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Subject[patch] scheduler fix for 1cpu/node case
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Hi,

after talking to several people at OLS about the current NUMA
scheduler the conclusion was:
(1) it sucks (for particular workloads),
(2) on x86_64 (embarassingly simple NUMA) it's useless, goto (1).

Fact is that the current separation of local and global balancing,
where global balancing is done only in the timer interrupt at a fixed
rate is way too unflexible. A CPU going idle inside a well balanced
node will stay idle for a while even if there's a lot of work to
do. Especially in the corner case of one CPU per node this is
condemning that CPU to idleness for at least 5 ms. So x86_64 platforms
(but not only those!) suffer and whish to switch off the NUMA
scheduler while keeping NUMA memory management on.

The attached patch is a simple solution which
- solves the 1 CPU / node problem,
- lets other systems behave (almost) as before,
- opens the way to other optimisations like multi-level node
hierarchies (by tuning the retry rate)
- simpifies the NUMA scheduler and deletes more lines of code than it
adds.

The timer interrupt based global rebalancing might appear to be a
simple and good idea but it takes the scheduler a lot of
flexibility. In the patch the global rebalancing is done after a
certain number of failed attempts to locally balance. The number of
attempts is proportional to the number of CPUs in the current
node. For only 1 CPU in the current node the scheduler doesn't even
try to balance locally, it wouldn't make sense anyway. Of course one
could instead set IDLE_NODE_REBALANCE_TICK = IDLE_REBALANCE_TICK, but
this is more ugly (IMHO) and only helps when all nodes have 1 CPU /
node.

Please consider this for inclusion.

Thanks,
Erich



diff -urNp 2.6.0t1/kernel/sched.c 2.6.0t1-1cpufix/kernel/sched.c
--- 2.6.0t1/kernel/sched.c 2003-07-14 05:37:14.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6.0t1-1cpufix/kernel/sched.c 2003-07-28 05:32:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ struct runqueue {
prio_array_t *active, *expired, arrays[2];
int prev_cpu_load[NR_CPUS];
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+ unsigned int nr_lb_failed;
atomic_t *node_nr_running;
int prev_node_load[MAX_NUMNODES];
#endif
@@ -856,6 +857,35 @@ static int find_busiest_node(int this_no
return node;
}

+/*
+ * Decide whether the scheduler should balance locally (inside the same node)
+ * or globally depending on the number of failed local balance attempts.
+ * The number of failed local balance attempts depends on the number of cpus
+ * in the current node. In case it's just one, go immediately for global
+ * balancing. On a busy cpu the number of retries is smaller.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long cpus_to_balance(int this_cpu, runqueue_t *this_rq)
+{
+ int node, retries, this_node = cpu_to_node(this_cpu);
+
+ retries = nr_cpus_node(this_node) - 1;
+ if (this_rq->curr != this_rq->idle)
+ retries >>= 1;
+ if (this_rq->nr_lb_failed >= retries) {
+ node = find_busiest_node(this_node);
+ this_rq->nr_lb_failed = 0;
+ if (node >= 0)
+ return (node_to_cpu_mask(node) | (1UL << this_cpu));
+ }
+ return node_to_cpu_mask(this_node);
+}
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_NUMA */
+
+static inline unsigned long cpus_to_balance(int this_cpu, runqueue_t *this_rq)
+{
+ return cpu_online_map;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -960,6 +990,12 @@ static inline runqueue_t *find_busiest_q
busiest = NULL;
}
out:
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+ if (!busiest)
+ this_rq->nr_lb_failed++;
+ else
+ this_rq->nr_lb_failed = 0;
+#endif
return busiest;
}

@@ -995,7 +1031,7 @@ static inline void pull_task(runqueue_t
* We call this with the current runqueue locked,
* irqs disabled.
*/
-static void load_balance(runqueue_t *this_rq, int idle, unsigned long cpumask)
+static void load_balance(runqueue_t *this_rq, int idle)
{
int imbalance, idx, this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
runqueue_t *busiest;
@@ -1003,7 +1039,8 @@ static void load_balance(runqueue_t *thi
struct list_head *head, *curr;
task_t *tmp;

- busiest = find_busiest_queue(this_rq, this_cpu, idle, &imbalance, cpumask);
+ busiest = find_busiest_queue(this_rq, this_cpu, idle, &imbalance,
+ cpus_to_balance(this_cpu, this_rq));
if (!busiest)
goto out;

@@ -1085,29 +1122,9 @@ out:
*/
#define IDLE_REBALANCE_TICK (HZ/1000 ?: 1)
#define BUSY_REBALANCE_TICK (HZ/5 ?: 1)
-#define IDLE_NODE_REBALANCE_TICK (IDLE_REBALANCE_TICK * 5)
-#define BUSY_NODE_REBALANCE_TICK (BUSY_REBALANCE_TICK * 2)
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-static void balance_node(runqueue_t *this_rq, int idle, int this_cpu)
-{
- int node = find_busiest_node(cpu_to_node(this_cpu));
- unsigned long cpumask, this_cpumask = 1UL << this_cpu;
-
- if (node >= 0) {
- cpumask = node_to_cpumask(node) | this_cpumask;
- spin_lock(&this_rq->lock);
- load_balance(this_rq, idle, cpumask);
- spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
- }
-}
-#endif

static void rebalance_tick(runqueue_t *this_rq, int idle)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
- int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
-#endif
unsigned long j = jiffies;

/*
@@ -1119,24 +1136,16 @@ static void rebalance_tick(runqueue_t *t
* are not balanced.)
*/
if (idle) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
- if (!(j % IDLE_NODE_REBALANCE_TICK))
- balance_node(this_rq, idle, this_cpu);
-#endif
if (!(j % IDLE_REBALANCE_TICK)) {
spin_lock(&this_rq->lock);
- load_balance(this_rq, idle, cpu_to_node_mask(this_cpu));
+ load_balance(this_rq, idle);
spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
}
return;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
- if (!(j % BUSY_NODE_REBALANCE_TICK))
- balance_node(this_rq, idle, this_cpu);
-#endif
if (!(j % BUSY_REBALANCE_TICK)) {
spin_lock(&this_rq->lock);
- load_balance(this_rq, idle, cpu_to_node_mask(this_cpu));
+ load_balance(this_rq, idle);
spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
}
}
@@ -1306,7 +1315,7 @@ need_resched:
pick_next_task:
if (unlikely(!rq->nr_running)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- load_balance(rq, 1, cpu_to_node_mask(smp_processor_id()));
+ load_balance(rq, 1);
if (rq->nr_running)
goto pick_next_task;
#endif
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