commit fe61468b2cbc2b7ce5f8d3bf32ae5001d4c434e9 upstream. When a cfs rq is throttled, the latter and its child are removed from the leaf list but their nr_running is not changed which includes staying higher than 1. When a task is enqueued in this throttled branch, the cfs rqs must be added back in order to ensure correct ordering in the list but this can only happens if nr_running == 1. When cfs bandwidth is used, we call unconditionnaly list_add_leaf_cfs_rq() when enqueuing an entity to make sure that the complete branch will be added. Similarly unthrottle_cfs_rq() can stop adding cfs in the list when a parent is throttled. Iterate the remaining entity to ensure that the complete branch will be added in the list. Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v5.1+ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200306135257.25044-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 6c8116c914b65be5e4d6f66d69c8142eb0648c22 ]
In update_sg_wakeup_stats(), the comment says:
Computing avg_load makes sense only when group is fully
busy or overloaded.
But, the code below this comment does not check like this.
From reading the code about avg_load in other functions, I
confirm that avg_load should be calculated in fully busy or
overloaded case. The comment is correct and the checking
condition is wrong. So, change that condition.
Fixes: 57abff067a08 ("sched/fair: Rework find_idlest_group()")
Signed-off-by: Tao Zhou <ouwen210@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Message-ID:
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
sgs->group_weight is not set while gathering statistics in
update_sg_wakeup_stats(). This means that a group can be classified as
fully busy with 0 running tasks if utilization is high enough.
This path is mainly used for fork and exec.
Fixes: 57abff067a08 ("sched/fair: Rework find_idlest_group()")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200218144534.4564-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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: a4f9a0e51bbf ("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
The following XFS commit:
8ab39f11d974 ("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>
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
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: 323af6deaf70 ("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
With commit
bef69dd87828 ("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
commit bf475ce0a3dd ("sched/fair: Add per-CPU min capacity to
sched_group_capacity") introduced per-cpu min_capacity.
commit e3d6d0cb66f2 ("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
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