Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 2/2] sched/fair: Scan cluster before scanning LLC in wake-up path

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jul 21 2022 - 06:35:11 EST


On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 09:38:04PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:15 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 04:11:50PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> > > + /* TODO: Support SMT system with cluster topology */
> > > + if (!sched_smt_active() && sd) {
> > > + for_each_cpu_and(cpu, cpus, sched_domain_span(sd)) {
> >
> > So that's no SMT and no wrap iteration..
> >
> > Does something like this work?
> >
> > ---
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -6437,6 +6437,30 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_s
> > }
> > }
> >
> > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER) &&
> > + static_branch_unlikely(&sched_cluster_active)) {
> > + struct sched_domain *sdc = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_cluster, target));
> > + if (sdc) {
> > + for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, sched_domain_span(sdc), target + 1) {
> > + if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpus))
> > + continue;
> > +
> > + if (has_idle_core) {
> > + i = select_idle_core(p, cpu, cpus, &idle_cpu);
> > + if ((unsigned int)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
> > + return i;
> > + } else {
> > + if (--nr <= 0)
> > + return -1;
> > + idle_cpu = __select_idle_cpu(cpu, p);
> > + if ((unsigned int)idle_cpu < nr_cpumask_bits)
> > + break;
>
> Guess here it should be "return idle_cpu", but not "break". as "break"
> will make us scan more
> other cpus outside the cluster if we have found idle_cpu within the cluster.
>
> Yicong,
> Please test Peter's code with the above change.

Indeed. Sorry for that.