lwn.git/kernel/sched, branch v4.16-rc4

sched/cpufreq: Remove unused SUGOV_KTHREAD_PRIORITY macro

2018-02-13T12:04:03+00:00

Since schedutil kernel thread directly set priority to 0, the macro SUGOV_KTHREAD_PRIORITY is not used. So remove it. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vikram Mulukutla Cc: Vincent Guittot Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518097702-9665-1-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Fix DEBUG_SPINLOCK annotation for rq->lock

2018-02-13T10:44:41+00:00

Mark noticed that he had sporadic "spinlock recursion" warnings from the DEBUG_SPINLOCK code. Now rq->lock is special in that the owner changes in the middle of a context switch. It so happens that we fix up the lock.owner too late, @prev can run (remotely) the moment prev->on_cpu is cleared, this then allows @prev to again try and acquire this rq->lock and trigger this warning. So we have to switch lock.owner before clearing prev->on_cpu. Do this by moving the DEBUG_SPINLOCK annotation from after switch_to() to before switch_to() and collect all lockdep annotations there into prepare_lock_switch() to mirror the existing finish_lock_switch(). Debugged-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Mark Rutland Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Make update_curr_rt() more accurate

2018-02-13T10:44:41+00:00

rq->clock_task may be updated between the two calls of rq_clock_task() in update_curr_rt(). Calling rq_clock_task() only once makes it more accurate and efficient, taking update_curr() as reference. Signed-off-by: Wen Yang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517882008-44552-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/deadline: Make update_curr_dl() more accurate

2018-02-13T10:44:40+00:00

rq->clock_task may be updated between the two calls of rq_clock_task() in update_curr_dl(). Calling rq_clock_task() only once makes it more accurate and efficient, taking update_curr() as reference. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Wen Yang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517882148-44599-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-02-07T06:15:42+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - kasan updates - procfs - lib/bitmap updates - other lib/ updates - checkpatch tweaks - rapidio - ubsan - pipe fixes and cleanups - lots of other misc bits * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (114 commits) Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo MAINTAINERS: update ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT patterns MAINTAINERS: update various PALM patterns MAINTAINERS: update "ARM/OXNAS platform support" patterns MAINTAINERS: update Cortina/Gemini patterns MAINTAINERS: remove ARM/CLKDEV SUPPORT file pattern MAINTAINERS: remove ANDROID ION pattern mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch mm: docs: fixup punctuation pipe: read buffer limits atomically pipe: simplify round_pipe_size() pipe: reject F_SETPIPE_SZ with size over UINT_MAX pipe: fix off-by-one error when checking buffer limits pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits pipe, sysctl: remove pipe_proc_fn() pipe, sysctl: drop 'min' parameter from pipe-max-size converter kasan: rework Kconfig settings crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean kernel/mutex: mutex_is_locked can be boolean ...

cpumask: make cpumask_size() return "unsigned int"

2018-02-07T02:32:45+00:00

CPUmasks are never big enough to warrant 64-bit code. Space savings: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/4 up/down: 3/-17 (-14) Function old new delta sched_init_numa 1530 1533 +3 compat_sys_sched_setaffinity 160 159 -1 sys_sched_getaffinity 197 195 -2 sys_sched_setaffinity 183 176 -7 compat_sys_sched_getaffinity 179 172 -7 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204165531.GA8221@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgent, to resolve conflicts

2018-02-06T20:12:31+00:00

Conflicts: arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S arch/x86/Kconfig include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/fork.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS

2018-02-06T09:20:37+00:00

The select_idle_sibling() (SIS) rewrite in commit: 10e2f1acd010 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()") ... replaced a domain iteration with a search that broadly speaking does a wrapped walk of the scheduler domain sharing a last-level-cache. While this had a number of improvements, one consequence is that two tasks that share a waker/wakee relationship push each other around a socket. Even though two tasks may be active, all cores are evenly used. This is great from a search perspective and spreads a load across individual cores, but it has adverse consequences for cpufreq. As each CPU has relatively low utilisation, cpufreq may decide the utilisation is too low to used a higher P-state and overall computation throughput suffers. While individual cpufreq and cpuidle drivers may compensate by artifically boosting P-state (at c0) or avoiding lower C-states (during idle), it does not help if hardware-based cpufreq (e.g. HWP) is used. This patch tracks a recently used CPU based on what CPU a task was running on when it last was a waker a CPU it was recently using when a task is a wakee. During SIS, the recently used CPU is used as a target if it's still allowed by the task and is idle. The benefit may be non-obvious so consider an example of two tasks communicating back and forth. Task A may be an application doing IO where task B is a kworker or kthread like journald. Task A may issue IO, wake B and B wakes up A on completion. With the existing scheme this may look like the following (potentially different IDs if SMT is in use but similar principal applies). A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1) B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 2) A (cpu 2) wake B (wakes on cpu 3) etc. A careful reader may wonder why CPU 0 was not idle when B wakes A the first time and it's simply due to the fact that A can be rescheduled to another CPU and the pattern is that prev == target when B tries to wakeup A and the information about CPU 0 has been lost. With this patch, the pattern is more likely to be: A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1) B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 0) A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1) etc i.e. two communicating casts are more likely to use just two cores instead of all available cores sharing a LLC. The most dramatic speedup was noticed on dbench using the XFS filesystem on UMA as clients interact heavily with workqueues in that configuration. Note that a similar speedup is not observed on ext4 as the wakeup pattern is different: 4.15.0-rc9 4.15.0-rc9 waprev-v1 biasancestor-v1 Hmean 1 287.54 ( 0.00%) 817.01 ( 184.14%) Hmean 2 1268.12 ( 0.00%) 1781.24 ( 40.46%) Hmean 4 1739.68 ( 0.00%) 1594.47 ( -8.35%) Hmean 8 2464.12 ( 0.00%) 2479.56 ( 0.63%) Hmean 64 1455.57 ( 0.00%) 1434.68 ( -1.44%) The results can be less dramatic on NUMA where automatic balancing interferes with the test. It's also known that network benchmarks running on localhost also benefit quite a bit from this patch (roughly 10% on netperf RR for UDP and TCP depending on the machine). Hackbench also seens small improvements (6-11% depending on machine and thread count). The facebook schbench was also tested but in most cases showed little or no different to wakeup latencies. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Do not migrate if the prev_cpu is idle

2018-02-06T09:20:36+00:00

wake_affine_idle() prefers to move a task to the current CPU if the wakeup is due to an interrupt. The expectation is that the interrupt data is cache hot and relevant to the waking task as well as avoiding a search. However, there is no way to determine if there was cache hot data on the previous CPU that may exceed the interrupt data. Furthermore, round-robin delivery of interrupts can migrate tasks around a socket where each CPU is under-utilised. This can interact badly with cpufreq which makes decisions based on per-cpu data. It has been observed on machines with HWP that p-states are not boosted to their maximum levels even though the workload is latency and throughput sensitive. This patch uses the previous CPU for the task if it's idle and cache-affine with the current CPU even if the current CPU is idle due to the wakup being related to the interrupt. This reduces migrations at the cost of the interrupt data not being cache hot when the task wakes. A variety of workloads were tested on various machines and no adverse impact was noticed that was outside noise. dbench on ext4 on UMA showed roughly 10% reduction in the number of CPU migrations and it is a case where interrupts are frequent for IO competions. In most cases, the difference in performance is quite small but variability is often reduced. For example, this is the result for pgbench running on a UMA machine with different numbers of clients. 4.15.0-rc9 4.15.0-rc9 baseline waprev-v1 Hmean 1 22096.28 ( 0.00%) 22734.86 ( 2.89%) Hmean 4 74633.42 ( 0.00%) 75496.77 ( 1.16%) Hmean 7 115017.50 ( 0.00%) 113030.81 ( -1.73%) Hmean 12 126209.63 ( 0.00%) 126613.40 ( 0.32%) Hmean 16 131886.91 ( 0.00%) 130844.35 ( -0.79%) Stddev 1 636.38 ( 0.00%) 417.11 ( 34.46%) Stddev 4 614.64 ( 0.00%) 583.24 ( 5.11%) Stddev 7 542.46 ( 0.00%) 435.45 ( 19.73%) Stddev 12 173.93 ( 0.00%) 171.50 ( 1.40%) Stddev 16 671.42 ( 0.00%) 680.30 ( -1.32%) CoeffVar 1 2.88 ( 0.00%) 1.83 ( 36.26%) Note that the different in performance is marginal but for low utilisation, there is less variability. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Restructure wake_affine*() to return a CPU id

2018-02-06T09:20:35+00:00

This is a preparation patch that has wake_affine*() return a CPU ID instead of a boolean. The intent is to allow the wake_affine() helpers to be avoided if a decision is already made. This patch has no functional change. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar