Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two fixes: fix a new tracepoint's output value, and fix the formatting
of show-state syslog printouts"
* tag 'sched-urgent-2020-08-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/debug: Fix the alignment of the show-state debug output
sched: Fix use of count for nr_running tracepoint
Current sysrq(t) output task fields name are not aligned with
actual task fields value, e.g.:
kernel: sysrq: Show State
kernel: task PC stack pid father
kernel: systemd S12456 1 0 0x00000000
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: ? __schedule+0x240/0x740
To make it more readable, print fields name together with task fields
value in the same line, with fixed width:
kernel: sysrq: Show State
kernel: task:systemd state:S stack:12920 pid: 1 ppid: 0 flags:0x00000000
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: __schedule+0x282/0x620
Signed-off-by: Libing Zhou <libing.zhou@nokia-sbell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814030236.37835-1-libing.zhou@nokia-sbell.com
Pull sched/fifo updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds the sched_set_fifo*() encapsulation APIs to remove static
priority level knowledge from non-scheduler code.
The three APIs for non-scheduler code to set SCHED_FIFO are:
- sched_set_fifo()
- sched_set_fifo_low()
- sched_set_normal()
These are two FIFO priority levels: default (high), and a 'low'
priority level, plus sched_set_normal() to set the policy back to
non-SCHED_FIFO.
Since the changes affect a lot of non-scheduler code, we kept this in
a separate tree"
* tag 'sched-fifo-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
sched,tracing: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
sched: Remove sched_set_*() return value
sched: Remove sched_setscheduler*() EXPORTs
sched,psi: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
sched,rcutorture: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
sched,rcuperf: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low()
sched,locktorture: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
sched,irq: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
sched,watchdog: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
sched,serial: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
sched,powerclamp: Convert to sched_set_fifo()
sched,ion: Convert to sched_set_normal()
sched,powercap: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
sched,spi: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
sched,mmc: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
sched,ivtv: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
sched,drm/scheduler: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
sched,msm: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
sched,psci: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
sched,drbd: Convert to sched_set_fifo*()
...
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The most significant change here is the extension of the Energy Model
to cover non-CPU devices (as well as CPUs) from Lukasz Luba.
There is also some new hardware support (Ice Lake server idle states
table for intel_idle, Sapphire Rapids and Power Limit 4 support in the
RAPL driver), some new functionality in the existing drivers (eg. a
new switch to disable/enable CPU energy-efficiency optimizations in
intel_pstate, delayed timers in devfreq), some assorted fixes (cpufreq
core, intel_pstate, intel_idle) and cleanups (eg. cpuidle-psci,
devfreq), including the elimination of W=1 build warnings from cpufreq
done by Lee Jones.
Specifics:
- Make the Energy Model cover non-CPU devices (Lukasz Luba).
- Add Ice Lake server idle states table to the intel_idle driver and
eliminate a redundant static variable from it (Chen Yu, Rafael
Wysocki).
- Eliminate all W=1 build warnings from cpufreq (Lee Jones).
- Add support for Sapphire Rapids and for Power Limit 4 to the Intel
RAPL power capping driver (Sumeet Pawnikar, Zhang Rui).
- Fix function name in kerneldoc comments in the idle_inject power
capping driver (Yangtao Li).
- Fix locking issues with cpufreq governors and drop a redundant
"weak" function definition from cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).
- Rearrange cpufreq to register non-modular governors at the
core_initcall level and allow the default cpufreq governor to be
specified in the kernel command line (Quentin Perret).
- Extend, fix and clean up the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas
Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki):
* Add a new sysfs attribute for disabling/enabling CPU
energy-efficiency optimizations in the processor.
* Make the driver avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported.
* Allow the driver to handle numeric EPP values in the sysfs
interface and fix the setting of EPP via sysfs in the active
mode.
* Eliminate a static checker warning and clean up a kerneldoc
comment.
- Clean up some variable declarations in the powernv cpufreq driver
(Wei Yongjun).
- Fix up the ->enter_s2idle callback definition to cover the case
when it points to the same function as ->idle correctly (Neal Liu).
- Rearrange and clean up the PSCI cpuidle driver (Ulf Hansson).
- Make the PM core emit "changed" uevent when adding/removing the
"wakeup" sysfs attribute of devices (Abhishek Pandit-Subedi).
- Add a helper macro for declaring PM callbacks and use it in the MMC
jz4740 driver (Paul Cercueil).
- Fix white space in some places in the hibernate code and make the
system-wide PM code use "const char *" where appropriate (Xiang
Chen, Alexey Dobriyan).
