Re: [PATCH 5/5] sched/fair: Merge select_idle_core/cpu()

Gautham R Shenoy
2021-01-20T08:33:32Z

Hello Mel, Peter,

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:22:11AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
>
> Both select_idle_core() and select_idle_cpu() do a loop over the same
> cpumask. Observe that by clearing the already visited CPUs, we can
> fold the iteration and iterate a core at a time.
>
> All we need to do is remember any non-idle CPU we encountered while
> scanning for an idle core. This way we'll only iterate every CPU once.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 12e08da90024..822851b39b65 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c

[..snip..]

> @@ -6157,18 +6169,31 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
> }
>
> for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target) {
> - if (!--nr)
> - return -1;
> - if (available_idle_cpu(cpu) || sched_idle_cpu(cpu))
> - break;
> + if (smt) {
> + i = select_idle_core(p, cpu, cpus, &idle_cpu);
> + if ((unsigned int)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
> + return i;
> +
> + } else {
> + if (!--nr)
> + return -1;
> + i = __select_idle_cpu(cpu);
> + if ((unsigned int)i < nr_cpumask_bits) {
> + idle_cpu = i;
> + break;
> + }
> + }
> }
>
> - if (sched_feat(SIS_PROP)) {
> + if (smt)
> + set_idle_cores(this, false);

Shouldn't we set_idle_cores(false) only if this was the last idle
core in the LLC ?

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Thanks and Regards
gautham.