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* sched: Fix vmark regression on big machinesMike Galbraith2010-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set at the CPU domain level if power saving isn't enabled, leading to many cache misses on large machines as we traverse looking for an idle shared cache to wake to. Change the enabler of select_idle_sibling() to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES, and enable same at the sibling domain level. Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1262612696.15495.15.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domainsPeter Zijlstra2009-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Yanmin reported that both tbench and hackbench were significantly hurt by trying to keep tasks local on these domains, esp on small cache machines. So disable it in order to promote spreading outside of the cache domains. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1255083400.8802.15.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and ↵Rusty Russell2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | topology_thread_siblings: core There were replaced by topology_core_cpumask and topology_thread_cpumask. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* sched: Disable wakeup balancingPeter Zijlstra2009-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sysbench thinks SD_BALANCE_WAKE is too agressive and kbuild doesn't really mind too much, SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE picks up most of the slack. On a dual socket, quad core, dual thread nehalem system: sysbench (--num_threads=16): SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 13982 tx/s SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 15688 tx/s kbuild (-j16): SD_BALANCE_WAKE-: 47.648295846 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.312% ) SD_BALANCE_WAKE+: 47.608607360 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.026% ) (same within noise) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCALPeter Zijlstra2009-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | And turn it on for NUMA and MC domains. This improves locality in balancing decisions by keeping up to capacity amount of tasks local before looking for idle CPUs. (and twice the capacity if SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE is set.) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Reduce forkexec_idxPeter Zijlstra2009-09-15
| | | | | | | | | If we're looking to place a new task, we might as well find the idlest position _now_, not 1 tick ago. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Improve latencies and throughputMike Galbraith2009-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser: NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx, not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago. Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions) This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well. Reported-by: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Fix some domain tuningsPeter Zijlstra2009-09-15
| | | | | | | | CPU level should have WAKE_AFFINE, whereas ALLNODES is dubious. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Tweak wake_idxPeter Zijlstra2009-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | When merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() we lost the use of wake_idx, restore that and set them to 0 to make wake balancing more aggressive. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self()Peter Zijlstra2009-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent RT interaction. To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self(). Modify sched_balance_self() to: - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree, (it only called it for the top domain, but it should have done this anyway), which allows us to remove this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up(). - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for WAKE invocations. Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle(). This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE. SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective. Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags -- platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLEPeter Zijlstra2009-09-07
| | | | | | | | | Now that SD_WAKE_IDLE doesn't make pipe-test suck anymore, enable it by default for MC, CPU and NUMA domains. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLEIngo Molnar2009-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Start the re-tuning of the balancer by turning on newidle. It improves hackbench performance and parallelism on a 4x4 box. The "perf stat --repeat 10" measurements give us: domain0 domain1 ....................................... -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE: 2041.273208 task-clock-msecs # 9.354 CPUs ( +- 0.363% ) +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE: 2086.326925 task-clock-msecs # 11.934 CPUs ( +- 0.301% ) +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE: 2115.289791 task-clock-msecs # 12.158 CPUs ( +- 0.263% ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Clean up topology.hIngo Molnar2009-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re-organize the flag settings so that it's visible at a glance which sched-domains flags are set and which not. With the new balancer code we'll need to re-tune these details anyway, so make it cleaner to make fewer mistakes down the road ;-) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Add smt_gainPeter Zijlstra2009-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a static gain for threads. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.hRusty Russell2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup, potential bugfix Not sure what changed to expose this, but clearly that numa_node_id() doesn't belong in mmzone.h (the inline in gfp.h is probably overkill, too). In file included from include/linux/topology.h:34, from arch/x86/mm/numa.c:2: /home/rusty/patches-cpumask/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h:64:1: warning: "numa_node_id" redefined In file included from include/linux/topology.h:32, from arch/x86/mm/numa.c:2: include/linux/mmzone.h:770:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <200903132343.37661.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* cpumask: replace node_to_cpumask with cpumask_of_node.Rusty Russell2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup node_to_cpumask (and the blecherous node_to_cpumask_ptr which contained a declaration) are replaced now everyone implements cpumask_of_node. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* cpumask: Use topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask()Rusty Russell2009-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API. This actually uses topology_core_cpumask() and topology_thread_cpumask(), removing the only users of topology_core_siblings() and topology_thread_siblings() Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
* sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0Vaidyanathan Srinivasan2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: change task balancing to save power more agressively Add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag at MC level and CPU level if sched_mc is set. This helps power savings and will not affect performance when sched_mc=0 Ingo and Mike Galbraith have optimised the SD flags by removing SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level. This helps performance but hurts power savings since this slows down task consolidation by reducing the number of times load_balance is run. sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT commit 14800984706bf6936bbec5187f736e928be5c218 Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Date: Fri Nov 7 15:26:50 2008 +0100 sched: re-tune balancing -- revert commit 9fcd18c9e63e325dbd2b4c726623f760788d5aa8 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Wed Nov 5 16:52:08 2008 +0100 This patch selectively enables SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag only when sched_mc is set to 1 or 2. This helps power savings by task consolidation and also does not hurt performance at sched_mc=0 where all power saving optimisations are turned off. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functionsVaidyanathan Srinivasan2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup BALANCE_FOR_MC_POWER and similar macros defined in sched.h are not constants and have various condition checks and significant amount of code that is not suitable to be contain in a macro. Also there could be side effects on the expressions passed to some of them like test_sd_parent(). This patch converts all complex macros related to power savings balance to inline functions. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changedHeiko Carstens2008-12-12
| | | | | | | | | Change arch_update_cpu_topology so it returns 1 if the cpu topology changed and 0 if it didn't change. This will be useful for the next patch which adds a call to this function in partition_sched_domains. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INITIngo Molnar2008-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fine-tune the HT sched-domains parameters as well. On a HT capable box, this increases lat_ctx performance from 23.87 usecs to 1.49 usecs: # before $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.89 2 23.87 # after $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.84 2 1.49 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INITMike Galbraith2008-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tune SD_MC_INIT the same way as SD_CPU_INIT: unset SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE, and set SD_WAKE_BALANCE. This improves vmark by 5%: vmark 132102 125968 125497 messages/sec avg 127855.66 .984 vmark 139404 131719 131272 messages/sec avg 134131.66 1.033 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> # *DOCUMENTATION*
* sched: re-tune balancingIngo Molnar2008-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: improve wakeup affinity on NUMA systems, tweak SMP systems Given the fixes+tweaks to the wakeup-buddy code, re-tweak the domain balancing defaults on NUMA and SMP systems. Turn on SD_WAKE_AFFINE which was off on x86 NUMA - there's no reason why we would not want to have wakeup affinity across nodes as well. (we already do this in the standard NUMA template.) lat_ctx on a NUMA box is particularly happy about this change: before: | phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 | "size=0k ovr=2.60 | 2 5.70 after: | phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 | "size=0k ovr=2.65 | 2 2.07 a 2.75x speedup. pipe-test is similarly happy about it too: | phoenix:~/sched-tests> ./pipe-test | 18.26 usecs/loop. | 14.70 usecs/loop. | 14.38 usecs/loop. | 10.55 usecs/loop. # +WAKE_AFFINE on domain0+domain1 | 8.63 usecs/loop. | 8.59 usecs/loop. | 9.03 usecs/loop. | 8.94 usecs/loop. | 8.96 usecs/loop. | 8.63 usecs/loop. Also: - disable SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE on NUMA and SMP domains (keep it for siblings) - enable SD_WAKE_BALANCE on SMP domains Sysbench+postgresql improves all around the board, quite significantly: .28-rc3-11474e2c .28-rc3-11474e2c-tune ------------------------------------------------- 1: 571 688 +17.08% 2: 1236 1206 -2.55% 4: 2381 2642 +9.89% 8: 4958 5164 +3.99% 16: 9580 9574 -0.07% 32: 7128 8118 +12.20% 64: 7342 8266 +11.18% 128: 7342 8064 +8.95% 256: 7519 7884 +4.62% 512: 7350 7731 +4.93% ------------------------------------------------- SUM: 55412 59341 +6.62% So it's a win both for the runup portion, the peak area and the tail. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* cpu topology: always define CPU topology informationBen Hutchings2008-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This can result in an empty topology directory in sysfs, and requires in-kernel users to protect all uses with #ifdef - see <http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=120639033904472&w=2>. The documentation of CPU topology specifies what the defaults should be if only partial information is available from the hardware. So we can provide these defaults as a fallback. This patch: - Adds default definitions of the 4 topology macros to <linux/topology.h> - Changes drivers/base/topology.c to use the topology macros unconditionally and to cope with definitions that aren't lvalues - Updates documentation accordingly [ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - fold now-duplicated code - fix layout ] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: re-tune NUMA topologiesIngo Molnar2008-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | improve the sysbench ramp-up phase and its peak throughput on a 16way NUMA box, by turning on WAKE_AFFINE: tip/sched tip/sched+wake-affine ------------------------------------------------- 1: 700 830 +15.65% 2: 1465 1391 -5.28% 4: 3017 3105 +2.81% 8: 5100 6021 +15.30% 16: 10725 10745 +0.19% 32: 10135 10150 +0.16% 64: 9338 9240 -1.06% 128: 8599 8252 -4.21% 256: 8475 8144 -4.07% ------------------------------------------------- SUM: 57558 57882 +0.56% this change also improves lat_ctx from 6.69 usecs to 1.11 usec: $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.19 2 1.11 $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.22 2 6.69 in sysbench it's an overall win with some weakness at the lots-of-clients side. That happens because we now under-balance this workload a bit. To counter that effect, turn on NEWIDLE: wake-idle wake-idle+newidle ------------------------------------------------- 1: 830 834 +0.43% 2: 1391 1401 +0.65% 4: 3105 3091 -0.43% 8: 6021 6046 +0.42% 16: 10745 10736 -0.08% 32: 10150 10206 +0.55% 64: 9240 9533 +3.08% 128: 8252 8355 +1.24% 256: 8144 8384 +2.87% ------------------------------------------------- SUM: 57882 58591 +1.21% as a bonus this not only improves the many-clients case but also improves the (more important) rampup phase. sysbench is a workload that quickly breaks down if the scheduler over-balances, so since it showed an improvement under NEWIDLE this change is definitely good.
