Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] sched/idle: Move busy_cpu accounting to idle callback

From: Aubrey Li
Date: Wed May 12 2021 - 04:08:40 EST


On 5/7/21 12:45 AM, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Currently we account nr_busy_cpus in no_hz idle functions.
> There is no reason why nr_busy_cpus should updated be in NO_HZ_COMMON
> configs only. Also scheduler can mark a CPU as non-busy as soon as an
> idle class task starts to run. Scheduler can then mark a CPU as busy
> as soon as its woken up from idle or a new task is placed on it's
> runqueue.

IIRC, we discussed this before, if a SCHED_IDLE task is placed on the
CPU's runqueue, this CPU should be still taken as a wakeup target.

Also, for those frequent context-switching tasks with very short idle,
it's expensive for scheduler to mark idle/busy every time, that's why
my patch only marks idle every time and marks busy ratelimited in
scheduler tick.

Thanks,
-Aubrey

>
> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Parth Shah <parth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 ++++--
> kernel/sched/idle.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 1 +
> kernel/sched/topology.c | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index c30587631a24..4d3b0928fe98 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -10394,7 +10394,10 @@ static void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(int cpu)
> goto unlock;
> sd->nohz_idle = 0;
>
> - atomic_inc(&sd->shared->nr_busy_cpus);
> + if (sd && per_cpu(is_idle, cpu)) {
> + atomic_add_unless(&sd->shared->nr_busy_cpus, 1, per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu));
> + per_cpu(is_idle, cpu) = 0;
> + }
> unlock:
> rcu_read_unlock();
> }
> @@ -10424,7 +10427,6 @@ static void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(int cpu)
> goto unlock;
> sd->nohz_idle = 1;
>
> - atomic_dec(&sd->shared->nr_busy_cpus);
> unlock:
> rcu_read_unlock();
> }
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> index cc828f3efe71..e624a05e48bd 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
> @@ -425,12 +425,25 @@ static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int fl
>
> static void put_prev_task_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> + struct sched_domain_shared *sds;
> int cpu = rq->cpu;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> if (static_branch_likely(&sched_smt_present))
> set_core_busy(cpu);
> #endif
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + sds = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu));
> + if (sds) {
> + if (per_cpu(is_idle, cpu)) {
> + atomic_inc(&sds->nr_busy_cpus);
> + per_cpu(is_idle, cpu) = 0;
> + }
> + }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +#endif
> }
>
> static void set_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *next, bool first)
> @@ -442,9 +455,21 @@ static void set_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *next, bool fir
> struct task_struct *pick_next_task_idle(struct rq *rq)
> {
> struct task_struct *next = rq->idle;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> + struct sched_domain_shared *sds;
> + int cpu = rq->cpu;
>
> - set_next_task_idle(rq, next, true);
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + sds = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu));
> + if (sds) {
> + atomic_add_unless(&sds->nr_busy_cpus, -1, 0);
> + per_cpu(is_idle, cpu) = 1;
> + }
>
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +#endif
> +
> + set_next_task_idle(rq, next, true);
> return next;
> }
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index 5c0bd4b0e73a..baf8d9a4cb26 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, smt_id);
> #endif
> +DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, is_idle);
> DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain_shared __rcu *, sd_llc_shared);
> DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain __rcu *, sd_numa);
> DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain __rcu *, sd_asym_packing);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index 8db40c8a6ad0..00e4669bb241 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -647,6 +647,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, smt_id);
> #endif
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, is_idle);
> DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain_shared __rcu *, sd_llc_shared);
> DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain __rcu *, sd_numa);
> DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain __rcu *, sd_asym_packing);
> @@ -673,6 +674,7 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> per_cpu(smt_id, cpu) = cpumask_first(cpu_smt_mask(cpu));
> #endif
> + per_cpu(is_idle, cpu) = 1;
> rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu), sds);
>
> sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_NUMA);
>