This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sched/fair: Add EAS checks before updating root_domain::overutilized to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sched-fair-add-eas-checks-before-updating-root_domai.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0208e2b9aab15ef84a6231a1c8adfa64662ce215 Author: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 7 14:27:23 2024 +0530 sched/fair: Add EAS checks before updating root_domain::overutilized [ Upstream commit be3a51e68f2f1b17250ce40d8872c7645b7a2991 ] root_domain::overutilized is only used for EAS(energy aware scheduler) to decide whether to do load balance or not. It is not used if EAS not possible. Currently enqueue_task_fair and task_tick_fair accesses, sometime updates this field. In update_sd_lb_stats it is updated often. This causes cache contention due to true sharing and burns a lot of cycles. ::overload and ::overutilized are part of the same cacheline. Updating it often invalidates the cacheline. That causes access to ::overload to slow down due to false sharing. Hence add EAS check before accessing/updating this field. EAS check is optimized at compile time or it is a static branch. Hence it shouldn't cost much. With the patch, both enqueue_task_fair and newidle_balance don't show up as hot routines in perf profile. 6.8-rc4: 7.18% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] enqueue_task_fair 6.78% s [kernel.vmlinux] [k] newidle_balance +patch: 0.14% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] enqueue_task_fair 0.00% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] newidle_balance While at it: trace_sched_overutilized_tp expect that second argument to be bool. So do a int to bool conversion for that. Fixes: 2802bf3cd936 ("sched/fair: Add over-utilization/tipping point indicator") Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307085725.444486-2-sshegde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 4a1393405a6fe..94fcd585eb7f0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -5746,21 +5746,41 @@ static inline unsigned long cpu_util(int cpu); static inline bool cpu_overutilized(int cpu) { - unsigned long rq_util_min = uclamp_rq_get(cpu_rq(cpu), UCLAMP_MIN); - unsigned long rq_util_max = uclamp_rq_get(cpu_rq(cpu), UCLAMP_MAX); + unsigned long rq_util_min, rq_util_max; + + if (!sched_energy_enabled()) + return false; + + rq_util_min = uclamp_rq_get(cpu_rq(cpu), UCLAMP_MIN); + rq_util_max = uclamp_rq_get(cpu_rq(cpu), UCLAMP_MAX); return !util_fits_cpu(cpu_util(cpu), rq_util_min, rq_util_max, cpu); } -static inline void update_overutilized_status(struct rq *rq) +static inline void set_rd_overutilized_status(struct root_domain *rd, + unsigned int status) { - if (!READ_ONCE(rq->rd->overutilized) && cpu_overutilized(rq->cpu)) { - WRITE_ONCE(rq->rd->overutilized, SG_OVERUTILIZED); - trace_sched_overutilized_tp(rq->rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED); - } + if (!sched_energy_enabled()) + return; + + WRITE_ONCE(rd->overutilized, status); + trace_sched_overutilized_tp(rd, !!status); +} + +static inline void check_update_overutilized_status(struct rq *rq) +{ + /* + * overutilized field is used for load balancing decisions only + * if energy aware scheduler is being used + */ + if (!sched_energy_enabled()) + return; + + if (!READ_ONCE(rq->rd->overutilized) && cpu_overutilized(rq->cpu)) + set_rd_overutilized_status(rq->rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED); } #else -static inline void update_overutilized_status(struct rq *rq) { } +static inline void check_update_overutilized_status(struct rq *rq) { } #endif /* Runqueue only has SCHED_IDLE tasks enqueued */ @@ -5868,7 +5888,7 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags) * and the following generally works well enough in practice. */ if (!task_new) - update_overutilized_status(rq); + check_update_overutilized_status(rq); enqueue_throttle: if (cfs_bandwidth_used()) { @@ -9577,19 +9597,14 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *sd env->fbq_type = fbq_classify_group(&sds->busiest_stat); if (!env->sd->parent) { - struct root_domain *rd = env->dst_rq->rd; - /* update overload indicator if we are at root domain */ - WRITE_ONCE(rd->overload, sg_status & SG_OVERLOAD); + WRITE_ONCE(env->dst_rq->rd->overload, sg_status & SG_OVERLOAD); /* Update over-utilization (tipping point, U >= 0) indicator */ - WRITE_ONCE(rd->overutilized, sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED); - trace_sched_overutilized_tp(rd, sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED); + set_rd_overutilized_status(env->dst_rq->rd, + sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED); } else if (sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED) { - struct root_domain *rd = env->dst_rq->rd; - - WRITE_ONCE(rd->overutilized, SG_OVERUTILIZED); - trace_sched_overutilized_tp(rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED); + set_rd_overutilized_status(env->dst_rq->rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED); } update_idle_cpu_scan(env, sum_util); @@ -11460,7 +11475,7 @@ static void task_tick_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr, int queued) task_tick_numa(rq, curr); update_misfit_status(curr, rq); - update_overutilized_status(task_rq(curr)); + check_update_overutilized_status(task_rq(curr)); task_tick_core(rq, curr); }