Re: single aio thread is migrated crazily by scheduler

Jens Axboe
2019-11-21T16:19:35Z

On 11/21/19 8:02 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 21/11/2019 16:12, Phil Auld wrote:
> <>
>>
>> The scheduler doesn't know if the queued_work submitter is going to go to sleep.
>> That's why I was singling out AIO. My understanding of it is that you submit the IO
>> and then keep going. So in that case it might be better to pick a node-local nearby
>> cpu instead. But this is a user of work queue issue not a scheduler issue.
>>
>
> We have a very similar long standing problem in our system (zufs), that we had to do
> hacks to fix.
>
> We have seen these CPU bouncing exacly as above in fio and more
> benchmarks, Our final analysis was:
>
> One thread is in wait_event() if the wake_up() is on the same CPU as
> the waiter, on some systems usually real HW and not VMs, would bounce
> to a different CPU. Now our system has an array of worker-threads
> bound to each CPU. an incoming thread chooses a corresponding cpu
> worker-thread, let it run, waiting for a reply, then when the
> worker-thread is done it will do a wake_up(). Usually its fine and the
> wait_event() stays on the same CPU. But on some systems it will wakeup
> in a different CPU.
>
> Now this is a great pity because in our case and the work_queue case
> and high % of places the thread calling wake_up() will then
> immediately go to sleep on something. (Work done lets wait for new
> work)
>
> I wish there was a flag to wake_up() or to the event object that says
> to relinquish the remaning of the time-slice to the waiter on same
> CPU, since I will be soon sleeping.

Isn't that basically what wake_up_sync() is?

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Jens Axboe