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Peter Zijlstra cadefd3d6c sched: Make scale_rt_power() deal with backward clocks
Mike reported that, while unlikely, its entirely possible for
scale_rt_power() to see the time go backwards. This yields rather
'interesting' results.

So like all other sites that deal with clocks; make this one ignore
backward clock movement too.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227094035.GZ9987@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-18 12:07:21 +02:00
Kirill Tkhai a1d9a3231e sched: Check for stop task appearance when balancing happens
We need to do it like we do for the other higher priority classes..

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Michael wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/336561397137116@web27h.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-17 13:39:51 +02:00
Mike Galbraith 60e69eed85 sched/numa: Fix task_numa_free() lockdep splat
Sasha reported that lockdep claims that the following commit:
made numa_group.lock interrupt unsafe:

  156654f491 ("sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct()")

While I don't see how that could be, given the commit in question moved
task_numa_free() from one irq enabled region to another, the below does
make both gripes and lockups upon gripe with numa=fake=4 go away.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Fixes: 156654f491 ("sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct()")
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mgorman@suse.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1396860915.5170.5.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-11 10:39:15 +02:00
Alex Shi 6037dd1a49 sched: Clean up the task_hot() function
task_hot() doesn't need the 'sched_domain' parameter, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394607111-1904-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-12 10:49:01 +01:00
Vincent Guittot a2cd42601b sched: Remove double calculation in fix_small_imbalance()
The tmp value has been already calculated in:

  scaled_busy_load_per_task =
		(busiest->load_per_task * SCHED_POWER_SCALE) /
		busiest->group_power;

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394555166-22894-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-12 10:49:00 +01:00
Kirill Tkhai 35805ff8f4 sched/fair: Fix endless loop in idle_balance()
Check for fair tasks number to decide, that we've pulled a task.
rq's nr_running may contain throttled RT tasks.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394118975.19290.104.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-11 12:05:41 +01:00
Kirill Tkhai 4c6c4e38c4 sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task()
1) Single cpu machine case.

When rq has only RT tasks, but no one of them can be picked
because of throttling, we enter in endless loop.

pick_next_task_{dl,rt} return NULL.

In pick_next_task_fair() we permanently go to retry

	if (rq->nr_running != rq->cfs.h_nr_running)
		return RETRY_TASK;

(rq->nr_running is not being decremented when rt_rq becomes
throttled).

No chances to unthrottle any rt_rq or to wake fair here,
because of rq is locked permanently and interrupts are
disabled.

2) In case of SMP this can cause a hang too. Although we unlock
   rq in idle_balance(), interrupts are still disabled.

The solution is to check for available tasks in DL and RT
classes instead of checking for sum.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394098321.19290.11.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-11 12:05:39 +01:00
Kirill Tkhai e4aa358b6c sched/fair: Push down check for high priority class task into idle_balance()
We close idle_exit_fair() bracket in case of we've pulled something or we've received
task of high priority class.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394098315.19290.10.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-11 12:05:37 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a02ed5e3e0 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Pick up fixes before queueing up new changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-11 11:34:27 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 37e117c07b sched: Guarantee task priority in pick_next_task()
Michael spotted that the idle_balance() push down created a task
priority problem.

Previously, when we called idle_balance() before pick_next_task() it
wasn't a problem when -- because of the rq->lock droppage -- an rt/dl
task slipped in.

Similarly for pre_schedule(), rt pre-schedule could have a dl task
slip in.

But by pulling it into the pick_next_task() loop, we'll not try a
higher task priority again.

Cure this by creating a re-start condition in pick_next_task(); and
triggering this from pick_next_task_{rt,fair}().

It also fixes a live-lock where we get stuck in pick_next_task_fair()
due to idle_balance() seeing !0 nr_running but there not actually
being any fair tasks about.

Reported-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 38033c37fa ("sched: Push down pre_schedule() and idle_balance()")
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140224121218.GR15586@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:41:02 +01:00
Dietmar Eggemann f5f9739d7a sched: Put rq's sched_avg under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
The struct sched_avg of struct rq is only used in case group
scheduling is enabled inside __update_tg_runnable_avg() to update
per-cpu representation of a task group.  I.e. that there is no need to
maintain the runnable avg of a rq in the !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED case.

This patch guards struct sched_avg of struct rq and
update_rq_runnable_avg() with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

There is an extra empty definition for update_rq_runnable_avg()
necessary for the !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED && CONFIG_SMP case.

The function print_cfs_group_stats() which prints out struct sched_avg
of struct rq is already guarded with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/530DCDC5.1060406@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:41:00 +01:00
George McCollister 791c9e0292 sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime
dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0
which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met.
If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without
schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be
incorrectly adjusted twice.

In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing
past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of
CPU time.

This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of
!se->on_rq.

I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other
tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72
PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART)
in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the
problem on that platform and kernel version.

Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:29:38 +01:00
Mike Galbraith d987fc7f32 sched, nohz: Exclude isolated cores from load balancing
The user explicitly disabled load balancing, else this core would not be
disconnected.  Don't add these to nohz.idle_cpus_mask.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vmme4f49psirp966pklm5l9j@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-22 18:17:22 +01:00
Morten Rasmussen de91b9cb97 sched: Fix select_task_rq_fair() description comments
Brings select_task_rq_fair() description comments up-to-date.

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392732864-10927-1-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-22 18:17:04 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 3f1d2a3181 sched: Fix hotplug task migration
Dan Carpenter reported:

> kernel/sched/rt.c:1347 pick_next_task_rt() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'prev' (see line 1338)
> kernel/sched/deadline.c:1011 pick_next_task_dl() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'prev' (see line 1005)

Kirill also spotted that migrate_tasks() will have an instant NULL
deref because pick_next_task() will immediately deref prev.

Instead of fixing all the corner cases because migrate_tasks() can
pass in a NULL prev task in the unlikely case of hot-un-plug, provide
a fake task such that we can remove all the NULL checks from the far
more common paths.

A further problem; not previously spotted; is that because we pushed
pre_schedule() and idle_balance() into pick_next_task() we now need to
avoid those getting called and pulling more tasks on our dying CPU.

We avoid pull_{dl,rt}_task() by setting fake_task.prio to MAX_PRIO+1.
We also note that since we call pick_next_task() exactly the amount of
times we have runnable tasks present, we should never land in
idle_balance().

Fixes: 38033c37fa ("sched: Push down pre_schedule() and idle_balance()")
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140212094930.GB3545@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:43:18 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6e83125c6b sched/fair: Remove idle_balance() declaration in sched.h
Remove idle_balance() from the public life; also reduce some #ifdef
clutter by folding the pick_next_task_fair() idle path into
idle_balance().

Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140211151148.GP27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:43:17 +01:00
Michael wang eb7a59b2c8 sched/fair: Reset se-depth when task switched to FAIR
Sasha reported:

[  522.645288] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at ...
[  522.646271] IP: [<ffffffff81186c6f>] check_preempt_wakeup+0x11f/0x210
		...
[  522.650021] Call Trace:
[  522.650021]  <IRQ>
[  522.650021]  [<ffffffff8117361d>] check_preempt_curr+0x3d/0xb0
[  522.650021]  [<ffffffff81175d88>] ttwu_do_wakeup+0x18/0x130
		...

which was caused by the se-depth changed during the time when task is not
FAIR, and we will use the wrong depth value after it switched back to FAIR.

This patch reset the depth at the time when task switched to FAIR, make sure
that we always have the correct value when task is FAIR.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5305732D.70001@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:43:17 +01:00
Rik van Riel 3cf1962cdb sched,numa: add cond_resched to task_numa_work
Normally task_numa_work scans over a fairly small amount of memory,
but it is possible to run into a large unpopulated part of virtual
memory, with no pages mapped. In that case, task_numa_work can run
for a while, and it may make sense to reschedule as required.

Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Xing Gang <gang.xing@hp.com>
Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392761566-24834-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Dietmar Eggemann 27f17580fd sched: Delete is_same_group() outside CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
Since is_same_group() is only used in the group scheduling code, there is
no need to define it outside CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391005773-29493-1-git-send-email-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-11 09:58:16 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 38033c37fa sched: Push down pre_schedule() and idle_balance()
This patch both merged idle_balance() and pre_schedule() and pushes
both of them into pick_next_task().

Conceptually pre_schedule() and idle_balance() are rather similar,
both are used to pull more work onto the current CPU.

We cannot however first move idle_balance() into pre_schedule_fair()
since there is no guarantee the last runnable task is a fair task, and
thus we would miss newidle balances.

Similarly, the dl and rt pre_schedule calls must be ran before
idle_balance() since their respective tasks have higher priority and
it would not do to delay their execution searching for less important
tasks first.

However, by noticing that pick_next_tasks() already traverses the
sched_class hierarchy in the right order, we can get the right
behaviour and do away with both calls.

We must however change the special case optimization to also require
that prev is of sched_class_fair, otherwise we can miss doing a dl or
rt pull where we needed one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a8k6vvaebtn64nie345kx1je@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-11 09:58:10 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 678d5718d8 sched/fair: Optimize cgroup pick_next_task_fair()
Since commit 2f36825b1 ("sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt
path") it is likely we pick a new task from the same cgroup, doing a put
and then set on all intermediate entities is a waste of time, so try to
avoid this.

Measured using:

  mount nodev /cgroup -t cgroup -o cpu
  cd /cgroup
  mkdir a; cd a
  mkdir b; cd b
  mkdir c; cd c
  echo $$ > tasks
  perf stat --repeat 10 -- taskset 1 perf bench sched pipe

PRE :      4.542422684 seconds time elapsed   ( +-  0.33% )
POST:      4.389409991 seconds time elapsed   ( +-  0.32% )

Which shows a significant improvement of ~3.5%

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-10 16:17:19 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra f10447998a sched/fair: Clean up the __clear_buddies_*() functions
Slightly easier code flow, no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-10 16:17:16 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 606dba2e28 sched: Push put_prev_task() into pick_next_task()
In order to avoid having to do put/set on a whole cgroup hierarchy
when we context switch, push the put into pick_next_task() so that
both operations are in the same function. Further changes then allow
us to possibly optimize away redundant work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-10 16:17:13 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fed14d45f9 sched/fair: Track cgroup depth
Track depth in cgroup tree, this is useful for things like
find_matching_se() where you need to get to a common parent of two
sched entities.

Keeping the depth avoids having to calculate it on the spot, which
saves a number of possible cache-misses.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-10 16:17:10 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 3c4017c13f sched: Move rq->idle_stamp up to the core
idle_balance() modifies the rq->idle_stamp field, making this information
shared across core.c and fair.c.

As we know if the cpu is going to idle or not with the previous patch, let's
encapsulate the rq->idle_stamp information in core.c by moving it up to the
caller.

The idle_balance() function returns true in case a balancing occured and the
cpu won't be idle, false if no balance happened and the cpu is going idle.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-3-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-10 16:17:07 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano e5fc66119e sched: Fix race in idle_balance()
The scheduler main function 'schedule()' checks if there are no more tasks
on the runqueue. Then it checks if a task should be pulled in the current
runqueue in idle_balance() assuming it will go to idle otherwise.

But idle_balance() releases the rq->lock in order to look up the sched
domains and takes the lock again right after. That opens a window where
another cpu may put a task in our runqueue, so we won't go to idle but
we have filled the idle_stamp, thinking we will.

This patch closes the window by checking if the runqueue has been modified
but without pulling a task after taking the lock again, so we won't go to idle
right after in the __schedule() function.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-10 16:17:04 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano b4f2ab4361 sched: Remove 'cpu' parameter from idle_balance()
The cpu parameter passed to idle_balance() is not needed as it could
be retrieved from 'struct rq.'

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-10 16:17:01 +01:00
Ingo Molnar eaa4e4fcf1 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve conflicts
Conflicts:
	kernel/sysctl.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-02 09:45:39 +01:00
Rik van Riel be1e4e760d sched/numa: Turn some magic numbers into #defines
Cleanup suggested by Mel Gorman. Now the code contains some more
hints on what statistics go where.

Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-10-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 15:03:21 +01:00
Rik van Riel 58b46da336 sched/numa: Rename variables in task_numa_fault()
We track both the node of the memory after a NUMA fault, and the node
of the CPU on which the fault happened. Rename the local variables in
task_numa_fault to make things more explicit.

Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-9-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 15:03:19 +01:00
Rik van Riel 35664fd41e sched/numa: Do statistics calculation using local variables only
The current code in task_numa_placement calculates the difference
between the old and the new value, but also temporarily stores half
of the old value in the per-process variables.

The NUMA balancing code looks at those per-process variables, and
having other tasks temporarily see halved statistics could lead to
unwanted numa migrations. This can be avoided by doing all the math
in local variables.

This change also simplifies the code a little.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-8-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 15:03:17 +01:00
Rik van Riel 7e2703e609 sched/numa: Normalize faults_cpu stats and weigh by CPU use
Tracing the code that decides the active nodes has made it abundantly clear
that the naive implementation of the faults_from code has issues.

Specifically, the garbage collector in some workloads will access orders
of magnitudes more memory than the threads that do all the active work.
This resulted in the node with the garbage collector being marked the only
active node in the group.

This issue is avoided if we weigh the statistics by CPU use of each task in
the numa group, instead of by how many faults each thread has occurred.

To achieve this, we normalize the number of faults to the fraction of faults
that occurred on each node, and then multiply that fraction by the fraction
of CPU time the task has used since the last time task_numa_placement was
invoked.

This way the nodes in the active node mask will be the ones where the tasks
from the numa group are most actively running, and the influence of eg. the
garbage collector and other do-little threads is properly minimized.

On a 4 node system, using CPU use statistics calculated over a longer interval
results in about 1% fewer page migrations with two 32-warehouse specjbb runs
on a 4 node system, and about 5% fewer page migrations, as well as 1% better
throughput, with two 8-warehouse specjbb runs, as compared with the shorter
term statistics kept by the scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-7-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 15:03:10 +01:00
Rik van Riel 10f3904271 sched/numa, mm: Use active_nodes nodemask to limit numa migrations
Use the active_nodes nodemask to make smarter decisions on NUMA migrations.

In order to maximize performance of workloads that do not fit in one NUMA
node, we want to satisfy the following criteria:

  1) keep private memory local to each thread

  2) avoid excessive NUMA migration of pages

  3) distribute shared memory across the active nodes, to
     maximize memory bandwidth available to the workload

This patch accomplishes that by implementing the following policy for
NUMA migrations:

  1) always migrate on a private fault

  2) never migrate to a node that is not in the set of active nodes
     for the numa_group

  3) always migrate from a node outside of the set of active nodes,
     to a node that is in that set

  4) within the set of active nodes in the numa_group, only migrate
     from a node with more NUMA page faults, to a node with fewer
     NUMA page faults, with a 25% margin to avoid ping-ponging

This results in most pages of a workload ending up on the actively
used nodes, with reduced ping-ponging of pages between those nodes.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-6-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 13:17:07 +01:00
Rik van Riel 20e07dea28 sched/numa: Build per numa_group active node mask from numa_faults_cpu statistics
The numa_faults_cpu statistics are used to maintain an active_nodes nodemask
per numa_group. This allows us to be smarter about when to do numa migrations.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-5-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 13:17:06 +01:00
Rik van Riel 50ec8a401f sched/numa: Track from which nodes NUMA faults are triggered
Track which nodes NUMA faults are triggered from, in other words
the CPUs on which the NUMA faults happened. This uses a similar
mechanism to what is used to track the memory involved in numa faults.

The next patches use this to build up a bitmap of which nodes a
workload is actively running on.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 13:17:05 +01:00
Rik van Riel ff1df896ae sched/numa: Rename p->numa_faults to numa_faults_memory
In order to get a more consistent naming scheme, making it clear
which fault statistics track memory locality, and which track
CPU locality, rename the memory fault statistics.

Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 13:17:05 +01:00
Rik van Riel 52bf84aa20 sched/numa, mm: Remove p->numa_migrate_deferred
Excessive migration of pages can hurt the performance of workloads
that span multiple NUMA nodes.  However, it turns out that the
p->numa_migrate_deferred knob is a really big hammer, which does
reduce migration rates, but does not actually help performance.

Now that the second stage of the automatic numa balancing code
has stabilized, it is time to replace the simplistic migration
deferral code with something smarter.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 13:17:04 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f6d13daadd Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A couple of regression fixes mostly hitting virtualized setups, but
  also some bare metal systems"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/x86/tsc: Initialize multiplier to 0
  sched/clock: Fixup early initialization
  sched/preempt/x86: Fix voluntary preempt for x86
  Revert "sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity"
2014-01-25 11:11:31 -08:00
Vincent Guittot 9390675af0 Revert "sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity"
This reverts commit 282cf499f0.

With the current implementation, the load average statistics of a sched entity
change according to other activity on the CPU even if this activity is done
between the running window of the sched entity and have no influence on the
running duration of the task.

When a task wakes up on the same CPU, we currently update last_runnable_update
with the return  of __synchronize_entity_decay without updating the
runnable_avg_sum and runnable_avg_period accordingly. In fact, we have to sync
the load_contrib of the se with the rq's blocked_load_contrib before removing
it from the latter (with __synchronize_entity_decay) but we must keep
last_runnable_update unchanged for updating runnable_avg_sum/period during the
next update_entity_load_avg.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390376734-6800-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-23 14:48:34 +01:00
Mel Gorman 286549dcaf sched: add tracepoints related to NUMA task migration
This patch adds three tracepoints
 o trace_sched_move_numa	when a task is moved to a node
 o trace_sched_swap_numa	when a task is swapped with another task
 o trace_sched_stick_numa	when a numa-related migration fails

The tracepoints allow the NUMA scheduler activity to be monitored and the
following high-level metrics can be calculated

 o NUMA migrated stuck	 nr trace_sched_stick_numa
 o NUMA migrated idle	 nr trace_sched_move_numa
 o NUMA migrated swapped nr trace_sched_swap_numa
 o NUMA local swapped	 trace_sched_swap_numa src_nid == dst_nid (should never happen)
 o NUMA remote swapped	 trace_sched_swap_numa src_nid != dst_nid (should == NUMA migrated swapped)
 o NUMA group swapped	 trace_sched_swap_numa src_ngid == dst_ngid
			 Maybe a small number of these are acceptable
			 but a high number would be a major surprise.
			 It would be even worse if bounces are frequent.
 o NUMA avg task migs.	 Average number of migrations for tasks
 o NUMA stddev task mig	 Self-explanatory
 o NUMA max task migs.	 Maximum number of migrations for a single task

In general the intent of the tracepoints is to help diagnose problems
where automatic NUMA balancing appears to be doing an excessive amount
of useless work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove semicolon-after-if, repair coding-style]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21 16:19:48 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano c726099ec2 sched: Factor out the on_null_domain() checks in trigger_load_balance()
The test on_null_domain is done twice in the trigger_load_balance function.

Move the test at the begin of the function, so there is only one check.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-9-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:35 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 208cb16ba3 sched: Pass 'struct rq' to nohz_idle_balance()
The cpu information is stored in the struct rq. Pass the struct rq to
nohz_idle_balance, so all the functions called in run_rebalance_domains have
the same parameters and the 'this_cpu' variable becomes pointless.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
[ Added !SMP build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-8-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:33 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano f7ed0a895e sched: Pass 'struct rq' to rebalance_domains()
The cpu information is stored in the struct rq and the caller of the
rebalance_domains function pass the cpu to retrieve the struct rq but
it already has the struct rq info. Replace the cpu parameter with the
struct rq.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-7-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:31 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 0aeeeebac8 sched: Remove unused parameter from nohz_balancer_kick()
The cpu parameter is no longer needed in nohz_balancer_kick, let's remove
the parameter.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-6-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:30 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 3dd0337d6d sched: Remove unused parameter from find_new_ilb()
The 'call_cpu' is never used in the function. Remove it.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-5-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:29 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 63f609b160 sched: Pass 'struct rq' to on_null_domain()
The on_null_domain() function is getting the cpu to retrieve the struct rq
associated with it.

Pass 'struct rq' directly to the function as the caller already has the info.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-4-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:28 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 4a725627f2 sched: Reduce nohz_kick_needed() parameters
The cpu information is already stored in the struct rq, so no need to pass it
as parameter to the nohz_kick_needed function.

The caller of this function just called idle_cpu() before to fill the
rq->idle_balance field.

Use rq->cpu and rq->idle_balance.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-3-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:27 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 7caff66f36 sched: Reduce trigger_load_balance() parameters
The cpu information is already stored in the struct rq, so no need to pass it
as parameter to the trigger_load_balance function.

Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: preeti.lkml@gmail.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 56b4811039 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Pick up the latest fixes before applying new changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:35:28 +01:00
Rik van Riel 9722c2dac7 sched: Calculate effective load even if local weight is 0
Thomas Hellstrom bisected a regression where erratic 3D performance is
experienced on virtual machines as measured by glxgears. It identified
commit 58d081b5 ("sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA
node") as the problem which had modified the behaviour of effective_load.

Effective load calculates the difference to the system-wide load if a
scheduling entity was moved to another CPU. The task group is not heavier
as a result of the move but overall system load can increase/decrease as a
result of the change. Commit 58d081b5 ("sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs
on a preferred NUMA node") changed effective_load to make it suitable for
calculating if a particular NUMA node was compute overloaded. To reduce
the cost of the function, it assumed that a current sched entity weight
of 0 was uninteresting but that is not the case.

wake_affine() uses a weight of 0 for sync wakeups on the grounds that it
is assuming the waking task will sleep and not contribute to load in the
near future. In this case, we still want to calculate the effective load
of the sched entity hierarchy. As effective_load is no longer used by
task_numa_compare since commit fb13c7ee (sched/numa: Use a system-wide
search to find swap/migration candidates), this patch simply restores the
historical behaviour.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ Wrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140106113912.GC6178@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-12 09:22:15 +01:00
Mel Gorman 3c67f47455 sched: numa: skip inaccessible VMAs
Inaccessible VMA should not be trapping NUMA hint faults. Skip them.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-12-18 19:04:51 -08:00
Wanpeng Li e777b63bbd sched/numa: Fix period_slot recalculation
The original code is as intended and was meant to scale the difference
between the NUMA_PERIOD_THRESHOLD and local/remote ratio when adjusting
the scan period. The period_slot recalculation can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386833006-6600-4-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:24:41 +01:00
Wanpeng Li 82897b4fd3 sched/numa: Use wrapper function task_faults_idx to calculate index in group_faults
Use wrapper function task_faults_idx to calculate index in group_faults.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386833006-6600-3-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:24:40 +01:00
Wanpeng Li de1b301a19 sched/numa: Use wrapper function task_node to get node which task is on
Use wrapper function task_node to get node which task is on.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386833006-6600-2-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:24:39 +01:00
Wanpeng Li 1bd53a7efd sched/numa: Drop sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl
commit 887c290e (sched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights
based on swap candidate relationships) drop the check against
sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count, this patch remove the sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386833006-6600-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:24:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar ffe732c243 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge the latest batch of fixes before applying development patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:22:35 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 9dbdb15553 sched/fair: Rework sched_fair time accounting
Christian suffers from a bad BIOS that wrecks his i5's TSC sync. This
results in him occasionally seeing time going backwards - which
crashes the scheduler ...

Most of our time accounting can actually handle that except the most
common one; the tick time update of sched_fair.

There is a further problem with that code; previously we assumed that
because we get a tick every TICK_NSEC our time delta could never
exceed 32bits and math was simpler.

However, ever since Frederic managed to get NO_HZ_FULL merged; this is
no longer the case since now a task can run for a long time indeed
without getting a tick. It only takes about ~4.2 seconds to overflow
our u32 in nanoseconds.

This means we not only need to better deal with time going backwards;
but also means we need to be able to deal with large deltas.

This patch reworks the entire code and uses mul_u64_u32_shr() as
proposed by Andy a long while ago.

We express our virtual time scale factor in a u32 multiplier and shift
right and the 32bit mul_u64_u32_shr() implementation reduces to a
single 32x32->64 multiply if the time delta is still short (common
case).

