tree 61c368ba61b194cbeb6bd83c575d3b86c307c48f
parent 9dbdb155532395ba000c5d5d187658b0e17e529f
author Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 1387272085 +0000
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1387289323 +0100

sched: Assign correct scheduling domain to 'sd_llc'

Commit 42eb088e (sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy) corrected a NULL
dereference on sd_busy but the fix also altered what scheduling domain it
used for the 'sd_llc' percpu variable.

One impact of this is that a task selecting a runqueue may consider
idle CPUs that are not cache siblings as candidates for running.
Tasks are then running on CPUs that are not cache hot.

This was found through bisection where ebizzy threads were not seeing equal
performance and it looked like a scheduling fairness issue. This patch
mitigates but does not completely fix the problem on all machines tested
implying there may be an additional bug or a common root cause. Here are
the average range of performance seen by individual ebizzy threads. It
was tested on top of candidate patches related to x86 TLB range flushing.

	4-core machine
			    3.13.0-rc3            3.13.0-rc3
			       vanilla            fixsd-v3r3
	Mean   1        0.00 (  0.00%)        0.00 (  0.00%)
	Mean   2        0.34 (  0.00%)        0.10 ( 70.59%)
	Mean   3        1.29 (  0.00%)        0.93 ( 27.91%)
	Mean   4        7.08 (  0.00%)        0.77 ( 89.12%)
	Mean   5      193.54 (  0.00%)        2.14 ( 98.89%)
	Mean   6      151.12 (  0.00%)        2.06 ( 98.64%)
	Mean   7      115.38 (  0.00%)        2.04 ( 98.23%)
	Mean   8      108.65 (  0.00%)        1.92 ( 98.23%)

	8-core machine
	Mean   1         0.00 (  0.00%)        0.00 (  0.00%)
	Mean   2         0.40 (  0.00%)        0.21 ( 47.50%)
	Mean   3        23.73 (  0.00%)        0.89 ( 96.25%)
	Mean   4        12.79 (  0.00%)        1.04 ( 91.87%)
	Mean   5        13.08 (  0.00%)        2.42 ( 81.50%)
	Mean   6        23.21 (  0.00%)       69.46 (-199.27%)
	Mean   7        15.85 (  0.00%)      101.72 (-541.77%)
	Mean   8       109.37 (  0.00%)       19.13 ( 82.51%)
	Mean   12      124.84 (  0.00%)       28.62 ( 77.07%)
	Mean   16      113.50 (  0.00%)       24.16 ( 78.71%)

It's eliminated for one machine and reduced for another.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217092124.GV11295@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>