- Add one more "unsafe" helper macro to the freezer to cover the NFS
use case (He Zhe).
- Change the language in the generic PM domains framework to use
parent/child terminology and clean up a typo and some comment
fromatting in that code (Kees Cook, Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Update the operating performance points OPP framework (Lukasz Luba,
Andrew-sh.Cheng, Valdis Kletnieks):
* Refactor dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() and update related drivers.
* Add a missing function export.
* Allow disabled OPPs in dev_pm_opp_get_freq().
- Update devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo Choi, Lukasz Luba, Enric
Balletbo i Serra, Dmitry Osipenko, Kieran Bingham, Marc Zyngier):
* Add support for delayed timers to the devfreq core and make the
Samsung exynos5422-dmc driver use it.
* Unify sysfs interface to use "df-" as a prefix in instance
names consistently.
* Fix devfreq_summary debugfs node indentation.
* Add the rockchip,pmu phandle to the rk3399_dmc driver DT
bindings.
* List Dmitry Osipenko as the Tegra devfreq driver maintainer.
* Fix typos in the core devfreq code.
- Update the pm-graph utility to version 5.7 including a number of
fixes related to suspend-to-idle (Todd Brandt).
- Fix coccicheck errors and warnings in the cpupower utility (Shuah
Khan).
- Replace HTTP links with HTTPs ones in multiple places (Alexander A.
Klimov)"
* tag 'pm-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (71 commits)
cpuidle: ACPI: fix 'return' with no value build warning
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix EPP setting via sysfs in active mode
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange the storing of new EPP values
intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support
PM / devfreq: Fix the wrong end with semicolon
PM / devfreq: Fix indentaion of devfreq_summary debugfs node
PM / devfreq: Clean up the devfreq instance name in sysfs attr
memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Add module param to control IRQ mode
memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Adjust polling interval and uptreshold
memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Use delayed timer as default
PM / devfreq: Add support delayed timer for polling mode
dt-bindings: devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Add rockchip,pmu phandle
PM / devfreq: tegra: Add Dmitry as a maintainer
PM / devfreq: event: Fix trivial spelling
PM / devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Fix kernel oops when rockchip,pmu is absent
cpuidle: change enter_s2idle() prototype
cpuidle: psci: Prevent domain idlestates until consumers are ready
cpuidle: psci: Convert PM domain to platform driver
cpuidle: psci: Fix error path via converting to a platform driver
cpuidle: psci: Fail cpuidle registration if set OSI mode failed
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Improve uclamp performance by using a static key for the fast path
- Add the "sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default" sysctl, to optimize for
better power efficiency of RT tasks on battery powered devices.
(The default is to maximize performance & reduce RT latencies.)
- Improve utime and stime tracking accuracy, which had a fixed boundary
of error, which created larger and larger relative errors as the
values become larger. This is now replaced with more precise
arithmetics, using the new mul_u64_u64_div_u64() helper in math64.h.
- Improve the deadline scheduler, such as making it capacity aware
- Improve frequency-invariant scheduling
- Misc cleanups in energy/power aware scheduling
- Add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint to track changes to nr_running
- Documentation additions and updates
- Misc cleanups and smaller fixes
* tag 'sched-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
sched/doc: Factorize bits between sched-energy.rst & sched-capacity.rst
sched/doc: Document capacity aware scheduling
sched: Document arch_scale_*_capacity()
arm, arm64: Fix selection of CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value
sched/uclamp: Fix a deadlock when enabling uclamp static key
sched: Remove duplicated tick_nohz_full_enabled() check
sched: Fix a typo in a comment
sched/uclamp: Remove unnecessary mutex_init()
arm, arm64: Select CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
sched: Cleanup SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE kconfig entry
arch_topology, sched/core: Cleanup thermal pressure definition
trace/events/sched.h: fix duplicated word
linux/sched/mm.h: drop duplicated words in comments
smp: Fix a potential usage of stale nr_cpus
sched/fair: update_pick_idlest() Select group with lowest group_util when idle_cpus are equal
sched: nohz: stop passing around unused "ticks" parameter.
sched: Better document ttwu()
sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running
...