For 64bit a 64x64->128 multiply can be used if ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131118172706.GI3866@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-11 15:52:35 +01:00
Wanpeng Li 40ea2b42d7 sched/numa: Drop idx field of task_numa_env struct
Drop unused idx field of task_numa_env struct.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386241817-5051-2-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-05 13:38:36 +01:00
Kamalesh Babulal 380c9077b3 sched/fair: Clean up update_sg_lb_stats() a bit
Add rq->nr_running to sgs->sum_nr_running directly instead of
assigning it through an intermediate variable nr_running.

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384508212-25032-1-git-send-email-kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-27 13:50:57 +01:00
Vincent Guittot c44f2a0200 sched/fair: Move load idx selection in find_idlest_group
load_idx is used in find_idlest_group but initialized in select_task_rq_fair
even when not used. The load_idx initialisation is moved in find_idlest_group
and the sd_flag replaces it in the function's args.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: amit.kucheria@linaro.org
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: l.majewski@samsung.com
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: cmetcalf@tilera.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: alex.shi@intel.com
Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382097147-30088-8-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-27 13:50:54 +01:00
Srikar Dronamraju 9abf24d465 sched: Check sched_domain before computing group power
After commit 863bffc808 ("sched/fair: Fix group power_orig
computation"), we can dereference rq->sd before it is set.

Fix this by falling back to power_of() in this case and add a comment
explaining things.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Added comment and tweaked patch. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mikey@neuling.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131113151718.GN21461@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-19 17:01:15 +01:00
Michal Nazarewicz 85b088e934 sched/fair: Avoid integer overflow
sa->runnable_avg_sum is of type u32 but after shifting it by NICE_0_SHIFT
bits it is promoted to u64.  This of course makes no sense, since the
result will never be more then 32-bit long.  Casting sa->runnable_avg_sum
to u64 before it is shifted, fixes this problem.

Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384112521-25177-1-git-send-email-mpn@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-13 13:33:55 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 5eca82a9ac sched/numa: Cure update_numa_stats() vs. hotplug
Because we're completely unserialized against hotplug its well
possible to try and generate numa stats for an offlined node.

Bail out early (and avoid a /0) in this case. The resulting stats are
all 0 which should result in an undesirable balance target -- not to
mention that actually trying to migrate to an offline CPU will fail.

Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-orja0qylcvyhxfsuebcyL5sI@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-13 13:33:52 +01:00
Rik van Riel 46a73e8a1c sched/numa: Fix NULL pointer dereference in task_numa_migrate()
The cpusets code can split up the scheduler's domain tree into
smaller domains.  Some of those smaller domains may not cross
NUMA nodes at all, leading to a NULL pointer dereference on the
per-cpu sd_numa pointer.

Tasks cannot be migrated out of their domain, so the patch
also sets p->numa_preferred_nid to whereever they are, to
prevent the migration from being retried over and over again.

Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oosqomw0Jput0Jkvoowhrqtu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-13 13:33:51 +01:00
Preeti U Murthy 37dc6b50ce sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus
nr_busy_cpus parameter is used by nohz_kick_needed() to find out the
number of busy cpus in a sched domain which has SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
flag set.  Therefore instead of updating nr_busy_cpus at every level
of sched domain, since it is irrelevant, we can update this parameter
only at the parent domain of the sd which has this flag set. Introduce
a per-cpu parameter sd_busy which represents this parent domain.

In nohz_kick_needed() we directly query the nr_busy_cpus parameter
associated with the groups of sd_busy.

By associating sd_busy with the highest domain which has
SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES flag set, we cover all lower level domains
which could have this flag set and trigger nohz_idle_balancing if any
of the levels have more than one busy cpu.

sd_busy is irrelevant for asymmetric load balancing. However sd_asym
has been introduced to represent the highest sched domain which has
SD_ASYM_PACKING flag set so that it can be queried directly when
required.

While we are at it, we might as well change the nohz_idle parameter to
be updated at the sd_busy domain level alone and not the base domain
level of a CPU.  This will unify the concept of busy cpus at just one
level of sched domain where it is currently used.

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy<preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: bitbucket@online.de
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mikey@neuling.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131030031252.23426.4417.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06 12:37:55 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 2042abe797 sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7
Asymmetric scheduling within a core is a scheduler loadbalancing
feature that is triggered when SD_ASYM_PACKING flag is set.  The goal
for the load balancer is to move tasks to lower order idle SMT threads
within a core on a POWER7 system.

In nohz_kick_needed(), we intend to check if our sched domain (core)
is completely busy or we have idle cpu.

The following check for SD_ASYM_PACKING:

    (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask, sched_domain_span(sd)) < cpu)

already covers the case of checking if the domain has an idle cpu,
because cpumask_first_and() will not yield any set bits if this domain
has no idle cpu.

Hence, nr_busy check against group weight can be removed.

Reported-by: Michael Neuling <michael.neuling@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: bitbucket@online.de
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131030031242.23426.13019.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06 12:37:54 +01:00
Ben Segall f9f9ffc237 sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping
throttle_cfs_rq() doesn't check to make sure that period_timer is running,
and while update_curr/assign_cfs_runtime does, a concurrently running
period_timer on another cpu could cancel itself between this cpu's
update_curr and throttle_cfs_rq(). If there are no other cfs_rqs running
in the tg to restart the timer, this causes the cfs_rq to be stranded
forever.

Fix this by calling __start_cfs_bandwidth() in throttle if the timer is
inactive.

(Also add some sched_debug lines for cfs_bandwidth.)

Tested: make a run/sleep task in a cgroup, loop switching the cgroup
between 1ms/100ms quota and unlimited, checking for timer_active=0 and
throttled=1 as a failure. With the throttle_cfs_rq() change commented out
this fails, with the full patch it passes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181632.22647.84174.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29 12:02:32 +01:00
Paul Turner 0ac9b1c218 sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight
Currently, group entity load-weights are initialized to zero. This
admits some races with respect to the first time they are re-weighted in
earlty use. ( Let g[x] denote the se for "g" on cpu "x". )

Suppose that we have root->a and that a enters a throttled state,
immediately followed by a[0]->t1 (the only task running on cpu[0])
blocking:

  put_prev_task(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), t1)
  put_prev_entity(..., t1)
  check_cfs_rq_runtime(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))
  throttle_cfs_rq(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))

Then, before unthrottling occurs, let a[0]->b[0]->t2 wake for the first
time:

  enqueue_task_fair(rq[0], t2)
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  enqueue_entity_load_avg(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  account_entity_enqueue(group_cfs_ra(b[0]), t2)
  update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(b[0]))
  < skipped because b is part of a throttled hierarchy >
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), b[0])
  ...

We now have b[0] enqueued, yet group_cfs_rq(a[0])->load.weight == 0
which violates invariants in several code-paths. Eliminate the
possibility of this by initializing group entity weight.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181627.22647.47543.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29 12:02:23 +01:00
Ben Segall 927b54fccb sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock
__start_cfs_bandwidth calls hrtimer_cancel while holding rq->lock,
waiting for the hrtimer to finish. However, if sched_cfs_period_timer
runs for another loop iteration, the hrtimer can attempt to take
rq->lock, resulting in deadlock.

Fix this by ensuring that cfs_b->timer_active is cleared only if the
_latest_ call to do_sched_cfs_period_timer is returning as idle. Then
__start_cfs_bandwidth can just call hrtimer_try_to_cancel and wait for
that to succeed or timer_active == 1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181622.22647.16643.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29 12:02:21 +01:00
Ben Segall db06e78cc1 sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining
hrtimer_expires_remaining does not take internal hrtimer locks and thus
must be guarded against concurrent __hrtimer_start_range_ns (but
returning HRTIMER_RESTART is safe). Use cfs_b->lock to make it safe.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181617.22647.73829.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29 12:02:20 +01:00
Ben Segall 1ee14e6c8c sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used
When we transition cfs_bandwidth_used to false, any currently
throttled groups will incorrectly return false from cfs_rq_throttled.
While tg_set_cfs_bandwidth will unthrottle them eventually, currently
running code (including at least dequeue_task_fair and
distribute_cfs_runtime) will cause errors.

Fix this by turning off cfs_bandwidth_used only after unthrottling all
cfs_rqs.

Tested: toggle bandwidth back and forth on a loaded cgroup. Caused
crashes in minutes without the patch, hasn't crashed with it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181611.22647.80365.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29 12:02:19 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 746023159c sched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop()
There is a subtle race in migrate_swap, when task P, on CPU A, decides to swap
places with task T, on CPU B.

Task P:
  - call migrate_swap
Task T:
  - go to sleep, removing itself from the runqueue
Task P:
  - double lock the runqueues on CPU A & B
Task T:
  - get woken up, place itself on the runqueue of CPU C
Task P:
  - see that task T is on a runqueue, and pretend to remove it
    from the runqueue on CPU B

Now CPUs B & C both have corrupted scheduler data structures.

This patch fixes it, by holding the pi_lock for both of the tasks
involved in the migrate swap. This prevents task T from waking up,
and placing itself onto another runqueue, until after migrate_swap
has released all locks.

This means that, when migrate_swap checks, task T will be either
on the runqueue where it was originally seen, or not on any
runqueue at all. Migrate_swap deals correctly with of those cases.

Tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com
Cc: srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131010181722.GO13848@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-16 14:22:14 +02:00
Kamalesh Babulal ed1b773286 sched/fair: Fix trivial typos in comments
- 'load_icx' => 'load_idx'
 - 'calculcate_imbalance' => 'calculate_imbalance'

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381685775-3544-1-git-send-email-kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Also, don't capitalize 'idle' unnecessarily. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-14 09:22:55 +02:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra 62e947cb0c sched: Remove bogus parameter in structured comment
The balance parameter was removed by 23f0d20 ("sched: Factor out
code to should_we_balance()", 2013-08-06).

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381400433-2030-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-12 19:01:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3354781a21 sched/numa: Reflow task_numa_group() to avoid a compiler warning
Reflow the function a bit because GCC gets confused:

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function ‘task_numa_fault’:
  kernel/sched/fair.c:1448:3: warning: ‘my_grp’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  kernel/sched/fair.c:1463:27: note: ‘my_grp’ was declared here

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6ebt6x7u64pbbonq1khqu2z9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:27 +02:00
Rik van Riel 2739d3eef3 sched/numa: Retry task_numa_migrate() periodically
Short spikes of CPU load can lead to a task being migrated
away from its preferred node for temporary reasons.

It is important that the task is migrated back to where it
belongs, in order to avoid migrating too much memory to its
new location, and generally disturbing a task's NUMA location.

This patch fixes NUMA placement for 4 specjbb instances on
a 4 node system. Without this patch, things take longer to
converge, and processes are not always completely on their
own node.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-64-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:25 +02:00
Mel Gorman 989348b5fc sched/numa: Use unsigned longs for numa group fault stats
As Peter says "If you're going to hold locks you can also do away with all
that atomic_long_*() nonsense". Lock aquisition moved slightly to protect
the updates.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-63-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:23 +02:00
Rik van Riel de1c9ce6f0 sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault
Shared faults can lead to lots of unnecessary page migrations,
slowing down the system, and causing private faults to hit the
per-pgdat migration ratelimit.

This patch adds sysctl numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, which specifies
how many shared page migrations to skip unconditionally, after each page
migration that is skipped because it is a shared fault.

This reduces the number of page migrations back and forth in
shared fault situations. It also gives a strong preference to
the tasks that are already running where most of the memory is,
and to moving the other tasks to near the memory.

Testing this with a much higher scan rate than the default
still seems to result in fewer page migrations than before.

