From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 5d4cf996cf134e8ddb4f906b8197feb9267c2b77 upstream. Commit 42eb088e (sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy) corrected a NULL dereference on sd_busy but the fix also altered what scheduling domain it used for the 'sd_llc' percpu variable. One impact of this is that a task selecting a runqueue may consider idle CPUs that are not cache siblings as candidates for running. Tasks are then running on CPUs that are not cache hot. This was found through bisection where ebizzy threads were not seeing equal performance and it looked like a scheduling fairness issue. This patch mitigates but does not completely fix the problem on all machines tested implying there may be an additional bug or a common root cause. Here are the average range of performance seen by individual ebizzy threads. It was tested on top of candidate patches related to x86 TLB range flushing. 4-core machine 3.13.0-rc3 3.13.0-rc3 vanilla fixsd-v3r3 Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Mean 2 0.34 ( 0.00%) 0.10 ( 70.59%) Mean 3 1.29 ( 0.00%) 0.93 ( 27.91%) Mean 4 7.08 ( 0.00%) 0.77 ( 89.12%) Mean 5 193.54 ( 0.00%) 2.14 ( 98.89%) Mean 6 151.12 ( 0.00%) 2.06 ( 98.64%) Mean 7 115.38 ( 0.00%) 2.04 ( 98.23%) Mean 8 108.65 ( 0.00%) 1.92 ( 98.23%) 8-core machine Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Mean 2 0.40 ( 0.00%) 0.21 ( 47.50%) Mean 3 23.73 ( 0.00%) 0.89 ( 96.25%) Mean 4 12.79 ( 0.00%) 1.04 ( 91.87%) Mean 5 13.08 ( 0.00%) 2.42 ( 81.50%) Mean 6 23.21 ( 0.00%) 69.46 (-199.27%) Mean 7 15.85 ( 0.00%) 101.72 (-541.77%) Mean 8 109.37 ( 0.00%) 19.13 ( 82.51%) Mean 12 124.84 ( 0.00%) 28.62 ( 77.07%) Mean 16 113.50 ( 0.00%) 24.16 ( 78.71%) It's eliminated for one machine and reduced for another. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217092124.GV11295@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 1313c6ccb03a..a494ace683e3 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -5125,6 +5125,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_asym); static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu) { struct sched_domain *sd; + struct sched_domain *busy_sd = NULL; int id = cpu; int size = 1; @@ -5132,9 +5133,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu) if (sd) { id = cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd)); size = cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd)); - sd = sd->parent; /* sd_busy */ + busy_sd = sd->parent; /* sd_busy */ } - rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd); + rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), busy_sd); rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu), sd); per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu) = size; -- 1.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html