From 8e8339a3a1069141985daaa2521ba304509ddecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:09:53 +0100 Subject: sched: Initialize power_orig for overlapping groups Yinghai reported that he saw a /0 in sg_capacity on his EX parts. Make sure to always initialize power_orig now that we actually use it. Ideally build_sched_domains() -> init_sched_groups_power() would also initialize this; but for some yet unexplained reason some setups seem to miss updates there. Reported-by: Yinghai Lu Tested-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-l8ng2m9uml6fhibln8wqpom7@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/sched/core.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index e85cda20ab2..19af58f3a26 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -5112,6 +5112,7 @@ build_overlap_sched_groups(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu) * die on a /0 trap. */ sg->sgp->power = SCHED_POWER_SCALE * cpumask_weight(sg_span); + sg->sgp->power_orig = sg->sgp->power; /* * Make sure the first group of this domain contains the -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From 5d4cf996cf134e8ddb4f906b8197feb9267c2b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:21:25 +0000 Subject: sched: Assign correct scheduling domain to 'sd_llc' Commit 42eb088e (sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy) corrected a NULL dereference on sd_busy but the fix also altered what scheduling domain it used for the 'sd_llc' percpu variable. One impact of this is that a task selecting a runqueue may consider idle CPUs that are not cache siblings as candidates for running. Tasks are then running on CPUs that are not cache hot. This was found through bisection where ebizzy threads were not seeing equal performance and it looked like a scheduling fairness issue. This patch mitigates but does not completely fix the problem on all machines tested implying there may be an additional bug or a common root cause. Here are the average range of performance seen by individual ebizzy threads. It was tested on top of candidate patches related to x86 TLB range flushing. 4-core machine 3.13.0-rc3 3.13.0-rc3 vanilla fixsd-v3r3 Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Mean 2 0.34 ( 0.00%) 0.10 ( 70.59%) Mean 3 1.29 ( 0.00%) 0.93 ( 27.91%) Mean 4 7.08 ( 0.00%) 0.77 ( 89.12%) Mean 5 193.54 ( 0.00%) 2.14 ( 98.89%) Mean 6 151.12 ( 0.00%) 2.06 ( 98.64%) Mean 7 115.38 ( 0.00%) 2.04 ( 98.23%) Mean 8 108.65 ( 0.00%) 1.92 ( 98.23%) 8-core machine Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Mean 2 0.40 ( 0.00%) 0.21 ( 47.50%) Mean 3 23.73 ( 0.00%) 0.89 ( 96.25%) Mean 4 12.79 ( 0.00%) 1.04 ( 91.87%) Mean 5 13.08 ( 0.00%) 2.42 ( 81.50%) Mean 6 23.21 ( 0.00%) 69.46 (-199.27%) Mean 7 15.85 ( 0.00%) 101.72 (-541.77%) Mean 8 109.37 ( 0.00%) 19.13 ( 82.51%) Mean 12 124.84 ( 0.00%) 28.62 ( 77.07%) Mean 16 113.50 ( 0.00%) 24.16 ( 78.71%) It's eliminated for one machine and reduced for another. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: H Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217092124.GV11295@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched/core.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 19af58f3a26..a88f4a485c5 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4902,6 +4902,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_asym); static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu) { struct sched_domain *sd; + struct sched_domain *busy_sd = NULL; int id = cpu; int size = 1; @@ -4909,9 +4910,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu) if (sd) { id = cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd)); size = cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd)); - sd = sd->parent; /* sd_busy */ + busy_sd = sd->parent; /* sd_busy */ } - rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), sd); + rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu), busy_sd); rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu), sd); per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu) = size; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2