On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 20:29, shrikanth hegde <sshegde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2/24/23 3:04 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > Take into account the latency priority of a thread when deciding to
> > preempt the current running thread. We don't want to provide more CPU
> > bandwidth to a thread but reorder the scheduling to run latency sensitive
> > task first whenever possible.
> >
> > As long as a thread didn't use its bandwidth, it will be able to preempt
> > the current thread.
> >
> > At the opposite, a thread with a low latency priority will preempt current
> > thread at wakeup only to keep fair CPU bandwidth sharing. Otherwise it will
> > wait for the tick to get its sched slice.
> >
> > curr vruntime
> > |
> > sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity
> > <-->
> > ----------------------------------|----|-----------------------|---------------
> > | |<--------------------->
> > | . sysctl_sched_latency
> > | .
> > default/current latency entity | .
> > | .
> > 1111111111111111111111111111111111|0000|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-
> > se preempts curr at wakeup ------>|<- se doesn't preempt curr -----------------
> > | .
> > | .
> > | .
> > low latency entity | .
> > ---------------------->|
> > % of sysctl_sched_latency |
> > 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111|0000|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-
> > preempt ------------------------------------------------->|<- do not preempt --
> > | .
> > | .
> > | .
> > high latency entity | .
> > |<-----------------------|----.
> > | % of sysctl_sched_latency .
> > 111111111|0000|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
> > preempt->|<- se doesn't preempt curr ------------------------------------------
> >
> > Tests results of nice latency impact on heavy load like hackbench:
> >
> > hackbench -l (2560 / group) -g group
> > group latency 0 latency 19
> > 1 1.378(+/- 1%) 1.337(+/- 1%) + 3%
> > 4 1.393(+/- 3%) 1.312(+/- 3%) + 6%
> > 8 1.308(+/- 2%) 1.279(+/- 1%) + 2%
> > 16 1.347(+/- 1%) 1.317(+/- 1%) + 2%
> >
> > hackbench -p -l (2560 / group) -g group
> > group
> > 1 1.836(+/- 17%) 1.148(+/- 5%) +37%
> > 4 1.586(+/- 6%) 1.109(+/- 8%) +30%
> > 8 1.209(+/- 4%) 0.780(+/- 4%) +35%
> > 16 0.805(+/- 5%) 0.728(+/- 4%) +10%
> >
> > By deacreasing the latency prio, we reduce the number of preemption at
> > wakeup and help hackbench making progress.
> >
> > Test results of nice latency impact on short live load like cyclictest
> > while competing with heavy load like hackbench:
> >
> > hackbench -l 10000 -g $group &
> > cyclictest --policy other -D 5 -q -n
> > latency 0 latency -20
> > group min avg max min avg max
> > 0 16 19 29 17 18 29
> > 1 43 299 7359 63 84 3422
> > 4 56 449 14806 45 83 284
> > 8 63 820 51123 63 83 283
> > 16 64 1326 70684 41 157 26852
> >
> > group = 0 means that hackbench is not running.
> >
> > The avg is significantly improved with nice latency -20 especially with
> > large number of groups but min and max remain quite similar. If we add the
> > histogram parameter to get details of latency, we have :
> >
> > hackbench -l 10000 -g 16 &
> > cyclictest --policy other -D 5 -q -n -H 20000 --histfile data.txt
> > latency 0 latency -20
> > Min Latencies: 64 62
> > Avg Latencies: 1170 107
> > Max Latencies: 88069 10417
> > 50% latencies: 122 86
> > 75% latencies: 614 91
> > 85% latencies: 961 94
> > 90% latencies: 1225 97
> > 95% latencies: 6120 102
> > 99% latencies: 18328 159
> >
> > With percentile details, we see the benefit of nice latency -20 as
> > only 1% of the latencies are above 159us whereas the default latency
> > has got 15% around ~1ms or above and 5% over the 6ms.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/sched.h | 4 +++-
> > include/linux/sched/prio.h | 9 +++++++++
> > init/init_task.c | 2 +-
> > kernel/sched/core.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> > kernel/sched/debug.c | 2 +-
> > kernel/sched/fair.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > kernel/sched/sched.h | 11 +++++++++++
> > 7 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> > index 6c61bde49152..38decae3e156 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> > @@ -568,6 +568,8 @@ struct sched_entity {
> > /* cached value of my_q->h_nr_running */
> > unsigned long runnable_weight;
> > #endif
> > + /* preemption offset in ns */
> > + long latency_offset;
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > /*
> > @@ -784,7 +786,7 @@ struct task_struct {
> > int static_prio;
> > int normal_prio;
> > unsigned int rt_priority;
> > - int latency_nice;
> > + int latency_prio;
> >
> > struct sched_entity se;
> > struct sched_rt_entity rt;
> > diff --git a/include/linux/sched/prio.h b/include/linux/sched/prio.h
> > index bfcd7f1d1e11..be79503d86af 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/sched/prio.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/sched/prio.h
> > @@ -59,5 +59,14 @@ static inline long rlimit_to_nice(long prio)
> > * Default tasks should be treated as a task with latency_nice = 0.
