From b7a331615d254191e7f5f0e35aec9adcd6acdc54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Morten Rasmussen Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 19:19:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan Issue ===== On asymmetric CPU capacity topologies, we currently rely on wake_cap() to drive select_task_rq_fair() towards either: - its slow-path (find_idlest_cpu()) if either the previous or current (waking) CPU has too little capacity for the waking task - its fast-path (select_idle_sibling()) otherwise Commit: 3273163c6775 ("sched/fair: Let asymmetric CPU configurations balance at wake-up") points out that this relies on the assumption that "[...]the CPU capacities within an SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES domain (sd_llc) are homogeneous". This assumption no longer holds on newer generations of big.LITTLE systems (DynamIQ), which can accommodate CPUs of different compute capacity within a single LLC domain. To hopefully paint a better picture, a regular big.LITTLE topology would look like this: +---------+ +---------+ | L2 | | L2 | +----+----+ +----+----+ |CPU0|CPU1| |CPU2|CPU3| +----+----+ +----+----+ ^^^ ^^^ LITTLEs bigs which would result in the following scheduler topology: DIE [ ] <- sd_asym_cpucapacity MC [ ] [ ] <- sd_llc 0 1 2 3 Conversely, a DynamIQ topology could look like: +-------------------+ | L3 | +----+----+----+----+ | L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 | +----+----+----+----+ |CPU0|CPU1|CPU2|CPU3| +----+----+----+----+ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ LITTLEs bigs which would result in the following scheduler topology: MC [ ] <- sd_llc, sd_asym_cpucapacity 0 1 2 3 What this means is that, on DynamIQ systems, we could pass the wake_cap() test (IOW presume the waking task fits on the CPU capacities of some LLC domain), thus go through select_idle_sibling(). This function operates on an LLC domain, which here spans both bigs and LITTLEs, so it could very well pick a CPU of too small capacity for the task, despite there being fitting idle CPUs - it very much depends on the CPU iteration order, on which we have absolutely no guarantees capacity-wise. Implementation ============== Introduce yet another select_idle_sibling() helper function that takes CPU capacity into account. The policy is to pick the first idle CPU which is big enough for the task (task_util * margin < cpu_capacity). If no idle CPU is big enough, we pick the idle one with the highest capacity. Unlike other select_idle_sibling() helpers, this one operates on the sd_asym_cpucapacity sched_domain pointer, which is guaranteed to span all known CPU capacities in the system. As such, this will work for both "legacy" big.LITTLE (LITTLEs & bigs split at MC, joined at DIE) and for newer DynamIQ systems (e.g. LITTLEs and bigs in the same MC domain). Note that this limits the scope of select_idle_sibling() to select_idle_capacity() for asymmetric CPU capacity systems - the LLC domain will not be scanned, and no further heuristic will be applied. Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200206191957.12325-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 1a0ce83..6fb47a2 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -5897,6 +5897,40 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t } /* + * Scan the asym_capacity domain for idle CPUs; pick the first idle one on which + * the task fits. If no CPU is big enough, but there are idle ones, try to + * maximize capacity. + */ +static int +select_idle_capacity(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int target) +{ + unsigned long best_cap = 0; + int cpu, best_cpu = -1; + struct cpumask *cpus; + + sync_entity_load_avg(&p->se); + + cpus = this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(select_idle_mask); + cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), p->cpus_ptr); + + for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target) { + unsigned long cpu_cap = capacity_of(cpu); + + if (!available_idle_cpu(cpu) && !sched_idle_cpu(cpu)) + continue; + if (task_fits_capacity(p, cpu_cap)) + return cpu; + + if (cpu_cap > best_cap) { + best_cap = cpu_cap; + best_cpu = cpu; + } + } + + return best_cpu; +} + +/* * Try and locate an idle core/thread in the LLC cache domain. */ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target) @@ -5904,6 +5938,28 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target) struct sched_domain *sd; int i, recent_used_cpu; + /* + * For asymmetric CPU capacity systems, our domain of interest is + * sd_asym_cpucapacity rather than sd_llc. + */ + if (static_branch_unlikely(&sched_asym_cpucapacity)) { + sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_asym_cpucapacity, target)); + /* + * On an asymmetric CPU capacity system where an exclusive + * cpuset defines a symmetric island (i.e. one unique + * capacity_orig value through the cpuset), the key will be set + * but the CPUs within that cpuset will not have a domain with + * SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY. These should follow the usual symmetric + * capacity path. + */ + if (!sd) + goto symmetric; + + i = select_idle_capacity(p, sd, target); + return ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits) ? i : target; + } + +symmetric: if (available_idle_cpu(target) || sched_idle_cpu(target)) return target; -- 2.7.4