Re: [RFC 1/2] sched: reduce migration cost between faster caches for idle_balance

[Mike Galbraith]

On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 14:19 -0800, Rohit Jain wrote:
> This patch makes idle_balance more dynamic as the sched_migration_cost
> is now accounted on a sched_domain level. This in turn is done in
> sd_init when we know what the topology relationships are.
> 
> For introduction sakes cost of migration within the same core is set as
> 0, across cores is 50 usec and across sockets is 500 usec. sysctl for
> these variables are introduced in patch 2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rohit Jain <rohit.k.jain@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/sched/topology.h | 1 +
>  kernel/sched/fair.c            | 6 +++---
>  kernel/sched/topology.c        | 5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> index cf257c2..bcb4db2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ struct sched_domain {
>  	u64 max_newidle_lb_cost;
>  	unsigned long next_decay_max_lb_cost;
>  
> +	u64 sched_migration_cost;
>  	u64 avg_scan_cost;		/* select_idle_sibling */
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 2fe3aa8..61d3508 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -8782,8 +8782,7 @@ static int idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, struct rq_flags *rf)
>  	 */
>  	rq_unpin_lock(this_rq, rf);
>  
> -	if (this_rq->avg_idle < sysctl_sched_migration_cost ||
> -	    !this_rq->rd->overload) {
> +	if (!this_rq->rd->overload) {
>  		rcu_read_lock();
>  		sd = rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain(this_rq->sd);
>  		if (sd)

Unexplained/unrelated change.

> @@ -8804,7 +8803,8 @@ static int idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, struct rq_flags *rf)
>  		if (!(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE))
>  			continue;
>  
> -		if (this_rq->avg_idle < curr_cost + sd->max_newidle_lb_cost) {
> +		if (this_rq->avg_idle < curr_cost + sd->max_newidle_lb_cost +
> +		    sd->sched_migration_cost) {
>  			update_next_balance(sd, &next_balance);
>  			break;
>  		}

Ditto.

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index 034cbed..bcd8c64 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -1148,12 +1148,14 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
>  		sd->flags |= SD_PREFER_SIBLING;
>  		sd->imbalance_pct = 110;
>  		sd->smt_gain = 1178; /* ~15% */
> +		sd->sched_migration_cost = 0;
>  
>  	} else if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES) {
>  		sd->flags |= SD_PREFER_SIBLING;
>  		sd->imbalance_pct = 117;
>  		sd->cache_nice_tries = 1;
>  		sd->busy_idx = 2;
> +		sd->sched_migration_cost = 500000UL;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>  	} else if (sd->flags & SD_NUMA) {
> @@ -1162,6 +1164,7 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
>  		sd->idle_idx = 2;
>  
>  		sd->flags |= SD_SERIALIZE;
> +		sd->sched_migration_cost = 5000000UL;

That's not 500us.

	-Mike