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	| Author | SHA1 | Message | Date | |
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|  Peter Zijlstra | 2a77e4be12 | sched/fair: Untangle NEXT_BUDDY and pick_next_task() There are 3 sites using set_next_buddy() and only one is conditional
on NEXT_BUDDY, the other two sites are unconditional; to note:
  - yield_to_task()
  - cgroup dequeue / pick optimization
However, having NEXT_BUDDY control both the wakeup-preemption and the
picking side of things means its near useless.
Fixes:  | ||
|  Huang Shijie | b15148ce21 | sched/fair: fix the comment for PREEMPT_SHORT We do not have RESPECT_SLICE, we only have RUN_TO_PARITY. Change RESPECT_SLICE to RUN_TO_PARITY, makes it more clear. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@linux.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241001070456.10939-1-shijie@os.amperecomputing.com | ||
|  Huang Shijie | e31488c9df | sched/fair: remove the DOUBLE_TICK feature The patch "5e963f2bd46 sched/fair: Commit to EEVDF" removed the code following the DOUBLE_TICK: - - if (!sched_feat(EEVDF) && cfs_rq->nr_running > 1) - check_preempt_tick(cfs_rq, curr); The DOUBLE_TICK feature becomes dead code now, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001065451.10356-1-shijie@os.amperecomputing.com | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 85e511df3c | sched/eevdf: Allow shorter slices to wakeup-preempt Part of the reason to have shorter slices is to improve
responsiveness. Allow shorter slices to preempt longer slices on
wakeup.
    Task                  |   Runtime ms  | Switches | Avg delay ms    | Max delay ms    | Sum delay ms     |
  100ms massive_intr 500us cyclictest NO_PREEMPT_SHORT
  1 massive_intr:(5)      | 846018.956 ms |   779188 | avg:   0.273 ms | max:  58.337 ms | sum:212545.245 ms |
  2 massive_intr:(5)      | 853450.693 ms |   792269 | avg:   0.275 ms | max:  71.193 ms | sum:218263.588 ms |
  3 massive_intr:(5)      | 843888.920 ms |   771456 | avg:   0.277 ms | max:  92.405 ms | sum:213353.221 ms |
  1 chromium-browse:(8)   |  53015.889 ms |   131766 | avg:   0.463 ms | max:  36.341 ms | sum:60959.230  ms |
  2 chromium-browse:(8)   |  53864.088 ms |   136962 | avg:   0.480 ms | max:  27.091 ms | sum:65687.681  ms |
  3 chromium-browse:(9)   |  53637.904 ms |   132637 | avg:   0.481 ms | max:  24.756 ms | sum:63781.673  ms |
  1 cyclictest:(5)        |  12615.604 ms |   639689 | avg:   0.471 ms | max:  32.272 ms | sum:301351.094 ms |
  2 cyclictest:(5)        |  12511.583 ms |   642578 | avg:   0.448 ms | max:  44.243 ms | sum:287632.830 ms |
  3 cyclictest:(5)        |  12545.867 ms |   635953 | avg:   0.475 ms | max:  25.530 ms | sum:302374.658 ms |
  100ms massive_intr 500us cyclictest PREEMPT_SHORT
  1 massive_intr:(5)      | 839843.919 ms |   837384 | avg:   0.264 ms | max:  74.366 ms | sum:221476.885 ms |
  2 massive_intr:(5)      | 852449.913 ms |   845086 | avg:   0.252 ms | max:  68.162 ms | sum:212595.968 ms |
  3 massive_intr:(5)      | 839180.725 ms |   836883 | avg:   0.266 ms | max:  69.742 ms | sum:222812.038 ms |
  1 chromium-browse:(11)  |  54591.481 ms |   138388 | avg:   0.458 ms | max:  35.427 ms | sum:63401.508  ms |
  2 chromium-browse:(8)   |  52034.541 ms |   132276 | avg:   0.436 ms | max:  31.826 ms | sum:57732.958  ms |
  3 chromium-browse:(8)   |  55231.771 ms |   141892 | avg:   0.469 ms | max:  27.607 ms | sum:66538.697  ms |
  1 cyclictest:(5)        |  13156.391 ms |   667412 | avg:   0.373 ms | max:  38.247 ms | sum:249174.502 ms |
  2 cyclictest:(5)        |  12688.939 ms |   665144 | avg:   0.374 ms | max:  33.548 ms | sum:248509.392 ms |
  3 cyclictest:(5)        |  13475.623 ms |   669110 | avg:   0.370 ms | max:  37.819 ms | sum:247673.390 ms |
As per the numbers the, this makes cyclictest (short slice) it's
max-delay more consistent and consistency drops the sum-delay. The
trade-off is that the massive_intr (long slice) gets more context
switches and a slight increase in sum-delay.
