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sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package. 

Currently the nomination of idle-load balancer is done by choosing the first
idle cpu in the nohz.cpu_mask. This may not be power-efficient, since
such an idle cpu could come from a completely idle core/package thereby
preventing the whole core/package from being in a low-power state.

For eg, consider a quad-core dual package system. The cpu numbering need
not be sequential and can something like [0, 2, 4, 6] and [1, 3, 5, 7].
With sched_mc/smt_power_savings and the power-aware IRQ balance, we try to keep
as fewer Packages/Cores active. But the current idle load balancer logic
goes against this by choosing the first_cpu in the nohz.cpu_mask and not
taking the system topology into consideration.

Improve the algorithm to nominate the idle load balancer from a semi idle
cores/packages thereby increasing the probability of the cores/packages being
in deeper sleep states for longer duration.

The algorithm is activated only when sched_mc/smt_power_savings != 0.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090414045530.7645.12175.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Gautham R Shenoy 2009-04-14 10:25:30 +05:30 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 002f128b47
commit f711f6090a
1 changed files with 118 additions and 9 deletions
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@ -4240,10 +4240,126 @@ static void active_load_balance(struct rq *busiest_rq, int busiest_cpu)
static struct {
atomic_t load_balancer;
cpumask_var_t cpu_mask;
cpumask_var_t ilb_grp_nohz_mask;
} nohz ____cacheline_aligned = {
.load_balancer = ATOMIC_INIT(-1),
};
#if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_MC) || defined(CONFIG_SCHED_SMT)
/**
* lowest_flag_domain - Return lowest sched_domain containing flag.
* @cpu: The cpu whose lowest level of sched domain is to
* be returned.
* @flag: The flag to check for the lowest sched_domain
* for the given cpu.
*
* Returns the lowest sched_domain of a cpu which contains the given flag.
*/
static inline struct sched_domain *lowest_flag_domain(int cpu, int flag)
{
struct sched_domain *sd;
for_each_domain(cpu, sd)
if (sd && (sd->flags & flag))
break;
return sd;
}
/**
* for_each_flag_domain - Iterates over sched_domains containing the flag.
* @cpu: The cpu whose domains we're iterating over.
* @sd: variable holding the value of the power_savings_sd
* for cpu.
* @flag: The flag to filter the sched_domains to be iterated.
*
* Iterates over all the scheduler domains for a given cpu that has the 'flag'
* set, starting from the lowest sched_domain to the highest.
*/
#define for_each_flag_domain(cpu, sd, flag) \
for (sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, flag); \
(sd && (sd->flags & flag)); sd = sd->parent)
/**
* is_semi_idle_group - Checks if the given sched_group is semi-idle.
* @ilb_group: group to be checked for semi-idleness
*
* Returns: 1 if the group is semi-idle. 0 otherwise.
*
* We define a sched_group to be semi idle if it has atleast one idle-CPU
* and atleast one non-idle CPU. This helper function checks if the given
* sched_group is semi-idle or not.
*/
static inline int is_semi_idle_group(struct sched_group *ilb_group)
{
cpumask_and(nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask, nohz.cpu_mask,
sched_group_cpus(ilb_group));
/*
* A sched_group is semi-idle when it has atleast one busy cpu
* and atleast one idle cpu.
*/
if (cpumask_empty(nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask))
return 0;
if (cpumask_equal(nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask, sched_group_cpus(ilb_group)))
return 0;
return 1;
}
/**
* find_new_ilb - Finds the optimum idle load balancer for nomination.
* @cpu: The cpu which is nominating a new idle_load_balancer.
*
* Returns: Returns the id of the idle load balancer if it exists,
* Else, returns >= nr_cpu_ids.
*
* This algorithm picks the idle load balancer such that it belongs to a
* semi-idle powersavings sched_domain. The idea is to try and avoid
* completely idle packages/cores just for the purpose of idle load balancing
* when there are other idle cpu's which are better suited for that job.
*/
static int find_new_ilb(int cpu)
{
struct sched_domain *sd;
struct sched_group *ilb_group;
/*
* Have idle load balancer selection from semi-idle packages only
* when power-aware load balancing is enabled
*/
if (!(sched_smt_power_savings || sched_mc_power_savings))
goto out_done;
/*
* Optimize for the case when we have no idle CPUs or only one
* idle CPU. Don't walk the sched_domain hierarchy in such cases
*/
if (cpumask_weight(nohz.cpu_mask) < 2)
goto out_done;
for_each_flag_domain(cpu, sd, SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE) {
ilb_group = sd->groups;
do {
if (is_semi_idle_group(ilb_group))
return cpumask_first(nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask);
ilb_group = ilb_group->next;
} while (ilb_group != sd->groups);
}
out_done:
return cpumask_first(nohz.cpu_mask);
}
#else /* (CONFIG_SCHED_MC || CONFIG_SCHED_SMT) */
static inline int find_new_ilb(int call_cpu)
{
return first_cpu(nohz.cpu_mask);
}
#endif
/*
* This routine will try to nominate the ilb (idle load balancing)
* owner among the cpus whose ticks are stopped. ilb owner will do the idle
@ -4468,15 +4584,7 @@ static inline void trigger_load_balance(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
}
if (atomic_read(&nohz.load_balancer) == -1) {
/*
* simple selection for now: Nominate the
* first cpu in the nohz list to be the next
* ilb owner.
*
* TBD: Traverse the sched domains and nominate
* the nearest cpu in the nohz.cpu_mask.
*/
int ilb = cpumask_first(nohz.cpu_mask);
int ilb = find_new_ilb(cpu);
if (ilb < nr_cpu_ids)
resched_cpu(ilb);
@ -9051,6 +9159,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&nohz.cpu_mask);
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask);
#endif
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&cpu_isolated_map);
#endif /* SMP */