Re: Missing recalculation of scheduler tunables in case of cpu hotadd/remove

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 26 2009 - 11:46:00 EST


On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 17:31 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 17:25 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> >
> >>> Aside from that, we probably should put an upper limit in place, as I
> >>> guess large cpu count machines get silly large values
> >>>
> >> I agree to that, but in the code is already an upper limit of
> >> 200.000.000 - well we might discuss if that is too low/high.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I think we should cap it around the 8-16 CPUs.
> >
> >
> ok for me, driven by that finding I think I have to measure different
> kind of scalings anyway, but as usually that takes some time :-/
> At least too time much for the discussion & solution of that bug I guess.
>
> The question for now is what we do on cpu hot add/remove?
> Would hooking somewhere in kernel/cpu.c be the right approach - I'm not
> quite sure about my own suggestion yet :-).

Something like the below might work I suppose, just needs a cleanup and
such.


diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 0cbf2ef..210365f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -814,6 +814,7 @@ const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate = 32;
* default: 0.25ms
*/
unsigned int sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit = 250000;
+unsigned int default_sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit = 250000;

/*
* Inject some fuzzyness into changing the per-cpu group shares
@@ -1810,6 +1811,7 @@ static void cfs_rq_set_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, unsigned long shares)
#endif

static void calc_load_account_active(struct rq *this_rq);
+static void update_sysctl(void);

#include "sched_stats.h"
#include "sched_idletask.c"
@@ -7019,22 +7021,24 @@ cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask;
*
* This idea comes from the SD scheduler of Con Kolivas:
*/
-static inline void sched_init_granularity(void)
+#define SET_SYSCTL(name, factor) \
+ sysctl_##name = (factor) * default_sysctl_##name
+
+static void update_sysctl(void)
{
- unsigned int factor = 1 + ilog2(num_online_cpus());
+ unsigned int cpus = max(num_active_cpus(), 8);
+ unsigned int factor = 1 + ilog2(cpus);
const unsigned long limit = 200000000;

- sysctl_sched_min_granularity *= factor;
- if (sysctl_sched_min_granularity > limit)
- sysctl_sched_min_granularity = limit;
-
- sysctl_sched_latency *= factor;
- if (sysctl_sched_latency > limit)
- sysctl_sched_latency = limit;
-
- sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity *= factor;
+ SET_SYSCTL(sched_min_granularity);
+ SET_SYSCTL(sched_latency);
+ SET_SYSCTL(sched_wakeup_granularity);
+ SET_SYSCTL(sched_shares_ratelimit);
+}

- sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit *= factor;
+static inline void sched_init_granularity(void)
+{
+ update_sysctl();
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 0ff21af..4d429b8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@
* run vmstat and monitor the context-switches (cs) field)
*/
unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;
+unsigned int default_sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;

/*
* Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
* (default: 1 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
*/
unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;
+unsigned int default_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;

/*
* is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_sched_compat_yield;
* have immediate wakeup/sleep latencies.
*/
unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity = 1000000UL;
+unsigned int default_sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity = 1000000UL;

const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost = 500000UL;

@@ -1905,6 +1908,17 @@ move_one_task_fair(struct rq *this_rq, int this_cpu, struct rq *busiest,

return 0;
}
+
+static void rq_online_fair(struct rq *rq)
+{
+ update_sysctl();
+}
+
+static void rq_offline_fair(struct rq *rq)
+{
+ update_sysctl();
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */

/*
@@ -2052,6 +2066,8 @@ static const struct sched_class fair_sched_class = {

.load_balance = load_balance_fair,
.move_one_task = move_one_task_fair,
+ .rq_online = rq_online_fair,
+ .rq_offline = rq_offline_fair,
#endif

.set_curr_task = set_curr_task_fair,


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