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From: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [wake_afine fixes/improvements 3/3] sched: introduce sched_feat(NO_HOT_AFFINE)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:57:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110115015817.255632044@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110115015749.692623529@google.com

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re-introduce the cache-cold requirement for affine wake-up balancing.

A much more aggressive migration cost (currently 0.5ms) appears to have tilted
the needle towards favouring not performing affine migrations for cache_hot 
tasks.

Since the update_rq path is more expensive now (and the 'hot' window so small),
avoid hammering it in the common case where the (possibly slightly stale) 
rq->clock_task value has already advanced enough to invalidate hot-ness.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>

---
 kernel/sched_fair.c     |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 kernel/sched_features.h |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: tip3/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- tip3.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ tip3/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1376,6 +1376,23 @@ task_hot(struct task_struct *p, u64 now)
 	return delta < (s64)sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Since sched_migration_cost is (relatively) very small we only need to
+ * actually update the clock in the boundary case when determining whether a
+ * task is hot or not.
+ */
+static int task_hot_lazy(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
+
+	if (!task_hot(p, rq->clock_task))
+		return 0;
+
+	update_rq_clock(rq);
+
+	return task_hot(p, rq->clock_task);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 /*
  * effective_load() calculates the load change as seen from the root_task_group
@@ -1664,7 +1681,8 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct rq *rq, struc
 	int sync = wake_flags & WF_SYNC;
 
 	if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) {
-		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &p->cpus_allowed))
+		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &p->cpus_allowed) &&
+		   (!sched_feat(NO_HOT_AFFINE) || !task_hot_lazy(p)))
 			want_affine = 1;
 		new_cpu = prev_cpu;
 	}
Index: tip3/kernel/sched_features.h
===================================================================
--- tip3.orig/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ tip3/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -64,3 +64,8 @@ SCHED_FEAT(OWNER_SPIN, 1)
  * Decrement CPU power based on irq activity
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(NONIRQ_POWER, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Don't consider cache-hot tasks for affine wakeups
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NO_HOT_AFFINE, 1)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-15  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-15  1:57 [wake_afine fixes/improvements 0/3] Introduction Paul Turner
2011-01-15  1:57 ` [wake_afine fixes/improvements 1/3] sched: update effective_load() to use global share weights Paul Turner
2011-01-17 14:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-17 14:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-18 19:04   ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Update " tip-bot for Paul Turner
2011-01-15  1:57 ` [wake_afine fixes/improvements 2/3] sched: clean up task_hot() Paul Turner
2011-01-17 14:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-18 21:52     ` Paul Turner
2011-01-15  1:57 ` Paul Turner [this message]
2011-01-15 14:29 ` [wake_afine fixes/improvements 0/3] Introduction Mike Galbraith
2011-01-15 19:29   ` Paul Turner
2011-01-15 21:34 ` Nick Piggin

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