From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
"Gautham R . Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>,
Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@outlook.com>,
Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name>,
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Subject: [Patch v4 05/22] sched/cache: Make LLC id continuous
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 14:52:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <047ef46339e4db497b54a89940a7ebedf27fcf28.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Introduce an index mapping between CPUs and their LLCs. This provides
a roughly continuous per LLC index needed for cache-aware load balancing in
later patches.
The existing per_cpu llc_id usually points to the first CPU of the
LLC domain, which is sparse and unsuitable as an array index. Using
llc_id directly would waste memory.
With the new mapping, CPUs in the same LLC share an approximate
continuous id:
per_cpu(llc_id, CPU=0...15) = 0
per_cpu(llc_id, CPU=16...31) = 1
per_cpu(llc_id, CPU=32...47) = 2
...
Note that the LLC IDs are allocated via bitmask, so the IDs may be
reused during CPU offline->online transitions.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Originally-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
---
Notes:
v3->v4:
Leverage dynamic cpumask management infrastructure
for LLC id allocation.
(K Prateek Nayak, Peter Zijlstra)
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +
kernel/sched/sched.h | 3 ++
kernel/sched/topology.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index eff8695000e7..1188b5d24933 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8417,6 +8417,8 @@ int sched_cpu_deactivate(unsigned int cpu)
*/
synchronize_rcu();
+ sched_domains_free_llc_id(cpu);
+
sched_set_rq_offline(rq, cpu);
scx_rq_deactivate(rq);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 0a38bfc704a4..9defeeeb3e8e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -4019,6 +4019,9 @@ static inline bool sched_cache_enabled(void)
return false;
}
#endif
+
+void sched_domains_free_llc_id(int cpu);
+
extern void init_sched_mm(struct task_struct *p);
extern u64 avg_vruntime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 32dcddaead82..edf6d7ec73ca 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ void sched_domains_mutex_unlock(void)
}
/* Protected by sched_domains_mutex: */
+static cpumask_var_t sched_domains_llc_id_allocmask;
static cpumask_var_t sched_domains_tmpmask;
static cpumask_var_t sched_domains_tmpmask2;
+int max_lid;
static int __init sched_debug_setup(char *str)
{
@@ -663,7 +665,7 @@ static void destroy_sched_domains(struct sched_domain *sd)
*/
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain __rcu *, sd_llc);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id) = -1;
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_share_id);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain_shared __rcu *, sd_llc_shared);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain __rcu *, sd_numa);
@@ -689,7 +691,6 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu), sd);
per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu) = size;
- per_cpu(sd_llc_id, cpu) = id;
rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu), sds);
sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_CLUSTER);
@@ -1776,6 +1777,11 @@ const struct cpumask *tl_mc_mask(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl, int cpu
{
return cpu_coregroup_mask(cpu);
}
+
+#define llc_mask(cpu) cpu_coregroup_mask(cpu)
+
+#else
+#define llc_mask(cpu) cpumask_of(cpu)
#endif
const struct cpumask *tl_pkg_mask(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl, int cpu)
@@ -2548,6 +2554,61 @@ static bool topology_span_sane(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
return true;
}
+static int __sched_domains_alloc_llc_id(void)
+{
+ int lid, max;
+
+ lockdep_assert_held(&sched_domains_mutex);
+
+ lid = cpumask_first_zero(sched_domains_llc_id_allocmask);
+ /*
+ * llc_id space should never grow larger than the
+ * possible number of CPUs in the system.
+ */
+ if (lid >= nr_cpu_ids)
+ return -1;
+
+ __cpumask_set_cpu(lid, sched_domains_llc_id_allocmask);
+ max = cpumask_last(sched_domains_llc_id_allocmask);
+ if (max > max_lid)
+ max_lid = max;
+
+ return lid;
+}
+
+static void __sched_domains_free_llc_id(int cpu)
+{
+ int i, lid, max;
+
+ lockdep_assert_held(&sched_domains_mutex);
+
+ lid = per_cpu(sd_llc_id, cpu);
+ if (lid == -1 || lid >= nr_cpu_ids)
+ return;
+
+ per_cpu(sd_llc_id, cpu) = -1;
+
+ for_each_cpu(i, llc_mask(cpu)) {
+ /* An online CPU owns the llc_id. */
+ if (per_cpu(sd_llc_id, i) == lid)
+ return;
+ }
+
+ __cpumask_clear_cpu(lid, sched_domains_llc_id_allocmask);
+
+ max = cpumask_last(sched_domains_llc_id_allocmask);
+ /* shrink max lid to save memory */
+ if (max < max_lid)
+ max_lid = max;
+}
+
+void sched_domains_free_llc_id(int cpu)
+{
+ sched_domains_mutex_lock();
+ __sched_domains_free_llc_id(cpu);
+ sched_domains_mutex_unlock();
+}
+
/*
* Build sched domains for a given set of CPUs and attach the sched domains
* to the individual CPUs
@@ -2573,6 +2634,7 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
/* Set up domains for CPUs specified by the cpu_map: */
for_each_cpu(i, cpu_map) {
struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl;
+ int lid;
sd = NULL;
for_each_sd_topology(tl) {
@@ -2586,6 +2648,29 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
if (cpumask_equal(cpu_map, sched_domain_span(sd)))
break;
}
+
+ lid = per_cpu(sd_llc_id, i);
+ if (lid == -1) {
+ /* try to reuse the llc_id of its siblings */
+ for (int j = cpumask_first(llc_mask(i));
+ j < nr_cpu_ids;
+ j = cpumask_next(j, llc_mask(i))) {
+ if (i == j)
+ continue;
+
+ lid = per_cpu(sd_llc_id, j);
+
+ if (lid != -1) {
+ per_cpu(sd_llc_id, i) = lid;
+
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* a new LLC is detected */
+ if (lid == -1)
+ per_cpu(sd_llc_id, i) = __sched_domains_alloc_llc_id();
+ }
}
if (WARN_ON(!topology_span_sane(cpu_map)))
@@ -2762,6 +2847,7 @@ int __init sched_init_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
{
int err;
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&sched_domains_llc_id_allocmask, GFP_KERNEL);
zalloc_cpumask_var(&sched_domains_tmpmask, GFP_KERNEL);
zalloc_cpumask_var(&sched_domains_tmpmask2, GFP_KERNEL);
zalloc_cpumask_var(&fallback_doms, GFP_KERNEL);
--
2.32.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-01 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-01 21:52 [Patch v4 00/22] Cache aware scheduling Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 01/22] sched/cache: Introduce infrastructure for cache-aware load balancing Tim Chen
2026-04-09 12:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-09 19:21 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-09 23:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-10 6:30 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-15 2:06 ` Vern Hao
2026-04-15 3:34 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 02/22] sched/cache: Limit the scan number of CPUs when calculating task occupancy Tim Chen
2026-04-09 13:17 ` Luo Gengkun
2026-04-09 13:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-10 10:12 ` Luo Gengkun
2026-04-10 7:29 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-10 10:20 ` Luo Gengkun
2026-04-10 17:12 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-10 17:27 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-13 7:23 ` [RFC PATCH] sched/fair: dynamically scale the period of cache work Jianyong Wu
2026-04-13 8:38 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-13 11:27 ` Jianyong Wu
2026-04-15 3:31 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-16 3:39 ` Jianyong Wu
2026-04-15 17:22 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-16 6:50 ` Jianyong Wu
2026-04-14 15:07 ` [PATCH v2] sched/cache: Reduce the overhead of task_cache_work by only scan the visisted cpus Luo Gengkun
2026-04-15 3:10 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-18 9:01 ` Luo Gengkun
2026-04-20 7:53 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-23 8:54 ` [PATCH v3] " Luo Gengkun
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 03/22] sched/cache: Record per LLC utilization to guide cache aware scheduling decisions Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 04/22] sched/cache: Introduce helper functions to enforce LLC migration policy Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` Tim Chen [this message]
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 06/22] sched/cache: Assign preferred LLC ID to processes Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 07/22] sched/cache: Track LLC-preferred tasks per runqueue Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 08/22] sched/cache: Introduce per CPU's tasks LLC preference counter Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 09/22] sched/cache: Calculate the percpu sd task LLC preference Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 10/22] sched/cache: Count tasks prefering destination LLC in a sched group Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 11/22] sched/cache: Check local_group only once in update_sg_lb_stats() Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 12/22] sched/cache: Prioritize tasks preferring destination LLC during balancing Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 13/22] sched/cache: Add migrate_llc_task migration type for cache-aware balancing Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 14/22] sched/cache: Handle moving single tasks to/from their preferred LLC Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 15/22] sched/cache: Respect LLC preference in task migration and detach Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 16/22] sched/cache: Disable cache aware scheduling for processes with high thread counts Tim Chen
2026-04-09 12:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-09 19:27 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 17/22] sched/cache: Avoid cache-aware scheduling for memory-heavy processes Tim Chen
2026-04-09 12:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-09 12:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-10 8:59 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-10 9:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 18/22] sched/cache: Enable cache aware scheduling for multi LLCs NUMA node Tim Chen
2026-04-09 13:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-09 19:39 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 19/22] sched/cache: Allow the user space to turn on and off cache aware scheduling Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 20/22] sched/cache: Add user control to adjust the aggressiveness of cache-aware scheduling Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 21/22] -- DO NOT APPLY!!! -- sched/cache/debug: Display the per LLC occupancy for each process via proc fs Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` [Patch v4 22/22] -- DO NOT APPLY!!! -- sched/cache/debug: Add ftrace to track the load balance statistics Tim Chen
2026-04-09 13:54 ` [Patch v4 00/22] Cache aware scheduling Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-09 20:02 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-14 3:20 ` Duan Tingyin
2026-04-15 17:35 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-16 0:27 ` Qais Yousef
2026-04-20 9:01 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-21 0:34 ` Qais Yousef
2026-04-21 20:57 ` Tim Chen
2026-04-23 15:06 ` Qais Yousef
2026-04-23 16:48 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-25 0:05 ` Qais Yousef
2026-04-23 17:17 ` Chen, Yu C
2026-04-25 0:14 ` Qais Yousef
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