Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: skip the cache hot CPU in select_idle_cpu()

[K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>]

Hello Chenyu,

One question ...

On 9/11/2023 8:20 AM, Chen Yu wrote:
> [..snip..]
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index e20f50726ab8..fe3b760c9654 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> [..more snip..]
> @@ -7052,10 +7072,14 @@ static int select_idle_core(struct task_struct *p, int core, struct cpumask *cpu
>  	int cpu;
>  
>  	for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_smt_mask(core)) {
> -		if (!available_idle_cpu(cpu)) {
> +		bool cache_hot = sched_feat(SIS_CACHE) ?
> +			sched_clock_cpu(cpu) < cpu_rq(cpu)->cache_hot_timeout : false;
> +
> +		if (!available_idle_cpu(cpu) || cache_hot) {
>  			idle = false;
>  			if (*idle_cpu == -1) {
> -				if (sched_idle_cpu(cpu) && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr)) {
> +				if (sched_idle_cpu(cpu) && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr) &&
> +				    !cache_hot) {

Here, the CPU is running a SCHED_IDLE task ...

>  					*idle_cpu = cpu;
>  					break;
>  				}

... but just below this, there are following lines to cache the idle_cpu:

		}
		if (*idle_cpu == -1 && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr))
			*idle_cpu = cpu;

Would it make sense to also add the same "cache_hot" check here when we
come across an idle CPU during the search for an idle core? Something
like:

-		if (*idle_cpu == -1 && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr))
+		if (*idle_cpu == -1 && !cache_hot && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr))
			*idle_cpu = cpu;

Implications with the above change:

If the entire core is idle, "select_idle_core()" will return the core
and the search will bail out in "select_idle_cpu()". Otherwise, the
cache-hot idle CPUs encountered during the search for idle core will be
ignored now and if "idle_cpu" is not -1, it contains an idle CPU that is
not cache-hot.

Thoughts?

> [..snip..]

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Thanks and Regards,
Prateek