* pm-cpufreq: (24 commits)
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix EPP setting via sysfs in active mode
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange the storing of new EPP values
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up aperf_mperf_shift description
cpufreq: powernv: Make some symbols static
cpufreq: amd_freq_sensitivity: Mark sometimes used ID structs as __maybe_unused
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Supply struct attribute description for get_aperf_mperf_shift()
cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Mark sometimes used ID structs as __maybe_unused
cpufreq: powernow-k8: Mark 'hi' and 'lo' dummy variables as __always_unused
cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Mark sometimes used ID structs as __maybe_unused
cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Mark 'dummy' variable as __always_unused
cpufreq: powernv-cpufreq: Fix a bunch of kerneldoc related issues
cpufreq: pasemi: Include header file for {check,restore}_astate prototypes
cpufreq: cpufreq_governor: Demote store_sampling_rate() header to standard comment block
cpufreq: cpufreq: Demote lots of function headers unworthy of kerneldoc status
cpufreq: freq_table: Demote obvious misuse of kerneldoc to standard comment blocks
cpufreq: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix static checker warning for epp variable
cpufreq: Remove the weakly defined cpufreq_default_governor()
cpufreq: Specify default governor on command line
...
* pm-em:
OPP: refactor dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() and update related drivers
Documentation: power: update Energy Model description
PM / EM: change name of em_pd_energy to em_cpu_energy
PM / EM: remove em_register_perf_domain
PM / EM: add support for other devices than CPUs in Energy Model
PM / EM: update callback structure and add device pointer
PM / EM: introduce em_dev_register_perf_domain function
PM / EM: change naming convention from 'capacity' to 'performance'
* pm-core:
mmc: jz4740: Use pm_ptr() macro
PM: Make *_DEV_PM_OPS macros use __maybe_unused
PM: core: introduce pm_ptr() macro
RT tasks by default run at the highest capacity/performance level. When
uclamp is selected this default behavior is retained by enforcing the
requested uclamp.min (p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) of the RT tasks to be
uclamp_none(UCLAMP_MAX), which is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE; the maximum
value.
This is also referred to as 'the default boost value of RT tasks'.
See commit 1a00d99997 ("sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks").
On battery powered devices, it is desired to control this default
(currently hardcoded) behavior at runtime to reduce energy consumed by
RT tasks.
For example, a mobile device manufacturer where big.LITTLE architecture
is dominant, the performance of the little cores varies across SoCs, and
on high end ones the big cores could be too power hungry.
Given the diversity of SoCs, the new knob allows manufactures to tune
the best performance/power for RT tasks for the particular hardware they
run on.
They could opt to further tune the value when the user selects
a different power saving mode or when the device is actively charging.
The runtime aspect of it further helps in creating a single kernel image
that can be run on multiple devices that require different tuning.
Keep in mind that a lot of RT tasks in the system are created by the
kernel. On Android for instance I can see over 50 RT tasks, only
a handful of which created by the Android framework.
To control the default behavior globally by system admins and device
integrator, introduce the new sysctl_sched_uclamp_util_min_rt_default
to change the default boost value of the RT tasks.
I anticipate this to be mostly in the form of modifying the init script
of a particular device.
To avoid polluting the fast path with unnecessary code, the approach
taken is to synchronously do the update by traversing all the existing
tasks in the system. This could race with a concurrent fork(), which is
dealt with by introducing sched_post_fork() function which will ensure
the racy fork will get the right update applied.
Tested on Juno-r2 in combination with the RT capacity awareness [1].
By default an RT task will go to the highest capacity CPU and run at the
maximum frequency, which is particularly energy inefficient on high end
mobile devices because the biggest core[s] are 'huge' and power hungry.
With this patch the RT task can be controlled to run anywhere by
default, and doesn't cause the frequency to be maximum all the time.
Yet any task that really needs to be boosted can easily escape this
default behavior by modifying its requested uclamp.min value
(p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) via sched_setattr() syscall.
[1] 804d402fb6: ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
The following splat was caught when setting uclamp value of a task:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:49
cpus_read_lock+0x68/0x130
static_key_enable+0x1c/0x38
__sched_setscheduler+0x900/0xad8
Fix by ensuring we enable the key outside of the critical section in
__sched_setscheduler()
Fixes: 46609ce227 ("sched/uclamp: Protect uclamp fast path code with static key")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-4-qais.yousef@arm.com
Since the default_wake_function() passes its flags onto
try_to_wake_up(), warn if those flags collide with internal values.
Given that the supplied flags are garbage, no repair can be done but at
least alert the user to the damage they are causing.
In the belief that these errors should be picked up during testing, the
warning is only compiled in under CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200723201042.18861-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
The following commit:
14533a16c4 ("thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code")
moved the definition of arch_set_thermal_pressure() to sched/core.c, but
kept its declaration in linux/arch_topology.h. When building e.g. an x86
kernel with CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE=y, cpufreq_cooling.c ends up
getting the declaration of arch_set_thermal_pressure() from
include/linux/arch_topology.h, which is somewhat awkward.