Chunxin contributed did_preempt_short() where a task that lost slice
protection from PREEMPT_SHORT gets rescheduled once it becomes
in-eligible.
[mike: numbers]
Co-Developed-by: Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@lixiang.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@lixiang.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105030.735459544@infradead.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 82e9d0456e | sched/fair: Avoid re-setting virtual deadline on 'migrations' During OSPM24 Youssef noted that migrations are re-setting the virtual deadline. Notably everything that does a dequeue-enqueue, like setting nice, changing preferred numa-node, and a myriad of other random crap, will cause this to happen. This shouldn't be. Preserve the relative virtual deadline across such dequeue/enqueue cycles. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105030.625119246@infradead.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 54a58a7877 | sched/fair: Implement DELAY_ZERO 'Extend' DELAY_DEQUEUE by noting that since we wanted to dequeued them at the 0-lag point, truncate lag (eg. don't let them earn positive lag). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105030.403750550@infradead.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 152e11f6df | sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue Extend / fix  | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | f25b7b32b0 | sched/eevdf: Add feature comments Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240727105028.287790895@infradead.org | ||
|  Phil Auld | a58501fb83 | sched: remove HZ_BW feature hedge As a hedge against unexpected user issues commit  | ||
|  Vincent Guittot | 7736ae5572 | sched/fair: Remove SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST_FASTUP, true) sched_feat(UTIL_EST_FASTUP) has been added to easily disable the feature in order to check for possibly related regressions. After 3 years, it has never been used and no regression has been reported. Let's remove it and make fast increase a permanent behavior. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia2@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> [for the Chinese translation] Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201161652.1241695-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 984ffb6a43 | sched/fair: Remove SIS_PROP SIS_UTIL seems to work well, lets remove the old thing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231020134337.GD33965@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 63304558ba | sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption Mike and others noticed that EEVDF does like to over-schedule quite a bit -- which does hurt performance of a number of benchmarks / workloads. In particular, what seems to cause over-scheduling is that when lag is of the same order (or larger) than the request / slice then placement will not only cause the task to be placed left of current, but also with a smaller deadline than current, which causes immediate preemption. [ notably, lag bounds are relative to HZ ] Mike suggested we stick to picking 'current' for as long as it's eligible to run, giving it uninterrupted runtime until it reaches parity with the pack. Augment Mike's suggestion by only allowing it to exhaust it's initial request. One random data point: echo NO_RUN_TO_PARITY > /debug/sched/features perf stat -a -e context-switches --repeat 10 -- perf bench sched messaging -g 20 -t -l 5000 3,723,554 context-switches ( +- 0.56% ) 9.5136 +- 0.0394 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.41% ) echo RUN_TO_PARITY > /debug/sched/features perf stat -a -e context-switches --repeat 10 -- perf bench sched messaging -g 20 -t -l 5000 2,556,535 context-switches ( +- 0.51% ) 9.2427 +- 0.0302 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.33% ) Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816134059.GC982867@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net | ||
|  Ingo Molnar | b41bbb33cf | Merge branch 'sched/eevdf' into sched/core Pick up the EEVDF work into the main branch - it's looking good so far. Conflicts: kernel/sched/features.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Phil Auld | 88c56cfeae | sched/fair: Block nohz tick_stop when cfs bandwidth in use CFS bandwidth limits and NOHZ full don't play well together. Tasks can easily run well past their quotas before a remote tick does accounting. This leads to long, multi-period stalls before such tasks can run again. Currently, when presented with these conflicting requirements the scheduler is favoring nohz_full and letting the tick be stopped. However, nohz tick stopping is already best-effort, there are a number of conditions that can prevent it, whereas cfs runtime bandwidth is expected to be enforced. Make the scheduler favor bandwidth over stopping the tick by setting TICK_DEP_BIT_SCHED when the only running task is a cfs task with runtime limit enabled. We use cfs_b->hierarchical_quota to determine if the task requires the tick. Add check in pick_next_task_fair() as well since that is where we have a handle on the task that is actually going to be running. Add check in sched_can_stop_tick() to cover some edge cases such as nr_running going from 2->1 and the 1 remains the running task. Reviewed-By: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712133357.381137-3-pauld@redhat.com | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 5e963f2bd4 | sched/fair: Commit to EEVDF EEVDF is a better defined scheduling policy, as a result it has less heuristics/tunables. There is no compelling reason to keep CFS around. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124604.137187212@infradead.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 76cae9dbe1 | sched/fair: Commit to lag based placement Removes the FAIR_SLEEPERS code in favour of the new LAG based placement. Specifically, the whole FAIR_SLEEPER thing was a very crude approximation to make up for the lack of lag based placement, specifically the 'service owed' part. This is important for things like 'starve' and 'hackbench'. One side effect of FAIR_SLEEPER is that it caused 'small' unfairness, specifically, by always ignoring up-to 'thresh' sleeptime it would have a 50%/50% time distribution for a 50% sleeper vs a 100% runner, while strictly speaking this should (of course) result in a 33%/67% split (as CFS will also do if the sleep period exceeds 'thresh'). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124604.000198861@infradead.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 147f3efaa2 | sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy Where CFS is currently a WFQ based scheduler with only a single knob, the weight. The addition of a second, latency oriented parameter, makes something like WF2Q or EEVDF based a much better fit. Specifically, EEVDF does EDF like scheduling in the left half of the tree -- those entities that are owed service. Except because this is a virtual time scheduler, the deadlines are in virtual time as well, which is what allows over-subscription. EEVDF has two parameters: - weight, or time-slope: which is mapped to nice just as before - request size, or slice length: which is used to compute the virtual deadline as: vd_i = ve_i + r_i/w_i Basically, by setting a smaller slice, the deadline will be earlier and the task will be more eligible and ran earlier. Tick driven preemption is driven by request/slice completion; while wakeup preemption is driven by the deadline. Because the tree is now effectively an interval tree, and the selection is no longer 'leftmost', over-scheduling is less of a problem. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124603.931005524@infradead.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 86bfbb7ce4 | sched/fair: Add lag based placement With the introduction of avg_vruntime, it is possible to approximate lag (the entire purpose of introducing it in fact). Use this to do lag based placement over sleep+wake. Specifically, the FAIR_SLEEPERS thing places things too far to the left and messes up the deadline aspect of EEVDF. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124603.794929315@infradead.org | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | e0c2ff903c | sched/fair: Remove sched_feat(START_DEBIT) With the introduction of avg_vruntime() there is no need to use worse approximations. Take the 0-lag point as starting point for inserting new tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124603.722361178@infradead.org | ||
|  Chen Yu | 70fb5ccf2e | sched/fair: Introduce SIS_UTIL to search idle CPU based on sum of util_avg [Problem Statement]
select_idle_cpu() might spend too much time searching for an idle CPU,
when the system is overloaded.
The following histogram is the time spent in select_idle_cpu(),
when running 224 instances of netperf on a system with 112 CPUs
per LLC domain:
@usecs:
[0]                  533 |                                                    |
[1]                 5495 |                                                    |
[2, 4)             12008 |                                                    |
[4, 8)            239252 |                                                    |
[8, 16)          4041924 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                                      |
[16, 32)        12357398 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@         |
[32, 64)        14820255 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[64, 128)       13047682 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@       |
[128, 256)       8235013 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                        |
[256, 512)       4507667 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                                     |
[512, 1K)        2600472 |@@@@@@@@@                                           |
[1K, 2K)          927912 |@@@                                                 |
[2K, 4K)          218720 |                                                    |
[4K, 8K)           98161 |                                                    |
[8K, 16K)          37722 |                                                    |
[16K, 32K)          6715 |                                                    |
[32K, 64K)           477 |                                                    |
[64K, 128K)            7 |                                                    |
netperf latency usecs:
=======
case            	load    	    Lat_99th	    std%
TCP_RR          	thread-224	      257.39	(  0.21)
The time spent in select_idle_cpu() is visible to netperf and might have a negative
impact.
