Impact: cleanup
node_to_cpumask (and the blecherous node_to_cpumask_ptr which
contained a declaration) are replaced now everyone implements
cpumask_of_node.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API.
This actually uses topology_core_cpumask() and
topology_thread_cpumask(), removing the only users of
topology_core_siblings() and topology_thread_siblings()
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Impact: change task balancing to save power more agressively
Add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag at MC level and CPU level
if sched_mc is set. This helps power savings and
will not affect performance when sched_mc=0
Ingo and Mike Galbraith have optimised the SD flags by
removing SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level. This
helps performance but hurts power savings since this
slows down task consolidation by reducing the number
of times load_balance is run.
sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT
commit 1480098470
Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Fri Nov 7 15:26:50 2008 +0100
sched: re-tune balancing -- revert
commit 9fcd18c9e6
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed Nov 5 16:52:08 2008 +0100
This patch selectively enables SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag
only when sched_mc is set to 1 or 2. This helps power savings
by task consolidation and also does not hurt performance at
sched_mc=0 where all power saving optimisations are turned off.
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
BALANCE_FOR_MC_POWER and similar macros defined in sched.h are
not constants and have various condition checks and significant
amount of code that is not suitable to be contain in a macro.
Also there could be side effects on the expressions passed to
some of them like test_sd_parent().
This patch converts all complex macros related to power savings
balance to inline functions.
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change arch_update_cpu_topology so it returns 1 if the cpu topology changed
and 0 if it didn't change. This will be useful for the next patch which adds
a call to this function in partition_sched_domains.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tune SD_MC_INIT the same way as SD_CPU_INIT:
unset SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE, and set SD_WAKE_BALANCE.
This improves vmark by 5%:
vmark 132102 125968 125497 messages/sec avg 127855.66 .984
vmark 139404 131719 131272 messages/sec avg 134131.66 1.033
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
# *DOCUMENTATION*
Impact: improve wakeup affinity on NUMA systems, tweak SMP systems
Given the fixes+tweaks to the wakeup-buddy code, re-tweak the domain
balancing defaults on NUMA and SMP systems.
Turn on SD_WAKE_AFFINE which was off on x86 NUMA - there's no reason
why we would not want to have wakeup affinity across nodes as well.
(we already do this in the standard NUMA template.)
lat_ctx on a NUMA box is particularly happy about this change:
before:
| phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
| "size=0k ovr=2.60
| 2 5.70
after:
| phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
| "size=0k ovr=2.65
| 2 2.07
a 2.75x speedup.
pipe-test is similarly happy about it too:
| phoenix:~/sched-tests> ./pipe-test
| 18.26 usecs/loop.
| 14.70 usecs/loop.
| 14.38 usecs/loop.
| 10.55 usecs/loop. # +WAKE_AFFINE on domain0+domain1
| 8.63 usecs/loop.
| 8.59 usecs/loop.
| 9.03 usecs/loop.
| 8.94 usecs/loop.
| 8.96 usecs/loop.
| 8.63 usecs/loop.
