From: "Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Ziljstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
Linux-ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Reduce worst-case scanning of runqueues in select_idle_sibling
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:06:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <895d0c8a-5039-e569-80f3-a8a6f87380bd@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201207154216.GE3371@techsingularity.net>
On 2020/12/7 23:42, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 04:04:41PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 10:15, Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is a minimal series to reduce the amount of runqueue scanning in
>>> select_idle_sibling in the worst case.
>>>
>>> Patch 1 removes SIS_AVG_CPU because it's unused.
>>>
>>> Patch 2 improves the hit rate of p->recent_used_cpu to reduce the amount
>>> of scanning. It should be relatively uncontroversial
>>>
>>> Patch 3-4 scans the runqueues in a single pass for select_idle_core()
>>> and select_idle_cpu() so runqueues are not scanned twice. It's
>>> a tradeoff because it benefits deep scans but introduces overhead
>>> for shallow scans.
>>>
>>> Even if patch 3-4 is rejected to allow more time for Aubrey's idle cpu mask
>>
>> patch 3 looks fine and doesn't collide with Aubrey's work. But I don't
>> like patch 4 which manipulates different cpumask including
>> load_balance_mask out of LB and I prefer to wait for v6 of Aubrey's
>> patchset which should fix the problem of possibly scanning twice busy
>> cpus in select_idle_core and select_idle_cpu
>>
>
> Seems fair, we can see where we stand after V6 of Aubrey's work. A lot
> of the motivation for patch 4 would go away if we managed to avoid calling
> select_idle_core() unnecessarily. As it stands, we can call it a lot from
> hackbench even though the chance of getting an idle core are minimal.
>
Sorry for the delay, I sent v6 out just now. Comparing to v5, v6 followed Vincent's
suggestion to decouple idle cpumask update from stop_tick signal, that is, the
CPU is set in idle cpumask every time the CPU enters idle, this should address
Peter's concern about the facebook trail-latency workload, as I didn't see
any regression in schbench workload 99.0000th latency report.
However, I also didn't see any significant benefit so far, probably I should
put more load on the system. I'll do more characterization of uperf workload
to see if I can find anything.
Thanks,
-Aubrey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-07 9:15 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Reduce worst-case scanning of runqueues in select_idle_sibling Mel Gorman
2020-12-07 9:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Remove SIS_AVG_CPU Mel Gorman
2020-12-07 15:05 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-12-08 10:07 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-12-08 10:59 ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-08 13:24 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-12-08 13:36 ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-08 13:43 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-12-08 13:53 ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-08 14:47 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-12-08 15:12 ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-08 15:19 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-12-07 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched/fair: Do not replace recent_used_cpu with the new target Mel Gorman
2020-12-08 9:57 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-12-08 11:02 ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-07 9:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched/fair: Return an idle cpu if one is found after a failed search for an idle core Mel Gorman
2020-12-07 15:06 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-12-07 9:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Avoid revisiting CPUs multiple times during select_idle_sibling Mel Gorman
2020-12-07 15:04 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Reduce worst-case scanning of runqueues in select_idle_sibling Vincent Guittot
2020-12-07 15:42 ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-08 2:06 ` Li, Aubrey [this message]
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