Update the migrate_improves/degrades_locality() functions with
knowledge of pseudo-interleaving.
Do not consider moving tasks around within the set of group's active
nodes as improving or degrading locality. Instead, leave the load
balancer free to balance the load between a numa_group's active nodes.
Also, switch from the group/task_weight functions to the group/task_fault
functions. The "weight" functions involve a division, but both calls use
the same divisor, so there's no point in doing that from these functions.
On a 4 node (x10 core) system, performance of SPECjbb2005 seems
unaffected, though the number of migrations with 2 8-warehouse wide
instances seems to have almost halved, due to the scheduler running
each instance on a single node.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140515130306.61aae7db@cuia.bos.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently the NUMA balancing code only allows moving tasks between NUMA
nodes when the load on both nodes is in balance. This breaks down when
the load was imbalanced to begin with.
Allow tasks to be moved between NUMA nodes if the imbalance is small,
or if the new imbalance is be smaller than the original one.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140514132221.274b3463@annuminas.surriel.com
Sometimes ->nr_running may cross 2 but interrupt is not being
sent to rq's cpu. In this case we don't reenable the timer.
Looks like this may be the reason for rare unexpected effects,
if nohz is enabled.
Patch replaces all places of direct changing of nr_running
and makes add_nr_running() caring about crossing border.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140508225830.2469.97461.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently, in idle_balance(), we update rq->next_balance when we pull_tasks.
However, it is also important to update this in the !pulled_tasks case too.
When the CPU is "busy" (the CPU isn't idle), rq->next_balance gets computed
using sd->busy_factor (so we increase the balance interval when the CPU is
busy). However, when the CPU goes idle, rq->next_balance could still be set
to a large value that was computed with the sd->busy_factor.
Thus, we need to also update rq->next_balance in idle_balance() in the cases
where !pulled_tasks too, so that rq->next_balance gets updated without taking
the busy_factor into account when the CPU is about to go idle.
This patch makes rq->next_balance get updated independently of whether or
not we pulled_task. Also, we add logic to ensure that we always traverse
at least 1 of the sched domains to get a proper next_balance value for
updating rq->next_balance.
Additionally, since load_balance() modifies the sd->balance_interval, we
need to re-obtain the sched domain's interval after the call to
load_balance() in rebalance_domains() before we update rq->next_balance.
This patch adds and uses 2 new helper functions, update_next_balance() and
get_sd_balance_interval() to update next_balance and obtain the sched
domain's balance_interval.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399596562.2200.7.camel@j-VirtualBox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On smaller systems, the top level sched domain will be an affine
domain, and select_idle_sibling is invoked for every SD_WAKE_AFFINE
wakeup. This seems to be working well.
On larger systems, with the node distance between far away NUMA nodes
being > RECLAIM_DISTANCE, select_idle_sibling is only called if the
waker and the wakee are on nodes less than RECLAIM_DISTANCE apart.
This patch leaves in place the policy of not pulling the task across
nodes on such systems, while fixing the issue that select_idle_sibling
is not called at all in certain circumstances.
The code will look for an idle CPU in the same CPU package as the
CPU where the task ran previously.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: george.mccollister@gmail.com
Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140514114037.2d93266f@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
task_hot checks exec_start on any runnable task, but if it has been
migrated since the it last ran, then exec_start is a clock_task from
another cpu. If the old cpu's clock_task was sufficiently far ahead of
this cpu's then the task will not be considered for another migration
until it has run. Instead reset exec_start whenever a task is migrated,
since it is presumably no longer hot anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
[ Made it compile. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140515225920.7179.13924.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It was found that when running some workloads (such as AIM7) on large
systems with many cores, CPUs do not remain idle for long. Thus, tasks
can wake/get enqueued while doing idle balancing.
In this patch, while traversing the domains in idle balance, in
addition to checking for pulled_task, we add an extra check for
this_rq->nr_running for determining if we should stop searching for
tasks to pull. If there are runnable tasks on this rq, then we will
stop traversing the domains. This reduces the chance that idle balance
delays a task from running.
This patch resulted in approximately a 6% performance improvement when
running a Java Server workload on an 8 socket machine.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398303035-18255-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Setting the numa_preferred_node for a task in task_numa_migrate
does nothing on a 2-node system. Either we migrate to the node
that already was our preferred node, or we stay where we were.
On a 4-node system, it can slightly decrease overhead, by not
calling the NUMA code as much. Since every node tends to be
directly connected to every other node, running on the wrong
node for a while does not do much damage.
However, on an 8 node system, there are far more bad nodes
than there are good ones, and pretending that a second choice
is actually the preferred node can greatly delay, or even
prevent, a workload from converging.