Also:
- disable SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE on NUMA and SMP domains (keep it for siblings)
- enable SD_WAKE_BALANCE on SMP domains
Sysbench+postgresql improves all around the board, quite significantly:
.28-rc3-11474e2c .28-rc3-11474e2c-tune
-------------------------------------------------
1: 571 688 +17.08%
2: 1236 1206 -2.55%
4: 2381 2642 +9.89%
8: 4958 5164 +3.99%
16: 9580 9574 -0.07%
32: 7128 8118 +12.20%
64: 7342 8266 +11.18%
128: 7342 8064 +8.95%
256: 7519 7884 +4.62%
512: 7350 7731 +4.93%
-------------------------------------------------
SUM: 55412 59341 +6.62%
So it's a win both for the runup portion, the peak area and the tail.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
improve the sysbench ramp-up phase and its peak throughput on
a 16way NUMA box, by turning on WAKE_AFFINE:
tip/sched tip/sched+wake-affine
-------------------------------------------------
1: 700 830 +15.65%
2: 1465 1391 -5.28%
4: 3017 3105 +2.81%
8: 5100 6021 +15.30%
16: 10725 10745 +0.19%
32: 10135 10150 +0.16%
64: 9338 9240 -1.06%
128: 8599 8252 -4.21%
256: 8475 8144 -4.07%
-------------------------------------------------
SUM: 57558 57882 +0.56%
this change also improves lat_ctx from 6.69 usecs to 1.11 usec:
$ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
"size=0k ovr=1.19
2 1.11
$ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
"size=0k ovr=1.22
2 6.69
in sysbench it's an overall win with some weakness at the lots-of-clients
side. That happens because we now under-balance this workload
a bit. To counter that effect, turn on NEWIDLE:
wake-idle wake-idle+newidle
-------------------------------------------------
1: 830 834 +0.43%
2: 1391 1401 +0.65%
4: 3105 3091 -0.43%
8: 6021 6046 +0.42%
16: 10745 10736 -0.08%
32: 10150 10206 +0.55%
64: 9240 9533 +3.08%
128: 8252 8355 +1.24%
256: 8144 8384 +2.87%
-------------------------------------------------
SUM: 57882 58591 +1.21%
as a bonus this not only improves the many-clients case but
also improves the (more important) rampup phase.
sysbench is a workload that quickly breaks down if the
scheduler over-balances, so since it showed an improvement
under NEWIDLE this change is definitely good.
* Remove empty cpumask_t (and all non-zero/non-null) variables
in SD_*_INIT macros. Use memset(0) to clear. Also, don't
inline the initializer functions to save on stack space in
build_sched_domains().
* Merge change to include/linux/topology.h that uses the new
node_to_cpumask_ptr function in the nr_cpus_node macro into
this patch.
Depends on:
[mm-patch]: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch
[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Will be called each time the scheduling domains are rebuild.
Needed for architectures that don't have a static cpu topology.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
WAKE_IDLE is too agressive on multi-core CPUs with the new
wake-affine code, keep it on for SMT/HT balancing alone
(where there's no cache affinity at all between logical CPUs).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
most multicore CPUs today have shared L2 caches, so tune things so
that the spreading amongst cores is more aggressive.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
trivial cleanup: LOCAL_DISTANCE and REMOTE_DISTANCE are only used in
topology.h and inside an #ifndef section - limit their existence to
that #ifndef.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
the Linux scheduler is starving a number of workloads. So default
to more agressive idle-balancing. This hurts lmbench context-switching
numbers (which was the main reason we sucked at idle-balancing for
such a long time) but the lmbench numbers are fine once the system is
minimally utilized.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to
facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared. The idling of
cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to
break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an
architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be
unworkable.
Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by
this code.
Also:
The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet
further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code. So
either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely. It was Ingo's preference
to kill it off. Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks
has gone in.
Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Large sched domains can be very expensive to scan. Add an option SD_SERIALIZE
to the sched domain flags. If that flag is set then we make sure that no
other such domain is being balanced.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With SMT, if the logical processor is busy, load balance happens for every
8msec(min)-16msec(max). There is no need to do this often, as this is just
for fairness(to maintain uniform runqueue lengths) and default time slice
anyhow is 100msec.
Appended patch increases this interval to 64msec(min)-128msec(max) when the
logical processor is busy.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Up to now sched group's cpu_power for each sched domain is initialized
independently. This made the setup code ugly as the new sched domains are
getting added.
Make the sched group cpu_power setup code generic, by using domain child
field and new domain flag in sched_domain. For most of the sched
domains(except NUMA), sched group's cpu_power is now computed generically
using the domain properties of itself and of the child domain.
sched groups in NUMA domains are setup little differently and hence they
don't use this generic mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce the child field in sched_domain struct and use it in
sched_balance_self().
We will also use this field in cleaning up the sched group cpu_power
setup(done in a different patch) code.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rusty Russell
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
Heiko Carstens
Ingo Molnar
Mike Galbraith
Ben Hutchings
Mike Travis
Con Kolivas
Christoph Lameter
Siddha, Suresh B