Detailed problem statement and some of the implementation choices were discussed earlier[1].
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ This is likely the version which would be used for LPC2025 discussion on this topic. Feel free to provide your suggestion and hoping for a solution that works for different architectures and it's use cases. All the existing alternatives such as cpu hotplug, creating isolated partitions etc break the user affinity. Since number of CPUs to use change depending on the steal time, it is not driven by User. Hence it would be wrong to break the affinity. This series allows if the task is pinned only paravirt CPUs, it will continue running there. Changes compared v3[1]: - Introduced computation of steal time in powerpc code. - Derive number of CPUs to use and mark the remaining as paravirt based on steal values. - Provide debugfs knobs to alter how steal time values being used. - Removed static key check for paravirt CPUs (Yury) - Removed preempt_disable/enable while calling stopper (Prateek) - Made select_idle_sibling and friends aware of paravirt CPUs. - Removed 3 unused schedstat fields and introduced 2 related to paravirt handling. - Handled nohz_full case by enabling tick on it when there is CFS/RT on it. - Updated helper patch to override arch behaviour for easier debugging during development. - Kept Changes compared to v4[2]: - Last two patches were sent out separate instead of being with series. That created confusion. Those two patches are debug patches one can make use to check functionality across acrhitectures. Sorry about that. - Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW instead (greg) - Made it as PATCH since arch specific handling completes the functionality. [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ TODO: - Get performance numbers on PowerPC, x86 and S390. Hopefully by next week. Didn't want to hold the series till then. - The CPUs to mark as paravirt is very simple and doesn't work when vCPUs aren't spread out uniformly across NUMA nodes. Ideal would be splice the numbers based on how many CPUs each NUMA node has. It is quite tricky to do specially since cpumask can be on stack too. Given NR_CPUS can be 8192 and nr_possible_nodes 32. Haven't got my head into solving it yet. Maybe there is easier way. - DLPAR Add/Remove needs to call init of EC/VP cores (powerpc specific) - Userspace tools awareness such as irqbalance. - Delve into design of hint from Hyeprvisor(HW Hint). i.e Host informs guest which/how many CPUs it has to use at this moment. This interface should work across archs with each arch doing its specific handling. - Determine the default values for steal time related knobs empirically and document them. - Need to check safety against CPU hotplug specially in process_steal. Applies cleanly on tip/master: commit c2ef745151b21d4dcc4b29a1eabf1096f5ba544b Thanks to srikar for providing the initial code around powerpc steal time handling code. Thanks to all who went through and provided reviews. PS: I haven't found a better name. Please suggest if you have any. Shrikanth Hegde (17): sched/docs: Document cpu_paravirt_mask and Paravirt CPU concept cpumask: Introduce cpu_paravirt_mask sched/core: Dont allow to use CPU marked as paravirt sched/debug: Remove unused schedstats sched/fair: Add paravirt movements for proc sched file sched/fair: Pass current cpu in select_idle_sibling sched/fair: Don't consider paravirt CPUs for wakeup and load balance sched/rt: Don't select paravirt CPU for wakeup and push/pull rt task sched/core: Add support for nohz_full CPUs sched/core: Push current task from paravirt CPU sysfs: Add paravirt CPU file powerpc: method to initialize ec and vp cores powerpc: enable/disable paravirt CPUs based on steal time powerpc: process steal values at fixed intervals powerpc: add debugfs file for controlling handling on steal values sysfs: Provide write method for paravirt sysfs: disable arch handling if paravirt file being written .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 9 + Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst | 37 +++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c | 223 ++++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries.h | 1 + drivers/base/cpu.c | 59 +++++ include/linux/cpumask.h | 20 ++ include/linux/sched.h | 9 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 106 ++++++++- kernel/sched/debug.c | 5 +- kernel/sched/fair.c | 42 +++- kernel/sched/rt.c | 11 +- kernel/sched/sched.h | 9 + 14 files changed, 519 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- 2.47.3