Memory seems to be somewhat better consolidated than previously,
with multi-instance specjbb runs on a 4 node system.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:21 +02:00
Rik van Riel 1e3646ffc6 mm: numa: Revert temporarily disabling of NUMA migration
With the scan rate code working (at least for multi-instance specjbb),
the large hammer that is "sched: Do not migrate memory immediately after
switching node" can be replaced with something smarter. Revert temporarily
migration disabling and all traces of numa_migrate_seq.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-61-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:20 +02:00
Mel Gorman 930aa174fc sched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctl
With scan rate adaptions based on whether the workload has properly
converged or not there should be no need for the scan period reset
hammer. Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-60-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:18 +02:00
Rik van Riel 04bb2f9475 sched/numa: Adjust scan rate in task_numa_placement
Adjust numa_scan_period in task_numa_placement, depending on how much
useful work the numa code can do. The more local faults there are in a
given scan window the longer the period (and hence the slower the scan rate)
during the next window. If there are excessive shared faults then the scan
period will decrease with the amount of scaling depending on whether the
ratio of shared/private faults. If the preferred node changes then the
scan rate is reset to recheck if the task is properly placed.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-59-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:16 +02:00
Mel Gorman 3e6a9418cf sched/numa: Take false sharing into account when adapting scan rate
Scan rate is altered based on whether shared/private faults dominated.
task_numa_group() may detect false sharing but that information is not
taken into account when adapting the scan rate. Take it into account.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-58-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:14 +02:00
Rik van Riel dabe1d9924 sched/numa: Be more careful about joining numa groups
Due to the way the pid is truncated, and tasks are moved between
CPUs by the scheduler, it is possible for the current task_numa_fault
to group together tasks that do not actually share memory together.

This patch adds a few easy sanity checks to task_numa_fault, joining
tasks together if they share the same tsk->mm, or if the fault was on
a page with an elevated mapcount, in a shared VMA.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-57-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:12 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0ec8aa00f2 sched/numa: Avoid migrating tasks that are placed on their preferred node
This patch classifies scheduler domains and runqueues into types depending
the number of tasks that are about their NUMA placement and the number
that are currently running on their preferred node. The types are

regular: There are tasks running that do not care about their NUMA
	placement.

remote: There are tasks running that care about their placement but are
	currently running on a node remote to their ideal placement

all: No distinction

To implement this the patch tracks the number of tasks that are optimally
NUMA placed (rq->nr_preferred_running) and the number of tasks running
that care about their placement (nr_numa_running). The load balancer
uses this information to avoid migrating idea placed NUMA tasks as long
as better options for load balancing exists. For example, it will not
consider balancing between a group whose tasks are all perfectly placed
and a group with remote tasks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-56-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:10 +02:00
Rik van Riel ca28aa53dd sched/numa: Fix task or group comparison
This patch separately considers task and group affinities when
searching for swap candidates during NUMA placement. If tasks
are part of the same group, or no group at all, the task weights
are considered.

Some hysteresis is added to prevent tasks within one group from
getting bounced between NUMA nodes due to tiny differences.

If tasks are part of different groups, the code compares group
weights, in order to favor grouping task groups together.

The patch also changes the group weight multiplier to be the
same as the task weight multiplier, since the two are no longer
added up like before.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-55-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:08 +02:00
Rik van Riel 887c290e82 sched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights based on swap candidate relationships
This patch separately considers task and group affinities when searching
for swap candidates during task NUMA placement. If tasks are not part of
a group or the same group then the task weights are considered.
Otherwise the group weights are compared.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-54-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar b32e86b430 sched/numa: Add debugging
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-53-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
2013-10-09 14:48:04 +02:00
Mel Gorman 7dbd13ed06 sched/numa: Prevent parallel updates to group stats during placement
Having multiple tasks in a group go through task_numa_placement
simultaneously can lead to a task picking a wrong node to run on, because
the group stats may be in the middle of an update. This patch avoids
parallel updates by holding the numa_group lock during placement
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-52-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:02 +02:00
Rik van Riel 82727018b0 sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()
It is possible for a task in a numa group to call exec, and
have the new (unrelated) executable inherit the numa group
association from its former self.

This has the potential to break numa grouping, and is trivial
to fix.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-51-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:00 +02:00
Mel Gorman 83e1d2cd9e sched/numa: Use group fault statistics in numa placement
This patch uses the fraction of faults on a particular node for both task
and group, to figure out the best node to place a task.  If the task and
group statistics disagree on what the preferred node should be then a full
rescan will select the node with the best combined weight.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-50-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6688cc0547 mm: numa: Do not group on RO pages
And here's a little something to make sure not the whole world ends up
in a single group.

As while we don't migrate shared executable pages, we do scan/fault on
them. And since everybody links to libc, everybody ends up in the same
group.

Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-47-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:53 +02:00
Mel Gorman e29cf08b05 sched/numa: Report a NUMA task group ID
It is desirable to model from userspace how the scheduler groups tasks
over time. This patch adds an ID to the numa_group and reports it via
/proc/PID/status.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-45-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:49 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8c8a743c50 sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults
While parallel applications tend to align their data on the cache
boundary, they tend not to align on the page or THP boundary.
Consequently tasks that partition their data can still "false-share"
pages presenting a problem for optimal NUMA placement.

This patch uses NUMA hinting faults to chain tasks together into
numa_groups. As well as storing the NID a task was running on when
accessing a page a truncated representation of the faulting PID is
stored. If subsequent faults are from different PIDs it is reasonable
to assume that those two tasks share a page and are candidates for
being grouped together. Note that this patch makes no scheduling
decisions based on the grouping information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-44-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 90572890d2 mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}
Change the per page last fault tracking to use cpu,pid instead of
nid,pid. This will allow us to try and lookup the alternate task more
easily. Note that even though it is the cpu that is store in the page
flags that the mpol_misplaced decision is still based on the node.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-43-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
[ Fixed build failure on 32-bit systems. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
Rik van Riel e1dda8a797 sched/numa: Fix placement of workloads spread across multiple nodes
The load balancer will spread workloads across multiple NUMA nodes,
in order to balance the load on the system. This means that sometimes
a task's preferred node has available capacity, but moving the task
there will not succeed, because that would create too large an imbalance.

In that case, other NUMA nodes need to be considered.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-42-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:43 +02:00
Mel Gorman 2c8a50aa87 sched/numa: Favor placing a task on the preferred node
A tasks preferred node is selected based on the number of faults
recorded for a node but the actual task_numa_migate() conducts a global
search regardless of the preferred nid. This patch checks if the
preferred nid has capacity and if so, searches for a CPU within that
node. This avoids a global search when the preferred node is not
overloaded.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-41-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:41 +02:00
Mel Gorman fb13c7ee0e sched/numa: Use a system-wide search to find swap/migration candidates
This patch implements a system-wide search for swap/migration candidates
based on total NUMA hinting faults. It has a balance limit, however it
doesn't properly consider total node balance.

In the old scheme a task selected a preferred node based on the highest
number of private faults recorded on the node. In this scheme, the preferred
node is based on the total number of faults. If the preferred node for a
task changes then task_numa_migrate will search the whole system looking
for tasks to swap with that would improve both the overall compute
balance and minimise the expected number of remote NUMA hinting faults.

Not there is no guarantee that the node the source task is placed
on by task_numa_migrate() has any relationship to the newly selected
task->numa_preferred_nid due to compute overloading.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
[ Do not swap with tasks that cannot run on source cpu]
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Fixed compiler warning on UP. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-40-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:47:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ac66f54772 sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap()
Use the new stop_two_cpus() to implement migrate_swap(), a function that
flips two tasks between their respective cpus.

I'm fairly sure there's a less crude way than employing the stop_two_cpus()
method, but everything I tried either got horribly fragile and/or complex. So
keep it simple for now.

The notable detail is how we 'migrate' tasks that aren't runnable
anymore. We'll make it appear like we migrated them before they went to
sleep. The sole difference is the previous cpu in the wakeup path, so we
override this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-39-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:46 +02:00
Mel Gorman 4591ce4f2d sched/numa: Do not trap hinting faults for shared libraries
NUMA hinting faults will not migrate a shared executable page mapped by
multiple processes on the grounds that the data is probably in the CPU
cache already and the page may just bounce between tasks running on multipl
nodes. Even if the migration is avoided, there is still the overhead of
trapping the fault, updating the statistics, making scheduler placement
decisions based on the information etc. If we are never going to migrate
the page, it is overhead for no gain and worse a process may be placed on
a sub-optimal node for shared executable pages. This patch avoids trapping
faults for shared libraries entirely.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-36-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:42 +02:00
Rik van Riel 06ea5e035b sched/numa: Increment numa_migrate_seq when task runs in correct location
When a task is already running on its preferred node, increment
numa_migrate_seq to indicate that the task is settled if migration is
temporarily disabled, and memory should migrate towards it.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ Only increment migrate_seq if migration temporarily disabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-35-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:41 +02:00
Mel Gorman 6b9a7460b6 sched/numa: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node
When a preferred node is selected for a tasks there is an attempt to migrate
the task to a CPU there. This may fail in which case the task will only
migrate if the active load balancer takes action. This may never happen if
the conditions are not right. This patch will check at NUMA hinting fault
time if another attempt should be made to migrate the task. It will only
make an attempt once every five seconds.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-34-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:40 +02:00
Mel Gorman 58d081b508 sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA node
This patch replaces find_idlest_cpu_node with task_numa_find_cpu.
find_idlest_cpu_node has two critical limitations. It does not take the
scheduling class into account when calculating the load and it is unsuitable
for using when comparing loads between NUMA nodes.

task_numa_find_cpu uses similar load calculations to wake_affine() when
selecting the least loaded CPU within a scheduling domain common to the
source and destimation nodes. It avoids causing CPU load imbalances in
the machine by refusing to migrate if the relative load on the target
CPU is higher than the source CPU.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-33-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:39 +02:00
Mel Gorman fc3147245d mm: numa: Limit NUMA scanning to migrate-on-fault VMAs
There is a 90% regression observed with a large Oracle performance test
on a 4 node system. Profiles indicated that the overhead was due to
contention on sp_lock when looking up shared memory policies. These
policies do not have the appropriate flags to allow them to be
automatically balanced so trapping faults on them is pointless. This
patch skips VMAs that do not have MPOL_F_MOF set.

[riel@redhat.com: Initial patch]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-32-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:38 +02:00
Rik van Riel 6fe6b2d6da sched/numa: Do not migrate memory immediately after switching node
The load balancer can move tasks between nodes and does not take NUMA
locality into account. With automatic NUMA balancing this may result in the
tasks working set being migrated to the new node. However, as the fault
buffer will still store faults from the old node the schduler may decide to
reset the preferred node and migrate the task back resulting in more
migrations.

The ideal would be that the scheduler did not migrate tasks with a heavy
memory footprint but this may result nodes being overloaded. We could
also discard the fault information on task migration but this would still
cause all the tasks working set to be migrated. This patch simply avoids
migrating the memory for a short time after a task is migrated.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-31-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:36 +02:00
Mel Gorman b795854b1f sched/numa: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults
Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults that
are private to a task and those that are shared. If treated identically
there is a risk that shared pages bounce between nodes depending on
the order they are referenced by tasks. Ultimately what is desirable is
that task private pages remain local to the task while shared pages are
interleaved between sharing tasks running on different nodes to give good
average performance. This is further complicated by THP as even
applications that partition their data may not be partitioning on a huge
page boundary.

To start with, this patch assumes that multi-threaded or multi-process
applications partition their data and that in general the private accesses
are more important for cpu->memory locality in the general case. Also,
no new infrastructure is required to treat private pages properly but
interleaving for shared pages requires additional infrastructure.

To detect private accesses the pid of the last accessing task is required
but the storage requirements are a high. This patch borrows heavily from
Ingo Molnar's patch "numa, mm, sched: Implement last-CPU+PID hash tracking"
to encode some bits from the last accessing task in the page flags as
well as the node information. Collisions will occur but it is better than
just depending on the node information. Node information is then used to
determine if a page needs to migrate. The PID information is used to detect
private/shared accesses. The preferred NUMA node is selected based on where
the maximum number of approximately private faults were measured. Shared
faults are not taken into consideration for a few reasons.

First, if there are many tasks sharing the page then they'll all move
towards the same node. The node will be compute overloaded and then
scheduled away later only to bounce back again. Alternatively the shared
tasks would just bounce around nodes because the fault information is
effectively noise. Either way accounting for shared faults the same as
private faults can result in lower performance overall.

