From: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>,
Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wakeup_affine_weight() is b0rked - was Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Scale wakeup granularity relative to nr_running
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 10:06:08 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGsJ_4zAN-K_OrhC8wec9nyXxbP+sS_-N4djvaUYYVuYj+zbyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4713ffb37ee8f6042626904ad33fa91b5151f0d6.camel@gmx.de>
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:52 AM Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 20:34 +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> > >
> > > I looked into that crazy stacking depth...
> > >
> > > static int
> > > wake_affine_weight(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
> > > int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
> > > {
> > > s64 this_eff_load, prev_eff_load;
> > > unsigned long task_load;
> > >
> > > this_eff_load = cpu_load(cpu_rq(this_cpu));
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the butler didit!
> > >
> > > That's pretty darn busted as it sits. Between load updates, X, or any
> > > other waker of many, can stack wakees to a ludicrous depth. Tracing
> > > kbuild vs firefox playing a youtube clip, I watched X stack 20 of the
> > > zillion firefox minions while their previous CPUs all had 1 lousy task
> > > running but a cpu_load() higher than the cpu_load() of X's CPU. Most
> > > of those prev_cpus were where X had left them when it migrated. Each
> > > and every crazy depth migration was wake_affine_weight() deciding we
> > > should pull based on crappy data. As instantaneous load on the waker
> > > CPU blew through the roof in my trace snapshot, its cpu_load() did
> > > finally budge.. a tiny bit.. downward. No idea where the stack would
> > > have topped out, my tracing_off() limit was 20.
> >
> > Mike, not quite sure I caught your point. It seems you mean x wakes up
> > many firefoxes within a short period, so it pulls them to the CPU where x
> > is running. Technically those pulling should increase cpu_load of x' CPU.
> > But due to some reason, the cpu_load is not increased in time on x' CPU,
> > So this makes a lot of firefoxes piled on x' CPU, but at that time, the load
> > of the cpu which firefox was running on is still larger than x' cpu with a lot
> > of firefoxes?
>
> It looked like this.
>
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.810997: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:4:373 prev_run/load:4:373 waking firefox:4971 CPU7 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811004: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:5:373 prev_run/load:1:1029 waking QXcbEventQueue:4952 CPU0 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811010: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:6:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:3969 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811015: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:7:373 prev_run/load:1:1029 waking evolution-alarm:3833 CPU0 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811021: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:8:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:3860 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811026: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:8:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:3800 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811032: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:9:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking xdg-desktop-por:3341 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811037: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:10:373 prev_run/load:1:289 waking at-spi2-registr:3165 CPU4 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811042: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:11:373 prev_run/load:1:1029 waking ibus-ui-gtk3:2865 CPU0 ==> CPU0
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811049: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:11:373 prev_run/load:1:226 waking ibus-x11:2868 CPU2 ==> CPU2
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811054: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:11:373 prev_run/load:11:373 waking ibus-extension-:2866 CPU7 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811059: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:12:373 prev_run/load:1:289 waking QXcbEventQueue:2804 CPU4 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811063: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:13:373 prev_run/load:1:935 waking QXcbEventQueue:2756 CPU1 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811068: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:14:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2753 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811074: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:15:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2741 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811079: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:16:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2730 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811085: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:17:373 prev_run/load:1:5 waking QXcbEventQueue:2724 CPU0 ==> CPU0
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811090: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:17:373 prev_run/load:1:1010 waking QXcbEventQueue:2721 CPU6 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811096: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:18:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2720 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811101: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:19:373 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2704 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811105: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:20:373 prev_run/load:0:226 waking QXcbEventQueue:2705 CPU2 ==> CPU2
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811110: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:19:342 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2695 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811115: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:20:342 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2694 CPU5 ==> CPU7
> X-2211 [007] d...211 2327.811120: select_task_rq_fair: this_run/load:21:342 prev_run/load:1:1528 waking QXcbEventQueue:2679 CPU5 ==> CPU7
What is the topology of your hardware? shouldn't select_idle_sibling
find some other idle CPUs in CPU7's LLC domain?
Why are you always getting CPU7?
one thing bothering me is that we are using the load of a single CPU
in wake_affine_weight(), but we are actually scanning
the whole LLC afterwards.
>
> Legend: foo_run/load:foo->nr_running:cpu_load(foo)
>
> Every migration to CPU7 in the above was due to wake_affine_weight()
> seeing more or less static effective load numbers (the trace was wider,
> showing which path was taken).
>
> > I am wondering if this should be the responsibility of wake_wide()?
>
> That's a good point. I'm not so sure that would absolve use of what
> appears to be stagnant state though. If we hadn't gotten there, this
> stack obviously wouldn't have happened.. but we did get there, and
> state that was used did not reflect reality. wake_wide() deflecting
> this particular gaggle wouldn't improved state accuracy one whit for a
> subsequent wakeup, or?
>
> -Mike
Thanks
barry
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-20 14:26 [PATCH 0/2] Scale wakeup granularity relative to nr_running Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 14:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Remove redundant lookup of rq in check_preempt_wakeup Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 7:21 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-21 7:53 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 8:12 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-21 8:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-21 10:03 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 14:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Scale wakeup granularity relative to nr_running Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 3:52 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21 5:50 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21 7:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21 10:36 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 12:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21 14:03 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-05 9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-22 5:22 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-22 13:20 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-22 14:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-22 14:15 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-22 15:04 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-22 16:00 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-22 17:38 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-22 18:22 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-22 18:57 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-23 1:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-23 8:40 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-23 9:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-23 12:41 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-23 13:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-27 11:17 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-27 14:17 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-04 8:05 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-04 16:37 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-10-05 7:41 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-27 14:19 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-27 15:02 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-23 12:24 ` Phil Auld
2021-10-05 10:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05 14:12 ` Phil Auld
2021-10-05 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-22 15:05 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-10-05 9:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-03 3:07 ` wakeup_affine_weight() is b0rked - was " Mike Galbraith
2021-10-03 7:34 ` Barry Song
2021-10-03 14:52 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-03 21:06 ` Barry Song [this message]
2021-10-04 1:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-04 4:34 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-04 9:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-05 7:47 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-05 8:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-05 9:31 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-06 6:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-08 5:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21 8:03 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-21 10:45 ` Mel Gorman
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