From 89aafd67f28c9e3b725aa30b44b7f61ad3e348ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 12:58:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Use prev instead of new target as recent_used_cpu After select_idle_sibling, p->recent_used_cpu is set to the new target. However on the next wakeup, prev will be the same as recent_used_cpu unless the load balancer has moved the task since the last wakeup. It still works, but is less efficient than it could be. This patch preserves recent_used_cpu for longer. The impact on SIS efficiency is tiny so the SIS statistic patches were used to track the hit rate for using recent_used_cpu. With perf bench pipe on a 2-socket Cascadelake machine, the hit rate went from 57.14% to 85.32%. For more intensive wakeup loads like hackbench, the hit rate is almost negligible but rose from 0.21% to 6.64%. For scaling loads like tbench, the hit rate goes from almost 0% to 25.42% overall. Broadly speaking, on tbench, the success rate is much higher for lower thread counts and drops to almost 0 as the workload scales to towards saturation. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804115857.6253-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 13c3fd4..7ee394b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -6347,6 +6347,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target) /* Check a recently used CPU as a potential idle candidate: */ recent_used_cpu = p->recent_used_cpu; + p->recent_used_cpu = prev; if (recent_used_cpu != prev && recent_used_cpu != target && cpus_share_cache(recent_used_cpu, target) && @@ -6873,9 +6874,6 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int wake_flags) } else if (wake_flags & WF_TTWU) { /* XXX always ? */ /* Fast path */ new_cpu = select_idle_sibling(p, prev_cpu, new_cpu); - - if (want_affine) - current->recent_used_cpu = cpu; } rcu_read_unlock(); -- 2.7.4