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Peter Zijlstra
0d66bf6d35 mutex: implement adaptive spinning
Change mutex contention behaviour such that it will sometimes busy wait on
acquisition - moving its behaviour closer to that of spinlocks.

This concept got ported to mainline from the -rt tree, where it was originally
implemented for rtmutexes by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins.

Testing with Ingo's test-mutex application (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/50)
gave a 345% boost for VFS scalability on my testbox:

 # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
 avg ops/sec:               296604

 # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
 avg ops/sec:               85870

The key criteria for the busy wait is that the lock owner has to be running on
a (different) cpu. The idea is that as long as the owner is running, there is a
fair chance it'll release the lock soon, and thus we'll be better off spinning
instead of blocking/scheduling.

Since regular mutexes (as opposed to rtmutexes) do not atomically track the
owner, we add the owner in a non-atomic fashion and deal with the races in
the slowpath.

Furthermore, to ease the testing of the performance impact of this new code,
there is means to disable this behaviour runtime (without having to reboot
the system), when scheduler debugging is enabled (CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y),
by issuing the following command:

 # echo NO_OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features

This command re-enables spinning again (this is also the default):

 # echo OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 18:09:02 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
4793241be4 sched: backward looking buddy
Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling

Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to
schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its
going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have
cache hot benefits.

This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the
pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we
would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache.

This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that
in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it
can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to
producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and
reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern.

The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us
up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption
that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around
barring current.

This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted.

In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran
ahead of the pack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 10:30:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0c4b83da58 sched: disable the hrtick for now
David Miller reported that hrtick update overhead has tripled the
wakeup overhead on Sparc64.

That is too much - disable the HRTICK feature for now by default,
until a faster implementation is found.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 14:27:43 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f681bbd656 sched: turn off WAKEUP_OVERLAP
WAKEUP_OVERLAP is not a winner on a 16way box, running psql+sysbench:

       .27-rc7-NO_WAKEUP_OVERLAP  .27-rc7-WAKEUP_OVERLAP
-------------------------------------------------
    1:             694              811    +14.39%
    2:            1454             1427    -1.86%
    4:            3017             3070    +1.70%
    8:            5694             5808    +1.96%
   16:           10592            10612    +0.19%
   32:            9693             9647    -0.48%
   64:            8507             8262    -2.97%
  128:            8402             7087    -18.55%
  256:            8419             5124    -64.30%
  512:            7990             3671    -117.62%
-------------------------------------------------
  SUM:           64466            55524    -16.11%

... so turn it off by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 16:29:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
15afe09bf4 sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.

The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.

Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.

Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 16:28:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
efc2dead2c sched: enable LB_BIAS by default
Yanmin reported a significant regression on his 16-core machine due to:

  commit 93b75217df
  Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
  Date:   Fri Jun 27 13:41:33 2008 +0200

Flip back to the old behaviour.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 08:18:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f5bfb7d9ff sched: bias effective_load() error towards failing wake_affine().
Measurement shows that the difference between cgroup:/ and cgroup:/foo
wake_affine() results is that the latter succeeds significantly more.

Therefore bias the calculations towards failing the test.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2398f2c6d3 sched: update shares on wakeup
We found that the affine wakeup code needs rather accurate load figures
to be effective. The trouble is that updating the load figures is fairly
expensive with group scheduling. Therefore ratelimit the updating.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
93b75217df sched: disable source/target_load bias
The bias given by source/target_load functions can be very large, disable
it by default to get faster convergence.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c9c294a630 sched: fix calc_delta_asym()
calc_delta_asym() is supposed to do the same as calc_delta_fair() except
linearly shrink the result for negative nice processes - this causes them
to have a smaller preemption threshold so that they are more easily preempted.

The problem is that for task groups se->load.weight is the per cpu share of
the actual task group weight; take that into account.

Also provide a debug switch to disable the asymmetry (which I still don't
like - but it does greatly benefit some workloads)

This would explain the interactivity issues reported against group scheduling.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a7be37ac8e sched: revert the revert of: weight calculations
Try again..

initial commit: 8f1bc385cf
revert: f9305d4a09

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:27 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
6492c7f83e sched: trivial sched_features cleanup
Remove unused debug/tuning features.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 12:38:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f00b45c145 sched: /debug/sched_features
provide a text based interface to the scheduler features; this saves the
'user' from setting bits using decimal arithmetic.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00