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>
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Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
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Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>,
Libo Chen <libchen@purestorage.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Patch v4 06/22] sched/cache: Assign preferred LLC ID to processes
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 14:52:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2ceecba5858680349ad4ce9303a2121f0bb7272.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1775065312.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
With cache-aware scheduling enabled, each task is assigned a
preferred LLC ID. This allows quick identification of the LLC domain
where the task prefers to run, similar to numa_preferred_nid in
NUMA balancing.
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:
Use WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE() on p->preferred_llc
(Madadi Vineeth Reddy)
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
init/init_task.c | 3 +++
kernel/sched/fair.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index bd33f5b9096b..526108acc483 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1408,6 +1408,7 @@ struct task_struct {
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
struct callback_head cache_work;
+ int preferred_llc;
#endif
struct rseq_data rseq;
diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
index 5c838757fc10..9f964898d40e 100644
--- a/init/init_task.c
+++ b/init/init_task.c
@@ -214,6 +214,9 @@ struct task_struct init_task __aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES) = {
.numa_group = NULL,
.numa_faults = NULL,
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
+ .preferred_llc = -1,
+#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
.kasan_depth = 1,
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6244443ecdc0..1eda689e0136 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1366,11 +1366,43 @@ static unsigned long fraction_mm_sched(struct rq *rq,
return div64_u64(NICE_0_LOAD * pcpu_sched->runtime, rq->cpu_runtime + 1);
}
+static int get_pref_llc(struct task_struct *p, struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ int mm_sched_llc = -1;
+
+ if (!mm)
+ return -1;
+
+ if (mm->sc_stat.cpu != -1) {
+ mm_sched_llc = llc_id(mm->sc_stat.cpu);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+ /*
+ * Don't assign preferred LLC if it
+ * conflicts with NUMA balancing.
+ * This can happen when sched_setnuma() gets
+ * called, however it is not much of an issue
+ * because we expect account_mm_sched() to get
+ * called fairly regularly -- at a higher rate
+ * than sched_setnuma() at least -- and thus the
+ * conflict only exists for a short period of time.
+ */
+ if (static_branch_likely(&sched_numa_balancing) &&
+ p->numa_preferred_nid >= 0 &&
+ cpu_to_node(mm->sc_stat.cpu) != p->numa_preferred_nid)
+ mm_sched_llc = -1;
+#endif
+ }
+
+ return mm_sched_llc;
+}
+
static inline
void account_mm_sched(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, s64 delta_exec)
{
struct sched_cache_time *pcpu_sched;
struct mm_struct *mm = p->mm;
+ int mm_sched_llc = -1;
unsigned long epoch;
if (!sched_cache_enabled())
@@ -1404,6 +1436,11 @@ void account_mm_sched(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, s64 delta_exec)
if (mm->sc_stat.cpu != -1)
mm->sc_stat.cpu = -1;
}
+
+ mm_sched_llc = get_pref_llc(p, mm);
+
+ if (READ_ONCE(p->preferred_llc) != mm_sched_llc)
+ WRITE_ONCE(p->preferred_llc, mm_sched_llc);
}
static void task_tick_cache(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
@@ -1577,6 +1614,12 @@ void init_sched_mm(struct task_struct *p) { }
static void task_tick_cache(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p) { }
+static inline int get_pref_llc(struct task_struct *p,
+ struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ return -1;
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE */
/*
--
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 ` [Patch v4 05/22] sched/cache: Make LLC id continuous Tim Chen
2026-04-01 21:52 ` Tim Chen [this message]
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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