sched/core: Fix wake_affine() performance regression

Eric reported a sysbench regression against commit:

  3fed382 ("sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()")

Similarly, Rik was looking at the NAS-lu.C benchmark, which regressed
against his v3.10 enterprise kernel.

PRE (current tip/master):

 ivb-ep sysbench:

   2: [30 secs]     transactions:                        64110  (2136.94 per sec.)
   5: [30 secs]     transactions:                        143644 (4787.99 per sec.)
  10: [30 secs]     transactions:                        274298 (9142.93 per sec.)
  20: [30 secs]     transactions:                        418683 (13955.45 per sec.)
  40: [30 secs]     transactions:                        320731 (10690.15 per sec.)
  80: [30 secs]     transactions:                        355096 (11834.28 per sec.)

 hsw-ex NAS:

 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds =                    18.01
 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds =                    17.89
 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds =                    17.93
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds =                   434.68
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds =                   405.36
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds =                   433.83

POST (+patch):

 ivb-ep sysbench:

   2: [30 secs]     transactions:                        64494  (2149.75 per sec.)
   5: [30 secs]     transactions:                        145114 (4836.99 per sec.)
  10: [30 secs]     transactions:                        278311 (9276.69 per sec.)
  20: [30 secs]     transactions:                        437169 (14571.60 per sec.)
  40: [30 secs]     transactions:                        669837 (22326.73 per sec.)
  80: [30 secs]     transactions:                        631739 (21055.88 per sec.)

 hsw-ex NAS:

 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds =                    23.36
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds =                    22.96
 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds =                    22.52

This patch takes out all the shiny wake_affine() stuff and goes back to
utter basics. Between the two CPUs involved with the wakeup (the CPU
doing the wakeup and the CPU we ran on previously) pick the CPU we can
run on _now_.

This restores much of the regressions against the older kernels,
but leaves some ground in the overloaded case. The default-enabled
WA_WEIGHT (which will be introduced in the next patch) is an attempt
to address the overloaded situation.

Reported-by: Eric Farman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Rosato <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 3fed382 ("sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Author: Peter Zijlstra

include/linux/sched/topology.h

@@ -71,14 +71,6 @@ struct sched_domain_shared {
 	atomic_t	ref;
 	atomic_t	nr_busy_cpus;
 	int		has_idle_cores;
-
-	/*
-	 * Some variables from the most recent sd_lb_stats for this domain,
-	 * used by wake_affine().
-	 */
-	unsigned long	nr_running;
-	unsigned long	load;
-	unsigned long	capacity;
 };
 
 struct sched_domain {

kernel/sched/fair.c

@@ -5356,115 +5356,36 @@ static int wake_wide(struct task_struct *p)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-struct llc_stats {
-	unsigned long	nr_running;
-	unsigned long	load;
-	unsigned long	capacity;
-	int		has_capacity;
-};
-
-static bool get_llc_stats(struct llc_stats *stats, int cpu)
-{
-	struct sched_domain_shared *sds = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu));
-
-	if (!sds)
-		return false;
-
-	stats->nr_running	= READ_ONCE(sds->nr_running);
-	stats->load		= READ_ONCE(sds->load);
-	stats->capacity		= READ_ONCE(sds->capacity);
-	stats->has_capacity	= stats->nr_running < per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu);
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 /*
- * Can a task be moved from prev_cpu to this_cpu without causing a load
- * imbalance that would trigger the load balancer?
+ * The purpose of wake_affine() is to quickly determine on which CPU we can run
+ * soonest. For the purpose of speed we only consider the waking and previous
+ * CPU.
  *
- * Since we're running on 'stale' values, we might in fact create an imbalance
- * but recomputing these values is expensive, as that'd mean iteration 2 cache
- * domains worth of CPUs.
+ * wake_affine_idle() - only considers 'now', it check if the waking CPU is (or
+ *			will be) idle.
  */
+
 static bool
-wake_affine_llc(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
-		int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
+wake_affine_idle(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
+		 int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
 {
-	struct llc_stats prev_stats, this_stats;
-	s64 this_eff_load, prev_eff_load;
-	unsigned long task_load;
-
-	if (!get_llc_stats(&prev_stats, prev_cpu) ||
-	    !get_llc_stats(&this_stats, this_cpu))
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * If sync wakeup then subtract the (maximum possible)
-	 * effect of the currently running task from the load
-	 * of the current LLC.
-	 */
-	if (sync) {
-		unsigned long current_load = task_h_load(current);
-
-		/* in this case load hits 0 and this LLC is considered 'idle' */
-		if (current_load > this_stats.load)
-			return true;
-
-		this_stats.load -= current_load;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * The has_capacity stuff is not SMT aware, but by trying to balance
-	 * the nr_running on both ends we try and fill the domain at equal
-	 * rates, thereby first consuming cores before siblings.
-	 */
-
-	/* if the old cache has capacity, stay there */
-	if (prev_stats.has_capacity && prev_stats.nr_running < this_stats.nr_running+1)
-		return false;
-
-	/* if this cache has capacity, come here */
-	if (this_stats.has_capacity && this_stats.nr_running+1 < prev_stats.nr_running)
+	if (idle_cpu(this_cpu))
 		return true;
 
