[PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/55] rcutorture: Do better bin packing

[Paul E. McKenney]

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Running the standard set of rcutorture tests on 24 CPUs results in
the following sub-optimal schedule:

	----start batch----
	 TREE07 16
	----start batch----
	 TREE08 16
	 SRCU-P 8
	----start batch----
	 TREE01 8
	 TREE02 8
	 TREE03 8
	----start batch----
	 TREE04 8
	 TREE05 8
	 TREE06 8
	----start batch----
	 SRCU-N 4
	 TINY01 1
	 TINY02 1
	 TREE09 1

If one of the eight-CPU runs were to be moved into the first batch,
the test suite would complete in four batches rather than five.

This commit therefore uses a greedy algorithm to re-order the test
entries so that the sequential batching will produce an optimal schedule
in this case:

	----start batch----
	 TREE07 16
	 SRCU-P 8
	----start batch----
	 TREE08 16
	 TREE01 8
	----start batch----
	 TREE02 8
	 TREE03 8
	 TREE04 8
	----start batch----
	 TREE05 8
	 TREE06 8
	 SRCU-N 4
	 TINY01 1
	 TINY02 1
	 TREE09 1

Please note that this is still not an optimal bin-packing algorithm,
however, it does produce optimal solutions for most common scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
index ad3779cefdb8..18649b87ea6c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh
@@ -214,7 +214,42 @@ do
 done
 sort -k2nr $T/cfgcpu > $T/cfgcpu.sort
 
-awk < $T/cfgcpu.sort \
+awk < $T/cfgcpu.sort > $T/cfgcpu.pack -v ncpus=$cpus '
+BEGIN {
+	njobs = 0;
+}
+
+{
+	cf[njobs] = $1;
+	cpus[njobs] = $2;
+	njobs++;
+}
+
+END {
+	alldone = 0;
+	batch = 0;
+	nc = -1;
+	while (nc != ncpus) {
+		batch++;
+		nc = ncpus;
+		for (i = 0; i < njobs; i++) {
+			if (done[i])
+				continue;
+			if (nc >= cpus[i] || nc == ncpus) {
+				done[i] = batch;
+				nc -= cpus[i];
+				if (nc <= 0)
+					break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for (b = 1; b <= batch; b++)
+		for (i = 0; i < njobs; i++)
+			if (done[i] == b)
+				print cf[i], cpus[i];
+}'
+
+awk < $T/cfgcpu.pack \
 	-v CONFIGDIR="$CONFIGFRAG/$kversion/" \
 	-v KVM="$KVM" \
 	-v ncpus=$cpus \
-- 
1.8.1.5

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