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Linus Torvalds b167fdffe9 This cycle's scheduler updates for v6.0 are:
Load-balancing improvements:
 ============================
 
 - Improve NUMA balancing on AMD Zen systems for affine workloads.
 
 - Improve the handling of reduced-capacity CPUs in load-balancing.
 
 - Energy Model improvements: fix & refine all the energy fairness metrics (PELT),
   and remove the conservative threshold requiring 6% energy savings to
   migrate a task. Doing this improves power efficiency for most workloads,
   and also increases the reliability of energy-efficiency scheduling.
 
 - Optimize/tweak select_idle_cpu() to spend (much) less time searching
   for an idle CPU on overloaded systems. There's reports of several
   milliseconds spent there on large systems with large workloads ...
 
   [ Since the search logic changed, there might be behavioral side effects. ]
 
 - Improve NUMA imbalance behavior. On certain systems
   with spare capacity, initial placement of tasks is non-deterministic,
   and such an artificial placement imbalance can persist for a long time,
   hurting (and sometimes helping) performance.
 
   The fix is to make fork-time task placement consistent with runtime
   NUMA balancing placement.
 
   Note that some performance regressions were reported against this,
   caused by workloads that are not memory bandwith limited, which benefit
   from the artificial locality of the placement bug(s). Mel Gorman's
   conclusion, with which we concur, was that consistency is better than
   random workload benefits from non-deterministic bugs:
 
      "Given there is no crystal ball and it's a tradeoff, I think it's
       better to be consistent and use similar logic at both fork time
       and runtime even if it doesn't have universal benefit."
 
 - Improve core scheduling by fixing a bug in sched_core_update_cookie() that
   caused unnecessary forced idling.
 
 - Improve wakeup-balancing by allowing same-LLC wakeup of idle CPUs for newly
   woken tasks.
 
 - Fix a newidle balancing bug that introduced unnecessary wakeup latencies.
 
 ABI improvements/fixes:
 =======================
 
 - Do not check capabilities and do not issue capability check denial messages
   when a scheduler syscall doesn't require privileges. (Such as increasing niceness.)
 
 - Add forced-idle accounting to cgroups too.
 
 - Fix/improve the RSEQ ABI to not just silently accept unknown flags.
   (No existing tooling is known to have learned to rely on the previous behavior.)
 
 - Depreciate the (unused) RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags.
 
 Optimizations:
 ==============
 
 - Optimize & simplify leaf_cfs_rq_list()
 
 - Micro-optimize set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling() via try_cmpxchg().
 
 Misc fixes & cleanups:
 ======================
 
 - Fix the RSEQ self-tests on RISC-V and Glibc 2.35 systems.
 
 - Fix a full-NOHZ bug that can in some cases result in the tick not being
   re-enabled when the last SCHED_RT task is gone from a runqueue but there's
   still SCHED_OTHER tasks around.
 
 - Various PREEMPT_RT related fixes.
 
 - Misc cleanups & smaller fixes.
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Load-balancing improvements:

   - Improve NUMA balancing on AMD Zen systems for affine workloads.

   - Improve the handling of reduced-capacity CPUs in load-balancing.

   - Energy Model improvements: fix & refine all the energy fairness
     metrics (PELT), and remove the conservative threshold requiring 6%
     energy savings to migrate a task. Doing this improves power
     efficiency for most workloads, and also increases the reliability
     of energy-efficiency scheduling.

   - Optimize/tweak select_idle_cpu() to spend (much) less time
     searching for an idle CPU on overloaded systems. There's reports of
     several milliseconds spent there on large systems with large
     workloads ...

     [ Since the search logic changed, there might be behavioral side
       effects. ]

   - Improve NUMA imbalance behavior. On certain systems with spare
     capacity, initial placement of tasks is non-deterministic, and such
     an artificial placement imbalance can persist for a long time,
     hurting (and sometimes helping) performance.

     The fix is to make fork-time task placement consistent with runtime
     NUMA balancing placement.

