The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 17346452b25b98acfb395d2a82ec2e4ad0cb7a01 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/17346452b25b98acfb395d2a82ec2e4ad0cb7a01 Author: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:19:27 +05:30 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:42:07 +01:00 sched/fair: Make sched-idle CPU selection consistent throughout There are instances where we keep searching for an idle CPU despite already having a sched-idle CPU (in find_idlest_group_cpu(), select_idle_smt() and select_idle_cpu() and then there are places where we don't necessarily do that and return a sched-idle CPU as soon as we find one (in select_idle_sibling()). This looks a bit inconsistent and it may be worth having the same policy everywhere. On the other hand, choosing a sched-idle CPU over a idle one shall be beneficial from performance and power point of view as well, as we don't need to get the CPU online from a deep idle state which wastes quite a lot of time and energy and delays the scheduling of the newly woken up task. This patch tries to simplify code around sched-idle CPU selection and make it consistent throughout. Testing is done with the help of rt-app on hikey board (ARM64 octa-core, 2 clusters, 0-3 and 4-7). The cpufreq governor was set to performance to avoid any side affects from CPU frequency. Following are the tests performed: Test 1: 1-cfs-task: A single SCHED_NORMAL task is pinned to CPU5 which runs for 2333 us out of 7777 us (so gives time for the cluster to go in deep idle state). Test 2: 1-cfs-1-idle-task: A single SCHED_NORMAL task is pinned on CPU5 and single SCHED_IDLE task is pinned on CPU6 (to make sure cluster 1 doesn't go in deep idle state). Test 3: 1-cfs-8-idle-task: A single SCHED_NORMAL task is pinned on CPU5 and eight SCHED_IDLE tasks are created which run forever (not pinned anywhere, so they run on all CPUs). Checked with kernelshark that as soon as NORMAL task sleeps, the SCHED_IDLE task starts running on CPU5. And here are the results on mean latency (in us), using the "st" tool. $ st 1-cfs-task/rt-app-cfs_thread-0.log N min max sum mean stddev 642 90 592 197180 307.134 109.906 $ st 1-cfs-1-idle-task/rt-app-cfs_thread-0.log N min max sum mean stddev 642 67 311 113850 177.336 41.4251 $ st 1-cfs-8-idle-task/rt-app-cfs_thread-0.log N min max sum mean stddev 643 29 173 41364 64.3297 13.2344 The mean latency when we need to: - wakeup from deep idle state is 307 us. - wakeup from shallow idle state is 177 us. - preempt a SCHED_IDLE task is 64 us. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b90cbcce608cef4e02a7bbfe178335f76d201bab.1573728344.git.viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 34 ++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 8da0222..1f34fa9 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -5588,7 +5588,7 @@ find_idlest_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct *p, int this unsigned int min_exit_latency = UINT_MAX; u64 latest_idle_timestamp = 0; int least_loaded_cpu = this_cpu; - int shallowest_idle_cpu = -1, si_cpu = -1; + int shallowest_idle_cpu = -1; int i; /* Check if we have any choice: */ @@ -5597,6 +5597,9 @@ find_idlest_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct *p, int this /* Traverse only the allowed CPUs */ for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_group_span(group), p->cpus_ptr) { + if (sched_idle_cpu(i)) + return i; + if (available_idle_cpu(i)) { struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i); struct cpuidle_state *idle = idle_get_state(rq); @@ -5619,12 +5622,7 @@ find_idlest_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct *p, int this latest_idle_timestamp = rq->idle_stamp; shallowest_idle_cpu = i; } - } else if (shallowest_idle_cpu == -1 && si_cpu == -1) { - if (sched_idle_cpu(i)) { - si_cpu = i; - continue; - } - + } else if (shallowest_idle_cpu == -1) { load = cpu_load(cpu_rq(i)); if (load < min_load) { min_load = load; @@ -5633,11 +5631,7 @@ find_idlest_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct *p, int this } } - if (shallowest_idle_cpu != -1) - return shallowest_idle_cpu; - if (si_cpu != -1) - return si_cpu; - return least_loaded_cpu; + return shallowest_idle_cpu != -1 ? shallowest_idle_cpu : least_loaded_cpu; } static inline int find_idlest_cpu(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, @@ -5790,7 +5784,7 @@ static int select_idle_core(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int */ static int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, int target) { - int cpu, si_cpu = -1; + int cpu; if (!static_branch_likely(&sched_smt_present)) return -1; @@ -5798,13 +5792,11 @@ static int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, int target) for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_smt_mask(target)) { if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr)) continue; - if (available_idle_cpu(cpu)) + if (available_idle_cpu(cpu) || sched_idle_cpu(cpu)) return cpu; - if (si_cpu == -1 && sched_idle_cpu(cpu)) - si_cpu = cpu; } - return si_cpu; + return -1; } #else /* CONFIG_SCHED_SMT */ @@ -5834,7 +5826,7 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t u64 time, cost; s64 delta; int this = smp_processor_id(); - int cpu, nr = INT_MAX, si_cpu = -1; + int cpu, nr = INT_MAX; this_sd = rcu_dereference(*this_cpu_ptr(&sd_llc)); if (!this_sd) @@ -5864,11 +5856,9 @@ 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 si_cpu; - if (available_idle_cpu(cpu)) + return -1; + if (available_idle_cpu(cpu) || sched_idle_cpu(cpu)) break; - if (si_cpu == -1 && sched_idle_cpu(cpu)) - si_cpu = cpu; } time = cpu_clock(this) - time;