[PATCH v2 3/4] sched: Compact RSEQ concurrency IDs with reduced threads and affinity

[Gabriele Monaco]

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

When a process reduces its number of threads or clears bits in its CPU
affinity mask, the mm_cid allocation should eventually converge towards
smaller values.

However, the change introduced by:

commit 7e019dcc470f ("sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency
IDs for intermittent workloads")

adds a per-mm/CPU recent_cid which is never unset unless a thread
migrates.

This is a tradeoff between:

A) Preserving cache locality after a transition from many threads to few
   threads, or after reducing the hamming weight of the allowed CPU mask.

B) Making the mm_cid upper bounds wrt nr threads and allowed CPU mask
   easy to document and understand.

C) Allowing applications to eventually react to mm_cid compaction after
   reduction of the nr threads or allowed CPU mask, making the tracking
   of mm_cid compaction easier by shrinking it back towards 0 or not.

D) Making sure applications that periodically reduce and then increase
   again the nr threads or allowed CPU mask still benefit from good
   cache locality with mm_cid.

Introduce the following changes:

* After shrinking the number of threads or reducing the number of
  allowed CPUs, reduce the value of max_nr_cid so expansion of CID
  allocation will preserve cache locality if the number of threads or
  allowed CPUs increase again.

* Only re-use a recent_cid if it is within the max_nr_cid upper bound,
  else find the first available CID.

Fixes: 7e019dcc470f ("sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency IDs for intermittent workloads")
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/mm_types.h |  7 ++++---
 kernel/sched/sched.h     | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 8a76a1c09234..16076e70a6b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -837,10 +837,11 @@ struct mm_struct {
 		 */
 		unsigned int nr_cpus_allowed;
 		/**
-		 * @max_nr_cid: Maximum number of concurrency IDs allocated.
+		 * @max_nr_cid: Maximum number of allowed concurrency
+		 *              IDs allocated.
 		 *
-		 * Track the highest number of concurrency IDs allocated for the
-		 * mm.
+		 * Track the highest number of allowed concurrency IDs
+		 * allocated for the mm.
 		 */
 		atomic_t max_nr_cid;
 		/**
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 21be461ff913..f3b0d1d86622 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -3652,10 +3652,28 @@ static inline int __mm_cid_try_get(struct task_struct *t, struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	struct cpumask *cidmask = mm_cidmask(mm);
 	struct mm_cid __percpu *pcpu_cid = mm->pcpu_cid;
-	int cid = __this_cpu_read(pcpu_cid->recent_cid);
+	int cid, max_nr_cid, allowed_max_nr_cid;
 
+	/*
+	 * After shrinking the number of threads or reducing the number
+	 * of allowed cpus, reduce the value of max_nr_cid so expansion
+	 * of cid allocation will preserve cache locality if the number
+	 * of threads or allowed cpus increase again.
+	 */
+	max_nr_cid = atomic_read(&mm->max_nr_cid);
+	while ((allowed_max_nr_cid = min_t(int, READ_ONCE(mm->nr_cpus_allowed),
+					   atomic_read(&mm->mm_users))),
+	       max_nr_cid > allowed_max_nr_cid) {
+		/* atomic_try_cmpxchg loads previous mm->max_nr_cid into max_nr_cid. */
+		if (atomic_try_cmpxchg(&mm->max_nr_cid, &max_nr_cid, allowed_max_nr_cid)) {
+			max_nr_cid = allowed_max_nr_cid;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
 	/* Try to re-use recent cid. This improves cache locality. */
-	if (!mm_cid_is_unset(cid) && !cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cid, cidmask))
+	cid = __this_cpu_read(pcpu_cid->recent_cid);
+	if (!mm_cid_is_unset(cid) && cid < max_nr_cid &&
+	    !cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cid, cidmask))
 		return cid;
 	/*
 	 * Expand cid allocation if the maximum number of concurrency
@@ -3663,8 +3681,9 @@ static inline int __mm_cid_try_get(struct task_struct *t, struct mm_struct *mm)
 	 * and number of threads. Expanding cid allocation as much as
 	 * possible improves cache locality.
 	 */
-	cid = atomic_read(&mm->max_nr_cid);
+	cid = max_nr_cid;
 	while (cid < READ_ONCE(mm->nr_cpus_allowed) && cid < atomic_read(&mm->mm_users)) {
+		/* atomic_try_cmpxchg loads previous mm->max_nr_cid into cid. */
 		if (!atomic_try_cmpxchg(&mm->max_nr_cid, &cid, cid + 1))
 			continue;
 		if (!cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cid, cidmask))
-- 
2.47.1