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Julia Lawall d8fcb81f1a sched/fair: Check for idle core in wake_affine 
In the case of a thread wakeup, wake_affine determines whether a core
will be chosen for the thread on the socket where the thread ran
previously or on the socket of the waker.  This is done primarily by
comparing the load of the core where th thread ran previously (prev)
and the load of the waker (this).

commit 11f10e5420 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load
in wakeup path") changed the load computation from the runnable load
to the load average, where the latter includes the load of threads
that have already blocked on the core.

When a short-running daemon processes happens to run on prev, this
change raised the situation that prev could appear to have a greater
load than this, even when prev is actually idle.  When prev and this
are on the same socket, the idle prev is detected later, in
select_idle_sibling.  But if that does not hold, prev is completely
ignored, causing the waking thread to move to the socket of the waker.
In the case of N mostly active threads on N cores, this triggers other
migrations and hurts performance.

In contrast, before commit 11f10e5420, the load on an idle core
was 0, and in the case of a non-idle waker core, the effect of
wake_affine was to select prev as the target for searching for a core
for the waking thread.

To avoid unnecessary migrations, extend wake_affine_idle to check
whether the core where the thread previously ran is currently idle,
and if so simply return that core as the target.

[1] commit 11f10e5420 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable
load in wakeup path")

This particularly has an impact when using the ondemand power manager,
where kworkers run every 0.004 seconds on all cores, increasing the
likelihood that an idle core will be considered to have a load.

The following numbers were obtained with the benchmarking tool
hyperfine (https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine) on the NAS parallel
benchmarks (https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html).  The
tests were run on an 80-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8870 v4 @
2.10GHz.  Active (intel_pstate) and passive (intel_cpufreq) power
management were used.  Times are in seconds.  All experiments use all
160 hardware threads.

	v5.9/intel-pstate	v5.9+patch/intel-pstate
bt.C.c	24.725724+-0.962340	23.349608+-1.607214
lu.C.x	29.105952+-4.804203	25.249052+-5.561617
sp.C.x	31.220696+-1.831335	30.227760+-2.429792
ua.C.x	26.606118+-1.767384	25.778367+-1.263850

	v5.9/ondemand		v5.9+patch/ondemand
bt.C.c	25.330360+-1.028316	23.544036+-1.020189
lu.C.x	35.872659+-4.872090	23.719295+-3.883848
sp.C.x	32.141310+-2.289541	29.125363+-0.872300
ua.C.x	29.024597+-1.667049	25.728888+-1.539772

On the smaller data sets (A and B) and on the other NAS benchmarks
there is no impact on performance.

This also has a major impact on the splash2x.volrend benchmark of the
parsec benchmark suite that goes from 1m25 without this patch to 0m45,
in active (intel_pstate) mode.

Fixes: 11f10e5420 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load in wakeup path")
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1603372550-14680-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr
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arch A couple of x86 fixes which missed rc1 due to my stupidity: 2020-10-27 14:39:29 -07:00
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ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel sched/fair: Check for idle core in wake_affine 2020-10-29 11:00:32 +01:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.