Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: Fix nohz_kick_needed to consider the nr_busy of the parent domain's group

From: Preeti U Murthy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:20:14 +0530

Hi Peter

On 10/23/2013 03:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This nohz stuff really needs to be re-thought and made more scalable --
> its a royal pain :/

Why  not do something like the below instead? It does the following.

This patch introduces sd_busy just like your suggested patch, except that
it points to the parent of the highest level sched domain which has the
SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES set and initializes it in update_top_cache_domain(). 
This is the sched domain that is relevant in nohz_kick_needed().

sd_set_sd_state_busy(), sd_set_sd_state_idle() and nohz_kick_needed() query
and update *only* this sched domain(sd_busy) for nr_busy_cpus. They are the
only users of this parameter. While we are at it, we might as well change
the nohz_idle parameter to be updated at the sd_busy domain level alone and
not the base domain level of a CPU. This will unify the concept of busy cpus
at just one level of sched domain.

There is no need to iterate through all levels of sched domains of a cpu to
update nr_busy_cpus since it is irrelevant at all other sched domains except
at sd_busy level.

De-couple asymmetric load balancing from the nr_busy parameter which the
PATCH 2/3 anyway does. sd_busy therefore is irrelevant for asymmetric load
balancing.

Regards
Preeti U Murthy
--------------------START_PATCH-------------------------------

sched: Fix nohz_kick_needed()

---
 kernel/sched/core.c  |    4 ++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c  |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 kernel/sched/sched.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c06b8d3..c1dd11c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5271,6 +5271,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_llc);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_numa);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_busy);
 
 static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 {
@@ -5290,6 +5291,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 
 	sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_NUMA);
 	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_numa, cpu), sd);
+
+	sd = highest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)->parent;
+	rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 813dd61..71e6f14 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6515,16 +6515,16 @@ static inline void nohz_balance_exit_idle(int cpu)
 static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_busy(void)
 {
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
+	sd = per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu);
 
 	if (!sd || !sd->nohz_idle)
 		goto unlock;
 	sd->nohz_idle = 0;
 
-	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
-		atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+	atomic_inc(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
@@ -6532,16 +6532,16 @@ unlock:
 void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void)
 {
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq()->sd);
+	sd = per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu);
 
 	if (!sd || sd->nohz_idle)
 		goto unlock;
 	sd->nohz_idle = 1;
 
-	for (; sd; sd = sd->parent)
-		atomic_dec(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+	atomic_dec(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
@@ -6748,6 +6748,9 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
 {
 	unsigned long now = jiffies;
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	struct sched_group *sg;
+	struct sched_group_power *sgp;
+	int nr_busy;
 
 	if (unlikely(idle_cpu(cpu)))
 		return 0;
@@ -6773,22 +6776,23 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
 		goto need_kick;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
-		struct sched_group *sg = sd->groups;
-		struct sched_group_power *sgp = sg->sgp;
-		int nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
+	sd = per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu);
 
-		if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES && nr_busy > 1)
-			goto need_kick_unlock;
+	if (sd) {
+		sg = sd->groups;
+		sgp = sg->sgp;
+		nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
 
-		if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING && nr_busy != sg->group_weight
-		    && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
-					  sched_domain_span(sd)) < cpu))
+		if (nr_busy > 1)
 			goto need_kick_unlock;
-
-		if (!(sd->flags & (SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES | SD_ASYM_PACKING)))
-			break;
 	}
+
+	sd = highest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_ASYM_PACKING);
+
+	if (sd && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask,
+				  sched_domain_span(sd)) < cpu))
+		goto need_kick_unlock;
+
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return 0;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index ffc7087..0f1253f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -623,6 +623,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_llc);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_numa);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_busy);
 
 struct sched_group_power {
 	atomic_t ref;