The second reason is based on a hypothetical workload that has a small
number of very important, heavily accessed private pages but a large shared
array. The shared array would dominate the number of faults and be selected
as a preferred node even though it's the wrong decision.

The third reason is that multiple threads in a process will race each
other to fault the shared page making the fault information unreliable.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
[ Fix complication error when !NUMA_BALANCING. ]
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-30-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:35 +02:00
Mel Gorman 073b5beea7 sched/numa: Remove check that skips small VMAs
task_numa_work skips small VMAs. At the time the logic was to reduce the
scanning overhead which was considerable. It is a dubious hack at best.
It would make much more sense to cache where faults have been observed
and only rescan those regions during subsequent PTE scans. Remove this
hack as motivation to do it properly in the future.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-29-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:33 +02:00
Mel Gorman 9ff1d9ff3c sched/numa: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults
task_numa_placement checks current->mm but after buffers for faults
have already been uselessly allocated. Move the check earlier.

[peterz@infradead.org: Identified the problem]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-27-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:31 +02:00
Mel Gorman ac8e895bd2 sched/numa: Add infrastructure for split shared/private accounting of NUMA hinting faults
Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults
that are private to a task and those that are shared.  This patch prepares
infrastructure for separately accounting shared and private faults by
allocating the necessary buffers and passing in relevant information. For
now, all faults are treated as private and detection will be introduced
later.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-26-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:30 +02:00
Mel Gorman e6628d5b0a sched/numa: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected
A preferred node is selected based on the node the most NUMA hinting
faults was incurred on. There is no guarantee that the task is running
on that node at the time so this patch rescheules the task to run on
the most idle CPU of the selected node when selected. This avoids
waiting for the balancer to make a decision.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-25-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:28 +02:00
Mel Gorman 7a0f308337 sched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults
Just as "sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node" favours
moving tasks towards nodes with a higher number of recorded NUMA hinting
faults, this patch resists moving tasks towards nodes with lower faults.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-24-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:27 +02:00
Mel Gorman 3a7053b322 sched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node
This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher
number of NUMA faults during active load balancing.  Ideally this is
self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults
it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that
node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded
and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate
to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so
for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred
node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count
sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule
is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced.

[srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:26 +02:00
Mel Gorman 745d61476d sched/numa: Update NUMA hinting faults once per scan
NUMA hinting fault counts and placement decisions are both recorded in the
same array which distorts the samples in an unpredictable fashion. The values
linearly accumulate during the scan and then decay creating a sawtooth-like
pattern in the per-node counts. It also means that placement decisions are
time sensitive. At best it means that it is very difficult to state that
the buffer holds a decaying average of past faulting behaviour. At worst,
it can confuse the load balancer if it sees one node with an artifically high
count due to very recent faulting activity and may create a bouncing effect.

This patch adds a second array. numa_faults stores the historical data
which is used for placement decisions. numa_faults_buffer holds the
fault activity during the current scan window. When the scan completes,
numa_faults decays and the values from numa_faults_buffer are copied
across.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-22-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:25 +02:00
Mel Gorman 688b7585d1 sched/numa: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults
This patch selects a preferred node for a task to run on based on the
NUMA hinting faults. This information is later used to migrate tasks
towards the node during balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-21-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:23 +02:00
Mel Gorman f809ca9a55 sched/numa: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis
This patch tracks what nodes numa hinting faults were incurred on.
This information is later used to schedule a task on the node storing
the pages most frequently faulted by the task.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-20-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:22 +02:00
Mel Gorman f307cd1a32 sched/numa: Slow scan rate if no NUMA hinting faults are being recorded
NUMA PTE scanning slows if a NUMA hinting fault was trapped and no page
was migrated. For long-lived but idle processes there may be no faults
but the scan rate will be high and just waste CPU. This patch will slow
the scan rate for processes that are not trapping faults.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-19-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:21 +02:00
Mel Gorman 598f0ec0bc sched/numa: Set the scan rate proportional to the memory usage of the task being scanned
The NUMA PTE scan rate is controlled with a combination of the
numa_balancing_scan_period_min, numa_balancing_scan_period_max and
numa_balancing_scan_size. This scan rate is independent of the size
of the task and as an aside it is further complicated by the fact that
numa_balancing_scan_size controls how many pages are marked pte_numa and
not how much virtual memory is scanned.

In combination, it is almost impossible to meaningfully tune the min and
max scan periods and reasoning about performance is complex when the time
to complete a full scan is is partially a function of the tasks memory
size. This patch alters the semantic of the min and max tunables to be
about tuning the length time it takes to complete a scan of a tasks occupied
virtual address space. Conceptually this is a lot easier to understand. There
is a "sanity" check to ensure the scan rate is never extremely fast based on
the amount of virtual memory that should be scanned in a second. The default
of 2.5G seems arbitrary but it is to have the maximum scan rate after the
patch roughly match the maximum scan rate before the patch was applied.

On a similar note, numa_scan_period is in milliseconds and not
jiffies. Properly placed pages slow the scanning rate but adding 10 jiffies
to numa_scan_period means that the rate scanning slows depends on HZ which
is confusing. Get rid of the jiffies_to_msec conversion and treat it as ms.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-18-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:20 +02:00
Mel Gorman 7e8d16b6cb sched/numa: Initialise numa_next_scan properly
Scan delay logic and resets are currently initialised to start scanning
immediately instead of delaying properly. Initialise them properly at
fork time and catch when a new mm has been allocated.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-17-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:19 +02:00
Mel Gorman b726b7dfb4 Revert "mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node"
PTE scanning and NUMA hinting fault handling is expensive so commit
5bca2303 ("mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled
on a new node") deferred the PTE scan until a task had been scheduled on
another node. The problem is that in the purely shared memory case that
this may never happen and no NUMA hinting fault information will be
captured. We are not ruling out the possibility that something better
can be done here but for now, this patch needs to be reverted and depend
entirely on the scan_delay to avoid punishing short-lived processes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-16-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 9e645ab6d0 sched/numa: Continue PTE scanning even if migrate rate limited
Avoiding marking PTEs pte_numa because a particular NUMA node is migrate rate
limited sees like a bad idea. Even if this node can't migrate anymore other
nodes might and we want up-to-date information to do balance decisions.
We already rate limit the actual migrations, this should leave enough
bandwidth to allow the non-migrating scanning. I think its important we
keep up-to-date information if we're going to do placement based on it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-15-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 19a78d110d sched/numa: Mitigate chance that same task always updates PTEs
With a trace_printk("working\n"); right after the cmpxchg in
task_numa_work() we can see that of a 4 thread process, its always the
same task winning the race and doing the protection change.

This is a problem since the task doing the protection change has a
penalty for taking faults -- it is busy when marking the PTEs. If its
always the same task the ->numa_faults[] get severely skewed.

Avoid this by delaying the task doing the protection change such that
it is unlikely to win the privilege again.

Before:

root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.787402: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.888473: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.989538: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.090602: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.191667: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.292734: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.393804: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.494869: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.596937: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.699000: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.801067: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.903155: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.005201: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.107266: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.209342: task_numa_work: working

After:

root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
      thread 0/0-3253  [005] ....   136.865051: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   136.965134: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.065217: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.165302: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.265382: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.366465: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   137.466549: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.566629: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.666711: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/1-3254  [028] ....   137.766799: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.866876: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   137.966960: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/1-3254  [028] ....   138.067041: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   138.167123: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   138.267207: task_numa_work: working

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-14-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:39:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c69307d533 sched/numa: Fix comments
Fix a 80 column violation and a PTE vs PMD reference.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-4-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:39:30 +02:00
Jason Low f48627e686 sched/balancing: Periodically decay max cost of idle balance
This patch builds on patch 2 and periodically decays that max value to
do idle balancing per sched domain by approximately 1% per second. Also
decay the rq's max_idle_balance_cost value.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379096813-3032-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-20 12:03:46 +02:00
Jason Low 9bd721c55c sched/balancing: Consider max cost of idle balance per sched domain
In this patch, we keep track of the max cost we spend doing idle load balancing
for each sched domain. If the avg time the CPU remains idle is less then the
time we have already spent on idle balancing + the max cost of idle balancing
in the sched domain, then we don't continue to attempt the balance. We also
keep a per rq variable, max_idle_balance_cost, which keeps track of the max
time spent on newidle load balances throughout all its domains so that we can
determine the avg_idle's max value.

By using the max, we avoid overrunning the average. This further reduces the
chance we attempt balancing when the CPU is not idle for longer than the cost
to balance.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379096813-3032-3-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-20 12:03:44 +02:00
Vladimir Davydov 7aff2e3a56 sched/balancing: Prevent the reselection of a previous env.dst_cpu if some tasks are pinned
Currently new_dst_cpu is prevented from being reselected actually, not
dst_cpu. This can result in attempting to pull tasks to this_cpu twice.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/281f59b6e596c718dd565ad267fc38f5b8e5c995.1379265590.git.vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-20 12:02:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 40a0c68ca9 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in the latest fixes before applying a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-20 12:01:01 +02:00
Vladimir Davydov 7e3115ef51 sched/balancing: Fix cfs_rq->task_h_load calculation
Patch a003a2 (sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks())
sets all top-level cfs_rqs' h_load to rq->avg.load_avg_contrib, which is
always 0. This mistype leads to all tasks having weight 0 when load
balancing in a cpu-cgroup enabled setup. There obviously should be sum
of weights of all runnable tasks there instead. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379173186-11944-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-20 11:59:39 +02:00
Vladimir Davydov 3029ede393 sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > busiest->avg_load' case in fix_small_imbalance()
In busiest->group_imb case we can come to fix_small_imbalance() with
local->avg_load > busiest->avg_load. This can result in wrong imbalance
fix-up, because there is the following check there where all the
members are unsigned:

if (busiest->avg_load - local->avg_load + scaled_busy_load_per_task >=
    (scaled_busy_load_per_task * imbn)) {
	env->imbalance = busiest->load_per_task;
	return;
}

As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to
another if there are pinned tasks.

Fix it by substituting the subtraction with an equivalent addition in
the check.

[ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus
  belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical
  cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ef167822e5c5b2d96cf5b0e3e4f4bdff3f0414a2.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-20 11:59:38 +02:00
Vladimir Davydov b18855500f sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > sds->avg_load' case in calculate_imbalance()
In busiest->group_imb case we can come to calculate_imbalance() with
local->avg_load >= busiest->avg_load >= sds->avg_load. This can result
in imbalance overflow, because it is calculated as follows

env->imbalance = min(
	max_pull * busiest->group_power,
	(sds->avg_load - local->avg_load) * local->group_power) / SCHED_POWER_SCALE;

As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to
another if there are pinned tasks.

Fix this by skipping the assignment and assuming imbalance=0 in case
local->avg_load > sds->avg_load.

[ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus
  belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical
  cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f596cc6bc0e5e655119dc892c9bfcad26e971f4.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-20 11:59:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c61037e905 sched/fair: Fix the group_capacity computation
Do away with 'phantom' cores due to N*frac(smt_power) >= 1 by limiting
the capacity to the actual number of cores.

The assumption of 1 < smt_power < 2 is an actual requirement because
of what SMT is so this should work regardless of the SMT
implementation.

It can still be defeated by creative use of cpu hotplug, but if you're
one of those freaks, you get to live with it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guitto@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dczmbi8tfgixacg1ji2av1un@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:14:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b37d931685 sched/fair: Rework and comment the group_capacity code
Pull out the group_capacity computation so that we can more clearly
comment its issues.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-az1hl1ya55k361nkeh9bj0yw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:14:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 863bffc808 sched/fair: Fix group power_orig computation
When looking at the code I noticed we don't actually compute
sgp->power_orig correctly for groups, fix that.

Currently the only consumer of that value is fix_small_capacity()
which is only used on POWER7+ and that code excludes this case by
being limited to SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER which is only ever set on the SMT
domain which must be the lowest domain and this has singleton groups.

So nothing should be affected by this change.

Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-db2pe0vxwunv37plc7onnugj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:14:43 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b72ff13ce6 sched/fair: Reduce local_group logic
Try and reduce the local_group logic by pulling most of it into
update_sd_lb_stats.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mgezl354xgyhiyrte78fdkpd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:14:43 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6263322c5e sched/fair: Rewrite group_imb trigger
Change the group_imb detection from the old 'load-spike' detector to
an actual imbalance detector. We set it from the lower domain balance
pass when it fails to create a balance in the presence of task
affinities.

The advantage is that this should no longer generate the false
positive group_imb conditions generated by transient load spikes from
the normal balancing/bulk-wakeup etc. behaviour.

While I haven't actually observed those they could happen.

I'm not entirely happy with this patch; it somehow feels a little
fragile.

Nor does it solve the biggest issue I have with the group_imb code; it
it still a fragile construct in that once we 'fixed' the imbalance
we'll not detect the group_imb again and could end up re-creating it.

That said, this patch does seem to preserve behaviour for the
described degenerate case. In particular on my 2*6*2 wsm-ep:

  taskset -c 3-11 bash -c 'for ((i=0;i<9;i++)) do while :; do :; done & done'

ends up with 9 spinners, each on their own CPU; whereas if you disable
the group_imb code that typically doesn't happen (you'll get one pair
sharing a CPU most of the time).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-36fpbgl39dv4u51b6yz2ypz5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:14:42 +02:00
Daisuke Nishimura 6c9a27f5da sched/fair: Fix small race where child->se.parent,cfs_rq might point to invalid ones
There is a small race between copy_process() and cgroup_attach_task()
where child->se.parent,cfs_rq points to invalid (old) ones.

        parent doing fork()      | someone moving the parent to another cgroup
  -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
    copy_process()
      + dup_task_struct()
        -> parent->se is copied to child->se.
           se.parent,cfs_rq of them point to old ones.

                                     cgroup_attach_task()
                                       + cgroup_task_migrate()
                                         -> parent->cgroup is updated.
                                       + cpu_cgroup_attach()
                                         + sched_move_task()
                                           + task_move_group_fair()
                                             +- set_task_rq()
                                                -> se.parent,cfs_rq of parent
                                                   are updated.

      + cgroup_fork()
        -> parent->cgroup is copied to child->cgroup. (*1)
      + sched_fork()
        + task_fork_fair()
          -> se.parent,cfs_rq of child are accessed
             while they point to old ones. (*2)

In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and cause a panic,
because it's new cgroup's refcount that is incremented at (*1),
so the old cgroup(and related data) can be freed before (*2).

In fact, a panic caused by this bug was originally caught in RHEL6.4.

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    IP: [<ffffffff81051e3e>] sched_slice+0x6e/0xa0
    [...]
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff81051f25>] place_entity+0x75/0xa0
     [<ffffffff81056a3a>] task_fork_fair+0xaa/0x160
     [<ffffffff81063c0b>] sched_fork+0x6b/0x140
     [<ffffffff8106c3c2>] copy_process+0x5b2/0x1450
     [<ffffffff81063b49>] ? wake_up_new_task+0xd9/0x130
     [<ffffffff8106d2f4>] do_fork+0x94/0x460
     [<ffffffff81072a9e>] ? sys_wait4+0xae/0x100
     [<ffffffff81009598>] sys_clone+0x28/0x30
     [<ffffffff8100b393>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
     [<ffffffff8100b072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/039601ceae06$733d3130$59b79390$@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:14:14 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim b0cff9d88c sched: Fix load balancing performance regression in should_we_balance()
Commit 23f0d20 ("sched: Factor out code to should_we_balance()")
introduces the should_we_balance() function.  This function should
return 1 if this cpu is appropriate for balancing. But the newly
introduced code doesn't do so, it returns 0 instead of 1.

This introduces performance regression, reported by Dave Chinner:

                        v4 filesystem           v5 filesystem
3.11+xfsdev:            220k files/s            225k files/s
3.12-git                180k files/s            185k files/s
3.12-git-revert         245k files/s            247k files/s

You can find more detailed information at:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/10/1

This patch corrects the return value of should_we_balance()
function as orignally intended.

With this patch, Dave Chinner reports that the regression is gone:

                        v4 filesystem           v5 filesystem
3.11+xfsdev:            220k files/s            225k files/s
3.12-git                180k files/s            185k files/s
3.12-git-revert         245k files/s            247k files/s
3.12-git-fix            249k files/s            248k files/s

Reported-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130910065448.GA20368@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-10 09:20:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5e0b3a4e88 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various optimizations, cleanups and smaller fixes - no major changes
  in scheduler behavior"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Fix the sd_parent_degenerate() code
  sched/fair: Rework and comment the group_imb code
  sched/fair: Optimize find_busiest_queue()
  sched/fair: Make group power more consistent
  sched/fair: Remove duplicate load_per_task computations
  sched/fair: Shrink sg_lb_stats and play memset games
  sched: Clean-up struct sd_lb_stat
  sched: Factor out code to should_we_balance()
  sched: Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue()
  sched/cputime: Use this_cpu_add() in task_group_account_field()
  cpumask: Fix cpumask leak in partition_sched_domains()
  sched/x86: Optimize switch_mm() for multi-threaded workloads
  generic-ipi: Kill unnecessary variable - csd_flags
  numa: Mark __node_set() as __always_inline
  sched/fair: Cleanup: remove duplicate variable declaration
  sched/__wake_up_sync_key(): Fix nr_exclusive tasks which lead to WF_SYNC clearing
2013-09-04 08:36:35 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 30ce5dabc9 sched/fair: Rework and comment the group_imb code
Rik reported some weirdness due to the group_imb code. As a start to
looking at it, clean it up a little and add a few explanatory
comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-caeeqttnla4wrrmhp5uf89gp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6906a40839 sched/fair: Optimize find_busiest_queue()
Use for_each_cpu_and() and thereby avoid computing the capacity for
CPUs we know we're not interested in.

Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lppceyv6kb3a19g8spmrn20b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3ae11c90fd sched/fair: Make group power more consistent
For easier access, less dereferences and more consistent value, store
the group power in update_sg_lb_stats() and use it thereafter. The
actual value in sched_group::sched_group_power::power can change
throughout the load-balance pass if we're unlucky.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-739xxqkyvftrhnh9ncudutc7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 38d0f77085 sched/fair: Remove duplicate load_per_task computations
Since we already compute (but don't store) the sgs load_per_task value
in update_sg_lb_stats() we might as well store it and not re-compute
it later on.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ym1vmljiwbzgdnnrwp9azftq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 147c5fc2ba sched/fair: Shrink sg_lb_stats and play memset games
We can shrink sg_lb_stats because rq::nr_running is an unsigned int
and cpu numbers are 'int'

Before:
  sgs:        /* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 10 */
  sds:        /* size: 184, cachelines: 3, members: 7 */

After:
  sgs:        /* size: 56, cachelines: 1, members: 10 */
  sds:        /* size: 152, cachelines: 3, members: 7 */

Further we can avoid clearing all of sds since we do a total
clear/assignment of sg_stats in update_sg_lb_stats() with exception of
busiest_stat.avg_load which is referenced in update_sd_pick_busiest().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0klzmz9okll8wc0nsudguc9p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:35 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 56cf515b4b sched: Clean-up struct sd_lb_stat
There is no reason to maintain separate variables for this_group
and busiest_group in sd_lb_stat, except saving some space.
But this structure is always allocated in stack, so this saving
isn't really benificial [peterz: reducing stack space is good; in this
case readability increases enough that I think its still beneficial]

This patch unify these variables, so IMO, readability may be improved.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ Rename this to local -- avoids confusion between this_cpu and the C++ this pointer. ]
Reviewed-by: Paul  Turner <pjt@google.com>
[ Lots of style edits, a few fixes and a rename. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:35 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 23f0d2093c sched: Factor out code to should_we_balance()
Now checking whether this cpu is appropriate to balance or not
is embedded into update_sg_lb_stats() and this checking has no direct
relationship to this function. There is not enough reason to place
this checking at update_sg_lb_stats(), except saving one iteration
for sched_group_cpus.

In this patch, I factor out this checking to should_we_balance() function.
And before doing actual work for load_balancing, check whether this cpu is
appropriate to balance via should_we_balance(). If this cpu is not
a candidate for balancing, it quit the work immediately.

With this change, we can save two memset cost and can expect better
compiler optimization.

Below is result of this patch.

 * Vanilla *
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  34499	   1136	    116	  35751	   8ba7	kernel/sched/fair.o

 * Patched *
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  34243	   1136	    116	  35495	   8aa7	kernel/sched/fair.o

In addition, rename @balance to @continue_balancing in order to represent
its purpose more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ s/should_balance/continue_balancing/g ]
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
[ Made style changes and a fix in should_we_balance(). ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:34 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 95a79b805b sched: Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue()
Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue() by using
crosswise multiplication:

	wl_i / power_i > wl_j / power_j :=
	wl_i * power_j > wl_j * power_i

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ Expanded the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:26:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar aee2bce3cf Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Pick up the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-29 12:02:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d3ec3a1fd0 Linux 3.11-rc5
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Merge tag 'v3.11-rc5' into sched/core

Merge Linux 3.11-rc5, to pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-16 17:40:23 +02:00
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Merge Linux 3.11-rc5, to sync up with the latest upstream fixes since -rc1.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-15 10:00:09 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 28fbc8b6a2 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Docbook fixes that make 99% of the diffstat, plus a oneliner fix"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks
  sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
2013-08-13 16:58:17 -07:00
Dave Kleikamp 10e84b97ed mm: sched: numa: fix NUMA balancing when !SCHED_DEBUG
Commit 3105b86a9f ("mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of
NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG") defined numabalancing_enabled to
control the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing, but it
is never used.

I believe the intention was to use this in place of sched_feat_numa(NUMA).

Currently, if SCHED_DEBUG is not defined, sched_feat_numa(NUMA) will
never be changed from the initial "false".

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31 14:41:02 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra bf0bd948d1 sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks
We typically update a task_group's shares within the dequeue/enqueue
path.  However, continuously running tasks sharing a CPU are not
subject to these updates as they are only put/picked.  Unfortunately,
when we reverted f269ae046 (in 17bc14b7), we lost the augmenting
periodic update that was supposed to account for this; resulting in a
potential loss of fairness.

To fix this, re-introduce the explicit update in
update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() [called via entity_tick()].

Reported-by: Max Hailperin <max@gustavus.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9545m3apw5d93ubyrotrj31y@git.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-30 22:14:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7d9ffa8961 sched: Micro-optimize the smart wake-affine logic
Smart wake-affine is using node-size as the factor currently, but the overhead
of the mask operation is high.

Thus, this patch introduce the 'sd_llc_size' percpu variable, which will record
the highest cache-share domain size, and make it to be the new factor, in order
to reduce the overhead and make it more reasonable.

Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D5008E.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:22:06 +02:00
Michael Wang 62470419e9 sched: Implement smarter wake-affine logic
The wake-affine scheduler feature is currently always trying to pull
the wakee close to the waker. In theory this should be beneficial if
the waker's CPU caches hot data for the wakee, and it's also beneficial
in the extreme ping-pong high context switch rate case.

Testing shows it can benefit hackbench up to 15%.

However, the feature is somewhat blind, from which some workloads
such as pgbench suffer. It's also time-consuming algorithmically.

Testing shows it can damage pgbench up to 50% - far more than the
benefit it brings in the best case.

So wake-affine should be smarter and it should realize when to
stop its thankless effort at trying to find a suitable CPU to wake on.

This patch introduces 'wakee_flips', which will be increased each
time the task flips (switches) its wakee target.

So a high 'wakee_flips' value means the task has more than one
wakee, and the bigger the number, the higher the wakeup frequency.

Now when making the decision on whether to pull or not, pay attention to
the wakee with a high 'wakee_flips', pulling such a task may benefit
the wakee. Also imply that the waker will face cruel competition later,
it could be very cruel or very fast depends on the story behind
'wakee_flips', waker therefore suffers.

Furthermore, if waker also has a high 'wakee_flips', that implies that
multiple tasks rely on it, then waker's higher latency will damage all
of them, so pulling wakee seems to be a bad deal.

Thus, when 'waker->wakee_flips / wakee->wakee_flips' becomes
higher and higher, the cost of pulling seems to be worse and worse.