> > */
> > #define DEFAULT_LATENCY_NICE 0
> > +#define DEFAULT_LATENCY_PRIO (DEFAULT_LATENCY_NICE + LATENCY_NICE_WIDTH/2)
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Convert user-nice values [ -20 ... 0 ... 19 ]
> > + * to static latency [ 0..39 ],
> > + * and back.
> > + */
> > +#define NICE_TO_LATENCY(nice) ((nice) + DEFAULT_LATENCY_PRIO)
> > +#define LATENCY_TO_NICE(prio) ((prio) - DEFAULT_LATENCY_PRIO)
> >
> > #endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_PRIO_H */
> > diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
> > index 7dd71dd2d261..071deff8dbd1 100644
> > --- a/init/init_task.c
> > +++ b/init/init_task.c
> > @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct task_struct init_task
> > .prio = MAX_PRIO - 20,
> > .static_prio = MAX_PRIO - 20,
> > .normal_prio = MAX_PRIO - 20,
> > - .latency_nice = DEFAULT_LATENCY_NICE,
> > + .latency_prio = DEFAULT_LATENCY_PRIO,
> > .policy = SCHED_NORMAL,
> > .cpus_ptr = &init_task.cpus_mask,
> > .user_cpus_ptr = NULL,
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index d327614c70b0..d5b7e237d79b 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -1285,6 +1285,11 @@ static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p, bool update_load)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +static void set_latency_offset(struct task_struct *p)
> > +{
> > + p->se.latency_offset = calc_latency_offset(p->latency_prio);
> > +}
> > +
> > #ifdef CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK
> > /*
> > * Serializes updates of utilization clamp values
> > @@ -4681,7 +4686,9 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
> > p->prio = p->normal_prio = p->static_prio;
> > set_load_weight(p, false);
> >
> > - p->latency_nice = DEFAULT_LATENCY_NICE;
> > + p->latency_prio = NICE_TO_LATENCY(0);
> > + set_latency_offset(p);
> > +
> > /*
> > * We don't need the reset flag anymore after the fork. It has
> > * fulfilled its duty:
> > @@ -7449,8 +7456,10 @@ static void __setscheduler_params(struct task_struct *p,
> > static void __setscheduler_latency(struct task_struct *p,
> > const struct sched_attr *attr)
> > {
> > - if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_LATENCY_NICE)
> > - p->latency_nice = attr->sched_latency_nice;
> > + if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_LATENCY_NICE) {
> > + p->latency_prio = NICE_TO_LATENCY(attr->sched_latency_nice);
> > + set_latency_offset(p);
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > /*
> > @@ -7635,7 +7644,7 @@ static int __sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p,
> > if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP)
> > goto change;
> > if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_LATENCY_NICE &&
> > - attr->sched_latency_nice != p->latency_nice)
> > + attr->sched_latency_nice != LATENCY_TO_NICE(p->latency_prio))
> > goto change;
> >
> > p->sched_reset_on_fork = reset_on_fork;
> > @@ -8176,7 +8185,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
> > get_params(p, &kattr);
> > kattr.sched_flags &= SCHED_FLAG_ALL;
> >
> > - kattr.sched_latency_nice = p->latency_nice;
> > + kattr.sched_latency_nice = LATENCY_TO_NICE(p->latency_prio);
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK
> > /*
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
> > index 68be7a3e42a3..b3922184af91 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
> > @@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> > #endif
> > P(policy);
> > P(prio);
> > - P(latency_nice);
> > + P(latency_prio);
>
> /proc/<pid>/sched should update if the latency values are updated
> for the cgroup right? That doesn't seem to happen.