On top of this, sched/core.c unconditionally defines
o The thermal_pressure percpu variable
o arch_set_thermal_pressure()
while arch_scale_thermal_pressure() does nothing unless redefined by the
architecture.
arch_*() functions are meant to be defined by architectures, so revert the
aforementioned commit and re-implement it in a way that keeps
arch_set_thermal_pressure() architecture-definable, and doesn't define the
thermal pressure percpu variable for kernels that don't need
it (CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE=n).
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712165917.9168-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
In slow path, when selecting idlest group, if both groups have type
group_has_spare, only idle_cpus count gets compared.
As a result, if multiple tasks are created in a tight loop,
and go back to sleep immediately
(while waiting for all tasks to be created),
they may be scheduled on the same core, because CPU is back to idle
when the new fork happen.
For example:
sudo perf record -e sched:sched_wakeup_new -- \
sysbench threads --threads=4 run
...
total number of events: 61582
...
sudo perf script
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.633466: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129380 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.634718: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129381 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.635957: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129382 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.637183: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129383 [120] success=1 CPU:007
This may have negative impact on performance for workloads with frequent
creation of multiple threads.
In this patch we are using group_util to select idlest group if both groups
have equal number of idle_cpus. Comparing the number of idle cpu is
not enough in this case, because the newly forked thread sleeps
immediately and before we select the cpu for the next one.
This is shown in the trace where the same CPU7 is selected for
all wakeup_new events.
That's why, looking at utilization when there is the same number of
CPU is a good way to see where the previous task was placed. Using
nr_running doesn't solve the problem because the newly forked task is not
running and the cpu would not have been idle in this case and an idle
CPU would have been selected instead.
With this patch newly created tasks would be better distributed.
With this patch:
sudo perf record -e sched:sched_wakeup_new -- \
sysbench threads --threads=4 run
...
total number of events: 74401
...
sudo perf script
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.853257: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129457 [120] success=1 CPU:008
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.854489: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129458 [120] success=1 CPU:009
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.855732: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129459 [120] success=1 CPU:010
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.856980: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
sysbench:129460 [120] success=1 CPU:011
We tested this patch with following benchmarks:
master: 'commit b3a9e3b962 ("Linux 5.8-rc1")'
100 iterations of: perf bench -f simple futex wake -s -t 128 -w 1
Lower result is better
| | BASELINE | +PATCH | DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean | 0.33 | 0.313 | +5.152 |
| std (%) | 10.433 | 7.563 | |
100 iterations of: sysbench threads --threads=8 run
Higher result is better
| | BASELINE | +PATCH | DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean | 5235.02 | 5863.73 | +12.01 |
| std (%) | 8.166 | 10.265 | |
100 iterations of: sysbench mutex --mutex-num=1 --threads=8 run
Lower result is better
| | BASELINE | +PATCH | DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean | 0.413 | 0.404 | +2.179 |
| std (%) | 3.791 | 1.816 | |
Signed-off-by: Peter Puhov <peter.puhov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714125941.4174-1-peter.puhov@linaro.org
There is apparently one site that violates the rule that only current
and ttwu() will modify task->state, namely ptrace_{,un}freeze_traced()
will change task->state for a remote task.
Oleg explains:
"TASK_TRACED/TASK_STOPPED was always protected by siglock. In
particular, ttwu(__TASK_TRACED) must be always called with siglock
held. That is why ptrace_freeze_traced() assumes it can safely do
s/TASK_TRACED/__TASK_TRACED/ under spin_lock(siglock)."
This breaks the ordering scheme introduced by commit:
dbfb089d36 ("sched: Fix loadavg accounting race")
Specifically, the reload not matching no longer implies we don't have
to block.
Simply things by noting that what we need is a LOAD->STORE ordering
and this can be provided by a control dependency.
So replace:
prev_state = prev->state;
raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
smp_mb__after_spinlock(); /* SMP-MB */
if (... && prev_state && prev_state == prev->state)
deactivate_task();
with:
prev_state = prev->state;
if (... && prev_state) /* CTRL-DEP */
deactivate_task();
Since that already implies the 'prev->state' load must be complete
before allowing the 'prev->on_rq = 0' store to become visible.
Fixes: dbfb089d36 ("sched: Fix loadavg accounting race")
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Tested-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
task_h_load() can return 0 in some situations like running stress-ng
mmapfork, which forks thousands of threads, in a sched group on a 224 cores
system. The load balance doesn't handle this correctly because
env->imbalance never decreases and it will stop pulling tasks only after
reaching loop_max, which can be equal to the number of running tasks of
the cfs. Make sure that imbalance will be decreased by at least 1.
misfit task is the other feature that doesn't handle correctly such
situation although it's probably more difficult to face the problem
because of the smaller number of CPUs and running tasks on heterogenous
system.
We can't simply ensure that task_h_load() returns at least one because it
would imply to handle underflow in other places.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.4+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710152426.16981-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks
->nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and
provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the
form of a heat map. The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external
kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including
the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at:
https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git
A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be
found at:
https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running
The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which
are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in
the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include
is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core.
Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629192303.GC120228@lorien.usersys.redhat.com
There is a report that when uclamp is enabled, a netperf UDP test
regresses compared to a kernel compiled without uclamp.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200529100806.GA3070@suse.de/
While investigating the root cause, there were no sign that the uclamp
code is doing anything particularly expensive but could suffer from bad
cache behavior under certain circumstances that are yet to be
understood.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200616110824.dgkkbyapn3io6wik@e107158-lin/
To reduce the pressure on the fast path anyway, add a static key that is
by default will skip executing uclamp logic in the
enqueue/dequeue_task() fast path until it's needed.
As soon as the user start using util clamp by:
1. Changing uclamp value of a task with sched_setattr()
2. Modifying the default sysctl_sched_util_clamp_{min, max}
3. Modifying the default cpu.uclamp.{min, max} value in cgroup
We flip the static key now that the user has opted to use util clamp.
Effectively re-introducing uclamp logic in the enqueue/dequeue_task()
fast path. It stays on from that point forward until the next reboot.
This should help minimize the effect of util clamp on workloads that
don't need it but still allow distros to ship their kernels with uclamp
compiled in by default.
SCHED_WARN_ON() in uclamp_rq_dec_id() was removed since now we can end
up with unbalanced call to uclamp_rq_dec_id() if we flip the key while
a task is running in the rq. Since we know it is harmless we just
quietly return if we attempt a uclamp_rq_dec_id() when
rq->uclamp[].bucket[].tasks is 0.
In schedutil, we introduce a new uclamp_is_enabled() helper which takes
the static key into account to ensure RT boosting behavior is retained.
The following results demonstrates how this helps on 2 Sockets Xeon E5
2x10-Cores system.
nouclamp uclamp uclamp-static-key
Hmean send-64 162.43 ( 0.00%) 157.84 * -2.82%* 163.39 * 0.59%*
Hmean send-128 324.71 ( 0.00%) 314.78 * -3.06%* 326.18 * 0.45%*
Hmean send-256 641.55 ( 0.00%) 628.67 * -2.01%* 648.12 * 1.02%*
Hmean send-1024 2525.28 ( 0.00%) 2448.26 * -3.05%* 2543.73 * 0.73%*
Hmean send-2048 4836.14 ( 0.00%) 4712.08 * -2.57%* 4867.69 * 0.65%*
Hmean send-3312 7540.83 ( 0.00%) 7425.45 * -1.53%* 7621.06 * 1.06%*
Hmean send-4096 9124.53 ( 0.00%) 8948.82 * -1.93%* 9276.25 * 1.66%*
Hmean send-8192 15589.67 ( 0.00%) 15486.35 * -0.66%* 15819.98 * 1.48%*
Hmean send-16384 26386.47 ( 0.00%) 25752.25 * -2.40%* 26773.74 * 1.47%*
The perf diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is
disabled in the fast path:
8.73% -1.55% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_to_wake_up
0.07% +0.04% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] deactivate_task
0.13% -0.02% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] activate_task
The diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is enabled
in the fast path:
8.73% -0.72% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_to_wake_up
0.13% +0.39% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] activate_task
0.07% +0.38% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] deactivate_task
Fixes: 69842cba9a ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting")
Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630112123.12076-3-qais.yousef@arm.com
struct uclamp_rq was zeroed out entirely in assumption that in the first
call to uclamp_rq_inc() they'd be initialized correctly in accordance to
default settings.
But when next patch introduces a static key to skip
uclamp_rq_{inc,dec}() until userspace opts in to use uclamp, schedutil
will fail to perform any frequency changes because the
rq->uclamp[UCLAMP_MAX].value is zeroed at init and stays as such. Which
means all rqs are capped to 0 by default.
Fix it by making sure we do proper initialization at init without
relying on uclamp_rq_inc() doing it later.
Fixes: 69842cba9a ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630112123.12076-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
