sched/fair: Let asymmetric CPU configurations balance at wake-up

Currently, SD_WAKE_AFFINE always takes priority over wakeup balancing if
SD_BALANCE_WAKE is set on the sched_domains. For asymmetric
configurations SD_WAKE_AFFINE is only desirable if the waking task's
compute demand (utilization) is suitable for the waking CPU and the
previous CPU, and all CPUs within their respective
SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES domains (sd_llc). If not, let wakeup balancing
take over (find_idlest_{group, cpu}()).

This patch makes affine wake-ups conditional on whether both the waker
CPU and the previous CPU has sufficient capacity for the waking task,
or not, assuming that the CPU capacities within an SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
domain (sd_llc) are homogeneous.

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Author: msrasmussen

kernel/sched/fair.c

@@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_sched_shares_window = 10000000UL;
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_cfs_bandwidth_slice = 5000UL;
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * The margin used when comparing utilization with CPU capacity:
+ * util * 1024 < capacity * margin
+ */
+unsigned int capacity_margin = 1280; /* ~20% */
+
 static inline void update_load_add(struct load_weight *lw, unsigned long inc)
 {
 	lw->weight += inc;
@@ -5376,6 +5382,32 @@ static int cpu_util(int cpu)
 	return (util >= capacity) ? capacity : util;
 }
 
+static inline int task_util(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	return p->se.avg.util_avg;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Disable WAKE_AFFINE in the case where task @p doesn't fit in the
+ * capacity of either the waking CPU @cpu or the previous CPU @prev_cpu.
+ *
+ * In that case WAKE_AFFINE doesn't make sense and we'll let
+ * BALANCE_WAKE sort things out.
+ */
+static int wake_cap(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int prev_cpu)
+{
+	long min_cap, max_cap;
+
+	min_cap = min(capacity_orig_of(prev_cpu), capacity_orig_of(cpu));
+	max_cap = cpu_rq(cpu)->rd->max_cpu_capacity;
+
+	/* Minimum capacity is close to max, no need to abort wake_affine */
+	if (max_cap - min_cap < max_cap >> 3)
+		return 0;
+
+	return min_cap * 1024 < task_util(p) * capacity_margin;
+}
+
 /*
  * select_task_rq_fair: Select target runqueue for the waking task in domains
  * that have the 'sd_flag' flag set. In practice, this is SD_BALANCE_WAKE,
@@ -5399,7 +5431,8 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
 
 	if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) {
 		record_wakee(p);
-		want_affine = !wake_wide(p) && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tsk_cpus_allowed(p));
+		want_affine = !wake_wide(p) && !wake_cap(p, cpu, prev_cpu)
+			      && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tsk_cpus_allowed(p));
 	}
 
 	rcu_read_lock();