Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Remove SIS_AVG_CPU

[Dietmar Eggemann]

On 07/12/2020 10:15, Mel Gorman wrote:
> SIS_AVG_CPU was introduced as a means of avoiding a search when the
> average search cost indicated that the search would likely fail. It
> was a blunt instrument and disabled by 4c77b18cf8b7 ("sched/fair: Make
> select_idle_cpu() more aggressive") and later replaced with a proportional
> search depth by 1ad3aaf3fcd2 ("sched/core: Implement new approach to
> scale select_idle_cpu()").
> 
> While there are corner cases where SIS_AVG_CPU is better, it has now been
> disabled for almost three years. As the intent of SIS_PROP is to reduce
> the time complexity of select_idle_cpu(), lets drop SIS_AVG_CPU and focus
> on SIS_PROP as a throttling mechanism.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c     | 3 ---
>  kernel/sched/features.h | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 98075f9ea9a8..23934dbac635 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -6161,9 +6161,6 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
>  	avg_idle = this_rq()->avg_idle / 512;
>  	avg_cost = this_sd->avg_scan_cost + 1;
>  
> -	if (sched_feat(SIS_AVG_CPU) && avg_idle < avg_cost)
> -		return -1;
> -
>  	if (sched_feat(SIS_PROP)) {
>  		u64 span_avg = sd->span_weight * avg_idle;
>  		if (span_avg > 4*avg_cost)

Nitpick:

Since now avg_cost and avg_idle are only used w/ SIS_PROP, they could go
completely into the SIS_PROP if condition.

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 09f6f0edead4..fce9457cccb9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6121,7 +6121,6 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
 {
 	struct cpumask *cpus = this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(select_idle_mask);
 	struct sched_domain *this_sd;
-	u64 avg_cost, avg_idle;
 	u64 time;
 	int this = smp_processor_id();
 	int cpu, nr = INT_MAX;
@@ -6130,14 +6129,13 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
 	if (!this_sd)
 		return -1;
 
-	/*
-	 * Due to large variance we need a large fuzz factor; hackbench in
-	 * particularly is sensitive here.
-	 */
-	avg_idle = this_rq()->avg_idle / 512;
-	avg_cost = this_sd->avg_scan_cost + 1;
-
 	if (sched_feat(SIS_PROP)) {
+		/*
+		 * Due to large variance we need a large fuzz factor; hackbench in
+		 * particularly is sensitive here.
+		 */
+		u64 avg_idle = this_rq()->avg_idle / 512;
+		u64 avg_cost = this_sd->avg_scan_cost + 1;
 		u64 span_avg = sd->span_weight * avg_idle;
 		if (span_avg > 4*avg_cost)
 			nr = div_u64(span_avg, avg_cost);
-- 
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