The patch therefore helps the wake-affine feature to stop its pulling
work when:

	wakee->wakee_flips > factor &&
	waker->wakee_flips > (factor * wakee->wakee_flips)

The 'factor' here is the number of CPUs in the current CPU's NUMA node,
so a bigger node will lead to more pulling since the trial becomes more
severe.

After applying the patch, pgbench shows up to 40% improvements and no regressions.

Tested with 12 cpu x86 server and tip 3.10.0-rc7.

The percentages in the final column highlight the areas with the biggest wins,
all other areas improved as well:

	pgbench		    base	smart

	| db_size | clients |  tps  |	|  tps  |
	+---------+---------+-------+   +-------+
	| 22 MB   |       1 | 10598 |   | 10796 |
	| 22 MB   |       2 | 21257 |   | 21336 |
	| 22 MB   |       4 | 41386 |   | 41622 |
	| 22 MB   |       8 | 51253 |   | 57932 |
	| 22 MB   |      12 | 48570 |   | 54000 |
	| 22 MB   |      16 | 46748 |   | 55982 | +19.75%
	| 22 MB   |      24 | 44346 |   | 55847 | +25.93%
	| 22 MB   |      32 | 43460 |   | 54614 | +25.66%
	| 7484 MB |       1 |  8951 |   |  9193 |
	| 7484 MB |       2 | 19233 |   | 19240 |
	| 7484 MB |       4 | 37239 |   | 37302 |
	| 7484 MB |       8 | 46087 |   | 50018 |
	| 7484 MB |      12 | 42054 |   | 48763 |
	| 7484 MB |      16 | 40765 |   | 51633 | +26.66%
	| 7484 MB |      24 | 37651 |   | 52377 | +39.11%
	| 7484 MB |      32 | 37056 |   | 51108 | +37.92%
	| 15 GB   |       1 |  8845 |   |  9104 |
	| 15 GB   |       2 | 19094 |   | 19162 |
	| 15 GB   |       4 | 36979 |   | 36983 |
	| 15 GB   |       8 | 46087 |   | 49977 |
	| 15 GB   |      12 | 41901 |   | 48591 |
	| 15 GB   |      16 | 40147 |   | 50651 | +26.16%
	| 15 GB   |      24 | 37250 |   | 52365 | +40.58%
	| 15 GB   |      32 | 36470 |   | 50015 | +37.14%

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D50057.9000809@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:18:41 +02:00
Vladimir Davydov 685207963b sched: Move h_load calculation to task_h_load()
The bad thing about update_h_load(), which computes hierarchical load
factor for task groups, is that it is called for each task group in the
system before every load balancer run, and since rebalance can be
triggered very often, this function can eat really a lot of cpu time if
there are many cpu cgroups in the system.

Although the situation was improved significantly by commit a35b646
('sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup
hierarchies'), the problem still can arise under some kinds of loads,
e.g. when cpus are switching from idle to busy and back very frequently.

For instance, when I start 1000 of processes that wake up every
millisecond on my 8 cpus host, 'top' and 'perf top' show:

Cpu(s): 17.8%us, 24.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 57.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si
Events: 243K cycles
  7.57%  [kernel]               [k] __schedule
  7.08%  [kernel]               [k] timerqueue_add
  6.13%  libc-2.12.so           [.] usleep

Then if I create 10000 *idle* cpu cgroups (no processes in them), cpu
usage increases significantly although the 'wakers' are still executing
in the root cpu cgroup:

Cpu(s): 19.1%us, 48.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 31.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.7%si
Events: 230K cycles
 24.56%  [kernel]            [k] tg_load_down
  5.76%  [kernel]            [k] __schedule

This happens because this particular kind of load triggers 'new idle'
rebalance very frequently, which requires calling update_h_load(),
which, in turn, calls tg_load_down() for every *idle* cpu cgroup even
though it is absolutely useless, because idle cpu cgroups have no tasks
to pull.

This patch tries to improve the situation by making h_load calculation
proceed only when h_load is really necessary. To achieve this, it
substitutes update_h_load() with update_cfs_rq_h_load(), which computes
h_load only for a given cfs_rq and all its ascendants, and makes the
load balancer call this function whenever it considers if a task should
be pulled, i.e. it moves h_load calculations directly to task_h_load().
For h_load of the same cfs_rq not to be updated multiple times (in case
several tasks in the same cgroup are considered during the same balance
run), the patch keeps the time of the last h_load update for each cfs_rq
and breaks calculation when it finds h_load to be uptodate.

The benefit of it is that h_load is computed only for those cfs_rq's,
which really need it, in particular all idle task groups are skipped.
Although this, in fact, moves h_load calculation under rq lock, it
should not affect latency much, because the amount of work done under rq
lock while trying to pull tasks is limited by sched_nr_migrate.

After the patch applied with the setup described above (1000 wakers in
the root cgroup and 10000 idle cgroups), I get:

Cpu(s): 16.9%us, 24.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 58.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si
Events: 242K cycles
  7.57%  [kernel]                  [k] __schedule
  6.70%  [kernel]                  [k] timerqueue_add
  5.93%  libc-2.12.so              [.] usleep

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373896159-1278-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:18:41 +02:00
Kirill Tkhai 87e3c8ae1c sched/fair: Cleanup: remove duplicate variable declaration
cfs_rq is declared twice, fix it.

Also use 'se' instead of '&p->se'.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/169201374366727@web6d.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-22 10:27:40 +02:00
Yacine Belkadi e69f61862a sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
When building the htmldocs (in verbose mode), scripts/kernel-doc
reports the follwing type of warnings:

  Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:936): No description found for return value of 'task_curr'
  ...

Fix those by:

 - adding the missing descriptions
 - using "Return" sections for the descriptions

Signed-off-by: Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373654747-2389-1-git-send-email-yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com
[ While at it, fix the cpupri_set() explanation. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-18 09:58:21 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 0db0628d90 kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
Kamalesh Babulal 0fc576d592 sched/fair: Fix typo describing flags in enqueue_entity
Fix spelling of 'calling' in description of se flags in
enqueue_entity().

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130627055418.GA18582@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:18:25 +02:00
Alex Shi 2509940fd7 sched/cfs_rq: Change atomic64_t removed_load to atomic_long_t
Similar to runnable_load_avg, blocked_load_avg variable, long type is
enough for removed_load in 64 bit or 32 bit machine.

Then we avoid the expensive atomic64 operations on 32 bit machine.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-12-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:41 +02:00
Alex Shi bf5b986ed4 sched/tg: Use 'unsigned long' for load variable in task group
Since tg->load_avg is smaller than tg->load_weight, we don't need a
atomic64_t variable for load_avg in 32 bit machine.
The same reason for cfs_rq->tg_load_contrib.

The atomic_long_t/unsigned long variable type are more efficient and
convenience for them.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-11-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:40 +02:00
Alex Shi 72a4cf20cb sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long
Since the 'u64 runnable_load_avg, blocked_load_avg' in cfs_rq struct are
smaller than 'unsigned long' cfs_rq->load.weight. We don't need u64
vaiables to describe them. unsigned long is more efficient and convenience.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-10-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:38 +02:00
Alex Shi a003a25b22 sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks()
Aside from using runnable load average in background, move_tasks is
also the key function in load balance. We need consider the runnable
load average in it in order to make it an apple to apple load
comparison.

Morten had caught a div u64 bug on ARM, thanks!

Thanks-to: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-8-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:36 +02:00
Alex Shi b92486cbf2 sched: Compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task
They are the base values in load balance, update them with rq runnable
load average, then the load balance will consider runnable load avg
naturally.

We also try to include the blocked_load_avg as cpu load in balancing,
but that cause kbuild performance drop 6% on every Intel machine, and
aim7/oltp drop on some of 4 CPU sockets machines.
Or only add blocked_load_avg into get_rq_runable_load, hackbench still
drop a little on NHM EX.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:35 +02:00
Alex Shi 282cf499f0 sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity
The woken migrated task will __synchronize_entity_decay(se); in
migrate_task_rq_fair, then it needs to set
`se->avg.last_runnable_update -= (-se->avg.decay_count) << 20' before
update_entity_load_avg, in order to avoid sleep time is updated twice
for se.avg.load_avg_contrib in both __syncchronize and
update_entity_load_avg.

However if the sleeping task is woken up from the same cpu, it miss
the last_runnable_update before update_entity_load_avg(se, 0, 1), then
the sleep time was used twice in both functions.  So we need to remove
the double sleep time accounting.

Paul also contributed some code comments in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:32 +02:00
Alex Shi a75cdaa915 sched: Set an initial value of runnable avg for new forked task
We need to initialize the se.avg.{decay_count, load_avg_contrib} for a
new forked task. Otherwise random values of above variables cause a
mess when a new task is enqueued:

    enqueue_task_fair
        enqueue_entity
            enqueue_entity_load_avg

and make fork balancing imbalance due to incorrect load_avg_contrib.

Further more, Morten Rasmussen notice some tasks were not launched at
once after created. So Paul and Peter suggest giving a start value for
new task runnable avg time same as sched_slice().

PeterZ said:

> So the 'problem' is that our running avg is a 'floating' average; ie. it
> decays with time. Now we have to guess about the future of our newly
> spawned task -- something that is nigh impossible seeing these CPU
> vendors keep refusing to implement the crystal ball instruction.
>
> So there's two asymptotic cases we want to deal well with; 1) the case
> where the newly spawned program will be 'nearly' idle for its lifetime;
> and 2) the case where its cpu-bound.
>
> Since we have to guess, we'll go for worst case and assume its
> cpu-bound; now we don't want to make the avg so heavy adjusting to the
> near-idle case takes forever. We want to be able to quickly adjust and
> lower our running avg.
>
> Now we also don't want to make our avg too light, such that it gets
> decremented just for the new task not having had a chance to run yet --
> even if when it would run, it would be more cpu-bound than not.
>
> So what we do is we make the initial avg of the same duration as that we
> guess it takes to run each task on the system at least once -- aka
> sched_slice().
>
> Of course we can defeat this with wakeup/fork bombs, but in the 'normal'
> case it should be good enough.

Paul also contributed most of the code comments in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
[peterz; added explanation of sched_slice() usage]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-4-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:30 +02:00
Alex Shi 141965c749 Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking"
Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED that covers the runnable info, then
we can use runnable load variables.

Also remove 2 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED setting which is not in reverted
patch(introduced in 9ee474f), but also need to revert.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51CA76A3.3050207@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:22 +02:00
Michael Wang 8404c90d05 sched: Femove the useless declaration in kernel/sched/fair.c
default_cfs_period(), do_sched_cfs_period_timer(), do_sched_cfs_slack_timer()
already defined previously, no need to declare again.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51AD8808.7020608@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:41 +02:00
Michael Wang 22b958d8cc sched: Refine the code in unthrottle_cfs_rq()
Directly use rq to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51AD87EB.1070605@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:41 +02:00
Kamalesh Babulal 0de358f1c2 sched/fair: Remove unused variable from expire_cfs_rq_runtime()
Commit 78becc2709 ("sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock")
introduces rq_clock(), which obsoletes the use of the "rq" variable
in expire_cfs_rq_runtime() and triggers this build warning:

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function 'expire_cfs_rq_runtime':
  kernel/sched/fair.c:2159:13: warning: unused variable 'rq' [-Wunused-variable]

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369904660-14169-1-git-send-email-kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-31 13:02:29 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 78becc2709 sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock
Read the runqueue clock through an accessor. This
prepares for adding a debugging infrastructure to
detect missing or redundant calls to update_rq_clock()
between a scheduler's entry and exit point.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1a55af2e45 sched: Update rq clock earlier in unthrottle_cfs_rq
In this function we are making use of rq->clock right before the
update of the rq clock, let's just call update_rq_clock() just
before that to avoid using a stale rq clock value.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:25 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 71b1da46ff sched: Update rq clock before setting fair group shares
Because we may update the execution time in

    sched_group_set_shares()->update_cfs_shares()->reweight_entity()->update_curr()

before reweighting the entity while setting the group shares and this requires
an uptodate version of the runqueue clock.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d07e75a6e0 Merge branch 'sched/cleanups' into sched/core
Merge reason: these bits, formerly in sched/urgent, are too late for v3.10.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 08:16:02 +02:00
Nathan Zimmer 424c93fe4c sched: Use this_rq() helper
It is a few instructions more efficent to and slightly more
readable to use this_rq()-> instead of cpu_rq(smp_processor_id())-> .

