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Subject[PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan
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From: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>

On asymmetric CPU capacity topologies, we currently rely on wake_cap() to
drive select_task_rq_fair() towards either
- its slow-path (find_idlest_cpu()) if either the previous or
current (waking) CPU has too little capacity for the waking task
- its fast-path (select_idle_sibling()) otherwise

Commit 3273163c6775 ("sched/fair: Let asymmetric CPU configurations balance
at wake-up") points out that this relies on the assumption that "[...]the
CPU capacities within an SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES domain (sd_llc) are
homogeneous".

This assumption no longer holds on newer generations of big.LITTLE
systems (DynamIQ), which can accommodate CPUs of different compute capacity
within a single LLC domain. To hopefully paint a better picture, a regular
big.LITTLE topology would look like this:

+---------+ +---------+
| L2 | | L2 |
+----+----+ +----+----+
|CPU0|CPU1| |CPU2|CPU3|
+----+----+ +----+----+
^^^ ^^^
LITTLEs bigs

which would result in the following scheduler topology:

DIE [ ] <- sd_asym_cpucapacity
MC [ ] [ ] <- sd_llc
0 1 2 3

Conversely, a DynamIQ topology could look like:

+-------------------+
| L3 |
+----+----+----+----+
| L2 | L2 | L2 | L2 |
+----+----+----+----+
|CPU0|CPU1|CPU2|CPU3|
+----+----+----+----+
^^^^^ ^^^^^
LITTLEs bigs

which would result in the following scheduler topology:

MC [ ] <- sd_llc, sd_asym_cpucapacity
0 1 2 3

What this means is that, on DynamIQ systems, we could pass the wake_cap()
test (IOW presume the waking task fits on the CPU capacities of some LLC
domain), thus go through select_idle_sibling().
This function operates on an LLC domain, which here spans both bigs and
LITTLEs, so it could very well pick a CPU of too small capacity for the
task, despite there being fitting idle CPUs - it very much depends on the
CPU iteration order, on which we have absolutely no guarantees
capacity-wise.

Introduce yet another select_idle_sibling() helper function that takes CPU
capacity into account. The policy is basically to pick the first idle CPU
which is big enough for the task (task_util * margin < cpu_capacity).

Unlike other select_idle_sibling() helpers, this one operates on the
sd_asym_cpucapacity sched_domain pointer, which is guaranteed to span all
known CPU capacities in the system. As such, this will work for both
"legacy" big.LITTLE (LITTLEs & bigs split at MC, joined at DIE) and for
newer DynamIQ systems (e.g. LITTLEs and bigs in the same MC domain).

Co-authored-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index fe4e0d7753756..c44b135f61ad0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5894,6 +5894,38 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
return cpu;
}

+/*
+ * Scan the asym_capacity domain for idle CPUs; pick the first idle one on which
+ * the task fits.
+ */
+static int select_idle_capacity(struct task_struct *p, int target)
+{
+ struct sched_domain *sd;
+ struct cpumask *cpus;
+ int cpu;
+
+ if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_asym_cpucapacity))
+ return -1;
+
+ sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_asym_cpucapacity, target));
+ if (!sd)
+ return -1;
+
+ cpus = this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(select_idle_mask);
+ cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), p->cpus_ptr);
+
+ for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target) {
+ if (!available_idle_cpu(cpu))
+ continue;
+ if (!task_fits_capacity(p, capacity_of(cpu)))
+ continue;
+
+ return cpu;
+ }
+
+ return -1;
+}
+
/*
* Try and locate an idle core/thread in the LLC cache domain.
*/
@@ -5902,6 +5934,11 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
struct sched_domain *sd;
int i, recent_used_cpu;

+ /* For asymmetric capacities, try to be smart about the placement */
+ i = select_idle_capacity(p, target);
+ if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
+ return i;
+
if (available_idle_cpu(target) || sched_idle_cpu(target))
return target;

--
2.24.0
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