The only time we can safely pretend that a second choice
node is the preferred node is when the task is part of a
workload that spans multiple NUMA nodes.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vinod Chegu <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397235629-16328-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When tasks have not converged on their preferred nodes yet, we want
to retry fairly often, to make sure we do not migrate a task's memory
to an undesirable location, only to have to move it again later.
This patch reduces the interval at which migration is retried,
when the task's numa_scan_period is small.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vinod Chegu <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397235629-16328-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The NUMA code is smart enough to distribute the memory of workloads
that span multiple NUMA nodes across those NUMA nodes.
However, it still has a pretty high scan rate for such workloads,
because any memory that is left on a node other than the node of
the CPU that faulted on the memory is counted as non-local, which
causes the scan rate to go up.
Counting the memory on any node where the task's numa group is
actively running as local, allows the scan rate to slow down
once the application is settled in.
This should reduce the overhead of the automatic NUMA placement
code, when a workload spans multiple NUMA nodes.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vinod Chegu <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397235629-16328-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The following commit:
e5fc66119e ("sched: Fix race in idle_balance()")
can potentially cause rq->max_idle_balance_cost to not be updated,
even when load_balance(NEWLY_IDLE) is attempted and the per-sd
max cost value is updated.
Preeti noticed a similar issue with updating rq->next_balance.
In this patch, we fix this by making sure we still check/update those values
even if a task gets enqueued while browsing the domains.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398725155-7591-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This reverts commit 4c6c4e38c4 ("sched/core: Fix endless loop in
pick_next_task()"), which is not necessary after ("sched/rt: Substract number
of tasks of throttled queues from rq->nr_running").
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[conflict resolution with stop task checking patch]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394835307.18748.34.camel@HP-250-G1-Notebook-PC
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mike reported that, while unlikely, its entirely possible for
scale_rt_power() to see the time go backwards. This yields rather
'interesting' results.
So like all other sites that deal with clocks; make this one ignore
backward clock movement too.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227094035.GZ9987@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We need to do it like we do for the other higher priority classes..
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Michael wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/336561397137116@web27h.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sasha reported that lockdep claims that the following commit:
made numa_group.lock interrupt unsafe:
156654f491 ("sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct()")
While I don't see how that could be, given the commit in question moved
task_numa_free() from one irq enabled region to another, the below does
make both gripes and lockups upon gripe with numa=fake=4 go away.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Fixes: 156654f491 ("sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct()")
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mgorman@suse.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1396860915.5170.5.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The tmp value has been already calculated in:
scaled_busy_load_per_task =
(busiest->load_per_task * SCHED_POWER_SCALE) /
busiest->group_power;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394555166-22894-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Check for fair tasks number to decide, that we've pulled a task.
rq's nr_running may contain throttled RT tasks.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394118975.19290.104.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
1) Single cpu machine case.
When rq has only RT tasks, but no one of them can be picked
because of throttling, we enter in endless loop.
pick_next_task_{dl,rt} return NULL.
In pick_next_task_fair() we permanently go to retry
if (rq->nr_running != rq->cfs.h_nr_running)
return RETRY_TASK;
(rq->nr_running is not being decremented when rt_rq becomes
throttled).
No chances to unthrottle any rt_rq or to wake fair here,
because of rq is locked permanently and interrupts are
disabled.
2) In case of SMP this can cause a hang too. Although we unlock
rq in idle_balance(), interrupts are still disabled.
The solution is to check for available tasks in DL and RT
classes instead of checking for sum.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394098321.19290.11.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We close idle_exit_fair() bracket in case of we've pulled something or we've received
task of high priority class.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394098315.19290.10.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Michael spotted that the idle_balance() push down created a task
priority problem.
Previously, when we called idle_balance() before pick_next_task() it
wasn't a problem when -- because of the rq->lock droppage -- an rt/dl
task slipped in.
Similarly for pre_schedule(), rt pre-schedule could have a dl task
slip in.
But by pulling it into the pick_next_task() loop, we'll not try a
higher task priority again.
Cure this by creating a re-start condition in pick_next_task(); and
triggering this from pick_next_task_{rt,fair}().
It also fixes a live-lock where we get stuck in pick_next_task_fair()
due to idle_balance() seeing !0 nr_running but there not actually
being any fair tasks about.
Reported-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 38033c37fa ("sched: Push down pre_schedule() and idle_balance()")
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140224121218.GR15586@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The struct sched_avg of struct rq is only used in case group
scheduling is enabled inside __update_tg_runnable_avg() to update
per-cpu representation of a task group. I.e. that there is no need to
maintain the runnable avg of a rq in the !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED case.
