[PATCH 3/5] sched/fair: Make select_idle_cpu() proportional to cores

Mel Gorman
2021-01-19T11:39:49Z

From: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

Instead of calculating how many (logical) CPUs to scan, compute how
many cores to scan.

This changes behaviour for anything !SMT2.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
kernel/sched/fair.c | 12 ++++++++++--
kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 15d2562118d1..ada8faac2e4d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7444,11 +7444,19 @@ int sched_cpu_activate(unsigned int cpu)
balance_push_set(cpu, false);

#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
- /*
- * When going up, increment the number of cores with SMT present.
- */
- if (cpumask_weight(cpu_smt_mask(cpu)) == 2)
- static_branch_inc_cpuslocked(&sched_smt_present);
+ do {
+ int weight = cpumask_weight(cpu_smt_mask(cpu));
+
+ if (weight > sched_smt_weight)
+ sched_smt_weight = weight;
+
+ /*
+ * When going up, increment the number of cores with SMT present.
+ */
+ if (weight == 2)
+ static_branch_inc_cpuslocked(&sched_smt_present);
+
+ } while (0);
#endif
set_cpu_active(cpu, true);

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c8d8e185cf3b..0811e2fe4f19 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6010,6 +6010,8 @@ static inline int find_idlest_cpu(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(sched_smt_present);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_smt_present);

+int sched_smt_weight __read_mostly = 1;
+
static inline void set_idle_cores(int cpu, int val)
{
struct sched_domain_shared *sds;
@@ -6124,6 +6126,8 @@ static int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t

#else /* CONFIG_SCHED_SMT */

+#define sched_smt_weight 1
+
static inline int select_idle_core(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int target)
{
return -1;
@@ -6136,6 +6140,8 @@ static inline int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd

#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_SMT */

+#define sis_min_cores 2
+
/*
* Scan the LLC domain for idle CPUs; this is dynamically regulated by
* comparing the average scan cost (tracked in sd->avg_scan_cost) against the
@@ -6166,10 +6172,12 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
avg_cost = this_sd->avg_scan_cost + 1;

span_avg = sd->span_weight * avg_idle;
- if (span_avg > 4*avg_cost)
+ if (span_avg > sis_min_cores*avg_cost)
nr = div_u64(span_avg, avg_cost);
else
- nr = 4;
+ nr = sis_min_cores;
+
+ nr *= sched_smt_weight;

time = cpu_clock(this);
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 12ada79d40f3..29aabe98dd1d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1107,6 +1107,8 @@ static inline void update_idle_core(struct rq *rq)
__update_idle_core(rq);
}

+extern int sched_smt_weight;
+
#else
static inline void update_idle_core(struct rq *rq) { }
#endif
--
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