Size comparison of kernel/sched/fair.o:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  27972     122      26   28120    6dd8 fair.o.before
  27956     122      26   28104    6dc8 fair.o.after

Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368116643-87971-1-git-send-email-nzimmer@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-10 10:35:56 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 8527632dc9 sched: Move update_load_*() methods from sched.h to fair.c
These inlines are only used by kernel/sched/fair.c so they do
not need to be present in the main kernel/sched/sched.h file.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366398650-31599-3-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:14:51 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c032862fba Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-05-02 17:54:19 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 25f55d9d01 sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag
On my SMP platform which is made of 5 cores in 2 clusters, I
have the nr_busy_cpu field of sched_group_power struct that is
not null when the platform is fully idle - which makes the
scheduler unhappy.

The root cause is:

During the boot sequence, some CPUs reach the idle loop and set
their NOHZ_IDLE flag while waiting for others CPUs to boot. But
the nr_busy_cpus field is initialized later with the assumption
that all CPUs are in the busy state whereas some CPUs have
already set their NOHZ_IDLE flag.

More generally, the NOHZ_IDLE flag must be initialized when new
sched_domains are created in order to ensure that NOHZ_IDLE and
nr_busy_cpus are aligned.

This condition can be ensured by adding a synchronize_rcu()
between the destruction of old sched_domains and the creation of
new ones so the NOHZ_IDLE flag will not be updated with old
sched_domain once it has been initialized. But this solution
introduces a additionnal latency in the rebuild sequence that is
called during cpu hotplug.

As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker, another solution is to have
the same rcu lifecycle for both NOHZ_IDLE and sched_domain
struct. A new nohz_idle field is added to sched_domain so both
status and sched_domain will share the same RCU lifecycle and
will be always synchronized. In addition, there is no more need
to protect nohz_idle against concurrent access as it is only
modified by 2 exclusive functions called by local cpu.

This solution has been prefered to the creation of a new struct
with an extra pointer indirection for sched_domain.

The synchronization is done at the cost of :

 - An additional indirection and a rcu_dereference for accessing nohz_idle.
 - We use only the nohz_idle field of the top sched_domain.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366729142-14662-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
[ Fixed !NO_HZ build bug. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-26 12:13:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim e02e60c109 sched: Prevent to re-select dst-cpu in load_balance()
Commit 88b8dac0 makes load_balance() consider other cpus in its
group. But, in that, there is no code for preventing to
re-select dst-cpu. So, same dst-cpu can be selected over and
over.

This patch add functionality to load_balance() in order to
exclude cpu which is selected once. We prevent to re-select
dst_cpu via env's cpus, so now, env's cpus is a candidate not
only for src_cpus, but also dst_cpus.

With this patch, we can remove lb_iterations and
max_lb_iterations, because we decide whether we can go ahead or
not via env's cpus.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:46 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim e6252c3ef4 sched: Rename load_balance_tmpmask to load_balance_mask
This name doesn't represent specific meaning.
So rename it to imply it's purpose.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:45 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim d31980846f sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead
Currently, LBF_ALL_PINNED is cleared after affinity check is
passed. So, if task migration is skipped by small load value or
small imbalance value in move_tasks(), we don't clear
LBF_ALL_PINNED. At last, we trigger 'redo' in load_balance().

Imbalance value is often so small that any tasks cannot be moved
to other cpus and, of course, this situation may be continued
after we change the target cpu. So this patch move up affinity
check code and clear LBF_ALL_PINNED before evaluating load value
in order to mitigate useless redoing overhead.

In addition, re-order some comments correctly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-5-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim cfc0311804 sched: Don't consider other cpus in our group in case of NEWLY_IDLE
Commit 88b8dac0 makes load_balance() consider other cpus in its
group, regardless of idle type. When we do NEWLY_IDLE balancing,
we should not consider it, because a motivation of NEWLY_IDLE
balancing is to turn this cpu to non idle state if needed. This
is not the case of other cpus. So, change code not to consider
other cpus for NEWLY_IDLE balancing.

With this patch, assign 'if (pulled_task) this_rq->idle_stamp =
0' in idle_balance() is corrected, because NEWLY_IDLE balancing
doesn't consider other cpus. Assigning to 'this_rq->idle_stamp'
is now valid.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim de5eb2dd7f sched: Explicitly cpu_idle_type checking in rebalance_domains()
After commit 88b8dac0, dst-cpu can be changed in load_balance(),
then we can't know cpu_idle_type of dst-cpu when load_balance()
return positive. So, add explicit cpu_idle_type checking.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:43 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim f1cd085810 sched: Change position of resched_cpu() in load_balance()
cur_ld_moved is reset if env.flags hit LBF_NEED_BREAK.
So, there is possibility that we miss doing resched_cpu().
Correct it as changing position of resched_cpu()
before checking LBF_NEED_BREAK.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:43 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 642dbc39ab sched: Fix wrong rq's runnable_avg update with rt tasks
The current update of the rq's load can be erroneous when RT
tasks are involved.

The update of the load of a rq that becomes idle, is done only
if the avg_idle is less than sysctl_sched_migration_cost. If RT
tasks and short idle duration alternate, the runnable_avg will
not be updated correctly and the time will be accounted as idle
time when a CFS task wakes up.

A new idle_enter function is called when the next task is the
idle function so the elapsed time will be accounted as run time
in the load of the rq, whatever the average idle time is. The
function update_rq_runnable_avg is removed from idle_balance.

When a RT task is scheduled on an idle CPU, the update of the
rq's load is not done when the rq exit idle state because CFS's
functions are not called. Then, the idle_balance, which is
called just before entering the idle function, updates the rq's
load and makes the assumption that the elapsed time since the
last update, was only running time.

As a consequence, the rq's load of a CPU that only runs a
periodic RT task, is close to LOAD_AVG_MAX whatever the running
duration of the RT task is.

A new idle_exit function is called when the prev task is the
idle function so the elapsed time will be accounted as idle time
in the rq's load.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366302867-5055-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-21 11:22:52 +02:00
Libin b9b0853a4b sched: Fix comment in rebalance_domains()
A comment in function rebalance_domains() mentions
arch_init_sched_domains(), but that function does not exist
anymore. The proper function is init_sched_domains().

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364814841-49156-1-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:39:57 +02:00
Zhang Hang 4e2dcb73ae sched: Simplify can_migrate_task()
At this point tsk_cache_hot is always true, so no need to check it.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Hang <bob.zhanghang@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51650107.9040606@huawei.com
[ Also remove unnecessary schedstat #ifdefs. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 11:15:45 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3451d0243c nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-03 13:56:03 +02:00
Andrei Epure 1bf08230f7 sched: Fix variable name misnomer, add comments
The min_vruntime variable actually stores the maximum value.
The added comment was taken from place_entity function.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363115544-1964-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-14 08:22:29 +01:00
Andrei Epure 660cc00f8c sched: Spelling fix
Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362996200-2674-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-11 15:12:11 +01:00
Li Zefan 15f803c94b sched: Make default_scale_freq_power() static
As default_scale_{freq,smt}_power() and update_rt_power() are
used in kernel/sched/fair.c only, annotate them as static
functions.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7AF.8010900@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-06 11:24:34 +01:00
Linus Torvalds d652e1eb8e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

   - scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
     and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
     cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
     Weisbecker.

   - Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams

   - select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:

        " 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:

          pre   15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
          post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "

  - sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change.  We think this detail is not
    used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
    under observation.

  - misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
  cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
  sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
  cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
  sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
  sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
  sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
  sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
  sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
  cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
  kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
  cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
  cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
  cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
  cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
  cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
  cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
  context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
  ...

Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
2013-02-19 18:19:48 -08:00
Mike Galbraith e0a79f529d sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
If the previous CPU is cache affine and idle, select it.

The current implementation simply traverses the sd_llc domain,
taking the first idle CPU encountered, which walks buddy pairs
hand in hand over the package, inflicting excruciating pain.

1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:

  pre   15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
  post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359371965.5783.127.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-02-04 20:07:24 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann 38dc3348e3 sched: Fix warning in kernel/sched/fair.c
a4c96ae319 "sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in
__disable_runtime()" turned the unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs
function into a static symbol, which now triggers a warning
about it being potentially unused:

  kernel/sched/fair.c:2055:13: warning: 'unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]

Marking it __maybe_unused shuts up the gcc warning and lets the
compiler safely drop the function body when it's not being used.

To reproduce, build the ARM bcm2835_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Boonstoppel <pboonstoppel@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@list.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359123276-15833-6-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-25 15:23:14 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 16c8f1c72e sched/fair: Set se->vruntime directly in place_entity()
We are first storing the new vruntime in a variable and then
storing it in se->vruntime. Simply update se->vruntime directly.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae59db1945518d6f6250920d46eb1f1a9cc0024e.1352361704.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-24 18:06:11 +01:00
Zhu Yanhai a59f4e079d sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval()
The caller of sched_sliced() should pass se.cfs_rq and se as the
arguments, however in sched_rr_get_interval() we gave it
rq.cfs_rq and se, which made the following computation obviously
wrong.

The change was introduced by commit:

  77034937dc sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()

... 5 years ago, while it had been the correct 'cfs_rq_of' before
the commit. The change seems to be irrelevant to the commit
msg, which was to return a 0 timeslice for tasks that are on an
idle runqueue. So I believe that was just a plain typo.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357621012-15039-1-git-send-email-gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com
[ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a
  slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-24 14:41:00 +01:00
Hugh Dickins 2832bc19f6 sched: numa: ksm: fix oops in task_numa_placment()
task_numa_placement() oopsed on NULL p->mm when task_numa_fault() got
called in the handling of break_ksm() for ksmd.  That might be a
peculiar case, which perhaps KSM could takes steps to avoid? but it's
more robust if task_numa_placement() allows for such a possibility.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
Mel Gorman 221392c3ad sched: numa: Fix build error if CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING && !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Michal Hocko reported that the following build error occurs if
CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is set without THP support

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function ‘task_numa_work’:
  kernel/sched/fair.c:932:55: error: call to ‘__build_bug_failed’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed

The problem is that HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT triggers a BUILD_BUG() on
!CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE. This patch addresses the problem.

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 08:25:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3d59eebc5e Automatic NUMA Balancing V11
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Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma

Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.

  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.

  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are

    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397

  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.

  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.

  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."

* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
  ...
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 17bc14b767 Revert "sched: Update_cfs_shares at period edge"
This reverts commit f269ae0469.

It turns out it causes a very noticeable interactivity regression with
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP (test-case: "make -j32" of the kernel in a
terminal window, while scrolling in a browser - the autogrouping means
that the two end up in separate cgroups, and the browser should be
smooth as silk despite the high load).

Says Paul Turner:
 "It seems that the update-throttling on the wake-side is reducing the
  interactive tasks' ability to preempt.  While I suspect the right
  longer term answer here is force these updates only in the
  cross-cgroup case; this is less trivial.  For this release I believe
  the right answer is either going to be a revert or restore the updates
  on the enqueue-side."

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bisected-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-14 07:20:43 -08:00
Mel Gorman 5bca230353 mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
Due to the fact that migrations are driven by the CPU a task is running
on there is no point tracking NUMA faults until one task runs on a new
node. This patch tracks the first node used by an address space. Until
it changes, PTE scanning is disabled and no NUMA hinting faults are
trapped. This should help workloads that are short-lived, do not care
about NUMA placement or have bound themselves to a single node.

This takes advantage of the logic in "mm: sched: numa: Implement slow
start for working set sampling" to delay when the checks are made. This
will take advantage of processes that set their CPU and node bindings
early in their lifetime. It will also potentially allow any initial load
balancing to take place.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:56 +00:00
Mel Gorman 1a687c2e9a mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the
enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance
of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems
related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for
automatic NUMA placement.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:55 +00:00