* cpumask: reduce stack usage in SD_x_INIT initializersMike Travis2008-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Remove empty cpumask_t (and all non-zero/non-null) variables in SD_*_INIT macros. Use memset(0) to clear. Also, don't inline the initializer functions to save on stack space in build_sched_domains(). * Merge change to include/linux/topology.h that uses the new node_to_cpumask_ptr function in the nr_cpus_node macro into this patch. Depends on: [mm-patch]: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch [sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: add arch_update_cpu_topology hook.Heiko Carstens2008-03-21
| | | | | | | | | Will be called each time the scheduling domains are rebuild. Needed for architectures that don't have a static cpu topology. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: tune multi-core idle balancingIngo Molnar2008-03-18
| | | | | | | | WAKE_IDLE is too agressive on multi-core CPUs with the new wake-affine code, keep it on for SMT/HT balancing alone (where there's no cache affinity at all between logical CPUs). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: whitespace cleanups in topology.hIngo Molnar2008-01-25
| | | | | | whitespace cleanups in topology.h. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: reactivate fork balancingIngo Molnar2008-01-25
| | | | | | reactivate fork balancing. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: enable wake-idle on CONFIG_SCHED_MC=yIngo Molnar2007-10-15
| | | | | | | most multicore CPUs today have shared L2 caches, so tune things so that the spreading amongst cores is more aggressive. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: reintroduce topology.h tuningsIngo Molnar2007-10-15
| | | | | | | reintroduce the 2.6.22 topology.h tunings again - they result in slightly better balancing. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] sched: remove cache_hot_timeIngo Molnar2007-08-02
| | | | | | remove the last unused remains of cache_hot_time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] sched: small topology.h cleanupIngo Molnar2007-07-13
| | | | | | | | | trivial cleanup: LOCAL_DISTANCE and REMOTE_DISTANCE are only used in topology.h and inside an #ifndef section - limit their existence to that #ifndef. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: more agressive idle balancingIngo Molnar2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | the Linux scheduler is starving a number of workloads. So default to more agressive idle-balancing. This hurts lmbench context-switching numbers (which was the main reason we sucked at idle-balancing for such a long time) but the lmbench numbers are fine once the system is minimally utilized. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] sched: remove SMT niceCon Kolivas2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared. The idling of cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be unworkable. Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by this code. Also: The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code. So either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely. It was Ingo's preference to kill it off. Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks has gone in. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] sched: add option to serialize load balancingChristoph Lameter2006-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Large sched domains can be very expensive to scan. Add an option SD_SERIALIZE to the sched domain flags. If that flag is set then we make sure that no other such domain is being balanced. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched domain: increase the SMT busy rebalance intervalSiddha, Suresh B2006-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With SMT, if the logical processor is busy, load balance happens for every 8msec(min)-16msec(max). There is no need to do this often, as this is just for fairness(to maintain uniform runqueue lengths) and default time slice anyhow is 100msec. Appended patch increases this interval to 64msec(min)-128msec(max) when the logical processor is busy. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: cleanup sched_group cpu_power setupSiddha, Suresh B2006-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now sched group's cpu_power for each sched domain is initialized independently. This made the setup code ugly as the new sched domains are getting added. Make the sched group cpu_power setup code generic, by using domain child field and new domain flag in sched_domain. For most of the sched domains(except NUMA), sched group's cpu_power is now computed generically using the domain properties of itself and of the child domain. sched groups in NUMA domains are setup little differently and hence they don't use this generic mechanism. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: introduce child field in sched_domainSiddha, Suresh B2006-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce the child field in sched_domain struct and use it in sched_balance_self(). We will also use this field in cleaning up the sched group cpu_power setup(done in a different patch) code. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policySiddha, Suresh B2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sysfs entries 'sched_mc_power_savings' and 'sched_smt_power_savings' in /sys/devices/system/cpu/ control the MC/SMT power savings policy for the scheduler. Based on the values (1-enable, 0-disable) for these controls, sched groups cpu power will be determined for different domains. When power savings policy is enabled and under light load conditions, scheduler will minimize the physical packages/cpu cores carrying the load and thus conserving power(with a perf impact based on the workload characteristics... see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..) Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-coreSiddha, Suresh B2006-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new sched domain for representing multi-core with shared caches between cores. Consider a dual package system, each package containing two cores and with last level cache shared between cores with in a package. If there are two runnable processes, with this appended patch those two processes will be scheduled on different packages. On such systems, with this patch we have observed 8% perf improvement with specJBB(2 warehouse) benchmark and 35% improvement with CFP2000 rate(with 2 users). This new domain will come into play only on multi-core systems with shared caches. On other systems, this sched domain will be removed by domain degeneration code. This new domain can be also used for implementing power savings policy (see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details.. I will post another patch for power savings policy soon) Most of the arch/* file changes are for cpu_coregroup_map() implementation. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logicChristoph Lameter2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some bits for zone reclaim exists in 2.6.15 but they are not usable. This patch fixes them up, removes unused code and makes zone reclaim usable. Zone reclaim allows the reclaiming of pages from a zone if the number of free pages falls below the watermarks even if other zones still have enough pages available. Zone reclaim is of particular importance for NUMA machines. It can be more beneficial to reclaim a page than taking the performance penalties that come with allocating a page on a remote zone. Zone reclaim is enabled if the maximum distance to another node is higher than RECLAIM_DISTANCE, which may be defined by an arch. By default RECLAIM_DISTANCE is 20. 20 is the distance to another node in the same component (enclosure or motherboard) on IA64. The meaning of the NUMA distance information seems to vary by arch. If zone reclaim is not successful then no further reclaim attempts will occur for a certain time period (ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL). This patch was discussed before. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113519961504207&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113408418232531&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113389027420032&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113380938612205&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetectakpm@osdl.org2006-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ) From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch. The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this: - I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems, and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems. [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ] Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem: - Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the 'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs. This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share any caches. (The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source for details.) Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune migration behavior. Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection: migration_cost=1000,2000,3000 will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values. Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or decrease) the autodetected values: migration_factor=120 will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying migration_factor=0. I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3 P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good: Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [00]: - 1.7(1) [01]: 1.7(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008) --------------------- Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs. Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) [01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) [02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) [03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514) --------------------- Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs. 8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]: --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) [07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756) --------------------- This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the migration cost is 19 msecs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpusets: Move the ia64 domain setup code to the generic codeJohn Hawkes2005-09-07
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: sched tuningNick Piggin2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | Do some basic initial tuning. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: balance on forkNick Piggin2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reimplement the balance on exec balancing to be sched-domains aware. Use this to also do balance on fork balancing. Make x86_64 do balance on fork over the NUMA domain. The problem that the non sched domains aware blancing became apparent on dual core, multi socket opterons. What we want is for the new tasks to be sent to a different socket, but more often than not, we would first load up our sibling core, or fill two cores of a single remote socket before selecting a new one. This gives large improvements to STREAM on such systems. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: no aggressive idle balancingNick Piggin2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | Remove the very aggressive idle stuff that has recently gone into 2.6 - it is going against the direction we are trying to go. Hopefully we can regain performance through other methods. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: balance timersNick Piggin2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Do CPU load averaging over a number of different intervals. Allow each interval to be chosen by sending a parameter to source_load and target_load. 0 is instantaneous, idx > 0 returns a decaying average with the most recent sample weighted at 2^(idx-1). To a maximum of 3 (could be easily increased). So generally a higher number will result in more conservative balancing. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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