-	/*
-	 * Check to see if we can move the load without causing too much
-	 * imbalance.
-	 */
-	task_load = task_h_load(p);
-
-	this_eff_load = 100;
-	this_eff_load *= prev_stats.capacity;
-
-	prev_eff_load = 100 + (sd->imbalance_pct - 100) / 2;
-	prev_eff_load *= this_stats.capacity;
-
-	this_eff_load *= this_stats.load + task_load;
-	prev_eff_load *= prev_stats.load - task_load;
+	if (sync && cpu_rq(this_cpu)->nr_running == 1)
+		return true;
 
-	return this_eff_load <= prev_eff_load;
+	return false;
 }
 
 static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
 		       int prev_cpu, int sync)
 {
 	int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
-	bool affine;
-
-	/*
-	 * Default to no affine wakeups; wake_affine() should not effect a task
-	 * placement the load-balancer feels inclined to undo. The conservative
-	 * option is therefore to not move tasks when they wake up.
-	 */
-	affine = false;
+	bool affine = false;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the wakeup is across cache domains, try to evaluate if movement
-	 * makes sense, otherwise rely on select_idle_siblings() to do
-	 * placement inside the cache domain.
-	 */
-	if (!cpus_share_cache(prev_cpu, this_cpu))
-		affine = wake_affine_llc(sd, p, this_cpu, prev_cpu, sync);
+	if (sched_feat(WA_IDLE) && !affine)
+		affine = wake_affine_idle(sd, p, this_cpu, prev_cpu, sync);
 
 	schedstat_inc(p->se.statistics.nr_wakeups_affine_attempts);
 	if (affine) {
@@ -7600,7 +7521,6 @@ static inline enum fbq_type fbq_classify_rq(struct rq *rq)
  */
 static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *sds)
 {
-	struct sched_domain_shared *shared = env->sd->shared;
 	struct sched_domain *child = env->sd->child;
 	struct sched_group *sg = env->sd->groups;
 	struct sg_lb_stats *local = &sds->local_stat;
@@ -7672,22 +7592,6 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *sd
 		if (env->dst_rq->rd->overload != overload)
 			env->dst_rq->rd->overload = overload;
 	}
-
-	if (!shared)
-		return;
-
-	/*
-	 * Since these are sums over groups they can contain some CPUs
-	 * multiple times for the NUMA domains.
-	 *
-	 * Currently only wake_affine_llc() and find_busiest_group()
-	 * uses these numbers, only the last is affected by this problem.
-	 *
-	 * XXX fix that.
-	 */
-	WRITE_ONCE(shared->nr_running,	sds->total_running);
-	WRITE_ONCE(shared->load,	sds->total_load);
-	WRITE_ONCE(shared->capacity,	sds->total_capacity);
 }
 
 /**

kernel/sched/features.h

@@ -81,3 +81,4 @@ SCHED_FEAT(RT_RUNTIME_SHARE, true)
 SCHED_FEAT(LB_MIN, false)
 SCHED_FEAT(ATTACH_AGE_LOAD, true)
 
+SCHED_FEAT(WA_IDLE, true)