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sched/core: Fix remote wakeups

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  b5179ac70d ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration")

... introduced a bug: Mike Galbraith found that it introduced a
performance regression, while Paul E. McKenney reported lost
wakeups and bisected it to this commit.

The reason is that I mis-read ttwu_queue() such that I assumed any
wakeup that got a remote queue must have had the task migrated.

Since this is not so; we need to transfer this information between
queueing the wakeup and actually doing the wakeup. Use a new
task_struct::sched_flag for this, we already write to
sched_contributes_to_load in the wakeup path so this is a hot and
modified cacheline.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com
Fixes: b5179ac70d ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160523091907.GD15728@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra 2016-05-23 11:19:07 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 2e636d5e66
commit b7e7ade34e
2 changed files with 12 additions and 7 deletions
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include/linux/sched.h
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@ -1533,6 +1533,7 @@ struct task_struct {
unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1;
unsigned sched_contributes_to_load:1;
unsigned sched_migrated:1;
unsigned sched_remote_wakeup:1;
unsigned :0; /* force alignment to the next boundary */
/* unserialized, strictly 'current' */

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kernel/sched/core.c
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@ -1768,13 +1768,15 @@ void sched_ttwu_pending(void)
cookie = lockdep_pin_lock(&rq->lock);
while (llist) {
int wake_flags = 0;
p = llist_entry(llist, struct task_struct, wake_entry);
llist = llist_next(llist);
/*
* See ttwu_queue(); we only call ttwu_queue_remote() when
* its a x-cpu wakeup.
*/
ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, WF_MIGRATED, cookie);
if (p->sched_remote_wakeup)
wake_flags = WF_MIGRATED;
ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, wake_flags, cookie);
}
lockdep_unpin_lock(&rq->lock, cookie);
@ -1819,10 +1821,12 @@ void scheduler_ipi(void)
irq_exit();
}
static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags)
{
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
p->sched_remote_wakeup = !!(wake_flags & WF_MIGRATED);
if (llist_add(&p->wake_entry, &cpu_rq(cpu)->wake_list)) {
if (!set_nr_if_polling(rq->idle))
smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
@ -1869,7 +1873,7 @@ static void ttwu_queue(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags)
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
if (sched_feat(TTWU_QUEUE) && !cpus_share_cache(smp_processor_id(), cpu)) {
sched_clock_cpu(cpu); /* sync clocks x-cpu */
ttwu_queue_remote(p, cpu);
ttwu_queue_remote(p, cpu, wake_flags);
return;
}
#endif