With commit 247f2f6f3c70 ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted
vCPUs"), scheduler avoids preempted vCPUs to schedule tasks on wakeup.
This leads to wrong choice of CPU, which in-turn leads to larger wakeup
latencies. Eventually, it leads to performance regression in latency
sensitive benchmarks like soltp, schbench etc.
On Powerpc, vcpu_is_preempted only looks at yield_count. If the
yield_count is odd, the vCPU is assumed to be preempted. However
yield_count is increased whenever LPAR enters CEDE state. So any CPU
that has entered CEDE state is assumed to be preempted.
Even if vCPU of dedicated LPAR is preempted/donated, it should have
right of first-use since they are suppose to own the vCPU.
On a Power9 System with 32 cores
# lscpu
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 128
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-127
Thread(s) per core: 8
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 16
NUMA node(s): 2
Model: 2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
Model name: POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor: pHyp
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 512K
L3 cache: 10240K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-63
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 64-127
# perf stat -a -r 5 ./schbench
v5.4 v5.4 + patch
Latency percentiles (usec) Latency percentiles (usec)
50.0000th: 45 50.0000th: 39
75.0000th: 62 75.0000th: 53
90.0000th: 71 90.0000th: 67
95.0000th: 77 95.0000th: 76
*99.0000th: 91 *99.0000th: 89
99.5000th: 707 99.5000th: 93
99.9000th: 6920 99.9000th: 118
min=0, max=10048 min=0, max=211
Latency percentiles (usec) Latency percentiles (usec)
50.0000th: 45 50.0000th: 34
75.0000th: 61 75.0000th: 45
90.0000th: 72 90.0000th: 53
95.0000th: 79 95.0000th: 56
*99.0000th: 691 *99.0000th: 61
99.5000th: 3972 99.5000th: 63
99.9000th: 8368 99.9000th: 78
min=0, max=16606 min=0, max=228
Latency percentiles (usec) Latency percentiles (usec)
50.0000th: 45 50.0000th: 34
75.0000th: 61 75.0000th: 45
90.0000th: 71 90.0000th: 53
95.0000th: 77 95.0000th: 57
*99.0000th: 106 *99.0000th: 63
99.5000th: 2364 99.5000th: 68
99.9000th: 7480 99.9000th: 100
min=0, max=10001 min=0, max=134
Latency percentiles (usec) Latency percentiles (usec)
50.0000th: 45 50.0000th: 34
75.0000th: 62 75.0000th: 46
90.0000th: 72 90.0000th: 53
95.0000th: 78 95.0000th: 56
*99.0000th: 93 *99.0000th: 61
99.5000th: 108 99.5000th: 64
99.9000th: 6792 99.9000th: 85
min=0, max=17681 min=0, max=121
Latency percentiles (usec) Latency percentiles (usec)
50.0000th: 46 50.0000th: 33
75.0000th: 62 75.0000th: 44
90.0000th: 73 90.0000th: 51
95.0000th: 79 95.0000th: 54
*99.0000th: 113 *99.0000th: 61
99.5000th: 2724 99.5000th: 64
99.9000th: 6184 99.9000th: 82
min=0, max=9887 min=0, max=121
Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (5 runs):
context-switches 43,373 ( +- 0.40% ) 44,597 ( +- 0.55% )
cpu-migrations 1,211 ( +- 5.04% ) 220 ( +- 6.23% )
page-faults 15,983 ( +- 5.21% ) 15,360 ( +- 3.38% )
Waiman Long suggested using static_keys.
Reported-by: Parth Shah <pa...@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Ihor Pasichnyk <ihor.pasich...@ibm.com>
Cc: Parth Shah <pa...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ihor Pasichnyk <ihor.pasich...@ibm.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.le...@redhat.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pa...@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com>
Cc: Gautham R. Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.le...@redhat.com>
Ack-by: Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog v1 (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1204190/) ->v3:
Code is now under CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR as it depends on CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES.
This was suggested by Waiman Long.
arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 5 +++--
arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
index e9a960e28f3c..de817c25deff 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -35,11 +35,12 @@
#define LOCK_TOKEN 1
#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR
+DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(shared_processor);
#define vcpu_is_preempted vcpu_is_preempted
static inline bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
{
- if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
+ if (!static_branch_unlikely(&shared_processor))
return false;
return !!(be32_to_cpu(lppaca_of(cpu).yield_count) & 1);
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index 50d68d21ddcc..ffb971f3a63c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -1568,9 +1568,13 @@ int prrn_is_enabled(void)
return prrn_enabled;
}
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(shared_processor);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shared_processor);
+
void __init shared_proc_topology_init(void)
{
if (lppaca_shared_proc(get_lppaca())) {
+ static_branch_enable(&shared_processor);
bitmap_fill(cpumask_bits(&cpu_associativity_changes_mask),
nr_cpumask_bits);
numa_update_cpu_topology(false);
--
2.18.1