This patch guards struct sched_avg of struct rq and
update_rq_runnable_avg() with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.
There is an extra empty definition for update_rq_runnable_avg()
necessary for the !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED && CONFIG_SMP case.
The function print_cfs_group_stats() which prints out struct sched_avg
of struct rq is already guarded with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/530DCDC5.1060406@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0
which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met.
If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without
schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be
incorrectly adjusted twice.
In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing
past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of
CPU time.
This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of
!se->on_rq.
I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other
tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72
PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART)
in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the
problem on that platform and kernel version.
Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The user explicitly disabled load balancing, else this core would not be
disconnected. Don't add these to nohz.idle_cpus_mask.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vmme4f49psirp966pklm5l9j@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Dan Carpenter reported:
> kernel/sched/rt.c:1347 pick_next_task_rt() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'prev' (see line 1338)
> kernel/sched/deadline.c:1011 pick_next_task_dl() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'prev' (see line 1005)
Kirill also spotted that migrate_tasks() will have an instant NULL
deref because pick_next_task() will immediately deref prev.
Instead of fixing all the corner cases because migrate_tasks() can
pass in a NULL prev task in the unlikely case of hot-un-plug, provide
a fake task such that we can remove all the NULL checks from the far
more common paths.
A further problem; not previously spotted; is that because we pushed
pre_schedule() and idle_balance() into pick_next_task() we now need to
avoid those getting called and pulling more tasks on our dying CPU.
We avoid pull_{dl,rt}_task() by setting fake_task.prio to MAX_PRIO+1.
We also note that since we call pick_next_task() exactly the amount of
times we have runnable tasks present, we should never land in
idle_balance().
Fixes: 38033c37fa ("sched: Push down pre_schedule() and idle_balance()")
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140212094930.GB3545@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Remove idle_balance() from the public life; also reduce some #ifdef
clutter by folding the pick_next_task_fair() idle path into
idle_balance().
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140211151148.GP27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sasha reported:
[ 522.645288] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at ...
[ 522.646271] IP: [<ffffffff81186c6f>] check_preempt_wakeup+0x11f/0x210
...
[ 522.650021] Call Trace:
[ 522.650021] <IRQ>
[ 522.650021] [<ffffffff8117361d>] check_preempt_curr+0x3d/0xb0
[ 522.650021] [<ffffffff81175d88>] ttwu_do_wakeup+0x18/0x130
...
which was caused by the se-depth changed during the time when task is not
FAIR, and we will use the wrong depth value after it switched back to FAIR.
This patch reset the depth at the time when task switched to FAIR, make sure
that we always have the correct value when task is FAIR.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5305732D.70001@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Normally task_numa_work scans over a fairly small amount of memory,
but it is possible to run into a large unpopulated part of virtual
memory, with no pages mapped. In that case, task_numa_work can run
for a while, and it may make sense to reschedule as required.
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Xing Gang <gang.xing@hp.com>
Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392761566-24834-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since is_same_group() is only used in the group scheduling code, there is
no need to define it outside CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391005773-29493-1-git-send-email-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch both merged idle_balance() and pre_schedule() and pushes
both of them into pick_next_task().
Conceptually pre_schedule() and idle_balance() are rather similar,
both are used to pull more work onto the current CPU.
We cannot however first move idle_balance() into pre_schedule_fair()
since there is no guarantee the last runnable task is a fair task, and
thus we would miss newidle balances.
Similarly, the dl and rt pre_schedule calls must be ran before
idle_balance() since their respective tasks have higher priority and
it would not do to delay their execution searching for less important
tasks first.
However, by noticing that pick_next_tasks() already traverses the
sched_class hierarchy in the right order, we can get the right
behaviour and do away with both calls.
We must however change the special case optimization to also require
that prev is of sched_class_fair, otherwise we can miss doing a dl or
rt pull where we needed one.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a8k6vvaebtn64nie345kx1je@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since commit 2f36825b1 ("sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt
path") it is likely we pick a new task from the same cgroup, doing a put
and then set on all intermediate entities is a waste of time, so try to
avoid this.
Measured using:
mount nodev /cgroup -t cgroup -o cpu
cd /cgroup
mkdir a; cd a
mkdir b; cd b
mkdir c; cd c
echo $$ > tasks
perf stat --repeat 10 -- taskset 1 perf bench sched pipe
PRE : 4.542422684 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.33% )
POST: 4.389409991 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.32% )
Which shows a significant improvement of ~3.5%
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In order to avoid having to do put/set on a whole cgroup hierarchy
when we context switch, push the put into pick_next_task() so that
both operations are in the same function. Further changes then allow
us to possibly optimize away redundant work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Track depth in cgroup tree, this is useful for things like
find_matching_se() where you need to get to a common parent of two
sched entities.
