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: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [Patch v4 19/22] sched/cache: Allow the user space to turn on and off cache aware scheduling
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 14:52:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0aa56f7fc48db2f8f700cd1aa34dedd0ec88351b.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Provide a debugfs directory llc_balancing, and a knob named
"enabled" under it to allow the user to turn off and on the
cache aware scheduling at runtime.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
---
Notes:
v3->v4:
Create the debugfs knobs under debug/sched/llc_balancing directory.
(Peter Zijlstra)
kernel/sched/debug.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 ++++-
kernel/sched/topology.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index b24f40f05019..3019412d8009 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -209,6 +209,46 @@ static const struct file_operations sched_scaling_fops = {
.release = single_release,
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
+static ssize_t
+sched_cache_enable_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
+ size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ bool val;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = kstrtobool_from_user(ubuf, cnt, &val);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ sysctl_sched_cache_user = val;
+
+ sched_cache_active_set_unlocked();
+
+ return cnt;
+}
+
+static int sched_cache_enable_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
+{
+ seq_printf(m, "%d\n", sysctl_sched_cache_user);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int sched_cache_enable_open(struct inode *inode,
+ struct file *filp)
+{
+ return single_open(filp, sched_cache_enable_show, NULL);
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations sched_cache_enable_fops = {
+ .open = sched_cache_enable_open,
+ .write = sched_cache_enable_write,
+ .read = seq_read,
+ .llseek = seq_lseek,
+ .release = single_release,
+};
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
static ssize_t sched_dynamic_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
@@ -592,7 +632,7 @@ static void debugfs_ext_server_init(void)
static __init int sched_init_debug(void)
{
- struct dentry __maybe_unused *numa;
+ struct dentry __maybe_unused *numa, *llc;
debugfs_sched = debugfs_create_dir("sched", NULL);
@@ -625,6 +665,12 @@ static __init int sched_init_debug(void)
debugfs_create_u32("hot_threshold_ms", 0644, numa, &sysctl_numa_balancing_hot_threshold);
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
+ llc = debugfs_create_dir("llc_balancing", debugfs_sched);
+ debugfs_create_file("enabled", 0644, llc, NULL,
+ &sched_cache_enable_fops);
+#endif
+
debugfs_create_file("debug", 0444, debugfs_sched, NULL, &sched_debug_fops);
debugfs_fair_server_init();
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 518c798231ac..5561bdcc8bf5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -4036,11 +4036,16 @@ static inline void mm_cid_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(sched_cache_present);
+DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(sched_cache_active);
+extern int sysctl_sched_cache_user;
static inline bool sched_cache_enabled(void)
{
- return static_branch_unlikely(&sched_cache_present);
+ return static_branch_unlikely(&sched_cache_active);
}
+
+extern void sched_cache_active_set_unlocked(void);
+
#endif
void sched_domains_free_llc_id(int cpu);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 0b1fc1b0709d..ceb17ef31ef6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -809,7 +809,16 @@ enum s_alloc {
};
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
+/* hardware support for cache aware scheduling */
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(sched_cache_present);
+/*
+ * Indicator of whether cache aware scheduling
+ * is active, used by the scheduler.
+ */
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(sched_cache_active);
+/* user wants cache aware scheduling [0 or 1] */
+int sysctl_sched_cache_user = 1;
+
static bool alloc_sd_llc(const struct cpumask *cpu_map,
struct s_data *d)
{
@@ -843,6 +852,60 @@ static bool alloc_sd_llc(const struct cpumask *cpu_map,
return false;
}
+
+static void _sched_cache_active_set(bool enable, bool locked)
+{
+ if (enable) {
+ if (locked)
+ static_branch_enable_cpuslocked(&sched_cache_active);
+ else
+ static_branch_enable(&sched_cache_active);
+ } else {
+ if (locked)
+ static_branch_disable_cpuslocked(&sched_cache_active);
+ else
+ static_branch_disable(&sched_cache_active);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Enable/disable cache aware scheduling according to
+ * user input and the presence of hardware support.
+ */
+static void sched_cache_active_set(bool locked)
+{
+ /* hardware does not support */
+ if (!static_branch_likely(&sched_cache_present)) {
+ _sched_cache_active_set(false, locked);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * user wants it or not ?
+ * TBD: read before writing the static key.
+ * It is not in the critical path, leave as-is
+ * for now.
+ */
+ if (sysctl_sched_cache_user) {
+ _sched_cache_active_set(true, locked);
+ if (sched_debug())
+ pr_info("%s: enabling cache aware scheduling\n", __func__);
+ } else {
+ _sched_cache_active_set(false, locked);
+ if (sched_debug())
+ pr_info("%s: disabling cache aware scheduling\n", __func__);
+ }
+}
+
+static void sched_cache_active_set_locked(void)
+{
+ return sched_cache_active_set(true);
+}
+
+void sched_cache_active_set_unlocked(void)
+{
+ return sched_cache_active_set(false);
+}
#else
static bool alloc_sd_llc(const struct cpumask *cpu_map,
struct s_data *d)
@@ -2855,6 +2918,8 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
static_branch_enable_cpuslocked(&sched_cache_present);
else
static_branch_disable_cpuslocked(&sched_cache_present);
+
+ sched_cache_active_set_locked();
#endif
__free_domain_allocs(&d, alloc_state, cpu_map);
--
2.32.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-01 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-01 21:52 [Patch v4 00/22] Cache " 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 ` [Patch v4 05/22] sched/cache: Make LLC id continuous Tim Chen
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 ` Tim Chen [this message]
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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