[PATCH 2/2] sched: prefer wakers

[Peter Zijlstra]

Prefer tasks that wake other tasks to preempt quickly. This improves
performance because more work is available sooner.

The workload that prompted this patch was a kernel build over NFS4 (for some
curious and not understood reason we had to revert commit:
18de9735300756e3ca9c361ef58409d8561dfe0d to make any progress at all)

Without this patch a make -j8 bzImage (of x86-64 defconfig) would take
3m30-ish, with this patch we're down to 2m50-ish.

psql-sysbench/mysql-sysbench show a slight improvement in peak performance as
well, tbench and vmark seemed to not care.

It is possible to improve upon the build time (to 2m20-ish) but that seriously
destroys other benchmarks (just shows that there's more room for tinkering).

Much thanks to Mike who put in a lot of effort to benchmark things and proved
a worthy opponent with a competing patch.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/sched.h   |    3 ++
 kernel/sched.c          |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 kernel/sched_debug.c    |    1 
 kernel/sched_fair.c     |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 kernel/sched_features.h |    3 +-
 5 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1295,16 +1295,63 @@ out:
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
-static unsigned long wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *se)
+/*
+ * Adaptive granularity
+ *
+ * se->avg_wakeup gives the average time a task runs until it does a wakeup,
+ * with the limit of wakeup_gran -- when it never does a wakeup.
+ *
+ * So the smaller avg_wakeup is the faster we want this task to preempt,
+ * but we don't want to treat the preemptee unfairly and therefore allow it
+ * to run for at least the amount of time we'd like to run.
+ *
+ * NOTE: we use 2*avg_wakeup to increase the probability of actually doing one
+ *
+ * NOTE: we use *nr_running to scale with load, this nicely matches the
+ *       degrading latency on load.
+ */
+static unsigned long
+adaptive_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+	u64 this_run = curr->sum_exec_runtime - curr->prev_sum_exec_runtime;
+	u64 expected_wakeup = 2*se->avg_wakeup * cfs_rq_of(se)->nr_running;
+	u64 gran = 0;
+
+	if (this_run < expected_wakeup)
+		gran = expected_wakeup - this_run;
+
+	return min_t(s64, gran, sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity);
+}
+
+static unsigned long
+wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
 {
 	unsigned long gran = sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
 
+	if (cfs_rq_of(curr)->curr && sched_feat(ADAPTIVE_GRAN))
+		gran = adaptive_gran(curr, se);
+
 	/*
-	 * More easily preempt - nice tasks, while not making it harder for
-	 * + nice tasks.
+	 * Since its curr running now, convert the gran from real-time
+	 * to virtual-time in his units.
 	 */
-	if (!sched_feat(ASYM_GRAN) || se->load.weight > NICE_0_LOAD)
-		gran = calc_delta_fair(sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity, se);
+	if (sched_feat(ASYM_GRAN)) {
+		/*
+		 * By using 'se' instead of 'curr' we penalize light tasks, so
+		 * they get preempted easier. That is, if 'se' < 'curr' then
+		 * the resulting gran will be larger, therefore penalizing the
+		 * lighter, if otoh 'se' > 'curr' then the resulting gran will
+		 * be smaller, again penalizing the lighter task.
+		 *
+		 * This is especially important for buddies when the leftmost
+		 * task is higher priority than the buddy.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(se->load.weight != NICE_0_LOAD))
+			gran = calc_delta_fair(gran, se);
+	} else {
+		if (unlikely(curr->load.weight != NICE_0_LOAD))
+			gran = calc_delta_fair(gran, curr);
+	}
 
 	return gran;
 }
@@ -1331,7 +1378,7 @@ wakeup_preempt_entity(struct sched_entit
 	if (vdiff <= 0)
 		return -1;
 
-	gran = wakeup_gran(curr);
+	gran = wakeup_gran(curr, se);
 	if (vdiff > gran)
 		return 1;
 
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SCHED_FEAT(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER, 0)
 SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPT, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(START_DEBIT, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
@@ -13,4 +13,5 @@ SCHED_FEAT(LB_WAKEUP_UPDATE, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_EFF_LOAD, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_OVERLAP, 0)
 SCHED_FEAT(LAST_BUDDY, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(ADAPTIVE_GRAN, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(OWNER_SPIN, 1)

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