Re: [patch] sched/fair: Move se->vruntime normalization state into struct sched_entity

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	byungchul.park@lge.com, Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched/fair: Move se->vruntime normalization state into struct sched_entity
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 11:19:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160523091907.GD15728@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463900401.30072.6.camel@gmail.com>

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:00:01AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-05-21 at 21:00 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2016-05-21 at 16:04 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > > Wakees that were not migrated/normalized eat an unwanted min_vruntime,
> > > and likely take a size XXL latency hit.  Big box running master bled
> > > profusely under heavy load until I turned TTWU_QUEUE off.
> 
> May as well make it official and against master.today.  Fly or die
> little patchlet.
> 
> sched/fair: Move se->vruntime normalization state into struct sched_entity

Does this work?

---
 include/linux/sched.h |  1 +
 kernel/sched/core.c   | 18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 1b43b45a22b9..a2001e01b3df 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1534,6 +1534,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 	unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1;
 	unsigned sched_contributes_to_load:1;
 	unsigned sched_migrated:1;
+	unsigned sched_remote_wakeup:1;
 	unsigned :0; /* force alignment to the next boundary */
 
 	/* unserialized, strictly 'current' */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 404c0784b1fc..7f2cae4620c7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1768,13 +1768,15 @@ void sched_ttwu_pending(void)
 	cookie = lockdep_pin_lock(&rq->lock);
 
 	while (llist) {
+		int wake_flags = 0;
+
 		p = llist_entry(llist, struct task_struct, wake_entry);
 		llist = llist_next(llist);
-		/*
-		 * See ttwu_queue(); we only call ttwu_queue_remote() when
-		 * its a x-cpu wakeup.
-		 */
-		ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, WF_MIGRATED, cookie);
+
+		if (p->sched_remote_wakeup)
+			wake_flags = WF_MIGRATED;
+
+		ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, wake_flags, cookie);
 	}
 
 	lockdep_unpin_lock(&rq->lock, cookie);
@@ -1819,10 +1821,12 @@ void scheduler_ipi(void)
 	irq_exit();
 }
 
-static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
+static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags)
 {
 	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 
+	p->sched_remote_wakeup = !!(wake_flags & WF_MIGRATED);
+
 	if (llist_add(&p->wake_entry, &cpu_rq(cpu)->wake_list)) {
 		if (!set_nr_if_polling(rq->idle))
 			smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
@@ -1869,7 +1873,7 @@ static void ttwu_queue(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags)
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
 	if (sched_feat(TTWU_QUEUE) && !cpus_share_cache(smp_processor_id(), cpu)) {
 		sched_clock_cpu(cpu); /* sync clocks x-cpu */
-		ttwu_queue_remote(p, cpu);
+		ttwu_queue_remote(p, cpu, wake_flags);
 		return;
 	}
 #endif