Keeping the depth avoids having to calculate it on the spot, which
saves a number of possible cache-misses.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
idle_balance() modifies the rq->idle_stamp field, making this information
shared across core.c and fair.c.
As we know if the cpu is going to idle or not with the previous patch, let's
encapsulate the rq->idle_stamp information in core.c by moving it up to the
caller.
The idle_balance() function returns true in case a balancing occured and the
cpu won't be idle, false if no balance happened and the cpu is going idle.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-3-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The scheduler main function 'schedule()' checks if there are no more tasks
on the runqueue. Then it checks if a task should be pulled in the current
runqueue in idle_balance() assuming it will go to idle otherwise.
But idle_balance() releases the rq->lock in order to look up the sched
domains and takes the lock again right after. That opens a window where
another cpu may put a task in our runqueue, so we won't go to idle but
we have filled the idle_stamp, thinking we will.
This patch closes the window by checking if the runqueue has been modified
but without pulling a task after taking the lock again, so we won't go to idle
right after in the __schedule() function.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cleanup suggested by Mel Gorman. Now the code contains some more
hints on what statistics go where.
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-10-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We track both the node of the memory after a NUMA fault, and the node
of the CPU on which the fault happened. Rename the local variables in
task_numa_fault to make things more explicit.
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-9-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The current code in task_numa_placement calculates the difference
between the old and the new value, but also temporarily stores half
of the old value in the per-process variables.
The NUMA balancing code looks at those per-process variables, and
having other tasks temporarily see halved statistics could lead to
unwanted numa migrations. This can be avoided by doing all the math
in local variables.
This change also simplifies the code a little.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-8-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tracing the code that decides the active nodes has made it abundantly clear
that the naive implementation of the faults_from code has issues.
Specifically, the garbage collector in some workloads will access orders
of magnitudes more memory than the threads that do all the active work.
This resulted in the node with the garbage collector being marked the only
active node in the group.
This issue is avoided if we weigh the statistics by CPU use of each task in
the numa group, instead of by how many faults each thread has occurred.
To achieve this, we normalize the number of faults to the fraction of faults
that occurred on each node, and then multiply that fraction by the fraction
of CPU time the task has used since the last time task_numa_placement was
invoked.
This way the nodes in the active node mask will be the ones where the tasks
from the numa group are most actively running, and the influence of eg. the
garbage collector and other do-little threads is properly minimized.
On a 4 node system, using CPU use statistics calculated over a longer interval
results in about 1% fewer page migrations with two 32-warehouse specjbb runs
on a 4 node system, and about 5% fewer page migrations, as well as 1% better
throughput, with two 8-warehouse specjbb runs, as compared with the shorter
term statistics kept by the scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-7-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use the active_nodes nodemask to make smarter decisions on NUMA migrations.
In order to maximize performance of workloads that do not fit in one NUMA
node, we want to satisfy the following criteria:
1) keep private memory local to each thread
2) avoid excessive NUMA migration of pages
3) distribute shared memory across the active nodes, to
maximize memory bandwidth available to the workload
This patch accomplishes that by implementing the following policy for
NUMA migrations:
1) always migrate on a private fault
2) never migrate to a node that is not in the set of active nodes
for the numa_group
3) always migrate from a node outside of the set of active nodes,
to a node that is in that set
4) within the set of active nodes in the numa_group, only migrate
from a node with more NUMA page faults, to a node with fewer
NUMA page faults, with a 25% margin to avoid ping-ponging
This results in most pages of a workload ending up on the actively
used nodes, with reduced ping-ponging of pages between those nodes.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-6-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The numa_faults_cpu statistics are used to maintain an active_nodes nodemask
per numa_group. This allows us to be smarter about when to do numa migrations.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-5-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Track which nodes NUMA faults are triggered from, in other words
the CPUs on which the NUMA faults happened. This uses a similar
mechanism to what is used to track the memory involved in numa faults.
The next patches use this to build up a bitmap of which nodes a
workload is actively running on.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In order to get a more consistent naming scheme, making it clear
which fault statistics track memory locality, and which track
CPU locality, rename the memory fault statistics.
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Excessive migration of pages can hurt the performance of workloads
that span multiple NUMA nodes. However, it turns out that the
p->numa_migrate_deferred knob is a really big hammer, which does
reduce migration rates, but does not actually help performance.
Now that the second stage of the automatic numa balancing code
has stabilized, it is time to replace the simplistic migration
deferral code with something smarter.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
