From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix numabalancing to work with isolated cpus
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 21:37:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170404203714.c4mexerfq3ztanpm@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1491326848-5748-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 10:57:28PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> When performing load balancing, numabalancing only looks at
> task->cpus_allowed to see if the task can run on the target cpu. If
> isolcpus kernel parameter is set, then isolated cpus will not be part of
> mask task->cpus_allowed.
>
> For example: (On a Power 8 box running in smt 1 mode)
>
> isolcpus=56,64,72,80,88
>
> Cpus_allowed_list: 0-55,57-63,65-71,73-79,81-87,89-175
> /proc/20996/task/20996/status:Cpus_allowed_list: 0-55,57-63,65-71,73-79,81-87,89-175
> /proc/20996/task/20997/status:Cpus_allowed_list: 0-55,57-63,65-71,73-79,81-87,89-175
> /proc/20996/task/20998/status:Cpus_allowed_list: 0-55,57-63,65-71,73-79,81-87,89-175
>
> Note: offline cpus are excluded in cpus_allowed_list.
>
> However a task might call sched_setaffinity() that includes all possible
> cpus in the system including the isolated cpus.
>
> For example:
> perf bench numa mem --no-data_rand_walk -p 4 -t $THREADS -G 0 -P 3072 -T 0 -l 50 -c -s 1000
> would call sched_setaffinity that resets the cpus_allowed mask.
>
> Cpus_allowed_list: 0-55,57-63,65-71,73-79,81-87,89-175
> Cpus_allowed_list: 0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
> Cpus_allowed_list: 0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
> Cpus_allowed_list: 0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
> Cpus_allowed_list: 0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
>
> The isolated cpus are part of the cpus allowed list. In the above case,
> numabalancing ends up scheduling some of these tasks on isolated cpus.
>
> To avoid this, please check for isolated cpus before choosing a target
> cpu.
>
Hmm, would this also prevent a task running inside a cgroup that is
allowed accessed to isolated CPUs from balancing? I severely doubt it
matters because if a process is isolated from interference then it
follows that automatic NUMA balancing should not be involved. If
anything the protection should be absolute but either way;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-04 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-04 17:27 [PATCH] sched: Fix numabalancing to work with isolated cpus Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-04 18:56 ` Rik van Riel
2017-04-04 20:37 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2017-04-05 1:50 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-05 8:09 ` Mel Gorman
2017-04-05 12:57 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-05 15:22 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-05 16:44 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 7:19 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-06 7:34 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 9:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06 10:13 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 10:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06 10:42 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 10:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06 13:44 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 7:36 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-06 7:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
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