Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"

Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for
repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a
significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by
Jeremy Eder:

  We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code
  that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads.
  The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so
  we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers.  We also
  have data from a large database setup where performance is also
  measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily
  share-able.

  Included below are test results from 3 test kernels:

  kernel       reverts
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  1) vanilla   upstream (no reverts)

  2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c

  3) test      reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4
                       e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c

  In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4%
  after reverting 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4.  When
  69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 is included, C0 residency
  never seems to get above 40%.  Taking that patch out gets C0 near
  100% quite often, and performance increases.

  The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @
  1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test.

  - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency
    almost entirely in the 30,40% bin.
  - The last pair, which reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4,
    shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins.

  Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the
  particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3
  test kernels.  We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where
  we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact
  boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above
  baseline.

  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0):
  TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts)
  TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     1]: *
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    49]:
  *************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit
  e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c)
  TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [     2]: **
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    58]:
  **********************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4
  and e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c)
  TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    27]: ***************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     2]: **
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     2]: **
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    28]: ****************************

  Sender:
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     1]: *
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     3]: ***
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     7]: *******
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    38]: **************************************

  These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to
  stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield
  measurably better performance), by reverting commit
  69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4.

Requested-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: 3.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 69 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
index b69a87e22155..bc580b67a652 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
@@ -28,13 +28,6 @@
 #define MAX_INTERESTING 50000
 #define STDDEV_THRESH 400
 
-/* 60 * 60 > STDDEV_THRESH * INTERVALS = 400 * 8 */
-#define MAX_DEVIATION 60
-
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer, menu_hrtimer);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, hrtimer_status);
-/* menu hrtimer mode */
-enum {MENU_HRTIMER_STOP, MENU_HRTIMER_REPEAT};
 
 /*
  * Concepts and ideas behind the menu governor
@@ -198,42 +191,17 @@ static u64 div_round64(u64 dividend, u32 divisor)
         return div_u64(dividend + (divisor / 2), divisor);
 }
 
-/* Cancel the hrtimer if it is not triggered yet */
-void menu_hrtimer_cancel(void)
-{
-        int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-        struct hrtimer *hrtmr = &per_cpu(menu_hrtimer, cpu);
-
-        /* The timer is still not time out*/
-        if (per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu)) {
-                hrtimer_cancel(hrtmr);
-                per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu) = MENU_HRTIMER_STOP;
-        }
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(menu_hrtimer_cancel);
-
-/* Call back for hrtimer is triggered */
-static enum hrtimer_restart menu_hrtimer_notify(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
-{
-        int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-
-        per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu) = MENU_HRTIMER_STOP;
-
-        return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
-}
-
 /*
  * Try detecting repeating patterns by keeping track of the last 8
  * intervals, and checking if the standard deviation of that set
  * of points is below a threshold. If it is... then use the
  * average of these 8 points as the estimated value.
  */
-static u32 get_typical_interval(struct menu_device *data)
+static void get_typical_interval(struct menu_device *data)
 {
         int i = 0, divisor = 0;
         uint64_t max = 0, avg = 0, stddev = 0;
         int64_t thresh = LLONG_MAX; /* Discard outliers above this value. */
-        unsigned int ret = 0;
 
 again:
 
@@ -274,16 +242,13 @@ again:
         if (((avg > stddev * 6) && (divisor * 4 >= INTERVALS * 3))
                                                         || stddev <= 20) {
                 data->predicted_us = avg;
-                ret = 1;
-                return ret;
+                return;
 
         } else if ((divisor * 4) > INTERVALS * 3) {
                 /* Exclude the max interval */
                 thresh = max - 1;
                 goto again;
         }
-
-        return ret;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -298,9 +263,6 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
         int i;
         int multiplier;
         struct timespec t;
-        int repeat = 0, low_predicted = 0;
-        int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-        struct hrtimer *hrtmr = &per_cpu(menu_hrtimer, cpu);
 
         if (data->needs_update) {
                 menu_update(drv, dev);
@@ -335,7 +297,7 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
         data->predicted_us = div_round64(data->expected_us * data->correction_factor[data->bucket],
                                          RESOLUTION * DECAY);
 
-        repeat = get_typical_interval(data);
+        get_typical_interval(data);
 
         /*
          * We want to default to C1 (hlt), not to busy polling
@@ -356,10 +318,8 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 
                 if (s->disabled || su->disable)
                         continue;
-                if (s->target_residency > data->predicted_us) {
-                        low_predicted = 1;
+                if (s->target_residency > data->predicted_us)
                         continue;
-                }
                 if (s->exit_latency > latency_req)
                         continue;
                 if (s->exit_latency * multiplier > data->predicted_us)
@@ -369,28 +329,6 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
                 data->exit_us = s->exit_latency;
         }
 
-        /* not deepest C-state chosen for low predicted residency */
-        if (low_predicted) {
-                unsigned int timer_us = 0;
-
-                /*
-                 * Set a timer to detect whether this sleep is much
-                 * longer than repeat mode predicted.  If the timer
-                 * triggers, the code will evaluate whether to put
-                 * the CPU into a deeper C-state.
-                 * The timer is cancelled on CPU wakeup.
-                 */
-                timer_us = 2 * (data->predicted_us + MAX_DEVIATION);
-
-                if (repeat && (4 * timer_us < data->expected_us)) {
-                        RCU_NONIDLE(hrtimer_start(hrtmr,
-                                ns_to_ktime(1000 * timer_us),
-                                HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED));
-                        /* In repeat case, menu hrtimer is started */
-                        per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu) = MENU_HRTIMER_REPEAT;
-                }
-        }
-
         return data->last_state_idx;
 }
 
@@ -481,9 +419,6 @@ static int menu_enable_device(struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
                                 struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 {
         struct menu_device *data = &per_cpu(menu_devices, dev->cpu);
-        struct hrtimer *t = &per_cpu(menu_hrtimer, dev->cpu);
-        hrtimer_init(t, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
-        t->function = menu_hrtimer_notify;
 
         memset(data, 0, sizeof(struct menu_device));