[RFC PATCH v7] sched/fair: select idle cpu from idle cpumask for task wakeup

Aubrey Li
2020-12-09T06:27:17Z

Add idle cpumask to track idle cpus in sched domain. Every time
a CPU enters idle, the CPU is set in idle cpumask to be a wakeup
target. And if the CPU is not in idle, the CPU is cleared in idle
cpumask during scheduler tick to ratelimit idle cpumask update.

When a task wakes up to select an idle cpu, scanning idle cpumask
has lower cost than scanning all the cpus in last level cache domain,
especially when the system is heavily loaded.

Benchmarks including hackbench, schbench, uperf, sysbench mysql
and kbuild were tested on a x86 4 socket system with 24 cores per
socket and 2 hyperthreads per core, total 192 CPUs, no regression
found.

v6->v7:
- place the whole idle cpumask mechanism under CONFIG_SMP.

v5->v6:
- decouple idle cpumask update from stop_tick signal, set idle CPU
in idle cpumask every time the CPU enters idle

v4->v5:
- add update_idle_cpumask for s2idle case
- keep the same ordering of tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() and update_
idle_cpumask() everywhere

v3->v4:
- change setting idle cpumask from every idle entry to tickless idle
if cpu driver is available.
- move clearing idle cpumask to scheduler_tick to decouple nohz mode.

v2->v3:
- change setting idle cpumask to every idle entry, otherwise schbench
has a regression of 99th percentile latency.
- change clearing idle cpumask to nohz_balancer_kick(), so updating
idle cpumask is ratelimited in the idle exiting path.
- set SCHED_IDLE cpu in idle cpumask to allow it as a wakeup target.

v1->v2:
- idle cpumask is updated in the nohz routines, by initializing idle
cpumask with sched_domain_span(sd), nohz=off case remains the original
behavior.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
---
include/linux/sched/topology.h | 13 +++++++++
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++
kernel/sched/fair.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/sched/idle.c | 5 ++++
kernel/sched/sched.h | 4 +++
kernel/sched/topology.c | 3 +-
6 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
index 820511289857..b47b85163607 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
@@ -65,8 +65,21 @@ struct sched_domain_shared {
atomic_t ref;
atomic_t nr_busy_cpus;
int has_idle_cores;
+ /*
+ * Span of all idle CPUs in this domain.
+ *
+ * NOTE: this field is variable length. (Allocated dynamically
+ * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure,
+ * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with)
+ */
+ unsigned long idle_cpus_span[];
};

+static inline struct cpumask *sds_idle_cpus(struct sched_domain_shared *sds)
+{
+ return to_cpumask(sds->idle_cpus_span);
+}
+
struct sched_domain {
/* These fields must be setup */
struct sched_domain __rcu *parent; /* top domain must be null terminated */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c4da7e17b906..c4c51ff3402a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4011,6 +4011,7 @@ void scheduler_tick(void)

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
rq->idle_balance = idle_cpu(cpu);
+ update_idle_cpumask(cpu, false);
trigger_load_balance(rq);
#endif
}
@@ -7186,6 +7187,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
rq->idle_stamp = 0;
rq->avg_idle = 2*sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
rq->max_idle_balance_cost = sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
+ rq->last_idle_state = 1;

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->cfs_tasks);

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c0c4d9ad7da8..7306f8886120 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6146,7 +6146,12 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t

time = cpu_clock(this);

- cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), p->cpus_ptr);
+ /*
+ * sched_domain_shared is set only at shared cache level,
+ * this works only because select_idle_cpu is called with
+ * sd_llc.
+ */
+ cpumask_and(cpus, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared), p->cpus_ptr);

for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target) {
if (!--nr)
@@ -6806,6 +6811,50 @@ balance_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct rq_flags *rf)

return newidle_balance(rq, rf) != 0;
}
+
+/*
+ * Update cpu idle state and record this information
+ * in sd_llc_shared->idle_cpus_span.
+ */
+void update_idle_cpumask(int cpu, bool set_idle)
+{
+ struct sched_domain *sd;
+ struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+ int idle_state;
+
+ /*
+ * If called from scheduler tick, only update
+ * idle cpumask if the CPU is busy, as idle
+ * cpumask is also updated on idle entry.
+ *
+ */
+ if (!set_idle && rq->idle_balance)
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Also set SCHED_IDLE cpu in idle cpumask to
+ * allow SCHED_IDLE cpu as a wakeup target
+ */
+ idle_state = set_idle || sched_idle_cpu(cpu);
+ /*
+ * No need to update idle cpumask if the state
+ * does not change.
+ */
+ if (rq->last_idle_state == idle_state)
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Called with irq disabled, rcu_read_lock() is not needed.
+ */
+ sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu));
+ if (unlikely(!sd))
+ return;
+
+ if (idle_state)
+ cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared));
+ else
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared));
+
+ rq->last_idle_state = idle_state;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */

static unsigned long wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *se)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c
index f324dc36fc43..2c517d6a061a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
@@ -257,6 +257,11 @@ static void do_idle(void)
cpuhp_report_idle_dead();
arch_cpu_idle_dead();
}
+ /*
+ * The CPU is about to go idle, set it in idle cpumask
+ * to be a wake up target.
+ */
+ update_idle_cpumask(cpu, true);

arch_cpu_idle_enter();

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 8d1ca65db3b0..2167ca48f3aa 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -976,6 +976,7 @@ struct rq {

unsigned char nohz_idle_balance;
unsigned char idle_balance;
+ unsigned char last_idle_state;

unsigned long misfit_task_load;

@@ -1516,6 +1517,8 @@ static inline unsigned int group_first_cpu(struct sched_group *group)

extern int group_balance_cpu(struct sched_group *sg);

+void update_idle_cpumask(int cpu, bool set_idle);
+
#if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG) && defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL)
void register_sched_domain_sysctl(void);
void dirty_sched_domain_sysctl(int cpu);
@@ -1536,6 +1539,7 @@ extern void flush_smp_call_function_from_idle(void);

#else /* !CONFIG_SMP: */
static inline void flush_smp_call_function_from_idle(void) { }
+static inline void update_idle_cpumask(int cpu, bool set_idle) { }
#endif

#include "stats.h"
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 1bd7e3af904f..541bd3a7de4d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -1407,6 +1407,7 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
sd->shared = *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sds, sd_id);
atomic_inc(&sd->shared->ref);
atomic_set(&sd->shared->nr_busy_cpus, sd_weight);
+ cpumask_copy(sds_idle_cpus(sd->shared), sched_domain_span(sd));
}

sd->private = sdd;
@@ -1769,7 +1770,7 @@ static int __sdt_alloc(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)

*per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sd, j) = sd;

- sds = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_domain_shared),
+ sds = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_domain_shared) + cpumask_size(),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(j));
if (!sds)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.25.1