No It's not. The cgroup latency_nice value applies the the
sched_entity of the group in which the task are scheduled
>
> #cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu
> # echo -20 > task1/cpu.latency.nice
> # cat task1/cgroup.procs
> 1897
> 1998
> 1999
> # cat /proc/1999/sched | grep latency
> latency_prio : 20
> # echo 0 > task1/cpu.latency.nice
> # cat /proc/1999/sched | grep latency
> latency_prio : 20
> # echo 19 > task1/cpu.latency.nice
> # cat /proc/1999/sched | grep latency
> latency_prio : 20
>
>
> > if (task_has_dl_policy(p)) {
> > P(dl.runtime);
> > P(dl.deadline);
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 81bef11eb660..414b6243208b 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -4877,6 +4877,8 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
> > update_idle_cfs_rq_clock_pelt(cfs_rq);
> > }
> >
> > +static long wakeup_latency_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se);
> > +
> > /*
> > * Preempt the current task with a newly woken task if needed:
> > */
> > @@ -4885,7 +4887,7 @@ check_preempt_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
> > {
> > unsigned long ideal_runtime, delta_exec;
> > struct sched_entity *se;
> > - s64 delta;
> > + s64 delta, offset;
> >
> > /*
> > * When many tasks blow up the sched_period; it is possible that
> > @@ -4916,10 +4918,12 @@ check_preempt_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
> > se = __pick_first_entity(cfs_rq);
> > delta = curr->vruntime - se->vruntime;
> >
> > - if (delta < 0)
> > + offset = wakeup_latency_gran(curr, se);
> > + if (delta < offset)
> > return;
> >
> > - if (delta > ideal_runtime)
> > + if ((delta > ideal_runtime) ||
> > + (delta > get_latency_max()))
> > resched_curr(rq_of(cfs_rq));
> > }
> >
> > @@ -7662,6 +7666,23 @@ balance_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct rq_flags *rf)
> > }
> > #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
> >
> > +static long wakeup_latency_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
> > +{
> > + long latency_offset = se->latency_offset;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * A negative latency offset means that the sched_entity has latency
> > + * requirement that needs to be evaluated versus other entity.
> > + * Otherwise, use the latency weight to evaluate how much scheduling
> > + * delay is acceptable by se.
> > + */
> > + if ((latency_offset < 0) || (curr->latency_offset < 0))
> > + latency_offset -= curr->latency_offset;
> > + latency_offset = min_t(long, latency_offset, get_latency_max());
> > +
> > + return latency_offset;
> > +}
> > +
> > static unsigned long wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *se)
> > {
> > unsigned long gran = sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
> > @@ -7700,11 +7721,12 @@ static int
> > wakeup_preempt_entity(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
> > {
> > s64 gran, vdiff = curr->vruntime - se->vruntime;
> > + s64 offset = wakeup_latency_gran(curr, se);
> >
> > - if (vdiff <= 0)
> > + if (vdiff < offset)
> > return -1;
> >
> > - gran = wakeup_gran(se);
> > + gran = offset + wakeup_gran(se);
> >
> > /*
> > * At wake up, the vruntime of a task is capped to not be older than
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > index 51ba0af7fb27..3f42f86105d4 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > @@ -2494,6 +2494,17 @@ static inline unsigned long get_sleep_latency(bool idle)
> > return thresh;
> > }
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Calculate the latency offset for a priority level.
> > + * We use a linear mapping of the priority in the range:
> > + * [-sysctl_sched_latency:sysctl_sched_latency]
> > + */
> > +static inline long calc_latency_offset(int prio)
> > +{
> > + return (long)get_sleep_latency(false) * LATENCY_TO_NICE(prio) /
> > + (LATENCY_NICE_WIDTH/2);
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline unsigned long get_latency_max(void)
> > {
> > unsigned long thresh = get_sleep_latency(false);
>
