[PATCH v3 2/2] sched/fair: Scan cluster before scanning LLC in wake-up path

Yicong Yang
2022-06-08T10:15:01Z

From: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>

For platforms having clusters like Kunpeng920, CPUs within the same cluster
have lower latency when synchronizing and accessing shared resources like
cache. Thus, this patch tries to find an idle cpu within the cluster of the
target CPU before scanning the whole LLC to gain lower latency.

Note neither Kunpeng920 nor x86 Jacobsville supports SMT, so this patch
doesn't consider SMT for this moment.

Testing has been done on Kunpeng920 by pinning tasks to one numa and two
numa. On Kunpeng920, Each numa has 8 clusters and each cluster has 4 CPUs.

With this patch, We noticed enhancement on tbench within one numa or cross
two numa.

On numa 0:
5.19-rc1 patched
Hmean 1 350.27 ( 0.00%) 406.88 * 16.16%*
Hmean 2 702.01 ( 0.00%) 808.22 * 15.13%*
Hmean 4 1405.14 ( 0.00%) 1614.34 * 14.89%*
Hmean 8 2830.53 ( 0.00%) 3169.02 * 11.96%*
Hmean 16 5597.95 ( 0.00%) 6224.20 * 11.19%*
Hmean 32 10537.38 ( 0.00%) 10524.97 * -0.12%*
Hmean 64 8366.04 ( 0.00%) 8437.41 * 0.85%*
Hmean 128 7060.87 ( 0.00%) 7150.25 * 1.27%*

On numa 0-1:
5.19-rc1 patched
Hmean 1 346.11 ( 0.00%) 408.47 * 18.02%*
Hmean 2 693.34 ( 0.00%) 805.78 * 16.22%*
Hmean 4 1384.96 ( 0.00%) 1602.49 * 15.71%*
Hmean 8 2699.45 ( 0.00%) 3069.98 * 13.73%*
Hmean 16 5327.11 ( 0.00%) 5688.19 * 6.78%*
Hmean 32 10019.10 ( 0.00%) 11862.56 * 18.40%*
Hmean 64 13850.57 ( 0.00%) 17748.54 * 28.14%*
Hmean 128 12498.25 ( 0.00%) 15541.59 * 24.35%*
Hmean 256 11195.77 ( 0.00%) 13854.06 * 23.74%*

Tested-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 77b2048a9326..f0496b93449c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6327,6 +6327,39 @@ static inline int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd

#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_SMT */

+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER
+/*
+ * Scan the cluster domain for idle CPUs and clear cluster cpumask after scanning
+ */
+static inline int scan_cluster(struct task_struct *p, struct cpumask *cpus,
+ int target, int *nr)
+{
+ struct sched_domain *sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_cluster, target));
+ int cpu, idle_cpu;
+
+ /* TODO: Support SMT system with cluster topology */
+ if (!sched_smt_active() && sd) {
+ for_each_cpu_and(cpu, cpus, sched_domain_span(sd)) {
+ if (!--*nr)
+ break;
+
+ idle_cpu = __select_idle_cpu(cpu, p);
+ if ((unsigned int)idle_cpu < nr_cpumask_bits)
+ return idle_cpu;
+ }
+
+ cpumask_andnot(cpus, cpus, sched_domain_span(sd));
+ }
+
+ return -1;
+}
+#else
+static inline int scan_cluster(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int target, int *nr)
+{
+ return -1;
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* 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
@@ -6375,6 +6408,10 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, bool
time = cpu_clock(this);
}

+ idle_cpu = scan_cluster(p, cpus, target, &nr);
+ if ((unsigned int)idle_cpu < nr_cpumask_bits)
+ return idle_cpu;
+
for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target + 1) {
if (has_idle_core) {
i = select_idle_core(p, cpu, cpus, &idle_cpu);
@@ -6382,7 +6419,7 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, bool
return i;

} else {
- if (!--nr)
+ if (--nr <= 0)
return -1;
idle_cpu = __select_idle_cpu(cpu, p);
if ((unsigned int)idle_cpu < nr_cpumask_bits)
@@ -6481,7 +6518,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
/*
* If the previous CPU is cache affine and idle, don't be stupid:
*/
- if (prev != target && cpus_share_cache(prev, target) &&
+ if (prev != target && cpus_share_resources(prev, target) &&
(available_idle_cpu(prev) || sched_idle_cpu(prev)) &&
asym_fits_capacity(task_util, prev))
return prev;
@@ -6507,7 +6544,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
p->recent_used_cpu = prev;
if (recent_used_cpu != prev &&
recent_used_cpu != target &&
- cpus_share_cache(recent_used_cpu, target) &&
+ cpus_share_resources(recent_used_cpu, target) &&
(available_idle_cpu(recent_used_cpu) || sched_idle_cpu(recent_used_cpu)) &&
cpumask_test_cpu(p->recent_used_cpu, p->cpus_ptr) &&
asym_fits_capacity(task_util, recent_used_cpu)) {
--
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