linux/kernel
Peter Zijlstra 94aafc3ee3 sched/fair: Age the average idle time
This is a partial forward-port of Peter Ziljstra's work first posted
at:

   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180530142236.667774973@infradead.org/

Currently select_idle_cpu()'s proportional scheme uses the average idle
time *for when we are idle*, that is temporally challenged.  When a CPU
is not at all idle, we'll happily continue using whatever value we did
see when the CPU goes idle. To fix this, introduce a separate average
idle and age it (the existing value still makes sense for things like
new-idle balancing, which happens when we do go idle).

The overall goal is to not spend more time scanning for idle CPUs than
we're idle for. Otherwise we're inhibiting work. This means that we need to
consider the cost over all the wake-ups between consecutive idle periods.
To track this, the scan cost is subtracted from the estimated average
idle time.

The impact of this patch is related to workloads that have domains that
are fully busy or overloaded. Without the patch, the scan depth may be
too high because a CPU is not reaching idle.

Due to the nature of the patch, this is a regression magnet. It
potentially wins when domains are almost fully busy or overloaded --
at that point searches are likely to fail but idle is not being aged
as CPUs are active so search depth is too large and useless. It will
potentially show regressions when there are idle CPUs and a deep search is
beneficial. This tbench result on a 2-socket broadwell machine partially
illustates the problem

                          5.13.0-rc2             5.13.0-rc2
                             vanilla     sched-avgidle-v1r5
Hmean     1        445.02 (   0.00%)      451.36 *   1.42%*
Hmean     2        830.69 (   0.00%)      846.03 *   1.85%*
Hmean     4       1350.80 (   0.00%)     1505.56 *  11.46%*
Hmean     8       2888.88 (   0.00%)     2586.40 * -10.47%*
Hmean     16      5248.18 (   0.00%)     5305.26 *   1.09%*
Hmean     32      8914.03 (   0.00%)     9191.35 *   3.11%*
Hmean     64     10663.10 (   0.00%)    10192.65 *  -4.41%*
Hmean     128    18043.89 (   0.00%)    18478.92 *   2.41%*
Hmean     256    16530.89 (   0.00%)    17637.16 *   6.69%*
Hmean     320    16451.13 (   0.00%)    17270.97 *   4.98%*

Note that 8 was a regression point where a deeper search would have helped
but it gains for high thread counts when searches are useless. Hackbench
is a more extreme example although not perfect as the tasks idle rapidly

hackbench-process-pipes
                          5.13.0-rc2             5.13.0-rc2
                             vanilla     sched-avgidle-v1r5
Amean     1        0.3950 (   0.00%)      0.3887 (   1.60%)
Amean     4        0.9450 (   0.00%)      0.9677 (  -2.40%)
Amean     7        1.4737 (   0.00%)      1.4890 (  -1.04%)
Amean     12       2.3507 (   0.00%)      2.3360 *   0.62%*
Amean     21       4.0807 (   0.00%)      4.0993 *  -0.46%*
Amean     30       5.6820 (   0.00%)      5.7510 *  -1.21%*
Amean     48       8.7913 (   0.00%)      8.7383 (   0.60%)
Amean     79      14.3880 (   0.00%)     13.9343 *   3.15%*
Amean     110     21.2233 (   0.00%)     19.4263 *   8.47%*
Amean     141     28.2930 (   0.00%)     25.1003 *  11.28%*
Amean     172     34.7570 (   0.00%)     30.7527 *  11.52%*
Amean     203     41.0083 (   0.00%)     36.4267 *  11.17%*
Amean     234     47.7133 (   0.00%)     42.0623 *  11.84%*
Amean     265     53.0353 (   0.00%)     47.7720 *   9.92%*
Amean     296     60.0170 (   0.00%)     53.4273 *  10.98%*
Stddev    1        0.0052 (   0.00%)      0.0025 (  51.57%)
Stddev    4        0.0357 (   0.00%)      0.0370 (  -3.75%)
Stddev    7        0.0190 (   0.00%)      0.0298 ( -56.64%)
Stddev    12       0.0064 (   0.00%)      0.0095 ( -48.38%)
Stddev    21       0.0065 (   0.00%)      0.0097 ( -49.28%)
Stddev    30       0.0185 (   0.00%)      0.0295 ( -59.54%)
Stddev    48       0.0559 (   0.00%)      0.0168 (  69.92%)
Stddev    79       0.1559 (   0.00%)      0.0278 (  82.17%)
Stddev    110      1.1728 (   0.00%)      0.0532 (  95.47%)
Stddev    141      0.7867 (   0.00%)      0.0968 (  87.69%)
Stddev    172      1.0255 (   0.00%)      0.0420 (  95.91%)
Stddev    203      0.8106 (   0.00%)      0.1384 (  82.92%)
Stddev    234      1.1949 (   0.00%)      0.1328 (  88.89%)
Stddev    265      0.9231 (   0.00%)      0.0820 (  91.11%)
Stddev    296      1.0456 (   0.00%)      0.1327 (  87.31%)

Again, higher thread counts benefit and the standard deviation
shows that results are also a lot more stable when the idle
time is aged.

