[PATCH] Revert "sched/core: Reduce cost of sched_move_task when config autogroup"

[Dietmar Eggemann]

This reverts commit eff6c8ce8d4d7faef75f66614dd20bb50595d261.

Hazem reported a 30% drop in UnixBench spawn test with commit
eff6c8ce8d4d ("sched/core: Reduce cost of sched_move_task when config
autogroup") on a m6g.xlarge AWS EC2 instance with 4 vCPUs and 16 GiB RAM
(aarch64) (single level MC sched domain) [1].

There is an early bail from sched_move_task() if p->sched_task_group is
equal to p's 'cpu cgroup' (sched_get_task_group()). E.g. both are
pointing to taskgroup '/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-1.scope'
(Ubuntu '22.04.5 LTS').

So in:

  do_exit()

    sched_autogroup_exit_task()

      sched_move_task()

        if sched_get_task_group(p) == p->sched_task_group
          return

        /* p is enqueued */
        dequeue_task()              \
        sched_change_group()        |
          task_change_group_fair()  |
            detach_task_cfs_rq()    |                              (1)
            set_task_rq()           |
            attach_task_cfs_rq()    |
        enqueue_task()              /

(1) isn't called for p anymore.

Turns out that the regression is related to sgs->group_util in
group_is_overloaded() and group_has_capacity(). If (1) isn't called for
all the 'spawn' tasks then sgs->group_util is ~900 and
sgs->group_capacity = 1024 (single CPU sched domain) and this leads to
group_is_overloaded() returning true (2) and group_has_capacity() false
(3) much more often compared to the case when (1) is called.

I.e. there are much more cases of 'group_is_overloaded' and
'group_fully_busy' in WF_FORK wakeup sched_balance_find_dst_cpu() which
then returns much more often a CPU != smp_processor_id() (5).

This isn't good for these extremely short running tasks (FORK + EXIT)
and also involves calling sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu() unnecessary
(single CPU sched domain).

Instead if (1) is called for 'p->flags & PF_EXITING' then the path
(4),(6) is taken much more often.

  select_task_rq_fair(..., wake_flags = WF_FORK)

    cpu = smp_processor_id()

    new_cpu = sched_balance_find_dst_cpu(..., cpu, ...)

      group = sched_balance_find_dst_group(..., cpu)

        do {

          update_sg_wakeup_stats()

            sgs->group_type = group_classify()

              if group_is_overloaded()                             (2)
                return group_overloaded

              if !group_has_capacity()                             (3)
                return group_fully_busy

              return group_has_spare                               (4)

        } while group

        if local_sgs.group_type > idlest_sgs.group_type
          return idlest                                            (5)

        case group_has_spare:

          if local_sgs.idle_cpus >= idlest_sgs.idle_cpus
            return NULL                                            (6)

Unixbench Tests './Run -c 4 spawn' on:

(a) VM AWS instance (m7gd.16xlarge) with v6.13 ('maxcpus=4 nr_cpus=4')
    and Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (aarch64).

    Shell & test run in '/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-1.scope'.

    w/o patch	w/ patch
    21005	27120

(b) i7-13700K with tip/sched/core ('nosmt maxcpus=8 nr_cpus=8') and
    Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (x86_64).

    Shell & test run in '/A'.

    w/o patch	w/ patch
    67675	88806

CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y & /sys/proc/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled equal
0 or 1.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250205151026.13061-1-hagarhem@xxxxxxxxxx

Reported-by: Hazem Mohamed Abuelfotoh <abuehaze@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Hagar Hemdan <hagarhem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
---

Previous discussion under:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250306162635.2614376-1-dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx

 kernel/sched/core.c | 21 +++------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 621cfc731c5b..532119a3f72b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -9015,7 +9015,7 @@ void sched_release_group(struct task_group *tg)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task_group_lock, flags);
 }
 
-static struct task_group *sched_get_task_group(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static void sched_change_group(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	struct task_group *tg;
 
@@ -9027,13 +9027,7 @@ static struct task_group *sched_get_task_group(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	tg = container_of(task_css_check(tsk, cpu_cgrp_id, true),
 			  struct task_group, css);
 	tg = autogroup_task_group(tsk, tg);
-
-	return tg;
-}
-
-static void sched_change_group(struct task_struct *tsk, struct task_group *group)
-{
-	tsk->sched_task_group = group;
+	tsk->sched_task_group = tg;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 	if (tsk->sched_class->task_change_group)
@@ -9054,20 +9048,11 @@ void sched_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk, bool for_autogroup)
 {
 	int queued, running, queue_flags =
 		DEQUEUE_SAVE | DEQUEUE_MOVE | DEQUEUE_NOCLOCK;
-	struct task_group *group;
 	struct rq *rq;
 
 	CLASS(task_rq_lock, rq_guard)(tsk);
 	rq = rq_guard.rq;
 
-	/*
-	 * Esp. with SCHED_AUTOGROUP enabled it is possible to get superfluous
-	 * group changes.
-	 */
-	group = sched_get_task_group(tsk);
-	if (group == tsk->sched_task_group)
-		return;
-
 	update_rq_clock(rq);
 
 	running = task_current_donor(rq, tsk);
@@ -9078,7 +9063,7 @@ void sched_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk, bool for_autogroup)
 	if (running)
 		put_prev_task(rq, tsk);
 
-	sched_change_group(tsk, group);
+	sched_change_group(tsk);
 	if (!for_autogroup)
 		scx_cgroup_move_task(tsk);
 
-- 
2.34.1