[Symptom analysis]
The patch [1] from Mel Gorman has been applied to track the efficiency
of select_idle_sibling. Copy the indicators here:
SIS Search Efficiency(se_eff%):
        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(dom_eff%):
        Similar, except only for the slower SIS
	patch.
SIS Fast Success Rate(fast_rate%):
        Percentage of SIS that used target, prev or
	recent CPUs.
SIS Success rate(success_rate%):
        Percentage of scans that found an idle CPU.
The test is based on Aubrey's schedtests tool, including netperf, hackbench,
schbench and tbench.
Test on vanilla kernel:
schedstat_parse.py -f netperf_vanilla.log
case	        load	    se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
TCP_RR	   28 threads	     99.978	      18.535	      99.995	     100.000
TCP_RR	   56 threads	     99.397	       5.671	      99.964	     100.000
TCP_RR	   84 threads	     21.721	       6.818	      73.632	     100.000
TCP_RR	  112 threads	     12.500	       5.533	      59.000	     100.000
TCP_RR	  140 threads	      8.524	       4.535	      49.020	     100.000
TCP_RR	  168 threads	      6.438	       3.945	      40.309	      99.999
TCP_RR	  196 threads	      5.397	       3.718	      32.320	      99.982
TCP_RR	  224 threads	      4.874	       3.661	      25.775	      99.767
UDP_RR	   28 threads	     99.988	      17.704	      99.997	     100.000
UDP_RR	   56 threads	     99.528	       5.977	      99.970	     100.000
UDP_RR	   84 threads	     24.219	       6.992	      76.479	     100.000
UDP_RR	  112 threads	     13.907	       5.706	      62.538	     100.000
UDP_RR	  140 threads	      9.408	       4.699	      52.519	     100.000
UDP_RR	  168 threads	      7.095	       4.077	      44.352	     100.000
UDP_RR	  196 threads	      5.757	       3.775	      35.764	      99.991
UDP_RR	  224 threads	      5.124	       3.704	      28.748	      99.860
schedstat_parse.py -f schbench_vanilla.log
(each group has 28 tasks)
case	        load	    se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
normal	   1   mthread	     99.152	       6.400	      99.941	     100.000
normal	   2   mthreads	     97.844	       4.003	      99.908	     100.000
normal	   3   mthreads	     96.395	       2.118	      99.917	      99.998
normal	   4   mthreads	     55.288	       1.451	      98.615	      99.804
normal	   5   mthreads	      7.004	       1.870	      45.597	      61.036
normal	   6   mthreads	      3.354	       1.346	      20.777	      34.230
normal	   7   mthreads	      2.183	       1.028	      11.257	      21.055
normal	   8   mthreads	      1.653	       0.825	       7.849	      15.549
schedstat_parse.py -f hackbench_vanilla.log
(each group has 28 tasks)
case			load	        se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
process-pipe	     1 group	         99.991	       7.692	      99.999	     100.000
process-pipe	    2 groups	         99.934	       4.615	      99.997	     100.000
process-pipe	    3 groups	         99.597	       3.198	      99.987	     100.000
process-pipe	    4 groups	         98.378	       2.464	      99.958	     100.000
process-pipe	    5 groups	         27.474	       3.653	      89.811	      99.800
process-pipe	    6 groups	         20.201	       4.098	      82.763	      99.570
process-pipe	    7 groups	         16.423	       4.156	      77.398	      99.316
process-pipe	    8 groups	         13.165	       3.920	      72.232	      98.828
process-sockets	     1 group	         99.977	       5.882	      99.999	     100.000
process-sockets	    2 groups	         99.927	       5.505	      99.996	     100.000
process-sockets	    3 groups	         99.397	       3.250	      99.980	     100.000
process-sockets	    4 groups	         79.680	       4.258	      98.864	      99.998
process-sockets	    5 groups	          7.673	       2.503	      63.659	      92.115
process-sockets	    6 groups	          4.642	       1.584	      58.946	      88.048
process-sockets	    7 groups	          3.493	       1.379	      49.816	      81.164