The patch potentially matters when a socket was multiple LLCs as the
maximum search depth is lower. However, some of the test results were
suspiciously good (e.g. specjbb2005 gaining 50% on a Zen1 machine) and
other results were not dramatically different to other mcahines.

Given the nature of the patch, Peter's full series is not being forward
ported as each part should stand on its own. Preferably they would be
merged at different times to reduce the risk of false bisections.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615111611.GH30378@techsingularity.net
2021-06-17 14:11:44 +02:00
..
bpf bpf: No need to simulate speculative domain for immediates 2021-05-25 22:08:53 +02:00
cgroup cgroup: fix spelling mistakes 2021-05-24 12:45:26 -04:00
configs drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good 2021-05-07 00:26:34 -07:00
debug printk changes for 5.13 2021-04-27 18:09:44 -07:00
dma Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb 2021-05-04 10:58:49 -07:00
entry tick/nohz: Only check for RCU deferred wakeup on user/guest entry when needed 2021-05-31 10:14:49 +02:00
events Merge branch 'for-v5.13-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-05-21 06:12:52 -10:00
gcov gcov: clang: drop support for clang-10 and older 2021-05-07 00:26:32 -07:00
irq gpio updates for v5.13 2021-05-05 12:39:29 -07:00
kcsan kcsan: Fix debugfs initcall return type 2021-05-18 10:58:02 -07:00
livepatch Livepatching changes for 5.13 2021-04-27 18:14:38 -07:00
locking locking/mutex: clear MUTEX_FLAGS if wait_list is empty due to signal 2021-05-18 12:53:51 +02:00
power PM: sleep: fix typos in comments 2021-04-08 19:37:21 +02:00
printk kernel/printk.c: Fixed mundane typos 2021-03-30 15:34:17 +02:00
rcu Merge branches 'bitmaprange.2021.03.08a', 'fixes.2021.03.15a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.03.08a', 'mmdumpobj.2021.03.08a', 'nocb.2021.03.15a', 'poll.2021.03.24a', 'rt.2021.03.08a', 'tasks.2021.03.08a', 'torture.2021.03.08a' and 'torturescript.2021.03.22a' into HEAD 2021-03-24 17:20:18 -07:00
sched sched/fair: Age the average idle time 2021-06-17 14:11:44 +02:00
time tick/nohz: Only check for RCU deferred wakeup on user/guest entry when needed 2021-05-31 10:14:49 +02:00
trace tracing: Handle %.*s in trace_check_vprintf() 2021-05-13 14:20:33 -04:00
.gitignore .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
acct.c kernel/acct.c: use #elif instead of #end and #elif 2020-12-15 22:46:15 -08:00
async.c kernel/async.c: remove async_unregister_domain() 2021-05-07 00:26:33 -07:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit_alloc_mark(): don't open-code ERR_CAST() 2021-02-23 10:25:27 -05:00
audit_tree.c fsnotify: generalize handle_inode_event() 2020-12-03 14:58:35 +01:00
audit_watch.c fsnotify: generalize handle_inode_event() 2020-12-03 14:58:35 +01:00
audit.c lsm: separate security_task_getsecid() into subjective and objective variants 2021-03-22 15:23:32 -04:00
audit.h audit: avoid -Wempty-body warning 2021-03-24 12:11:48 -04:00
auditfilter.c lsm: separate security_task_getsecid() into subjective and objective variants 2021-03-22 15:23:32 -04:00
auditsc.c audit/stable-5.13 PR 20210426 2021-04-27 13:50:58 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c capability: handle idmapped mounts 2021-01-24 14:27:16 +01:00
cfi.c add support for Clang CFI 2021-04-08 16:04:20 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c cpumask/hotplug: Fix cpu_dying() state tracking 2021-04-21 13:55:43 +02:00
crash_core.c kdump: append uts_namespace.name offset to VMCOREINFO 2020-12-15 22:46:18 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c kernel/cred.c: make init_groups static 2021-05-06 19:24:11 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: Add sysctl to enable at runtime 2021-05-12 11:43:25 +02:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c do_wait: make PIDTYPE_PID case O(1) instead of O(n) 2021-05-06 19:24:13 -07:00
extable.c
fail_function.c fault-injection: handle EI_ETYPE_TRUE 2020-12-15 22:46:19 -08:00
fork.c sched: Stop PF_NO_SETAFFINITY from being inherited by various init system threads 2021-05-26 08:58:53 +02:00
freezer.c Revert "kernel: freezer should treat PF_IO_WORKER like PF_KTHREAD for freezing" 2021-03-27 14:09:10 -06:00
futex.c futex: Make syscall entry points less convoluted 2021-05-06 20:19:04 +02:00
gen_kheaders.sh kbuild: redo fake deps at include/config/*.h 2021-04-25 05:26:10 +09:00
groups.c groups: simplify struct group_info allocation 2021-02-26 09:41:03 -08:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: make type annotations consistent 2020-11-02 12:14:19 -08:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c irq_work: record irq_work_queue() call stack 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
jump_label.c static_call: Fix static_call_update() sanity check 2021-03-19 13:16:44 +01:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: strip ThinLTO hashes from static functions 2021-04-08 16:04:21 -07:00
