4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4c77b18cf8b7ab37c7d5737b4609010d2ceec5f0 ]
Kitsunyan reported desktop latency issues on his Celeron 887 because
of commit:
1b568f0aabf2 ("sched/core: Optimize SCHED_SMT")
... even though his CPU doesn't do SMT.
The effect of running the SMT code on a !SMT part is basically a more
aggressive select_idle_cpu(). Removing the avg condition fixed things
for him.
I also know FB likes this test gone, even though other workloads like
having it.
For now, take it out by default, until we get a better idea.
Reported-by: kitsunyan <kitsunyan@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/features.h | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5451,7 +5451,7 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_s
* Due to large variance we need a large fuzz factor; hackbench in
* particularly is sensitive here.
*/
- if ((avg_idle / 512) < avg_cost)
+ if (sched_feat(SIS_AVG_CPU) && (avg_idle / 512) < avg_cost)
return -1;
time = local_clock();
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ SCHED_FEAT(NONTASK_CAPACITY, true)
*/
SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true)
+/*
+ * When doing wakeups, attempt to limit superfluous scans of the LLC domain.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(SIS_AVG_CPU, false)
+
#ifdef HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI
/*
* In order to avoid a thundering herd attack of CPUs that are