From: Zecheng Li <zecheng@google.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
Xu Liu <xliuprof@google.com>,
Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>,
Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zecheng Li <zecheng@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] sched/fair: Co-locate cfs_rq and sched_entity
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 21:02:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250701210230.2985885-2-zecheng@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250701210230.2985885-1-zecheng@google.com>
Improve data locality and reduce pointer chasing by allocating struct
cfs_rq and struct sched_entity together for non-root task groups. This
is achieved by introducing a new combined struct cfs_rq_with_se that
holds both objects in a single allocation.
This patch:
- Defines the new struct cfs_rq_with_se.
- Modifies alloc_fair_sched_group() and free_fair_sched_group() to
allocate and free the new struct as a single unit.
- Modifies the per-CPU pointers in task_group->se and task_group->cfs_rq
to point to the members in the new combined structure.
Signed-off-by: Zecheng Li <zecheng@google.com>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 23 ++++++++++-------------
kernel/sched/sched.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7a14da5396fb..3a1b55b74203 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -13356,10 +13356,11 @@ void free_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg)
int i;
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
- if (tg->cfs_rq)
- kfree(tg->cfs_rq[i]);
- if (tg->se)
- kfree(tg->se[i]);
+ if (tg->cfs_rq && tg->cfs_rq[i]) {
+ struct cfs_rq_with_se *combined =
+ container_of(tg->cfs_rq[i], struct cfs_rq_with_se, cfs_rq);
+ kfree(combined);
+ }
}
kfree(tg->cfs_rq);
@@ -13368,6 +13369,7 @@ void free_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg)
int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
{
+ struct cfs_rq_with_se *combined;
struct sched_entity *se;
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
int i;
@@ -13384,16 +13386,13 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
init_cfs_bandwidth(tg_cfs_bandwidth(tg), tg_cfs_bandwidth(parent));
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
- cfs_rq = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct cfs_rq),
+ combined = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct cfs_rq_with_se),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
- if (!cfs_rq)
+ if (!combined)
goto err;
- se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_entity_stats),
- GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
- if (!se)
- goto err_free_rq;
-
+ cfs_rq = &combined->cfs_rq;
+ se = &combined->se;
init_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
init_tg_cfs_entry(tg, cfs_rq, se, i, parent->se[i]);
init_entity_runnable_average(se);
@@ -13401,8 +13400,6 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
return 1;
-err_free_rq:
- kfree(cfs_rq);
err:
return 0;
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 475bb5998295..6f32a76d38c2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -740,6 +740,14 @@ struct cfs_rq {
#endif /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
+struct cfs_rq_with_se {
+ struct cfs_rq cfs_rq;
+ /* cfs_rq's sched_entity on parent runqueue */
+ struct sched_entity se ____cacheline_aligned;
+};
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT
/* scx_rq->flags, protected by the rq lock */
enum scx_rq_flags {
--
2.50.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-01 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-01 21:02 [PATCH v3 0/3] sched/fair: Optimize cfs_rq and sched_entity allocation for better data locality Zecheng Li
2025-07-01 21:02 ` Zecheng Li [this message]
2025-07-01 21:02 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] sched/fair: Remove task_group->se pointer array Zecheng Li
2025-07-01 21:02 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] sched/fair: Allocate both cfs_rq and sched_entity with per-cpu Zecheng Li
2025-07-16 8:50 ` kernel test robot
2025-07-25 21:05 ` Zecheng Li
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