kcmp.c Merge branch 'exec-update-lock-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-12-15 19:36:48 -08:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt sched: Add CONFIG_SCHED_CORE help text 2021-06-01 16:00:10 +02:00
kcov.c kernel: make kcov_common_handle consider the current context 2020-11-02 18:00:20 -08:00
kexec_core.c kexec: dump kmessage before machine_kexec 2021-05-07 00:26:32 -07:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c kernel: kexec_file: fix error return code of kexec_calculate_store_digests() 2021-05-07 00:26:32 -07:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: move machine_kexec_post_load() to public interface 2021-02-22 12:33:26 +00:00
kexec.c
kheaders.c
kmod.c modules: add CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH 2021-05-07 00:26:33 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Fix to delay the kprobes jump optimization 2021-02-19 14:57:12 -05:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c sched: Make the idle task quack like a per-CPU kthread 2021-05-18 12:53:53 +02:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kbuild: update config_data.gz only when the content of .config is changed 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
module_signature.c module: harden ELF info handling 2021-01-19 10:24:45 +01:00
module_signing.c module: harden ELF info handling 2021-01-19 10:24:45 +01:00
module-internal.h
module.c module: check for exit sections in layout_sections() instead of module_init_section() 2021-05-17 09:48:24 +02:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c fixes-v5.11 2020-12-14 16:40:27 -08:00
padata.c
panic.c panic: don't dump stack twice on warn 2020-11-14 11:26:04 -08:00
params.c Modules updates for v5.11 2020-12-17 13:01:31 -08:00
pid_namespace.c fixes-v5.11 2020-12-14 16:40:27 -08:00
pid.c Merge branch 'exec-update-lock-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-12-15 19:36:48 -08:00
profile.c kernel: Initialize cpumask before parsing 2021-04-10 13:35:54 +02:00
ptrace.c ptrace: make ptrace() fail if the tracee changed its pid unexpectedly 2021-05-12 10:45:22 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c Revert "PM: ACPI: reboot: Use S5 for reboot" 2021-03-18 16:58:02 +01:00
regset.c
relay.c relay: allow the use of const callback structs 2020-12-15 22:46:18 -08:00
resource_kunit.c resource: provide meaningful MODULE_LICENSE() in test suite 2020-11-25 18:52:35 +01:00
resource.c kernel/resource: fix return code check in __request_free_mem_region 2021-05-14 19:41:32 -07:00
rseq.c rseq: Optimise rseq_get_rseq_cs() and clear_rseq_cs() 2021-04-14 18:04:09 +02:00
scftorture.c scftorture: Add debug output for wrong-CPU warning 2021-01-04 13:53:41 -08:00
scs.c scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks 2020-12-01 10:30:28 +00:00
seccomp.c seccomp: Refactor notification handler to prepare for new semantics 2021-05-29 11:13:27 -07:00
signal.c Merge branch 'for-v5.13-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-05-21 06:12:52 -10:00
smp.c smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async prototype 2021-05-06 15:33:49 +02:00
smpboot.c sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled 2021-05-12 13:01:45 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c RCU changes for this cycle were: 2021-04-28 12:00:13 -07:00
stackleak.c
stacktrace.c
static_call.c static_call: Fix unused variable warn w/o MODULE 2021-04-09 13:22:12 +02:00
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Add caller debug info to queue_stop_cpus_work 2021-03-23 16:01:58 +01:00
sys_ni.c Add Landlock, a new LSM from Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com> 2021-05-01 18:50:44 -07:00
sys.c sched: prctl() core-scheduling interface 2021-05-12 11:43:31 +02:00
sysctl-test.c
sysctl.c Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2021-06-03 19:00:49 +02:00
task_work.c kasan: record task_work_add() call stack 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
taskstats.c treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c torture: Replace torture_init_begin string with %s 2021-03-08 14:22:28 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoints: Code clean up 2021-02-09 12:27:29 -05:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c fanotify: configurable limits via sysfs 2021-03-16 16:49:31 +01:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes 2021-05-07 00:26:34 -07:00
up.c A set of locking related fixes and updates: 2021-05-09 13:07:03 -07:00
user_namespace.c kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos 2021-05-07 00:26:34 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
usermode_driver.c bpf: Fix umd memory leak in copy_process() 2021-03-19 22:23:19 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
watch_queue.c watch_queue: rectify kernel-doc for init_watch() 2021-01-26 11:16:34 +00:00
watchdog_hld.c
watchdog.c watchdog: reliable handling of timestamps 2021-05-22 15:09:07 -10:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c wq: handle VM suspension in stall detection 2021-05-20 12:58:30 -04:00