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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>,
	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>,
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	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>, Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>,
	Chen Yu <yu.chen.surf@gmail.com>,
	Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>, Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>,
	Gavin Guo <gavinguo@igalia.com>,
	Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>,
	Libo Chen <libchen@purestorage.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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


  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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