Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] psi: Optimize task switch inside shared cgroups

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Wed Feb 17 2021 - 00:13:12 EST


Hello Johannes,

在 2021/2/17 上午4:00, Johannes Weiner 写道:
> Hello Chengming,
>
> This patch looks useful to me. A couple of comments below:
>
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 03:14:13PM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
>> The commit 36b238d57172 ("psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared
>> cgroups") only update cgroups whose state actually changes during a
>> task switch only in task preempt case, not in task sleep case.
>>
>> We actually don't need to clear and set TSK_ONCPU state for common cgroups
>> of next and prev task in sleep case, that can save many psi_group_change
>> especially when most activity comes from one leaf cgroup.
> Can you please make this a bit more concrete? Maybe include this:
>
> sleep before:
> psi_dequeue()
> while ((group = iterate_groups(prev))) # all ancestors
> psi_group_change(prev, .clear=TSK_RUNNING|TSK_ONCPU)
> psi_task_switch()
> while ((group = iterate_groups(next))) # all ancestors
> psi_group_change(next, .set=TSK_ONCPU)
>
> sleep after:
> psi_dequeue()
> nop
> psi_task_switch()
> while ((group = iterate_groups(next))) # until (prev & next)
> psi_group_change(next, .set=TSK_ONCPU)
> while ((group = iterate_groups(prev))) # all ancestors
> psi_group_change(prev, .clear = common ? TSK_RUNNING : TSK_RUNNING|TSK_ONCPU)
>
> When a voluntary sleep switches to another task, we remove one call of
> psi_group_change() for every common cgroup ancestor of the two tasks.
Thank you for the very beautiful and detailed comments, must be included : )
>> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/psi.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
>> kernel/sched/stats.h | 17 +++--------------
>> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
>> index 6e46d9eb279b..6061e87089ac 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
>> @@ -836,20 +836,27 @@ void psi_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next,
>> }
>> }
>>
>> - /*
>> - * If this is a voluntary sleep, dequeue will have taken care
>> - * of the outgoing TSK_ONCPU alongside TSK_RUNNING already. We
>> - * only need to deal with it during preemption.
>> - */
>> - if (sleep)
>> - return;
>> -
>> if (prev->pid) {
>> - psi_flags_change(prev, TSK_ONCPU, 0);
>> + int clear = 0, set = 0;
>> +
>> + if (sleep) {
>> + clear |= TSK_RUNNING;
>> + if (prev->in_iowait)
>> + set |= TSK_IOWAIT;
>> + }
> This needs a comment why it's doing psi_dequeue()'s job. How about this?
>
> /*
> * When we're going to sleep, psi_dequeue() lets us handle
> * TSK_RUNNING and TSK_IOWAIT here, where we can combine it
> * with TSK_ONCPU and save walking common ancestors twice.
> */
> if (sleep) {
> ...
Make sense, will be added.
>> + psi_flags_change(prev, clear | TSK_ONCPU, set);
>>
>> iter = NULL;
>> while ((group = iterate_groups(prev, &iter)) && group != common)
>> - psi_group_change(group, cpu, TSK_ONCPU, 0, true);
>> + psi_group_change(group, cpu, clear | TSK_ONCPU, set, true);
>> +
>> + if (sleep) {
>> + while (group) {
>> + psi_group_change(group, cpu, clear, set, true);
>> + group = iterate_groups(prev, &iter);
>> + }
>> + }
> This function is *primarily* about handling TSK_ONCPU and secondarily
> optimizes the dequeue. It would be a bit clearer to do:
>
> int clear = TSK_ONCPU, set = 0;
>
> ...
>
> /*
> * TSK_ONCPU is handled up to the common ancestor. If we're tasked
> * with dequeuing too, finish that for the rest of the hierarchy.
> */
> if (sleep) {
> clear &= TSK_ONCPU;
> for (; group; group = iterate_groups(prev, &iter))
> psi_group_change(group, cpu, clear, set, true);
> }
>
Make sense, I will modify the patch and send a patch-v2.

BTW there is a typo above: clear &= ~TSK_ONCPU;

Thanks.

>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/stats.h b/kernel/sched/stats.h
>> index 9e4e67a94731..2d92c8467678 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/stats.h
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/stats.h
>> @@ -84,28 +84,17 @@ static inline void psi_enqueue(struct task_struct *p, bool wakeup)
>>
>> static inline void psi_dequeue(struct task_struct *p, bool sleep)
>> {
>> - int clear = TSK_RUNNING, set = 0;
>> -
>> if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
>> return;
>>
>> if (!sleep) {
>> + int clear = TSK_RUNNING;
>> +
>> if (p->in_memstall)
>> clear |= TSK_MEMSTALL;
>> - } else {
>> - /*
>> - * When a task sleeps, schedule() dequeues it before
>> - * switching to the next one. Merge the clearing of
>> - * TSK_RUNNING and TSK_ONCPU to save an unnecessary
>> - * psi_task_change() call in psi_sched_switch().
>> - */
>> - clear |= TSK_ONCPU;
>>
>> - if (p->in_iowait)
>> - set |= TSK_IOWAIT;
>> + psi_task_change(p, clear, 0);
>> }
> Likewise, this really should have a comment for why it's not handling
> TSK_RUNNING to match psi_enqueue()!
>
> int clear = TSK_RUNNING;
>
> /*
> * A voluntary sleep is a dequeue followed by a task switch. To
> * avoid walking all ancestors twice, psi_task_switch() handles
> * TSK_RUNNING and TSK_IOWAIT for us when it moves TSK_ONCPU.
> * Do nothing here.
> */
> if (sleep)
> return;
>
> if (p->in_memstall)
> clear |= TSK_MEMSTALL;
>
> psi_task_change(p, clear, 0);
>
> Thanks