From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ego@in.ibm.com
Subject: [patch repost] sched: Fix group_capacity for sched_smt_powersavings=1
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:28:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100401075824.GU5300@dirshya.in.ibm.com> (raw)
Hi Peter,
This is repost of the same patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/22/275
(and http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/2/216)
After applying Suresh's fixes from discussion thread
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/12/352, we still need the attached patch
to restore sched_smt_powersavings=1 functionality where tasks prefer
sibling threads and keep more cores idle.
Please apply to sched-tip, the patch is rebased and tested on today's
sched-tip master.
The attached patch will run 4 while(1) loops in two cores when
sched_smt_power_savings=1. Tested on two socket, quad core, hyper
threaded system.
Additional testing was done on POWER platform where
sched_smt_powersavings was able to consolidate tasks on sibling
threads leaving more idle cores.
Thanks,
Vaidy
---
sched: Fix group_capacity for sched_smt_powersavings=1
sched_smt_powersavings for threaded systems need this fix for
consolidation to sibling threads to work. Since threads have
fractional capacity, group_capacity will turn out to be one
always and not accommodate another task in the sibling thread.
This fix makes group_capacity a function of cpumask_weight that
will enable the power saving load balancer to pack tasks among
sibling threads and keep more cores idle.
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 5a5ea2c..7c0a29a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -2538,6 +2538,21 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu,
*/
if (prefer_sibling)
sgs.group_capacity = min(sgs.group_capacity, 1UL);
+ /*
+ * If power savings balance is set at this domain, then
+ * make capacity equal to number of hardware threads to
+ * accommodate more tasks until capacity is reached.
+ */
+ else if (sd->flags & SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE)
+ sgs.group_capacity =
+ cpumask_weight(sched_group_cpus(group));
+
+ /*
+ * The default group_capacity is rounded from sum of
+ * fractional cpu_powers of sibling hardware threads
+ * in order to enable fair use of available hardware
+ * resources.
+ */
if (local_group) {
sds->this_load = sgs.avg_load;
@@ -2863,7 +2878,8 @@ static int need_active_balance(struct sched_domain *sd, int sd_idle, int idle)
!test_sd_parent(sd, SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE))
return 0;
- if (sched_mc_power_savings < POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP)
+ if (sched_mc_power_savings < POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP &&
+ sched_smt_power_savings < POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP)
return 0;
}
next reply other threads:[~2010-04-01 7:58 UTC|newest]
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2010-04-01 7:58 Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [this message]
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2010-03-22 16:34 [patch repost] sched: Fix group_capacity for sched_smt_powersavings=1 Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
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