     Note that some performance regressions were reported against this,
     caused by workloads that are not memory bandwith limited, which
     benefit from the artificial locality of the placement bug(s). Mel
     Gorman's conclusion, with which we concur, was that consistency is
     better than random workload benefits from non-deterministic bugs:

        "Given there is no crystal ball and it's a tradeoff, I think
         it's better to be consistent and use similar logic at both fork
         time and runtime even if it doesn't have universal benefit."

   - Improve core scheduling by fixing a bug in
     sched_core_update_cookie() that caused unnecessary forced idling.

   - Improve wakeup-balancing by allowing same-LLC wakeup of idle CPUs
     for newly woken tasks.

   - Fix a newidle balancing bug that introduced unnecessary wakeup
     latencies.

  ABI improvements/fixes:

   - Do not check capabilities and do not issue capability check denial
     messages when a scheduler syscall doesn't require privileges. (Such
     as increasing niceness.)

   - Add forced-idle accounting to cgroups too.

   - Fix/improve the RSEQ ABI to not just silently accept unknown flags.
     (No existing tooling is known to have learned to rely on the
     previous behavior.)

   - Depreciate the (unused) RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags.

  Optimizations:

   - Optimize & simplify leaf_cfs_rq_list()

   - Micro-optimize set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling() via try_cmpxchg().

  Misc fixes & cleanups:

   - Fix the RSEQ self-tests on RISC-V and Glibc 2.35 systems.

   - Fix a full-NOHZ bug that can in some cases result in the tick not
     being re-enabled when the last SCHED_RT task is gone from a
     runqueue but there's still SCHED_OTHER tasks around.

   - Various PREEMPT_RT related fixes.

   - Misc cleanups & smaller fixes"

* tag 'sched-core-2022-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rseq: Kill process when unknown flags are encountered in ABI structures
  rseq: Deprecate RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags
  sched/core: Fix the bug that task won't enqueue into core tree when update cookie
  nohz/full, sched/rt: Fix missed tick-reenabling bug in dequeue_task_rt()
  sched/core: Always flush pending blk_plug
  sched/fair: fix case with reduced capacity CPU
  sched/core: Use try_cmpxchg in set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling
  sched/core: add forced idle accounting for cgroups
  sched/fair: Remove the energy margin in feec()
  sched/fair: Remove task_util from effective utilization in feec()
  sched/fair: Use the same cpumask per-PD throughout find_energy_efficient_cpu()
  sched/fair: Rename select_idle_mask to select_rq_mask
  sched, drivers: Remove max param from effective_cpu_util()/sched_cpu_util()
  sched/fair: Decay task PELT values during wakeup migration
  sched/fair: Provide u64 read for 32-bits arch helper
  sched/fair: Introduce SIS_UTIL to search idle CPU based on sum of util_avg
  sched: only perform capability check on privileged operation
  sched: Remove unused function group_first_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove redundant word " *"
  selftests/rseq: check if libc rseq support is registered
  ...
2022-08-01 11:49:06 -07:00
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accounting delayacct: track delays from write-protect copy 2022-06-01 15:55:25 -07:00
arch tools headers cpufeatures: Sync with the kernel sources 2022-07-27 11:17:50 -03:00
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bpf bpftool: Use sysfs vmlinux when dumping BTF by ID 2022-05-13 16:07:53 -07:00
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certs tools/certs: Add print-cert-tbs-hash.sh 2022-05-23 18:47:49 +03:00
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iio
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io_uring
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laptop
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perf perf bpf: Remove undefined behavior from bpf_perf_object__next() 2022-07-27 11:19:39 -03:00
power Power management updates for 5.19-rc1 2022-05-24 16:04:25 -07:00
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testing This cycle's scheduler updates for v6.0 are: 2022-08-01 11:49:06 -07:00
thermal tools/thermal: remove unneeded semicolon 2022-05-19 12:11:52 +02:00
time
tracing rtla: Remove procps-ng dependency 2022-05-26 15:20:46 -04:00
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