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From: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Parth Shah <parth@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] sched/idle: Move busy_cpu accounting to idle callback
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 12:11:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5823f298-6fae-5a73-3ab8-f708d90a7e52@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210513073112.GV2633526@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 5/13/21 3:31 PM, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> * Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com> [2021-05-12 16:08:24]:
> 
>> On 5/7/21 12:45 AM, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>>> Currently we account nr_busy_cpus in no_hz idle functions.
>>> There is no reason why nr_busy_cpus should updated be in NO_HZ_COMMON
>>> configs only. Also scheduler can mark a CPU as non-busy as soon as an
>>> idle class task starts to run. Scheduler can then mark a CPU as busy
>>> as soon as its woken up from idle or a new task is placed on it's
>>> runqueue.
>>
>> IIRC, we discussed this before, if a SCHED_IDLE task is placed on the
>> CPU's runqueue, this CPU should be still taken as a wakeup target.
>>
> 
> Yes, this CPU is still a wakeup target, its only when this CPU is busy, that
> we look at other CPUs
> 
>> Also, for those frequent context-switching tasks with very short idle,
>> it's expensive for scheduler to mark idle/busy every time, that's why
>> my patch only marks idle every time and marks busy ratelimited in
>> scheduler tick.
>>
> 
> I have tried few tasks with very short idle times and updating nr_busy
> everytime, doesnt seem to be impacting. Infact, it seems to help in picking
> the idler-llc more often.
> 

How many CPUs in your LLC?

This is a system with 192 CPUs, 4 nodes and each node has 48 CPUs in LLC
domain.

It looks like for netperf both TCP and UDP cases have the notable change
under 2 x overcommit, it may be not interesting though.


hackbench(48 tasks per group)
=========
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
process-pipe    	group-1 	 1.00 (  6.74)	 -4.61 (  8.97)
process-pipe    	group-2 	 1.00 ( 36.84)	+11.53 ( 26.35)
process-pipe    	group-3 	 1.00 ( 24.97)	+12.21 ( 19.05)
process-pipe    	group-4 	 1.00 ( 18.27)	 -2.62 ( 17.60)
process-pipe    	group-8 	 1.00 (  4.33)	 -2.22 (  3.08)
process-sockets 	group-1 	 1.00 (  7.88)	-20.26 ( 15.97)
process-sockets 	group-2 	 1.00 (  5.38)	-19.41 (  9.25)
process-sockets 	group-3 	 1.00 (  4.22)	 -5.70 (  3.00)
process-sockets 	group-4 	 1.00 (  1.44)	 -1.80 (  0.79)
process-sockets 	group-8 	 1.00 (  0.44)	 -2.86 (  0.06)
threads-pipe    	group-1 	 1.00 (  5.43)	 -3.69 (  3.59)
threads-pipe    	group-2 	 1.00 ( 18.00)	 -2.69 ( 16.79)
threads-pipe    	group-3 	 1.00 ( 21.72)	 -9.01 ( 21.34)
threads-pipe    	group-4 	 1.00 ( 21.58)	 -6.43 ( 16.26)
threads-pipe    	group-8 	 1.00 (  3.05)	 -0.15 (  2.31)
threads-sockets 	group-1 	 1.00 ( 14.51)	 -5.35 ( 13.85)
threads-sockets 	group-2 	 1.00 (  3.97)	-24.15 (  4.40)
threads-sockets 	group-3 	 1.00 (  4.97)	 -9.05 (  2.46)
threads-sockets 	group-4 	 1.00 (  1.98)	 -3.44 (  0.49)
threads-sockets 	group-8 	 1.00 (  0.37)	 -2.13 (  0.20)

netperf
=======
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
TCP_RR          	thread-48	 1.00 (  3.84)	 -2.20 (  3.83)
TCP_RR          	thread-96	 1.00 (  5.22)	 -4.97 (  3.90)
TCP_RR          	thread-144	 1.00 (  7.97)	 -0.75 (  4.39)
TCP_RR          	thread-192	 1.00 (  3.03)	 -0.67 (  4.40)
TCP_RR          	thread-384	 1.00 ( 22.27)	-14.15 ( 36.28)
UDP_RR          	thread-48	 1.00 (  2.08)	 -0.39 (  2.29)
UDP_RR          	thread-96	 1.00 (  2.48)	 -4.26 ( 16.06)
UDP_RR          	thread-144	 1.00 ( 49.50)	 -3.28 ( 34.86)
UDP_RR          	thread-192	 1.00 (  6.39)	 +8.07 ( 88.15)
UDP_RR          	thread-384	 1.00 ( 31.54)	-12.76 ( 35.98)

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-14  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-06 16:45 [PATCH v2 0/8] sched/fair: wake_affine improvements Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] sched/fair: Update affine statistics when needed Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-07 16:08   ` Valentin Schneider
2021-05-07 17:05     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-11 11:51       ` Valentin Schneider
2021-05-11 16:22         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] sched/fair: Maintain the identity of idle-core Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-11 11:51   ` Valentin Schneider
2021-05-11 16:27     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] sched/fair: Update idle-core more often Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] sched/fair: Prefer idle CPU to cache affinity Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] sched/fair: Use affine_idler_llc for wakeups across LLC Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] sched/idle: Move busy_cpu accounting to idle callback Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-11 11:51   ` Valentin Schneider
2021-05-11 16:55     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-12  0:32     ` Aubrey Li
2021-05-12  8:08   ` Aubrey Li
2021-05-13  7:31     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-14  4:11       ` Aubrey Li [this message]
2021-05-17 10:40         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-17 12:48           ` Aubrey Li
2021-05-17 12:57             ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-18  0:59               ` Aubrey Li
2021-05-18  4:00                 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-18  6:05                   ` Aubrey Li
2021-05-18  7:18                     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-19  9:43                       ` Aubrey Li
2021-05-19 17:34                         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] sched/fair: Remove ifdefs in waker_affine_idler_llc Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] sched/fair: Dont iterate if no idle CPUs Srikar Dronamraju
2021-05-06 16:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] sched/fair: wake_affine improvements Srikar Dronamraju

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