select_idle_sibling is an important path that finds a nearby idle CPU on
wakeup. As it is examining other CPUs state, it can be expensive in terms
of cache usage. This patch tracks the search efficiency if schedstats
are enabled. In general, this is only useful for kernel developers but
schedstats are typically disabled by default so it is convenient for
development and mostly free otherwise.
It is not required that this patch be merged with the series but if we
are looking at time or search complexity, the stats generate hard data
on what the search costs actually are.
SIS Search: Number of calls to select_idle_sibling
SIS Domain Search: Number of times the domain was searched because the
fast path failed.
SIS Scanned: Generally the number of runqueues scanned but the fast
path counts as 1 regardless of the values for target, prev
and recent.
SIS Domain Scanned: Number of runqueues scanned during a search of the
LLC domain.
SIS Failures: Number of SIS calls that failed to find an idle CPU
SIS Search Efficiency: A ratio expressed as a percentage of runqueues
scanned versus idle CPUs found. A 100% efficiency indicates that
the target, prev or recent CPU of a task was idle at wakeup. The
lower the efficiency, the more runqueues were scanned before an
idle CPU was found.
SIS Domain Search Efficiency: Similar, except only for the slower SIS
patch.
SIS Fast Success Rate: Percentage of SIS that used target, prev or
recent CPUs.
SIS Success rate: Percentage of scans that found an idle CPU.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
---
kernel/sched/debug.c | 4 ++++
kernel/sched/fair.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/sched.h | 6 ++++++
kernel/sched/stats.c | 8 +++++---
4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 2357921580f9..2386cc5e79e5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -714,6 +714,10 @@ do {
\
P(sched_goidle);
P(ttwu_count);
P(ttwu_local);
+ P(sis_search);
+ P(sis_domain_search);
+ P(sis_scanned);
+ P(sis_failed);
}
#undef P
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 98075f9ea9a8..494ba01f3414 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6081,6 +6081,7 @@ static int select_idle_core(struct task_struct *p, struct
sched_domain *sd, int
bool idle = true;
for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_smt_mask(core)) {
+ schedstat_inc(this_rq()->sis_scanned);
if (!available_idle_cpu(cpu)) {
idle = false;
break;
@@ -6112,6 +6113,7 @@ static int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, struct
sched_domain *sd, int t
return -1;
for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_smt_mask(target)) {
+ schedstat_inc(this_rq()->sis_scanned);
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr) ||
!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, sched_domain_span(sd)))
continue;
@@ -6177,6 +6179,7 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct
sched_domain *sd, int t
cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), p->cpus_ptr);
for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, cpus, target) {
+ schedstat_inc(this_rq()->sis_scanned);
if (!--nr)
return -1;
if (available_idle_cpu(cpu) || sched_idle_cpu(cpu))
@@ -6240,6 +6243,15 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p,
int prev, int target)
unsigned long task_util;
int i, recent_used_cpu;
+ schedstat_inc(this_rq()->sis_search);
+
+ /*
+ * Checking if prev, target and recent is treated as one scan. A
+ * perfect hit on one of those is considered 100% efficiency.
+ * Further scanning impairs efficiency.
+ */
+ schedstat_inc(this_rq()->sis_scanned);
+
/*
* On asymmetric system, update task utilization because we will check
* that the task fits with cpu's capacity.
@@ -6315,6 +6327,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int
prev, int target)
if (!sd)
return target;
+ schedstat_inc(this_rq()->sis_domain_search);
i = select_idle_core(p, sd, target);
if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
return i;
@@ -6327,6 +6340,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int
prev, int target)
if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
return i;
+ schedstat_inc(this_rq()->sis_failed);
return target;
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index f5acb6c5ce49..90a62dd9293d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1049,6 +1049,12 @@ struct rq {
/* try_to_wake_up() stats */
unsigned int ttwu_count;
unsigned int ttwu_local;
+
+ /* select_idle_sibling stats */
+ unsigned int sis_search;
+ unsigned int sis_domain_search;
+ unsigned int sis_scanned;
+ unsigned int sis_failed;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
diff --git a/kernel/sched/stats.c b/kernel/sched/stats.c
index 750fb3c67eed..390bfcc3842c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/stats.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/stats.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
* Bump this up when changing the output format or the meaning of an existing
* format, so that tools can adapt (or abort)
*/
-#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 15
+#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 16
static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
{
@@ -30,12 +30,14 @@ static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
/* runqueue-specific stats */
seq_printf(seq,
- "cpu%d %u 0 %u %u %u %u %llu %llu %lu",
+ "cpu%d %u 0 %u %u %u %u %llu %llu %lu %u %u %u %u",
cpu, rq->yld_count,
rq->sched_count, rq->sched_goidle,
rq->ttwu_count, rq->ttwu_local,
rq->rq_cpu_time,
- rq->rq_sched_info.run_delay, rq->rq_sched_info.pcount);
+ rq->rq_sched_info.run_delay, rq->rq_sched_info.pcount,
+ rq->sis_search, rq->sis_domain_search,
+ rq->sis_scanned, rq->sis_failed);
seq_printf(seq, "\n");
--
2.26.2
