by: Waiman Long
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Chandramouleeswaran Aswin
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Norton Scott J
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Dave Jones
Cc: Clark Williams
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366226594-5506-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
"There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
(balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
autonuma which is in aa.git.In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are
mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does
reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas'
results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
large machine with imbalanced node sizes.My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for
specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I
reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible
numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely tasknode relationships
mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
...
11 Dec, 2012
3 commits
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Due to the fact that migrations are driven by the CPU a task is running
on there is no point tracking NUMA faults until one task runs on a new
node. This patch tracks the first node used by an address space. Until
it changes, PTE scanning is disabled and no NUMA hinting faults are
trapped. This should help workloads that are short-lived, do not care
about NUMA placement or have bound themselves to a single node.This takes advantage of the logic in "mm: sched: numa: Implement slow
start for working set sampling" to delay when the checks are made. This
will take advantage of processes that set their CPU and node bindings
early in their lifetime. It will also potentially allow any initial load
balancing to take place.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
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This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the
enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance
of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems
related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for
automatic NUMA placement.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
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NOTE: This patch is based on "sched, numa, mm: Add fault driven
placement and migration policy" but as it throws away all the policy
to just leave a basic foundation I had to drop the signed-offs-by.This patch creates a bare-bones method for setting PTEs pte_numa in the
context of the scheduler that when faulted later will be faulted onto the
node the CPU is running on. In itself this does nothing useful but any
placement policy will fundamentally depend on receiving hints on placement
from fault context and doing something intelligent about it.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
16 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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As per the recent discussion with Mike and Linus, make it easier to
test with/without this feature. No change in default behavior.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-izoxq4haeg4mTognnDbwcevt@git.kernel.org
13 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Heteregeneous ARM platform uses arch_scale_freq_power function
to reflect the relative capacity of each coreSigned-off-by: Vincent Guittot
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341826026-6504-6-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
04 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Commit beac4c7e4a1c ("sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature") removed
use of the flag but left the definition. Get rid of it.Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345090865-20851-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
26 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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Commits 367456c756a6 ("sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for
load-balancing") and 5d6523ebd ("sched: Fix load-balance wreckage")
left some more wreckage.By setting loop_max unconditionally to ->nr_running load-balancing
could take a lot of time on very long runqueues (hackbench!). So keep
the sysctl as max limit of the amount of tasks we'll iterate.Furthermore, the min load filter for migration completely fails with
cgroups since inequality in per-cpu state can easily lead to such
small loads :/Furthermore the change to add new tasks to the tail of the queue
instead of the head seems to have some effect.. not quite sure I
understand why.Combined these fixes solve the huge hackbench regression reported by
Tim when hackbench is ran in a cgroup.Reported-by: Tim Chen
Acked-by: Tim Chen
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335365763.28150.267.camel@twins
[ got rid of the CONFIG_PREEMPT tuning and made small readability edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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Now that we initialize jump_labels before sched_init() we can use them
for the debug features without having to worry about a window where
they have the wrong setting.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vpreo4hal9e0kzqmg5y0io2k@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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There's too many sched*.[ch] files in kernel/, give them their own
directory.(No code changed, other than Makefile glue added.)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar