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Mel Gorman
b2b2042b20 sched/numa: Distinguish between the different task_numa_migrate() failure cases
sched:sched_stick_numa is meant to fire when a task is unable to migrate
to the preferred node but from the trace, it's possibile to tell the
difference between "no CPU found", "migration to idle CPU failed" and
"tasks could not be swapped". Extend the tracepoint accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
2020-02-24 11:36:33 +01:00
Mel Gorman
f22aef4afb sched/numa: Trace when no candidate CPU was found on the preferred node
sched:sched_stick_numa is meant to fire when a task is unable to migrate
to the preferred node. The case where no candidate CPU could be found is
not traced which is an important gap. The tracepoint is not fired when
the task is not allowed to run on any CPU on the preferred node or the
task is already running on the target CPU but neither are interesting
corner cases.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
2020-02-24 11:36:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
546121b65f Linux 5.6-rc3
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Merge tag 'v5.6-rc3' into sched/core, to pick up fixes and dependent patches

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-02-24 11:36:09 +01:00
Morten Rasmussen
000619680c sched/fair: Remove wake_cap()
Capacity-awareness in the wake-up path previously involved disabling
wake_affine in certain scenarios. We have just made select_idle_sibling()
capacity-aware, so this isn't needed anymore.

Remove wake_cap() entirely.

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
[Changelog tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[Changelog tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200206191957.12325-5-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-02-20 21:03:15 +01:00
Valentin Schneider
f8459197e7 sched/core: Remove for_each_lower_domain()
The last remaining user of this macro has just been removed, get rid of it.

Suggested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@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/20200206191957.12325-4-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-02-20 21:03:15 +01:00
Morten Rasmussen
a526d46679 sched/topology: Remove SD_BALANCE_WAKE on asymmetric capacity systems
SD_BALANCE_WAKE was previously added to lower sched_domain levels on
asymmetric CPU capacity systems by commit:

  9ee1cda5ee ("sched/core: Enable SD_BALANCE_WAKE for asymmetric capacity systems")

to enable the use of find_idlest_cpu() and friends to find an appropriate
CPU for tasks.

That responsibility has now been shifted to select_idle_sibling() and
friends, and hence the flag can be removed. Note that this causes
asymmetric CPU capacity systems to no longer enter the slow wakeup path
(find_idlest_cpu()) on wakeups - only on execs and forks (which is aligned
with all other mainline topologies).

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
[Changelog tweaks]
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/20200206191957.12325-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-02-20 21:03:14 +01:00
Morten Rasmussen
b7a331615d 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:

  3273163c67 ("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
2020-02-20 21:03:14 +01:00
Scott Wood
82e0516ce3 sched/core: Remove duplicate assignment in sched_tick_remote()
A redundant "curr = rq->curr" was added; remove it.

Fixes: ebc0f83c78 ("timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick")
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.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>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1580776558-12882-1-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
2020-02-20 21:03:13 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ef78e5b7de Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes all over the place:

   - Fix NUMA over-balancing between lightly loaded nodes. This is
     fallout of the big load-balancer rewrite.

   - Fix the NOHZ remote loadavg update logic, which fixes anomalies
     like reported 150 loadavg on mostly idle CPUs.

   - Fix XFS performance/scalability

   - Fix throttled groups unbound task-execution bug

   - Fix PSI procfs boundary condition

   - Fix the cpu.uclamp.{min,max} cgroup configuration write checks

   - Fix DocBook annotations

   - Fix RCU annotations

   - Fix overly CPU-intensive housekeeper CPU logic loop on large CPU
     counts"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Fix kernel-doc warning in attach_entity_load_avg()
  sched/core: Annotate curr pointer in rq with __rcu
  sched/psi: Fix OOB write when writing 0 bytes to PSI files
  sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression
  sched/fair: Prevent unlimited runtime on throttled group
  sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()
  sched/uclamp: Reject negative values in cpu_uclamp_write()
  sched/fair: Allow a small load imbalance between low utilisation SD_NUMA domains
  timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick
  sched/core: Don't skip remote tick for idle CPUs
2020-02-15 12:51:22 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
e9f5490c35 sched/fair: Fix kernel-doc warning in attach_entity_load_avg()
Fix kernel-doc warning in kernel/sched/fair.c, caused by a recent
function parameter removal:

  ../kernel/sched/fair.c:3526: warning: Excess function parameter 'flags' description in 'attach_entity_load_avg'

Fixes: a4f9a0e51b ("sched/fair: Remove redundant call to cpufreq_update_util()")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cbe964e4-6879-fd08-41c9-ef1917414af4@infradead.org
2020-02-11 13:05:10 +01:00
Madhuparna Bhowmik
4104a562e0 sched/core: Annotate curr pointer in rq with __rcu
This patch fixes the following sparse warnings in sched/core.c
and sched/membarrier.c:

  kernel/sched/core.c:2372:27: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
  kernel/sched/core.c:4061:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
  kernel/sched/core.c:6067:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
  kernel/sched/membarrier.c:108:21: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
  kernel/sched/membarrier.c:177:21: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
  kernel/sched/membarrier.c:243:21: error: incompatible types in comparison expression

Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200201125803.20245-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com
2020-02-11 13:00:37 +01:00
Suren Baghdasaryan
6fcca0fa48 sched/psi: Fix OOB write when writing 0 bytes to PSI files
Issuing write() with count parameter set to 0 on any file under
/proc/pressure/ will cause an OOB write because of the access to
buf[buf_size-1] when NUL-termination is performed. Fix this by checking
for buf_size to be non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200203212216.7076-1-surenb@google.com
2020-02-11 13:00:02 +01:00
Mel Gorman
52262ee567 sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression
The following XFS commit:

  8ab39f11d9 ("xfs: prevent CIL push holdoff in log recovery")

changed the logic from using bound workqueues to using unbound
workqueues. Functionally this makes sense but it was observed at the
time that the dbench performance dropped quite a lot and CPU migrations
were increased.

The current pattern of the task migration is straight-forward. With XFS,
an IO issuer delegates work to xlog_cil_push_work ()on an unbound kworker.
This runs on a nearby CPU and on completion, dbench wakes up on its old CPU
as it is still idle and no migration occurs. dbench then queues the real
IO on the blk_mq_requeue_work() work item which runs on a bound kworker
which is forced to run on the same CPU as dbench. When IO completes,
the bound kworker wakes dbench but as the kworker is a bound but,
real task, the CPU is not considered idle and dbench gets migrated by
select_idle_sibling() to a new CPU. dbench may ping-pong between two CPUs
for a while but ultimately it starts a round-robin of all CPUs sharing
the same LLC. High-frequency migration on each IO completion has poor
performance overall. It has negative implications both in commication
costs and power management. mpstat confirmed that at low thread counts
that all CPUs sharing an LLC has low level of activity.

Note that even if the CIL patch was reverted, there still would
be migrations but the impact is less noticeable. It turns out that
individually the scheduler, XFS, blk-mq and workqueues all made sensible
decisions but in combination, the overall effect was sub-optimal.

This patch special cases the IO issue/completion pattern and allows
a bound kworker waker and a task wakee to stack on the same CPU if
there is a strong chance they are directly related. The expectation
is that the kworker is likely going back to sleep shortly. This is not
guaranteed as the IO could be queued asynchronously but there is a very
strong relationship between the task and kworker in this case that would
justify stacking on the same CPU instead of migrating. There should be
few concerns about kworker starvation given that the special casing is
only when the kworker is the waker.

DBench on XFS
MMTests config: io-dbench4-async modified to run on a fresh XFS filesystem

UMA machine with 8 cores sharing LLC
                          5.5.0-rc7              5.5.0-rc7
                  tipsched-20200124           kworkerstack
Amean     1        22.63 (   0.00%)       20.54 *   9.23%*
Amean     2        25.56 (   0.00%)       23.40 *   8.44%*
Amean     4        28.63 (   0.00%)       27.85 *   2.70%*
Amean     8        37.66 (   0.00%)       37.68 (  -0.05%)
Amean     64      469.47 (   0.00%)      468.26 (   0.26%)
Stddev    1         1.00 (   0.00%)        0.72 (  28.12%)
Stddev    2         1.62 (   0.00%)        1.97 ( -21.54%)
Stddev    4         2.53 (   0.00%)        3.58 ( -41.19%)
Stddev    8         5.30 (   0.00%)        5.20 (   1.92%)
Stddev    64       86.36 (   0.00%)       94.53 (  -9.46%)

NUMA machine, 48 CPUs total, 24 CPUs share cache
                           5.5.0-rc7              5.5.0-rc7
                   tipsched-20200124      kworkerstack-v1r2
Amean     1         58.69 (   0.00%)       30.21 *  48.53%*
Amean     2         60.90 (   0.00%)       35.29 *  42.05%*
Amean     4         66.77 (   0.00%)       46.55 *  30.28%*
Amean     8         81.41 (   0.00%)       68.46 *  15.91%*
Amean     16       113.29 (   0.00%)      107.79 *   4.85%*
Amean     32       199.10 (   0.00%)      198.22 *   0.44%*
Amean     64       478.99 (   0.00%)      477.06 *   0.40%*
Amean     128     1345.26 (   0.00%)     1372.64 *  -2.04%*
Stddev    1          2.64 (   0.00%)        4.17 ( -58.08%)
Stddev    2          4.35 (   0.00%)        5.38 ( -23.73%)
Stddev    4          6.77 (   0.00%)        6.56 (   3.00%)
Stddev    8         11.61 (   0.00%)       10.91 (   6.04%)
Stddev    16        18.63 (   0.00%)       19.19 (  -3.01%)
Stddev    32        38.71 (   0.00%)       38.30 (   1.06%)
Stddev    64       100.28 (   0.00%)       91.24 (   9.02%)
Stddev    128      186.87 (   0.00%)      160.34 (  14.20%)

Dbench has been modified to report the time to complete a single "load
file". This is a more meaningful metric for dbench that a throughput
metric as the benchmark makes many different system calls that are not
throughput-related

Patch shows a 9.23% and 48.53% reduction in the time to process a load
file with the difference partially explained by the number of CPUs sharing
a LLC. In a separate run, task migrations were almost eliminated by the
patch for low client counts. In case people have issue with the metric
used for the benchmark, this is a comparison of the throughputs as
reported by dbench on the NUMA machine.

dbench4 Throughput (misleading but traditional)
                           5.5.0-rc7              5.5.0-rc7
                   tipsched-20200124      kworkerstack-v1r2
Hmean     1        321.41 (   0.00%)      617.82 *  92.22%*
Hmean     2        622.87 (   0.00%)     1066.80 *  71.27%*
Hmean     4       1134.56 (   0.00%)     1623.74 *  43.12%*
Hmean     8       1869.96 (   0.00%)     2212.67 *  18.33%*
Hmean     16      2673.11 (   0.00%)     2806.13 *   4.98%*
Hmean     32      3032.74 (   0.00%)     3039.54 (   0.22%)
Hmean     64      2514.25 (   0.00%)     2498.96 *  -0.61%*
Hmean     128     1778.49 (   0.00%)     1746.05 *  -1.82%*

Note that this is somewhat specific to XFS and ext4 shows no performance
difference as it does not rely on kworkers in the same way. No major
problem was observed running other workloads on different machines although
not all tests have completed yet.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200128154006.GD3466@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-02-10 11:24:37 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
97a32539b9 proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops"
The most notable change is DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro split in
seq_file.h.

Conversion rule is:

	llseek		=> proc_lseek
	unlocked_ioctl	=> proc_ioctl

	xxx		=> proc_xxx

	delete ".owner = THIS_MODULE" line

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi_proc.c]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix kernel/sched/psi.c]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122180545.36222f50@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191225172546.GB13378@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
b4fb015eef sched/rt: Optimize checking group RT scheduler constraints
Group RT scheduler contains protection against setting zero runtime for
cgroup with RT tasks. Right now function tg_set_rt_bandwidth() iterates
over all CPU cgroups and calls tg_has_rt_tasks() for any cgroup which
runtime is zero (not only for changed one). Default RT runtime is zero,
thus tg_has_rt_tasks() will is called for almost at CPU cgroups.

This protection already is slightly racy: runtime limit could be changed
between cpu_cgroup_can_attach() and cpu_cgroup_attach() because changing
cgroup attribute does not lock cgroup_mutex while attach does not lock
rt_constraints_mutex. Changing task scheduler class also races with
changing rt runtime: check in __sched_setscheduler() isn't protected.

Function tg_has_rt_tasks() iterates over all threads in the system.
This gives NR_CGROUPS * NR_TASKS operations under single tasklist_lock
locked for read tg_set_rt_bandwidth(). Any concurrent attempt of locking
tasklist_lock for write (for example fork) will stuck with disabled irqs.

This patch makes two optimizations:
1) Remove locking tasklist_lock and iterate only tasks in cgroup
2) Call tg_has_rt_tasks() iff rt runtime changes from non-zero to zero

All changed code is under CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED.

Testcase:

 # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test{1..10000}
 # echo 0 | tee /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test*/cpu.rt_runtime_us

At the same time without patch fork time will be >100ms:

 # perf trace -e clone --duration 100 stress-ng --fork 1

Also remote ping will show timings >100ms caused by irq latency.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/157996383820.4651.11292439232549211693.stgit@buzz
2020-01-28 21:37:09 +01:00
Srikar Dronamraju
bec2860a2b sched/fair: Optimize select_idle_core()
Currently we loop through all threads of a core to evaluate if the core is
idle or not. This is unnecessary. If a thread of a core is not idle, skip
evaluating other threads of a core. Also while clearing the cpumask, bits
of all CPUs of a core can be cleared in one-shot.

Collecting ticks on a Power 9 SMT 8 system around select_idle_core
while running schbench shows us

(units are in ticks, hence lesser is better)
Without patch
    N        Min     Max     Median         Avg      Stddev
x 130        151    1083        284   322.72308   144.41494

With patch
    N        Min     Max     Median         Avg      Stddev   Improvement
x 164         88     610        201   225.79268   106.78943        30.03%

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191206172422.6578-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2020-01-28 21:37:08 +01:00
Giovanni Gherdovich
1567c3e346 x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance
Implement arch_scale_freq_capacity() for 'modern' x86. This function
is used by the scheduler to correctly account usage in the face of
DVFS.

The present patch addresses Intel processors specifically and has positive
performance and performance-per-watt implications for the schedutil cpufreq
governor, bringing it closer to, if not on-par with, the powersave governor
from the intel_pstate driver/framework.

Large performance gains are obtained when the machine is lightly loaded and
no regression are observed at saturation. The benchmarks with the largest
gains are kernel compilation, tbench (the networking version of dbench) and
shell-intensive workloads.

1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
   * Without it, a task looks larger if the CPU runs slower

2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
   * freq invariance accounting requires knowing the ratio freq_curr/freq_max
   2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
       * Use delta_APERF / delta_MPERF * freq_base (a.k.a "BusyMHz")
   2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
       * It varies with time (turbo). As an approximation, we set it to a
         constant, i.e. 4-cores turbo frequency.

3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
   * The invariant schedutil's formula has no feedback loop and reacts faster
     to utilization changes

4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
   * In some cases tasks can't reach max util despite how hard they try

5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
   5.1 MACHINES
       * Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell
   5.2 SETUP
       * baseline Linux v5.2 w/ non-invariant schedutil. Tested freq_max = 1-2-3-4-8-12
         active cores turbo w/ invariant schedutil, and intel_pstate/powersave
   5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
       5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
             * NAS Parallel Benchmark (HPC), hackbench
       5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
             * tbench (10-30% better), kernbench (10-15% better),
               shell-intensive-scripts (30-50% better)
             * no regressions
       5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
       5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
             * dbench (5% worse on one machine), kernbench (3% worse),
               tbench (5-10% better), shell-intensive-scripts (10-40% better)

6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
   * Xeon Core before Scalable Performance processors line (Xeon Gold/Platinum
     etc have different MSRs semantic for querying turbo levels)

7. REFERENCES
   * MMTests performance testing framework, github.com/gormanm/mmtests

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

For example; suppose a CPU has two frequencies: 500 and 1000 Mhz. When
running a task that would consume 1/3rd of a CPU at 1000 MHz, it would
appear to consume 2/3rd (or 66.6%) when running at 500 MHz, giving the
false impression this CPU is almost at capacity, even though it can go
faster [*]. In a nutshell, without frequency scale-invariance tasks look
larger just because the CPU is running slower.

[*] (footnote: this assumes a linear frequency/performance relation; which
everybody knows to be false, but given realities its the best approximation
we can make.)

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Accounting for frequency changes in PELT signals requires the computation of
the ratio freq_curr / freq_max. On x86 neither of those terms is readily
available.

2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
====================

Since modern x86 has hardware control over the actual frequency we run
at (because amongst other things, Turbo-Mode), we cannot simply use
the frequency as requested through cpufreq.

Instead we use the APERF/MPERF MSRs to compute the effective frequency
over the recent past. Also, because reading MSRs is expensive, don't
do so every time we need the value, but amortize the cost by doing it
every tick.

2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
=================

Obtaining freq_max is also non-trivial because at any time the hardware can
provide a frequency boost to a selected subset of cores if the package has
enough power to spare (eg: Turbo Boost). This means that the maximum frequency
available to a given core changes with time.

The approach taken in this change is to arbitrarily set freq_max to a constant
value at boot. The value chosen is the "4-cores (4C) turbo frequency" on most
microarchitectures, after evaluating the following candidates:

    * 1-core (1C) turbo frequency (the fastest turbo state available)
    * around base frequency (a.k.a. max P-state)
    * something in between, such as 4C turbo

To interpret these options, consider that this is the denominator in
freq_curr/freq_max, and that ratio will be used to scale PELT signals such as
util_avg and load_avg. A large denominator will undershoot (util_avg looks a
bit smaller than it really is), viceversa with a smaller denominator PELT
signals will tend to overshoot. Given that PELT drives frequency selection
in the schedutil governor, we will have:

    freq_max set to     | effect on DVFS
    --------------------+------------------
    1C turbo            | power efficiency (lower freq choices)
    base freq           | performance (higher util_avg, higher freq requests)
    4C turbo            | a bit of both

4C turbo proves to be a good compromise in a number of benchmarks (see below).

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Once an architecture implements a frequency scale-invariant utilization (the
PELT signal util_avg), schedutil switches its frequency selection formula from

    freq_next = 1.25 * freq_curr * util            [non-invariant util signal]

to

    freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * util             [invariant util signal]

where, in the second formula, freq_max is set to the 1C turbo frequency (max
turbo). The advantage of the second formula, whose usage we unlock with this
patch, is that freq_next doesn't depend on the current frequency in an
iterative fashion, but can jump to any frequency in a single update. This
absence of feedback in the formula makes it quicker to react to utilization
changes and more robust against pathological instabilities.

Compare it to the update formula of intel_pstate/powersave:

    freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * Busy%

where again freq_max is 1C turbo and Busy% is the percentage of time not spent
idling (calculated with delta_MPERF / delta_TSC); essentially the same as
invariant schedutil, and largely responsible for intel_pstate/powersave good
reputation. The non-invariant schedutil formula is derived from the invariant
one by approximating util_inv with util_raw * freq_curr / freq_max, but this
has limitations.

Testing shows improved performances due to better frequency selections when
the machine is lightly loaded, and essentially no change in behaviour at
saturation / overutilization.

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

It's been shown that it is possible to create pathological scenarios where a
CPU-bound task cannot reach max utilization, if the normalizing factor
freq_max is fixed to a constant value (see [Lelli-2018]).

If freq_max is set to 4C turbo as we do here, one needs to peg at least 5
cores in a package doing some busywork, and observe that none of those task
will ever reach max util (1024) because they're all running at less than the
4C turbo frequency.

While this concern still applies, we believe the performance benefit of
frequency scale-invariant PELT signals outweights the cost of this limitation.

 [Lelli-2018]
 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180517150418.GF22493@localhost.localdomain/

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

5.1 MACHINES
============

We tested the patch on three machines, with Skylake, Broadwell and Haswell
CPUs. The details are below, together with the available turbo ratios as
reported by the appropriate MSRs.

* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA:
  Single socket E3-1240 v5, Skylake 4 cores/8 threads
  Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):

    EFFIC    800 |********
    BASE    3500 |***********************************
    4C      3700 |*************************************
    3C      3800 |**************************************
    2C      3900 |***************************************
    1C      3900 |***************************************

* 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA:
  Two sockets E5-2698 v4, 2x Broadwell 20 cores/40 threads
  Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):

    EFFIC   1200 |************
    BASE    2200 |**********************
    8C      2900 |*****************************
    7C      3000 |******************************
    6C      3100 |*******************************
    5C      3200 |********************************
    4C      3300 |*********************************
    3C      3400 |**********************************
    2C      3600 |************************************
    1C      3600 |************************************

* 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
  Two sockets E5-2670 v3, 2x Haswell 12 cores/24 threads
  Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):

    EFFIC   1200 |************
    BASE    2300 |***********************
    12C     2600 |**************************
    11C     2600 |**************************
    10C     2600 |**************************
    9C      2600 |**************************
    8C      2600 |**************************
    7C      2600 |**************************
    6C      2600 |**************************
    5C      2700 |***************************
    4C      2800 |****************************
    3C      2900 |*****************************
    2C      3100 |*******************************
    1C      3100 |*******************************

5.2 SETUP
=========

* The baseline is Linux v5.2 with schedutil (non-invariant) and the intel_pstate
  driver in passive mode.
* The rationale for choosing the various freq_max values to test have been to
  try all the 1-2-3-4C turbo levels (note that 1C and 2C turbo are identical
  on all machines), plus one more value closer to base_freq but still in the
  turbo range (8C turbo for both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA).
* In addition we've run all tests with intel_pstate/powersave for comparison.
* The filesystem is always XFS, the userspace is openSUSE Leap 15.1.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA is capable of HWP (Hardware-Managed P-States), so the runs
  with active intel_pstate on this machine use that.

This gives, in terms of combinations tested on each machine:

* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
  * Baseline: Linux v5.2, non-invariant schedutil, intel_pstate passive
  * intel_pstate active + powersave + HWP
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 1C turbo
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 3C turbo
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 4C turbo

* both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
  * [same as 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA, but no HWP capable]
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 8C turbo
    (which on 48x-HASWELL-NUMA is the same as 12C turbo, or "all cores turbo")

5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
=====================

5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
------------------------

Tests that didn't show any measurable difference in performance on any of the
test machines between non-invariant schedutil and our patch are:

* NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) using either MPI or openMP for IPC, any
  computational kernel
* flexible I/O (FIO)
* hackbench (using threads or processes, and using pipes or sockets)

5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
----------------------------

What follow are summary tables where each benchmark result is given a score.

* A tilde (~) means a neutral result, i.e. no difference from baseline.
* Scores are computed with the ratio result_new / result_baseline, so a tilde
  means a score of 1.00.
* The results in the score ratio are the geometric means of results running
  the benchmark with different parameters (eg: for kernbench: using 1, 2, 4,
  ... number of processes; for pgbench: varying the number of clients, and so
  on).
* The first three tables show higher-is-better kind of tests (i.e. measured in
  operations/second), the subsequent three show lower-is-better kind of tests
  (i.e. the workload is fixed and we measure elapsed time, think kernbench).
* "gitsource" is a name we made up for the test consisting in running the
  entire unit tests suite of the Git SCM and measuring how long it takes. We
  take it as a typical example of shell-intensive serialized workload.
* In the "I_PSTATE" column we have the results for intel_pstate/powersave. Other
  columns show invariant schedutil for different values of freq_max. 4C turbo
  is circled as it's the value we've chosen for the final implementation.

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  8C
pgbench-ro           1.14   ~      ~     | 1.11 |  1.14
pgbench-rw           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
netperf-udp          1.06   ~      1.06  | 1.05 |  1.07
netperf-tcp          ~      1.03   ~     | 1.01 |  1.02
tbench4              1.57   1.18   1.22  | 1.30 |  1.56
                                         +------+

8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
                                         +------+
             I_PSTATE/HWP   1C     3C    | 4C   |
pgbench-ro           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
pgbench-rw           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-udp          ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-tcp          ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
tbench4              1.30   1.14   1.14  | 1.16 |
                                         +------+

48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  12C
pgbench-ro           1.15   ~      ~     | 1.06 |  1.16
pgbench-rw           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
netperf-udp          1.05   0.97   1.04  | 1.04 |  1.02
netperf-tcp          0.96   1.01   1.01  | 1.01 |  1.01
tbench4              1.50   1.05   1.13  | 1.13 |  1.25
                                         +------+

In the table above we see that active intel_pstate is slightly better than our
4C-turbo patch (both in reference to the baseline non-invariant schedutil) on
read-only pgbench and much better on tbench. Both cases are notable in which
it shows that lowering our freq_max (to 8C-turbo and 12C-turbo on
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA respectively) helps invariant
schedutil to get closer.

If we ignore active intel_pstate and focus on the comparison with baseline
alone, there are several instances of double-digit performance improvement.

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  8C
dbench4              1.23   0.95   0.95  | 0.95 |  0.95
kernbench            0.93   0.83   0.83  | 0.83 |  0.82
gitsource            0.98   0.49   0.49  | 0.49 |  0.48
                                         +------+

8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
                                         +------+
             I_PSTATE/HWP   1C     3C    | 4C   |
dbench4              ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
kernbench            ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
gitsource            0.92   0.55   0.55  | 0.55 |
                                         +------+

48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  8C
dbench4              ~      ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
kernbench            0.94   0.90   0.89  | 0.90 |  0.90
gitsource            0.97   0.69   0.69  | 0.69 |  0.69
                                         +------+

dbench is not very remarkable here, unless we notice how poorly active
intel_pstate is performing on 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA: 23% regression versus
non-invariant schedutil. We repeated that run getting consistent results. Out
of scope for the patch at hand, but deserving future investigation. Other than
that, we previously ran this campaign with Linux v5.0 and saw the patch doing
better on dbench a the time. We haven't checked closely and can only speculate
at this point.

On the NUMA boxes kernbench gets 10-15% improvements on average; we'll see in
the detailed tables that the gains concentrate on low process counts (lightly
loaded machines).

The test we call "gitsource" (running the git unit test suite, a long-running
single-threaded shell script) appears rather spectacular in this table (gains
of 30-50% depending on the machine). It is to be noted, however, that
gitsource has no adjustable parameters (such as the number of jobs in
kernbench, which we average over in order to get a single-number summary
score) and is exactly the kind of low-parallelism workload that benefits the
most from this patch. When looking at the detailed tables of kernbench or
tbench4, at low process or client counts one can see similar numbers.

5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
-----------------------------------

Machine            : 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Benchmark          : tbench4 (i.e. dbench4 over the network, actually loopback)
Varying parameter  : number of clients
Unit               : MB/sec (higher is better)

                   5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE)               5.2.0 intel_pstate                   5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean  1        126.73  +- 0.31% (        )      315.91  +- 0.66% ( 149.28%)      125.03  +- 0.76% (  -1.34%)
Hmean  2        258.04  +- 0.62% (        )      614.16  +- 0.51% ( 138.01%)      269.58  +- 1.45% (   4.47%)
Hmean  4        514.30  +- 0.67% (        )     1146.58  +- 0.54% ( 122.94%)      533.84  +- 1.99% (   3.80%)
Hmean  8       1111.38  +- 2.52% (        )     2159.78  +- 0.38% (  94.33%)     1359.92  +- 1.56% (  22.36%)
Hmean  16      2286.47  +- 1.36% (        )     3338.29  +- 0.21% (  46.00%)     2720.20  +- 0.52% (  18.97%)
Hmean  32      4704.84  +- 0.35% (        )     4759.03  +- 0.43% (   1.15%)     4774.48  +- 0.30% (   1.48%)
Hmean  64      7578.04  +- 0.27% (        )     7533.70  +- 0.43% (  -0.59%)     7462.17  +- 0.65% (  -1.53%)
Hmean  128     6998.52  +- 0.16% (        )     6987.59  +- 0.12% (  -0.16%)     6909.17  +- 0.14% (  -1.28%)
Hmean  192     6901.35  +- 0.25% (        )     6913.16  +- 0.10% (   0.17%)     6855.47  +- 0.21% (  -0.66%)

                             5.2.0 3C-turbo                   5.2.0 4C-turbo                  5.2.0 12C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean  1        128.43  +- 0.28% (   1.34%)      130.64  +- 3.81% (   3.09%)      153.71  +- 5.89% (  21.30%)
Hmean  2        311.70  +- 6.15% (  20.79%)      281.66  +- 3.40% (   9.15%)      305.08  +- 5.70% (  18.23%)
Hmean  4        641.98  +- 2.32% (  24.83%)      623.88  +- 5.28% (  21.31%)      906.84  +- 4.65% (  76.32%)
Hmean  8       1633.31  +- 1.56% (  46.96%)     1714.16  +- 0.93% (  54.24%)     2095.74  +- 0.47% (  88.57%)
Hmean  16      3047.24  +- 0.42% (  33.27%)     3155.02  +- 0.30% (  37.99%)     3634.58  +- 0.15% (  58.96%)
Hmean  32      4734.31  +- 0.60% (   0.63%)     4804.38  +- 0.23% (   2.12%)     4674.62  +- 0.27% (  -0.64%)
Hmean  64      7699.74  +- 0.35% (   1.61%)     7499.72  +- 0.34% (  -1.03%)     7659.03  +- 0.25% (   1.07%)
Hmean  128     6935.18  +- 0.15% (  -0.91%)     6942.54  +- 0.10% (  -0.80%)     7004.85  +- 0.12% (   0.09%)
Hmean  192     6901.62  +- 0.12% (   0.00%)     6856.93  +- 0.10% (  -0.64%)     6978.74  +- 0.10% (   1.12%)

This is one of the cases where the patch still can't surpass active
intel_pstate, not even when freq_max is as low as 12C-turbo. Otherwise, gains are
visible up to 16 clients and the saturated scenario is the same as baseline.

The scores in the summary table from the previous sections are ratios of
geometric means of the results over different clients, as seen in this table.

Machine            : 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA
Benchmark          : kernbench (kernel compilation)
Varying parameter  : number of jobs
Unit               : seconds (lower is better)

                   5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE)               5.2.0 intel_pstate                   5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean  2        379.68  +- 0.06% (        )      330.20  +- 0.43% (  13.03%)      285.93  +- 0.07% (  24.69%)
Amean  4        200.15  +- 0.24% (        )      175.89  +- 0.22% (  12.12%)      153.78  +- 0.25% (  23.17%)
Amean  8        106.20  +- 0.31% (        )       95.54  +- 0.23% (  10.03%)       86.74  +- 0.10% (  18.32%)
Amean  16        56.96  +- 1.31% (        )       53.25  +- 1.22% (   6.50%)       48.34  +- 1.73% (  15.13%)
Amean  32        34.80  +- 2.46% (        )       33.81  +- 0.77% (   2.83%)       30.28  +- 1.59% (  12.99%)
Amean  64        26.11  +- 1.63% (        )       25.04  +- 1.07% (   4.10%)       22.41  +- 2.37% (  14.16%)
Amean  128       24.80  +- 1.36% (        )       23.57  +- 1.23% (   4.93%)       21.44  +- 1.37% (  13.55%)
Amean  160       24.85  +- 0.56% (        )       23.85  +- 1.17% (   4.06%)       21.25  +- 1.12% (  14.49%)

                             5.2.0 3C-turbo                   5.2.0 4C-turbo                   5.2.0 8C-turbo
- - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean  2        284.08  +- 0.13% (  25.18%)      283.96  +- 0.51% (  25.21%)      285.05  +- 0.21% (  24.92%)
Amean  4        153.18  +- 0.22% (  23.47%)      154.70  +- 1.64% (  22.71%)      153.64  +- 0.30% (  23.24%)
Amean  8         87.06  +- 0.28% (  18.02%)       86.77  +- 0.46% (  18.29%)       86.78  +- 0.22% (  18.28%)
Amean  16        48.03  +- 0.93% (  15.68%)       47.75  +- 1.99% (  16.17%)       47.52  +- 1.61% (  16.57%)
Amean  32        30.23  +- 1.20% (  13.14%)       30.08  +- 1.67% (  13.57%)       30.07  +- 1.67% (  13.60%)
Amean  64        22.59  +- 2.02% (  13.50%)       22.63  +- 0.81% (  13.32%)       22.42  +- 0.76% (  14.12%)
Amean  128       21.37  +- 0.67% (  13.82%)       21.31  +- 1.15% (  14.07%)       21.17  +- 1.93% (  14.63%)
Amean  160       21.68  +- 0.57% (  12.76%)       21.18  +- 1.74% (  14.77%)       21.22  +- 1.00% (  14.61%)

The patch outperform active intel_pstate (and baseline) by a considerable
margin; the summary table from the previous section says 4C turbo and active
intel_pstate are 0.83 and 0.93 against baseline respectively, so 4C turbo is
0.83/0.93=0.89 against intel_pstate (~10% better on average). There is no
noticeable difference with regard to the value of freq_max.

Machine            : 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
Benchmark          : gitsource (time to run the git unit test suite)
Varying parameter  : none
Unit               : seconds (lower is better)

                            5.2.0 vanilla           5.2.0 intel_pstate/hwp         5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean         858.85  +- 1.16% (        )      791.94  +- 0.21% (   7.79%)      474.95 (  44.70%)

                           5.2.0 3C-turbo                   5.2.0 4C-turbo
- - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean         475.26  +- 0.20% (  44.66%)      474.34  +- 0.13% (  44.77%)

In this test, which is of interest as representing shell-intensive
(i.e. fork-intensive) serialized workloads, invariant schedutil outperforms
intel_pstate/powersave by a whopping 40% margin.

5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
---------------------------------------------

The following table shows average power consumption in watt for each
benchmark. Data comes from turbostat (package average), which in turn is read
from the RAPL interface on CPUs. We know the patch affects CPU frequencies so
it's reasonable to ignore other power consumers (such as memory or I/O). Also,
we don't have a power meter available in the lab so RAPL is the best we have.

turbostat sampled average power every 10 seconds for the entire duration of
each benchmark. We took all those values and averaged them (i.e. with don't
have detail on a per-parameter granularity, only on whole benchmarks).

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
                                                    +--------+
               BASELINE I_PSTATE       1C       3C  |     4C |      8C
pgbench-ro       130.01   142.77   131.11   132.45  | 134.65 |  136.84
pgbench-rw        68.30    60.83    71.45    71.70  |  71.65 |   72.54
dbench4           90.25    59.06   101.43    99.89  | 101.10 |  102.94
netperf-udp       65.70    69.81    66.02    68.03  |  68.27 |   68.95
netperf-tcp       88.08    87.96    88.97    88.89  |  88.85 |   88.20
tbench4          142.32   176.73   153.02   163.91  | 165.58 |  176.07
kernbench         92.94   101.95   114.91   115.47  | 115.52 |  115.10
gitsource         40.92    41.87    75.14    75.20  |  75.40 |   75.70
                                                    +--------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (power consumption, watts)
                                                    +--------+
              BASELINE I_PSTATE/HWP    1C       3C  |     4C |
pgbench-ro        46.49    46.68    46.56    46.59  |  46.52 |
pgbench-rw        29.34    31.38    30.98    31.00  |  31.00 |
dbench4           27.28    27.37    27.49    27.41  |  27.38 |
netperf-udp       22.33    22.41    22.36    22.35  |  22.36 |
netperf-tcp       27.29    27.29    27.30    27.31  |  27.33 |
tbench4           41.13    45.61    43.10    43.33  |  43.56 |
kernbench         42.56    42.63    43.01    43.01  |  43.01 |
gitsource         13.32    13.69    17.33    17.30  |  17.35 |
                                                    +--------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
                                                    +--------+
               BASELINE I_PSTATE       1C       3C  |     4C |     12C
pgbench-ro       128.84   136.04   129.87   132.43  | 132.30 |  134.86
pgbench-rw        37.68    37.92    37.17    37.74  |  37.73 |   37.31
dbench4           28.56    28.73    28.60    28.73  |  28.70 |   28.79
netperf-udp       56.70    60.44    56.79    57.42  |  57.54 |   57.52
netperf-tcp       75.49    75.27    75.87    76.02  |  76.01 |   75.95
tbench4          115.44   139.51   119.53   123.07  | 123.97 |  130.22
kernbench         83.23    91.55    95.58    95.69  |  95.72 |   96.04
gitsource         36.79    36.99    39.99    40.34  |  40.35 |   40.23
                                                    +--------+

A lower power consumption isn't necessarily better, it depends on what is done
with that energy. Here are tables with the ratio of performance-per-watt on
each machine and benchmark. Higher is always better; a tilde (~) means a
neutral ratio (i.e. 1.00).

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
                                     +------+
             I_PSTATE     1C     3C  |   4C |    8C
pgbench-ro       1.04   1.06   0.94  | 1.07 |  1.08
pgbench-rw       1.10   0.97   0.96  | 0.96 |  0.97
dbench4          1.24   0.94   0.95  | 0.94 |  0.92
netperf-udp      ~      1.02   1.02  | ~    |  1.02
netperf-tcp      ~      1.02   ~     | ~    |  1.02
tbench4          1.26   1.10   1.06  | 1.12 |  1.26
kernbench        0.98   0.97   0.97  | 0.97 |  0.98
gitsource        ~      1.11   1.11  | 1.11 |  1.13
                                     +------+

8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
                                     +------+
         I_PSTATE/HWP     1C     3C  |   4C |
pgbench-ro       ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
pgbench-rw       0.95   0.97   0.96  | 0.96 |
dbench4          ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-udp      ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-tcp      ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
tbench4          1.17   1.09   1.08  | 1.10 |
kernbench        ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
gitsource        1.06   1.40   1.40  | 1.40 |
                                     +------+

48x-HASWELL-NUMA  (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
                                     +------+
             I_PSTATE     1C     3C  |   4C |   12C
pgbench-ro       1.09   ~      1.09  | 1.03 |  1.11
pgbench-rw       ~      0.86   ~     | ~    |  0.86
dbench4          ~      1.02   1.02  | 1.02 |  ~
netperf-udp      ~      0.97   1.03  | 1.02 |  ~
netperf-tcp      0.96   ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
tbench4          1.24   ~      1.06  | 1.05 |  1.11
kernbench        0.97   0.97   0.98  | 0.97 |  0.96
gitsource        1.03   1.33   1.32  | 1.32 |  1.33
                                     +------+

These results are overall pleasing: in plenty of cases we observe
performance-per-watt improvements. The few regressions (read/write pgbench and
dbench on the Broadwell machine) are of small magnitude. kernbench loses a few
percentage points (it has a 10-15% performance improvement, but apparently the
increase in power consumption is larger than that). tbench4 and gitsource, which
benefit the most from the patch, keep a positive score in this table which is
a welcome surprise; that suggests that in those particular workloads the
non-invariant schedutil (and active intel_pstate, too) makes some rather
suboptimal frequency selections.

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The patch addresses Xeon Core processors that use MSR_PLATFORM_INFO and
MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT to advertise their base frequency and turbo frequencies
respectively. This excludes the recent Xeon Scalable Performance processors
line (Xeon Gold, Platinum etc) whose MSRs have to be parsed differently.

Subsequent patches will address:

* Xeon Scalable Performance processors and Atom Goldmont/Goldmont Plus
* Xeon Phi (Knights Landing, Knights Mill)
* Atom Silvermont

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 7. REFERENCES
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Tests have been run with the help of the MMTests performance testing
framework, see github.com/gormanm/mmtests. The configuration file names for
the benchmark used are:

    db-pgbench-timed-ro-small-xfs
    db-pgbench-timed-rw-small-xfs
    io-dbench4-async-xfs
    network-netperf-unbound
    network-tbench
    scheduler-unbound
    workload-kerndevel-xfs
    workload-shellscripts-xfs
    hpc-nas-c-class-mpi-full-xfs
    hpc-nas-c-class-omp-full

All those benchmarks are generally available on the web:

pgbench: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/pgbench.html
netperf: https://hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/
dbench/tbench: https://dbench.samba.org/
gitsource: git unit test suite, github.com/git/git
NAS Parallel Benchmarks: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html
hackbench: https://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz
2020-01-28 21:36:59 +01:00
Vincent Guittot
2a4b03ffc6 sched/fair: Prevent unlimited runtime on throttled group
When a running task is moved on a throttled task group and there is no
other task enqueued on the CPU, the task can keep running using 100% CPU
whatever the allocated bandwidth for the group and although its cfs rq is
throttled. Furthermore, the group entity of the cfs_rq and its parents are
not enqueued but only set as curr on their respective cfs_rqs.

We have the following sequence:

sched_move_task
  -dequeue_task: dequeue task and group_entities.
  -put_prev_task: put task and group entities.
  -sched_change_group: move task to new group.
  -enqueue_task: enqueue only task but not group entities because cfs_rq is
    throttled.
  -set_next_task : set task and group_entities as current sched_entity of
    their cfs_rq.

Another impact is that the root cfs_rq runnable_load_avg at root rq stays
null because the group_entities are not enqueued. This situation will stay
the same until an "external" event triggers a reschedule. Let trigger it
immediately instead.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1579011236-31256-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2020-01-28 21:36:58 +01:00
Wanpeng Li
e938b9c941 sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()
On a machine, CPU 0 is used for housekeeping, the other 39 CPUs in the
same socket are in nohz_full mode. We can observe huge time burn in the
loop for seaching nearest busy housekeeper cpu by ftrace.

  2)               |                        get_nohz_timer_target() {
  2)   0.240 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.458 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();

  ...

  2)   0.292 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.240 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.227 us    |                          housekeeping_any_cpu();
  2) + 43.460 us   |                        }

This patch optimizes the searching logic by finding a nearest housekeeper
CPU in the housekeeping cpumask, it can minimize the worst searching time
from ~44us to < 10us in my testing. In addition, the last iterated busy
housekeeper can become a random candidate while current CPU is a better
fallback if it is a housekeeper.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578876627-11938-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com
2020-01-28 21:36:57 +01:00
Qais Yousef
b562d14064 sched/uclamp: Reject negative values in cpu_uclamp_write()
The check to ensure that the new written value into cpu.uclamp.{min,max}
is within range, [0:100], wasn't working because of the signed
comparison

 7301                 if (req.percent > UCLAMP_PERCENT_SCALE) {
 7302                         req.ret = -ERANGE;
 7303                         return req;
 7304                 }

	# echo -1 > cpu.uclamp.min
	# cat cpu.uclamp.min
	42949671.96

Cast req.percent into u64 to force the comparison to be unsigned and
work as intended in capacity_from_percent().

	# echo -1 > cpu.uclamp.min
	sh: write error: Numerical result out of range

Fixes: 2480c09313 ("sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200114210947.14083-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
2020-01-28 21:36:56 +01:00
Mel Gorman
b396f52326 sched/fair: Allow a small load imbalance between low utilisation SD_NUMA domains
The CPU load balancer balances between different domains to spread load
and strives to have equal balance everywhere. Communicating tasks can
migrate so they are topologically close to each other but these decisions
are independent. On a lightly loaded NUMA machine, two communicating tasks
pulled together at wakeup time can be pushed apart by the load balancer.
In isolation, the load balancer decision is fine but it ignores the tasks
data locality and the wakeup/LB paths continually conflict. NUMA balancing
is also a factor but it also simply conflicts with the load balancer.

This patch allows a fixed degree of imbalance of two tasks to exist
between NUMA domains regardless of utilisation levels. In many cases,
this prevents communicating tasks being pulled apart. It was evaluated
whether the imbalance should be scaled to the domain size. However, no
additional benefit was measured across a range of workloads and machines
and scaling adds the risk that lower domains have to be rebalanced. While
this could change again in the future, such a change should specify the
use case and benefit.

The most obvious impact is on netperf TCP_STREAM -- two simple
communicating tasks with some softirq offload depending on the
transmission rate.

 2-socket Haswell machine 48 core, HT enabled
 netperf-tcp -- mmtests config config-network-netperf-unbound
			      baseline              lbnuma-v3
 Hmean     64         568.73 (   0.00%)      577.56 *   1.55%*
 Hmean     128       1089.98 (   0.00%)     1128.06 *   3.49%*
 Hmean     256       2061.72 (   0.00%)     2104.39 *   2.07%*
 Hmean     1024      7254.27 (   0.00%)     7557.52 *   4.18%*
 Hmean     2048     11729.20 (   0.00%)    13350.67 *  13.82%*
 Hmean     3312     15309.08 (   0.00%)    18058.95 *  17.96%*
 Hmean     4096     17338.75 (   0.00%)    20483.66 *  18.14%*
 Hmean     8192     25047.12 (   0.00%)    27806.84 *  11.02%*
 Hmean     16384    27359.55 (   0.00%)    33071.88 *  20.88%*
 Stddev    64           2.16 (   0.00%)        2.02 (   6.53%)
 Stddev    128          2.31 (   0.00%)        2.19 (   5.05%)
 Stddev    256         11.88 (   0.00%)        3.22 (  72.88%)
 Stddev    1024        23.68 (   0.00%)        7.24 (  69.43%)
 Stddev    2048        79.46 (   0.00%)       71.49 (  10.03%)
 Stddev    3312        26.71 (   0.00%)       57.80 (-116.41%)
 Stddev    4096       185.57 (   0.00%)       96.15 (  48.19%)
 Stddev    8192       245.80 (   0.00%)      100.73 (  59.02%)
 Stddev    16384      207.31 (   0.00%)      141.65 (  31.67%)

In this case, there was a sizable improvement to performance and
a general reduction in variance. However, this is not univeral.
For most machines, the impact was roughly a 3% performance gain.

 Ops NUMA base-page range updates       19796.00         292.00
 Ops NUMA PTE updates                   19796.00         292.00
 Ops NUMA PMD updates                       0.00           0.00
 Ops NUMA hint faults                   16113.00         143.00
 Ops NUMA hint local faults %            8407.00         142.00
 Ops NUMA hint local percent               52.18          99.30
 Ops NUMA pages migrated                 4244.00           1.00

Without the patch, only 52.18% of sampled accesses are local.  In an
earlier changelog, 100% of sampled accesses are local and indeed on
most machines, this was still the case. In this specific case, the
local sampled rates was 99.3% but note the "base-page range updates"
and "PTE updates".  The activity with the patch is negligible as were
the number of faults. The small number of pages migrated were related to
shared libraries.  A 2-socket Broadwell showed better results on average
but are not presented for brevity as the performance was similar except
it showed 100% of the sampled NUMA hints were local. The patch holds up
for a 4-socket Haswell, an AMD EPYC and AMD Epyc 2 machine.

For dbench, the impact depends on the filesystem used and the number of
clients. On XFS, there is little difference as the clients typically
communicate with workqueues which have a separate class of scheduler
problem at the moment. For ext4, performance is generally better,
particularly for small numbers of clients as NUMA balancing activity is
negligible with the patch applied.

A more interesting example is the Facebook schbench which uses a
number of messaging threads to communicate with worker threads. In this
configuration, one messaging thread is used per NUMA node and the number of
worker threads is varied. The 50, 75, 90, 95, 99, 99.5 and 99.9 percentiles
for response latency is then reported.

 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-1        44.00 (   0.00%)       37.00 (  15.91%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-1        53.00 (   0.00%)       41.00 (  22.64%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-1        57.00 (   0.00%)       42.00 (  26.32%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-1        63.00 (   0.00%)       43.00 (  31.75%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-1        76.00 (   0.00%)       51.00 (  32.89%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-1        89.00 (   0.00%)       52.00 (  41.57%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-1        98.00 (   0.00%)       55.00 (  43.88%)
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-2        42.00 (   0.00%)       42.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-2        48.00 (   0.00%)       47.00 (   2.08%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-2        53.00 (   0.00%)       52.00 (   1.89%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-2        55.00 (   0.00%)       53.00 (   3.64%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-2        62.00 (   0.00%)       60.00 (   3.23%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-2        63.00 (   0.00%)       63.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-2        68.00 (   0.00%)       66.00 (   2.94%

For higher worker threads, the differences become negligible but it's
interesting to note the difference in wakeup latency at low utilisation
and mpstat confirms that activity was almost all on one node until
the number of worker threads increase.

Hackbench generally showed neutral results across a range of machines.
This is different to earlier versions of the patch which allowed imbalances
for higher degrees of utilisation. perf bench pipe showed negligible
differences in overall performance as the differences are very close to
the noise.

An earlier prototype of the patch showed major regressions for NAS C-class
when running with only half of the available CPUs -- 20-30% performance
hits were measured at the time. With this version of the patch, the impact
is negligible with small gains/losses within the noise measured. This is
because the number of threads far exceeds the small imbalance the aptch
cares about. Similarly, there were report of regressions for the autonuma
benchmark against earlier versions but again, normal load balancing now
applies for that workload.

In general, the patch simply seeks to avoid unnecessary cross-node
migrations in the basic case where imbalances are very small.  For low
utilisation communicating workloads, this patch generally behaves better
with less NUMA balancing activity. For high utilisation, there is no
change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200114101319.GO3466@techsingularity.net
2020-01-28 21:36:55 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
ebc0f83c78 timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick
The way loadavg is tracked during nohz only pays attention to the load
upon entering nohz.  This can be particularly noticeable if full nohz is
entered while non-idle, and then the cpu goes idle and stays that way for
a long time.

Use the remote tick to ensure that full nohz cpus report their deltas
within a reasonable time.

[ swood: Added changelog and removed recheck of stopped tick. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578736419-14628-3-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
2020-01-28 21:36:44 +01:00
Scott Wood
488603b815 sched/core: Don't skip remote tick for idle CPUs
This will be used in the next patch to get a loadavg update from
nohz cpus.  The delta check is skipped because idle_sched_class
doesn't update se.exec_start.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578736419-14628-2-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
2020-01-28 21:36:16 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c677124e63 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "These were the main changes in this cycle:

   - More -rt motivated separation of CONFIG_PREEMPT and
     CONFIG_PREEMPTION.

   - Add more low level scheduling topology sanity checks and warnings
     to filter out nonsensical topologies that break scheduling.

   - Extend uclamp constraints to influence wakeup CPU placement

   - Make the RT scheduler more aware of asymmetric topologies and CPU
     capacities, via uclamp metrics, if CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK=y

   - Make idle CPU selection more consistent

   - Various fixes, smaller cleanups, updates and enhancements - please
     see the git log for details"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
  sched/fair: Define sched_idle_cpu() only for SMP configurations
  sched/topology: Assert non-NUMA topology masks don't (partially) overlap
  idle: fix spelling mistake "iterrupts" -> "interrupts"
  sched/fair: Remove redundant call to cpufreq_update_util()
  sched/psi: create /proc/pressure and /proc/pressure/{io|memory|cpu} only when psi enabled
  sched/fair: Fix sgc->{min,max}_capacity calculation for SD_OVERLAP
  sched/fair: calculate delta runnable load only when it's needed
  sched/cputime: move rq parameter in irqtime_account_process_tick
  stop_machine: Make stop_cpus() static
  sched/debug: Reset watchdog on all CPUs while processing sysrq-t
  sched/core: Fix size of rq::uclamp initialization
  sched/uclamp: Fix a bug in propagating uclamp value in new cgroups
  sched/fair: Load balance aggressively for SCHED_IDLE CPUs
  sched/fair : Improve update_sd_pick_busiest for spare capacity case
  watchdog: Remove soft_lockup_hrtimer_cnt and related code
  sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware
  sched/fair: Make EAS wakeup placement consider uclamp restrictions
  sched/fair: Make task_fits_capacity() consider uclamp restrictions
  sched/uclamp: Rename uclamp_util_with() into uclamp_rq_util_with()
  sched/uclamp: Make uclamp util helpers use and return UL values
  ...
2020-01-28 10:07:09 -08:00
Ming Lei
11ea68f553 genirq, sched/isolation: Isolate from handling managed interrupts
The affinity of managed interrupts is completely handled in the kernel and
cannot be changed via the /proc/irq/* interfaces from user space. As the
kernel tries to spread out interrupts evenly accross CPUs on x86 to prevent
vector exhaustion, it can happen that a managed interrupt whose affinity
mask contains both isolated and housekeeping CPUs is routed to an isolated
CPU. As a consequence IO submitted on a housekeeping CPU causes interrupts
on the isolated CPU.

Add a new sub-parameter 'managed_irq' for 'isolcpus' and the corresponding
logic in the interrupt affinity selection code.

The subparameter indicates to the interrupt affinity selection logic that
it should try to avoid the above scenario.

This isolation is best effort and only effective if the automatically
assigned interrupt mask of a device queue contains isolated and
housekeeping CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such interrupts are
directed to the housekeeping CPU so that IO submitted on the housekeeping
CPU cannot disturb the isolated CPU.

If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated CPUs then this parameter
has no effect on the interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are only
happening when tasks running on those isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted
on housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those queues.

If the affinity mask contains both housekeeping and isolated CPUs, but none
of the contained housekeeping CPUs is online, then the interrupt is also
routed to an isolated CPU. Interrupts are only delivered when one of the
isolated CPUs in the affinity mask submits IO. If one of the contained
housekeeping CPUs comes online, the CPU hotplug logic migrates the
interrupt automatically back to the upcoming housekeeping CPU. Depending on
the type of interrupt controller, this can require that at least one
interrupt is delivered to the isolated CPU in order to complete the
migration.

[ tglx: Removed unused parameter, added and edited comments/documentation
  	and rephrased the changelog so it contains more details. ]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120091625.17912-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
2020-01-22 16:29:49 +01:00
Viresh Kumar
afa70d941f sched/fair: Define sched_idle_cpu() only for SMP configurations
sched_idle_cpu() isn't used for non SMP configuration and with a recent
change, we have started getting following warning:

  kernel/sched/fair.c:5221:12: warning: ‘sched_idle_cpu’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]

Fix that by defining sched_idle_cpu() only for SMP configurations.

Fixes: 323af6deaf ("sched/fair: Load balance aggressively for SCHED_IDLE CPUs")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f0554f590687478b33914a4aff9f0e6a62886d44.1579499907.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
2020-01-20 08:03:39 +01:00
Valentin Schneider
ccf74128d6 sched/topology: Assert non-NUMA topology masks don't (partially) overlap
topology.c::get_group() relies on the assumption that non-NUMA domains do
not partially overlap. Zeng Tao pointed out in [1] that such topology
descriptions, while completely bogus, can end up being exposed to the
scheduler.

In his example (8 CPUs, 2-node system), we end up with:
  MC span for CPU3 == 3-7
  MC span for CPU4 == 4-7

The first pass through get_group(3, sdd@MC) will result in the following
sched_group list:

  3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7
  ^                  /
   `----------------'

And a later pass through get_group(4, sdd@MC) will "corrupt" that to:

  3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7
       ^             /
	`-----------'

which will completely break things like 'while (sg != sd->groups)' when
using CPU3's base sched_domain.

There already are some architecture-specific checks in place such as
x86/kernel/smpboot.c::topology.sane(), but this is something we can detect
in the core scheduler, so it seems worthwhile to do so.

Warn and abort the construction of the sched domains if such a broken
topology description is detected. Note that this is somewhat
expensive (O(t.c²), 't' non-NUMA topology levels and 'c' CPUs) and could be
gated under SCHED_DEBUG if deemed necessary.

Testing
=======

Dietmar managed to reproduce this using the following qemu incantation:

  $ qemu-system-aarch64 -kernel ./Image -hda ./qemu-image-aarch64.img \
  -append 'root=/dev/vda console=ttyAMA0 loglevel=8 sched_debug' -smp \
  cores=8 --nographic -m 512 -cpu cortex-a53 -machine virt -numa \
  node,cpus=0-2,nodeid=0 -numa node,cpus=3-7,nodeid=1

alongside the following drivers/base/arch_topology.c hack (AIUI wouldn't be
needed if '-smp cores=X, sockets=Y' would work with qemu):

8<---
@@ -465,6 +465,9 @@ void update_siblings_masks(unsigned int cpuid)
 		if (cpuid_topo->package_id != cpu_topo->package_id)
 			continue;

+		if ((cpu < 4 && cpuid > 3) || (cpu > 3 && cpuid < 4))
+			continue;
+
 		cpumask_set_cpu(cpuid, &cpu_topo->core_sibling);
 		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &cpuid_topo->core_sibling);

8<---

[1]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1577088979-8545-1-git-send-email-prime.zeng@hisilicon.com

Reported-by: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200115160915.22575-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-01-17 10:19:23 +01:00
Hewenliang
3e0de271ff idle: fix spelling mistake "iterrupts" -> "interrupts"
There is a spelling misake in comments of cpuidle_idle_call. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Hewenliang <hewenliang4@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110025604.34373-1-hewenliang4@huawei.com
2020-01-17 10:19:22 +01:00
Vincent Guittot
a4f9a0e51b sched/fair: Remove redundant call to cpufreq_update_util()
With commit

  bef69dd878 ("sched/cpufreq: Move the cfs_rq_util_change() call to cpufreq_update_util()")

update_load_avg() has become the central point for calling cpufreq
(not including the update of blocked load). This change helps to
simplify further the number of calls to cpufreq_update_util() and to
remove last redundant ones. With update_load_avg(), we are now sure
that cpufreq_update_util() will be called after every task attachment
to a cfs_rq and especially after propagating this event down to the
util_avg of the root cfs_rq, which is the level that is used by
cpufreq governors like schedutil to set the frequency of a CPU.

The SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION flag forces an early call to cpufreq when
the migration happens in a cgroup whereas util_avg of root cfs_rq is
not yet updated and this call is duplicated with the one that happens
immediately after when the migration event reaches the root cfs_rq.
The dedicated flag SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION is now useless and can be
removed. The interface of attach_entity_load_avg() can also be
simplified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1579083620-24943-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2020-01-17 10:19:22 +01:00
Wang Long
3d817689a6 sched/psi: create /proc/pressure and /proc/pressure/{io|memory|cpu} only when psi enabled
when CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED set to N or the command line set psi=0,
I think we should not create /proc/pressure and
/proc/pressure/{io|memory|cpu}.

In the future, user maybe determine whether the psi feature is enabled by
checking the existence of the /proc/pressure dir or
/proc/pressure/{io|memory|cpu} files.

Signed-off-by: Wang Long <w@laoqinren.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1576672698-32504-1-git-send-email-w@laoqinren.net
2020-01-17 10:19:22 +01:00
Peng Liu
4c58f57fa6 sched/fair: Fix sgc->{min,max}_capacity calculation for SD_OVERLAP
commit bf475ce0a3 ("sched/fair: Add per-CPU min capacity to
sched_group_capacity") introduced per-cpu min_capacity.

commit e3d6d0cb66 ("sched/fair: Add sched_group per-CPU max capacity")
introduced per-cpu max_capacity.

In the SD_OVERLAP case, the local variable 'capacity' represents the sum
of CPU capacity of all CPUs in the first sched group (sg) of the sched
domain (sd).

It is erroneously used to calculate sg's min and max CPU capacity.
To fix this use capacity_of(cpu) instead of 'capacity'.

The code which achieves this via cpu_rq(cpu)->sd->groups->sgc->capacity
(for rq->sd != NULL) can be removed since it delivers the same value as
capacity_of(cpu) which is currently only used for the (!rq->sd) case
(see update_cpu_capacity()).
An sg of the lowest sd (rq->sd or sd->child == NULL) represents a single
CPU (and hence sg->sgc->capacity == capacity_of(cpu)).

Signed-off-by: Peng Liu <iwtbavbm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200104130828.GA7718@iZj6chx1xj0e0buvshuecpZ
2020-01-17 10:19:21 +01:00
Peng Wang
fe71bbb21e sched/fair: calculate delta runnable load only when it's needed
Move the code of calculation for delta_sum/delta_avg to where
it is really needed to be done.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <rocking@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103114400.17668-1-rocking@linux.alibaba.com
2020-01-17 10:19:21 +01:00
Alex Shi
9dec1b6949 sched/cputime: move rq parameter in irqtime_account_process_tick
Every time we call irqtime_account_process_tick() is in a interrupt,
Every caller will get and assign a parameter rq = this_rq(), This is
unnecessary and increase the code size a little bit. Move the rq getting
action to irqtime_account_process_tick internally is better.

             base               with this patch
cputime.o    578792 bytes        577888 bytes

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1577959674-255537-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
2020-01-17 10:19:21 +01:00
Wei Li
02d4ac5885 sched/debug: Reset watchdog on all CPUs while processing sysrq-t
Lengthy output of sysrq-t may take a lot of time on slow serial console
with lots of processes and CPUs.

So we need to reset NMI-watchdog to avoid spurious lockup messages, and
we also reset softlockup watchdogs on all other CPUs since another CPU
might be blocked waiting for us to process an IPI or stop_machine.

Add to sysrq_sched_debug_show() as what we did in show_state_filter().

Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191226085224.48942-1-liwei391@huawei.com
2020-01-17 10:19:20 +01:00
Li Guanglei
dcd6dffb0a sched/core: Fix size of rq::uclamp initialization
rq::uclamp is an array of struct uclamp_rq, make sure we clear the
whole thing.

Fixes: 69842cba9a ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcountinga")
Signed-off-by: Li Guanglei <guanglei.li@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1577259844-12677-1-git-send-email-guangleix.li@gmail.com
2020-01-17 10:19:20 +01:00
Qais Yousef
7226017ad3 sched/uclamp: Fix a bug in propagating uclamp value in new cgroups
When a new cgroup is created, the effective uclamp value wasn't updated
with a call to cpu_util_update_eff() that looks at the hierarchy and
update to the most restrictive values.

Fix it by ensuring to call cpu_util_update_eff() when a new cgroup
becomes online.

Without this change, the newly created cgroup uses the default
root_task_group uclamp values, which is 1024 for both uclamp_{min, max},
which will cause the rq to to be clamped to max, hence cause the
system to run at max frequency.

The problem was observed on Ubuntu server and was reproduced on Debian
and Buildroot rootfs.

By default, Ubuntu and Debian create a cpu controller cgroup hierarchy
and add all tasks to it - which creates enough noise to keep the rq
uclamp value at max most of the time. Imitating this behavior makes the
problem visible in Buildroot too which otherwise looks fine since it's a
minimal userspace.

Fixes: 0b60ba2dd3 ("sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps")
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000701d5b965$361b6c60$a2524520$@net/
2020-01-17 10:19:20 +01:00
Viresh Kumar
323af6deaf sched/fair: Load balance aggressively for SCHED_IDLE CPUs
The fair scheduler performs periodic load balance on every CPU to check
if it can pull some tasks from other busy CPUs. The duration of this
periodic load balance is set to sd->balance_interval for the idle CPUs
and is calculated by multiplying the sd->balance_interval with the
sd->busy_factor (set to 32 by default) for the busy CPUs. The
multiplication is done for busy CPUs to avoid doing load balance too
often and rather spend more time executing actual task. While that is
the right thing to do for the CPUs busy with SCHED_OTHER or SCHED_BATCH
tasks, it may not be the optimal thing for CPUs running only SCHED_IDLE
tasks.

With the recent enhancements in the fair scheduler around SCHED_IDLE
CPUs, we now prefer to enqueue a newly-woken task to a SCHED_IDLE
CPU instead of other busy or idle CPUs. The same reasoning should be
applied to the load balancer as well to make it migrate tasks more
aggressively to a SCHED_IDLE CPU, as that will reduce the scheduling
latency of the migrated (SCHED_OTHER) tasks.

This patch makes minimal changes to the fair scheduler to do the next
load balance soon after the last non SCHED_IDLE task is dequeued from a
runqueue, i.e. making the CPU SCHED_IDLE. Also the sd->busy_factor is
ignored while calculating the balance_interval for such CPUs. This is
done to avoid delaying the periodic load balance by few hundred
milliseconds for SCHED_IDLE CPUs.

This is tested on ARM64 Hikey620 platform (octa-core) with the help of
rt-app and it is verified, using kernel traces, that the newly
SCHED_IDLE CPU does load balancing shortly after it becomes SCHED_IDLE
and pulls tasks from other busy CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e485827eb8fe7db0943d6f3f6e0f5a4a70272781.1578471925.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
2020-01-17 10:19:20 +01:00
Vincent Guittot
5f68eb19b5 sched/fair : Improve update_sd_pick_busiest for spare capacity case
Similarly to calculate_imbalance() and find_busiest_group(), using the
number of idle CPUs when there is only 1 CPU in the group is not efficient
because we can't make a difference between a CPU running 1 task and a CPU
running dozens of small tasks competing for the same CPU but not enough
to overload it. More generally speaking, we should use the number of
running tasks when there is the same number of idle CPUs in a group instead
of blindly select the 1st one.

When the groups have spare capacity and the same number of idle CPUs, we
compare the number of running tasks to select the busiest group.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1576839893-26930-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2020-01-17 10:19:19 +01:00
Qais Yousef
804d402fb6 sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware
Capacity Awareness refers to the fact that on heterogeneous systems
(like Arm big.LITTLE), the capacity of the CPUs is not uniform, hence
when placing tasks we need to be aware of this difference of CPU
capacities.

In such scenarios we want to ensure that the selected CPU has enough
capacity to meet the requirement of the running task. Enough capacity
means here that capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= task.requirement.

The definition of task.requirement is dependent on the scheduling class.

For CFS, utilization is used to select a CPU that has >= capacity value
than the cfs_task.util.

	capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= cfs_task.util

DL isn't capacity aware at the moment but can make use of the bandwidth
reservation to implement that in a similar manner CFS uses utilization.
The following patchset implements that:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190506044836.2914-1-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it/

	capacity_orig_of(cpu)/SCHED_CAPACITY >= dl_deadline/dl_runtime

For RT we don't have a per task utilization signal and we lack any
information in general about what performance requirement the RT task
needs. But with the introduction of uclamp, RT tasks can now control
that by setting uclamp_min to guarantee a minimum performance point.

ATM the uclamp value are only used for frequency selection; but on
heterogeneous systems this is not enough and we need to ensure that the
capacity of the CPU is >= uclamp_min. Which is what implemented here.

	capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= rt_task.uclamp_min

Note that by default uclamp.min is 1024, which means that RT tasks will
always be biased towards the big CPUs, which make for a better more
predictable behavior for the default case.

Must stress that the bias acts as a hint rather than a definite
placement strategy. For example, if all big cores are busy executing
other RT tasks we can't guarantee that a new RT task will be placed
there.

On non-heterogeneous systems the original behavior of RT should be
retained. Similarly if uclamp is not selected in the config.

[ mingo: Minor edits to comments. ]

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191009104611.15363-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:10 +01:00
Valentin Schneider
1d42509e47 sched/fair: Make EAS wakeup placement consider uclamp restrictions
task_fits_capacity() has just been made uclamp-aware, and
find_energy_efficient_cpu() needs to go through the same treatment.

Things are somewhat different here however - using the task max clamp isn't
sufficient. Consider the following setup:

  The target runqueue, rq:
    rq.cpu_capacity_orig = 512
    rq.cfs.avg.util_avg = 200
    rq.uclamp.max = 768 // the max p.uclamp.max of all enqueued p's is 768

  The waking task, p (not yet enqueued on rq):
    p.util_est = 600
    p.uclamp.max = 100

Now, consider the following code which doesn't use the rq clamps:

  util = uclamp_task_util(p);
  // Does the task fit in the spare CPU capacity?
  cpu = cpu_of(rq);
  fits_capacity(util, cpu_capacity(cpu) - cpu_util(cpu))

This would lead to:

  util = 100;
  fits_capacity(100, 512 - 200)

fits_capacity() would return true. However, enqueuing p on that CPU *will*
cause it to become overutilized since rq clamp values are max-aggregated,
so we'd remain with

  rq.uclamp.max = 768

which comes from the other tasks already enqueued on rq. Thus, we could
select a high enough frequency to reach beyond 0.8 * 512 utilization
(== overutilized) after enqueuing p on rq. What find_energy_efficient_cpu()
needs here is uclamp_rq_util_with() which lets us peek at the future
utilization landscape, including rq-wide uclamp values.

Make find_energy_efficient_cpu() use uclamp_rq_util_with() for its
fits_capacity() check. This is in line with what compute_energy() ends up
using for estimating utilization.

Tested-By: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211113851.24241-6-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:09 +01:00
Valentin Schneider
a7008c07a5 sched/fair: Make task_fits_capacity() consider uclamp restrictions
task_fits_capacity() drives CPU selection at wakeup time, and is also used
to detect misfit tasks. Right now it does so by comparing task_util_est()
with a CPU's capacity, but doesn't take into account uclamp restrictions.

There's a few interesting uses that can come out of doing this. For
instance, a low uclamp.max value could prevent certain tasks from being
flagged as misfit tasks, so they could merrily remain on low-capacity CPUs.
Similarly, a high uclamp.min value would steer tasks towards high capacity
CPUs at wakeup (and, should that fail, later steered via misfit balancing),
so such "boosted" tasks would favor CPUs of higher capacity.

Introduce uclamp_task_util() and make task_fits_capacity() use it.

Tested-By: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211113851.24241-5-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:09 +01:00
Valentin Schneider
d2b58a286e sched/uclamp: Rename uclamp_util_with() into uclamp_rq_util_with()
The current helper returns (CPU) rq utilization with uclamp restrictions
taken into account. A uclamp task utilization helper would be quite
helpful, but this requires some renaming.

Prepare the code for the introduction of a uclamp_task_util() by renaming
the existing uclamp_util_with() to uclamp_rq_util_with().

Tested-By: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211113851.24241-4-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:08 +01:00
Valentin Schneider
686516b55e sched/uclamp: Make uclamp util helpers use and return UL values
Vincent pointed out recently that the canonical type for utilization
values is 'unsigned long'. Internally uclamp uses 'unsigned int' values for
cache optimization, but this doesn't have to be exported to its users.

Make the uclamp helpers that deal with utilization use and return unsigned
long values.

Tested-By: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211113851.24241-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:08 +01:00
Valentin Schneider
59fe675248 sched/uclamp: Remove uclamp_util()
The sole user of uclamp_util(), schedutil_cpu_util(), was made to use
uclamp_util_with() instead in commit:

  af24bde8df ("sched/uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute()")

From then on, uclamp_util() has remained unused. Being a simple wrapper
around uclamp_util_with(), we can get rid of it and win back a few lines.

Tested-By: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211113851.24241-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:07 +01:00
Viresh Kumar
17346452b2 sched/fair: Make sched-idle CPU selection consistent throughout
There are instances where we keep searching for an idle CPU despite
already having a sched-idle CPU (in find_idlest_group_cpu(),
select_idle_smt() and select_idle_cpu() and then there are places where
we don't necessarily do that and return a sched-idle CPU as soon as we
find one (in select_idle_sibling()). This looks a bit inconsistent and
it may be worth having the same policy everywhere.

On the other hand, choosing a sched-idle CPU over a idle one shall be
beneficial from performance and power point of view as well, as we don't
need to get the CPU online from a deep idle state which wastes quite a
lot of time and energy and delays the scheduling of the newly woken up
task.

This patch tries to simplify code around sched-idle CPU selection and
make it consistent throughout.

Testing is done with the help of rt-app on hikey board (ARM64 octa-core,
2 clusters, 0-3 and 4-7). The cpufreq governor was set to performance to
avoid any side affects from CPU frequency. Following are the tests
performed:

Test 1: 1-cfs-task:

 A single SCHED_NORMAL task is pinned to CPU5 which runs for 2333 us
 out of 7777 us (so gives time for the cluster to go in deep idle
 state).

Test 2: 1-cfs-1-idle-task:

 A single SCHED_NORMAL task is pinned on CPU5 and single SCHED_IDLE
 task is pinned on CPU6 (to make sure cluster 1 doesn't go in deep idle
 state).

Test 3: 1-cfs-8-idle-task:

 A single SCHED_NORMAL task is pinned on CPU5 and eight SCHED_IDLE
 tasks are created which run forever (not pinned anywhere, so they run
 on all CPUs). Checked with kernelshark that as soon as NORMAL task
 sleeps, the SCHED_IDLE task starts running on CPU5.

And here are the results on mean latency (in us), using the "st" tool.

  $ st 1-cfs-task/rt-app-cfs_thread-0.log
  N       min     max     sum     mean    stddev
  642     90      592     197180  307.134 109.906

  $ st 1-cfs-1-idle-task/rt-app-cfs_thread-0.log
  N       min     max     sum     mean    stddev
  642     67      311     113850  177.336 41.4251

  $ st 1-cfs-8-idle-task/rt-app-cfs_thread-0.log
  N       min     max     sum     mean    stddev
  643     29      173     41364   64.3297 13.2344

The mean latency when we need to:

 - wakeup from deep idle state is 307 us.
 - wakeup from shallow idle state is 177 us.
 - preempt a SCHED_IDLE task is 64 us.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b90cbcce608cef4e02a7bbfe178335f76d201bab.1573728344.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:07 +01:00
Qian Cai
53a23364b6 sched/core: Remove unused variable from set_user_nice()
This commit left behind an unused variable:

  5443a0be61 ("sched: Use fair:prio_changed() instead of ad-hoc implementation") left behind an unused variable.

  kernel/sched/core.c: In function 'set_user_nice':
  kernel/sched/core.c:4507:16: warning: variable 'delta' set but not used
    int old_prio, delta;
                ^~~~~

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 5443a0be61 ("sched: Use fair:prio_changed() instead of ad-hoc implementation")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219140314.1252-1-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
1e5f8a3085 Linux 5.5-rc3
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Merge tag 'v5.5-rc3' into sched/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:41:37 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
fd7a6d2b8f Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes: a (rare) PSI crash fix, a CPU affinity related balancing
  fix, and a toning down of active migration attempts"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/cfs: fix spurious active migration
  sched/fair: Fix find_idlest_group() to handle CPU affinity
  psi: Fix a division error in psi poll()
  sched/psi: Fix sampling error and rare div0 crashes with cgroups and high uptime
2019-12-21 10:52:10 -08:00
Peng Wang
d040e0734f schied/fair: Skip calculating @contrib without load
Because of the:

	if (!load)
		runnable = running = 0;

clause in ___update_load_sum(), all the actual users of @contrib in
accumulate_sum():

	if (load)
		sa->load_sum += load * contrib;
	if (runnable)
		sa->runnable_load_sum += runnable * contrib;
	if (running)
		sa->util_sum += contrib << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;

don't happen, and therefore we don't care what @contrib actually is and
calculating it is pointless.

If we count the times when @load equals zero and not as below:

	if (load) {
		load_is_not_zero_count++;
		contrib = __accumulate_pelt_segments(periods,
				1024 - sa->period_contrib,delta);
	} else
		load_is_zero_count++;

As we can see, load_is_zero_count is much bigger than
load_is_zero_count, and the gap is gradually widening:

	load_is_zero_count:            6016044 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         244316 times
	19:50:43 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.02

	load_is_zero_count:            7956168 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         261472 times
	19:51:42 up 2 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.01

	load_is_zero_count:           10199896 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         278364 times
	19:52:51 up 3 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.01

	load_is_zero_count:           14333700 times
	load_is_not_zero_count:         318424 times
	19:54:53 up 5 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00

Perhaps we can gain some performance advantage by saving these
unnecessary calculation.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <rocking@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot < vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1576208740-35609-1-git-send-email-rocking@linux.alibaba.com
2019-12-17 13:32:51 +01:00
Cheng Jian
60588bfa22 sched/fair: Optimize select_idle_cpu
select_idle_cpu() will scan the LLC domain for idle CPUs,
it's always expensive. so the next commit :

	1ad3aaf3fc ("sched/core: Implement new approach to scale select_idle_cpu()")

introduces a way to limit how many CPUs we scan.

But it consume some CPUs out of 'nr' that are not allowed
for the task and thus waste our attempts. The function
always return nr_cpumask_bits, and we can't find a CPU
which our task is allowed to run.

Cpumask may be too big, similar to select_idle_core(), use
per_cpu_ptr 'select_idle_mask' to prevent stack overflow.

Fixes: 1ad3aaf3fc ("sched/core: Implement new approach to scale select_idle_cpu()")
Signed-off-by: Cheng Jian <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191213024530.28052-1-cj.chengjian@huawei.com
2019-12-17 13:32:51 +01:00