[PATCH v2] sched/numa: use runnable_avg to classify node

[Vincent Guittot]

Use runnable_avg to classify numa node state similarly to what is done for
normal load balancer. This helps to ensure that numa and normal balancers
use the same view of the state of the system.

- large arm64system: 2 nodes / 224 CPUs
hackbench -l (256000/#grp) -g #grp

grp    tip/sched/core         +patchset              improvement
1      14,008(+/- 4,99 %)     13,800(+/- 3.88 %)     1,48 %
4       4,340(+/- 5.35 %)      4.283(+/- 4.85 %)     1,33 %
16      3,357(+/- 0.55 %)      3.359(+/- 0.54 %)    -0,06 %
32      3,050(+/- 0.94 %)      3.039(+/- 1,06 %)     0,38 %
64      2.968(+/- 1,85 %)      3.006(+/- 2.92 %)    -1.27 %
128     3,290(+/-12.61 %)      3,108(+/- 5.97 %)     5.51 %
256     3.235(+/- 3.95 %)      3,188(+/- 2.83 %)     1.45 %

Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes for v2:
- added reviewed tag
- rebased on tip/sched/core

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 33699db27ed5..a15deb210a17 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1504,6 +1504,7 @@ enum numa_type {
 /* Cached statistics for all CPUs within a node */
 struct numa_stats {
 	unsigned long load;
+	unsigned long runnable;
 	unsigned long util;
 	/* Total compute capacity of CPUs on a node */
 	unsigned long compute_capacity;
@@ -1547,6 +1548,7 @@ struct task_numa_env {
 };
 
 static unsigned long cpu_load(struct rq *rq);
+static unsigned long cpu_runnable(struct rq *rq);
 static unsigned long cpu_util(int cpu);
 static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance, int src_nr_running);
 
@@ -1555,11 +1557,13 @@ numa_type numa_classify(unsigned int imbalance_pct,
 			 struct numa_stats *ns)
 {
 	if ((ns->nr_running > ns->weight) &&
-	    ((ns->compute_capacity * 100) < (ns->util * imbalance_pct)))
+	    (((ns->compute_capacity * 100) < (ns->util * imbalance_pct)) ||
+	     ((ns->compute_capacity * imbalance_pct) < (ns->runnable * 100))))
 		return node_overloaded;
 
 	if ((ns->nr_running < ns->weight) ||
-	    ((ns->compute_capacity * 100) > (ns->util * imbalance_pct)))
+	    (((ns->compute_capacity * 100) > (ns->util * imbalance_pct)) &&
+	     ((ns->compute_capacity * imbalance_pct) > (ns->runnable * 100))))
 		return node_has_spare;
 
 	return node_fully_busy;
@@ -1610,6 +1614,7 @@ static void update_numa_stats(struct task_numa_env *env,
 		struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 
 		ns->load += cpu_load(rq);
+		ns->runnable += cpu_runnable(rq);
 		ns->util += cpu_util(cpu);
 		ns->nr_running += rq->cfs.h_nr_running;
 		ns->compute_capacity += capacity_of(cpu);
-- 
2.17.1