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Subject[PATCH] sched: optimize the locking in the rebalance_domains()
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Don't perform the locking in the rebalance_domains() when it's not needed.

rebalance_domains() tried to take a "balancing" spin-lock when SD_SERIALIZE
flag was set (which is a default configuration for NUMA aware systems)
every time it was called. This is done regardless the fact that maybe
there hasn't passed enough time since the last re-balancing in which case
there is no need to take a lock the first place.

The above creates a heavy false sharing problem on the "balancing"
spin-lock on large SMP systems: try_lock() is implemented with an
(atomic) xchng instruction which invalidates the cache line "balancing"
belongs to and therefore creates an intensive cross-NUMA-nodes traffic.

The below patch will minimize the above phenomena to the time slots it's
really needed, namely when the "interval" time period has really passed
since the last re-balancing.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Zolotarov <vlad@scalemp.com>
Acked-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalemp.com>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c219bf8..298e201 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4754,6 +4754,13 @@ static void rebalance_domains(int cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
interval = msecs_to_jiffies(interval);
interval = clamp(interval, 1UL, max_load_balance_interval);

+ /*
+ * continue to the next domain if the current domain doesn't
+ * need to be re-balanced yet
+ */
+ if (time_before(jiffies, sd->last_balance + interval))
+ goto out;
+
need_serialize = sd->flags & SD_SERIALIZE;

if (need_serialize) {
@@ -4761,16 +4768,15 @@ static void rebalance_domains(int cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
goto out;
}

- if (time_after_eq(jiffies, sd->last_balance + interval)) {
- if (load_balance(cpu, rq, sd, idle, &balance)) {
- /*
- * We've pulled tasks over so either we're no
- * longer idle.
- */
- idle = CPU_NOT_IDLE;
- }
- sd->last_balance = jiffies;
+ if (load_balance(cpu, rq, sd, idle, &balance)) {
+ /*
+ * We've pulled tasks over so either we're no
+ * longer idle.
+ */
+ idle = CPU_NOT_IDLE;
}
+ sd->last_balance = jiffies;
+
if (need_serialize)
spin_unlock(&balancing);
out:
--
1.7.9.5




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