sched/core: Fix wake_affine() performance regression
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:35:30 +0000 (11:35 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:14:02 +0000 (10:14 +0200)
commitd153b153446f7d8832bb2ebd92309c8a6003b3bb
treed5fd41d9fe691221dc007ac6778eec50a70d32dc
parent529a86e063e9ff625c4ff247d8aa17d8072444fb
sched/core: Fix wake_affine() performance regression

Eric reported a sysbench regression against commit:

  3fed382b46ba ("sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()")

Similarly, Rik was looking at the NAS-lu.C benchmark, which regressed
against his v3.10 enterprise kernel.

PRE (current tip/master):

 ivb-ep sysbench:

   2: [30 secs]     transactions:                        64110  (2136.94 per sec.)
   5: [30 secs]     transactions:                        143644 (4787.99 per sec.)
  10: [30 secs]     transactions:                        274298 (9142.93 per sec.)
  20: [30 secs]     transactions:                        418683 (13955.45 per sec.)
  40: [30 secs]     transactions:                        320731 (10690.15 per sec.)
  80: [30 secs]     transactions:                        355096 (11834.28 per sec.)

 hsw-ex NAS:

 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds =                    18.01
 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds =                    17.89
 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds =                    17.93
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds =                   434.68
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds =                   405.36
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds =                   433.83

POST (+patch):

 ivb-ep sysbench:

   2: [30 secs]     transactions:                        64494  (2149.75 per sec.)
   5: [30 secs]     transactions:                        145114 (4836.99 per sec.)
  10: [30 secs]     transactions:                        278311 (9276.69 per sec.)
  20: [30 secs]     transactions:                        437169 (14571.60 per sec.)
  40: [30 secs]     transactions:                        669837 (22326.73 per sec.)
  80: [30 secs]     transactions:                        631739 (21055.88 per sec.)

 hsw-ex NAS:

 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds =                    23.36
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds =                    22.96
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds =                    22.52

This patch takes out all the shiny wake_affine() stuff and goes back to
utter basics. Between the two CPUs involved with the wakeup (the CPU
doing the wakeup and the CPU we ran on previously) pick the CPU we can
run on _now_.

This restores much of the regressions against the older kernels,
but leaves some ground in the overloaded case. The default-enabled
WA_WEIGHT (which will be introduced in the next patch) is an attempt
to address the overloaded situation.

Reported-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: jinpuwang@gmail.com
Cc: vcaputo@pengaru.com
Fixes: 3fed382b46ba ("sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/sched/topology.h
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/features.h