[PATCH v6 3/6] cgroup/cpuset: Add a new isolated cpus.partition type

[Waiman Long]

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=TBD

commit 994fb794cb252edd124a46ca0994e37a4726a100
Author: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:28:19 -0400

    cgroup/cpuset: Add a new isolated cpus.partition type

    Cpuset v1 uses the sched_load_balance control file to determine if load
    balancing should be enabled.  Cpuset v2 gets rid of sched_load_balance
    as its use may require disabling load balancing at cgroup root.

    For workloads that require very low latency like DPDK, the latency
    jitters caused by periodic load balancing may exceed the desired
    latency limit.

    When cpuset v2 is in use, the only way to avoid this latency cost is to
    use the "isolcpus=" kernel boot option to isolate a set of CPUs. After
    the kernel boot, however, there is no way to add or remove CPUs from
    this isolated set. For workloads that are more dynamic in nature, that
    means users have to provision enough CPUs for the worst case situation
    resulting in excess idle CPUs.

    To address this issue for cpuset v2, a new cpuset.cpus.partition type
    "isolated" is added which allows the creation of a cpuset partition
    without load balancing. This will allow system administrators to
    dynamically adjust the size of isolated partition to the current need
    of the workload without rebooting the system.

    Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 7548e07a9874..0d4a2ed6fb24 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ struct cpuset {
  *
  *   1 - partition root
  *
+ *   2 - partition root without load balancing (isolated)
+ *
  *  -1 - invalid partition root
  *       None of the cpus in cpus_allowed can be put into the parent's
  *       subparts_cpus. In this case, the cpuset is not a real partition
@@ -202,6 +204,7 @@ struct cpuset {
  */
 #define PRS_DISABLED		0
 #define PRS_ENABLED		1
+#define PRS_ISOLATED		2
 #define PRS_ERROR		-1
 
 /*
@@ -1298,17 +1301,22 @@ static int update_parent_subparts_cpumask(struct cpuset *cpuset, int cmd,
 
 	if (cmd == partcmd_update) {
 		/*
-		 * Check for possible transition between PRS_ENABLED
-		 * and PRS_ERROR.
+		 * Check for possible transition between PRS_ERROR and
+		 * PRS_ENABLED/PRS_ISOLATED.
 		 */
 		switch (cpuset->partition_root_state) {
 		case PRS_ENABLED:
+		case PRS_ISOLATED:
 			if (part_error)
 				new_prs = PRS_ERROR;
 			break;
 		case PRS_ERROR:
-			if (!part_error)
+			if (part_error)
+				break;
+			if (is_sched_load_balance(cpuset))
 				new_prs = PRS_ENABLED;
+			else
+				new_prs = PRS_ISOLATED;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
@@ -1443,6 +1451,7 @@ static void update_cpumasks_hier(struct cpuset *cs, struct tmpmasks *tmp)
 				break;
 
 			case PRS_ENABLED:
+			case PRS_ISOLATED:
 				if (update_parent_subparts_cpumask(cp, partcmd_update, NULL, tmp))
 					update_tasks_cpumask(parent);
 				/*
@@ -1468,7 +1477,7 @@ static void update_cpumasks_hier(struct cpuset *cs, struct tmpmasks *tmp)
 
 		spin_lock_irq(&callback_lock);
 
-		if (cp->nr_subparts_cpus && (new_prs != PRS_ENABLED)) {
+		if (cp->nr_subparts_cpus && (new_prs <= 0)) {
 			/*
 			 * Put all active subparts_cpus back to effective_cpus.
 			 */
@@ -2007,6 +2016,7 @@ static int update_prstate(struct cpuset *cs, int new_prs)
 	int err, old_prs = cs->partition_root_state;
 	struct cpuset *parent = parent_cs(cs);
 	struct tmpmasks tmpmask;
+	bool sched_domain_rebuilt = false;
 
 	if (old_prs == new_prs)
 		return 0;
@@ -2041,6 +2051,22 @@ static int update_prstate(struct cpuset *cs, int new_prs)
 			update_flag(CS_CPU_EXCLUSIVE, cs, 0);
 			goto out;
 		}
+
+		if (new_prs == PRS_ISOLATED) {
+			/*
+			 * Disable the load balance flag should not return an
+			 * error unless the system is running out of memory.
+			 */
+			update_flag(CS_SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE, cs, 0);
+			sched_domain_rebuilt = true;
+		}
+	} else if (old_prs && new_prs) {
+		/*
+		 * A change in load balance state only, no change in cpumasks.
+		 */
+		update_flag(CS_SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE, cs, (new_prs != PRS_ISOLATED));
+		err = 0;
+		goto out;	/* Sched domain is rebuilt in update_flag() */
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Switch back to member is always allowed even if it
@@ -2063,6 +2089,12 @@ static int update_prstate(struct cpuset *cs, int new_prs)
 
 		/* Turning off CS_CPU_EXCLUSIVE will not return error */
 		update_flag(CS_CPU_EXCLUSIVE, cs, 0);
+
+		if (!is_sched_load_balance(cs)) {
+			/* Make sure load balance is on */
+			update_flag(CS_SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE, cs, 1);
+			sched_domain_rebuilt = true;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -2075,7 +2107,8 @@ static int update_prstate(struct cpuset *cs, int new_prs)
 	if (parent->child_ecpus_count)
 		update_sibling_cpumasks(parent, cs, &tmpmask);
 
-	rebuild_sched_domains_locked();
+	if (!sched_domain_rebuilt)
+		rebuild_sched_domains_locked();
 out:
 	if (!err) {
 		spin_lock_irq(&callback_lock);
@@ -2578,6 +2611,9 @@ static int sched_partition_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 	case PRS_ENABLED:
 		seq_puts(seq, "root\n");
 		break;
+	case PRS_ISOLATED:
+		seq_puts(seq, "isolated\n");
+		break;
 	case PRS_DISABLED:
 		seq_puts(seq, "member\n");
 		break;
@@ -2608,6 +2644,8 @@ static ssize_t sched_partition_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
 		val = PRS_ENABLED;
 	else if (!strcmp(buf, "member"))
 		val = PRS_DISABLED;
+	else if (!strcmp(buf, "isolated"))
+		val = PRS_ISOLATED;
 	else
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-- 
2.18.1