process-sockets	    8 groups	          3.015	       1.407	      40.845	      75.500
threads-pipe	     1 group	         99.997	       0.000	     100.000	     100.000
threads-pipe	    2 groups	         99.894	       2.932	      99.997	     100.000
threads-pipe	    3 groups	         99.611	       4.117	      99.983	     100.000
threads-pipe	    4 groups	         97.703	       2.624	      99.937	     100.000
threads-pipe	    5 groups	         22.919	       3.623	      87.150	      99.764
threads-pipe	    6 groups	         18.016	       4.038	      80.491	      99.557
threads-pipe	    7 groups	         14.663	       3.991	      75.239	      99.247
threads-pipe	    8 groups	         12.242	       3.808	      70.651	      98.644
threads-sockets	     1 group	         99.990	       6.667	      99.999	     100.000
threads-sockets	    2 groups	         99.940	       5.114	      99.997	     100.000
threads-sockets	    3 groups	         99.469	       4.115	      99.977	     100.000
threads-sockets	    4 groups	         87.528	       4.038	      99.400	     100.000
threads-sockets	    5 groups	          6.942	       2.398	      59.244	      88.337
threads-sockets	    6 groups	          4.359	       1.954	      49.448	      87.860
threads-sockets	    7 groups	          2.845	       1.345	      41.198	      77.102
threads-sockets	    8 groups	          2.871	       1.404	      38.512	      74.312
schedstat_parse.py -f tbench_vanilla.log
case			load	      se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
loopback	  28 threads	       99.976	      18.369	      99.995	     100.000
loopback	  56 threads	       99.222	       7.799	      99.934	     100.000
loopback	  84 threads	       19.723	       6.819	      70.215	     100.000
loopback	 112 threads	       11.283	       5.371	      55.371	      99.999
loopback	 140 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 168 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 196 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 224 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
According to the test above, if the system becomes busy, the
SIS Search Efficiency(se_eff%) drops significantly. Although some
benchmarks would finally find an idle CPU(success_rate% = 100%), it is
doubtful whether it is worth it to search the whole LLC domain.
[Proposal]
It would be ideal to have a crystal ball to answer this question:
How many CPUs must a wakeup path walk down, before it can find an idle
CPU? Many potential metrics could be used to predict the number.
One candidate is the sum of util_avg in this LLC domain. The benefit
of choosing util_avg is that it is a metric of accumulated historic
activity, which seems to be smoother than instantaneous metrics
(such as rq->nr_running). Besides, choosing the sum of util_avg
would help predict the load of the LLC domain more precisely, because
SIS_PROP uses one CPU's idle time to estimate the total LLC domain idle
time.
In summary, the lower the util_avg is, the more select_idle_cpu()
should scan for idle CPU, and vice versa. When the sum of util_avg
in this LLC domain hits 85% or above, the scan stops. The reason to
choose 85% as the threshold is that this is the imbalance_pct(117)
when a LLC sched group is overloaded.
Introduce the quadratic function:
y = SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE - p * x^2
and y'= y / SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE
x is the ratio of sum_util compared to the CPU capacity:
x = sum_util / (llc_weight * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE)
y' is the ratio of CPUs to be scanned in the LLC domain,
and the number of CPUs to scan is calculated by:
nr_scan = llc_weight * y'
Choosing quadratic function is because:
[1] Compared to the linear function, it scans more aggressively when the
    sum_util is low.
[2] Compared to the exponential function, it is easier to calculate.
[3] It seems that there is no accurate mapping between the sum of util_avg
    and the number of CPUs to be scanned. Use heuristic scan for now.
For a platform with 112 CPUs per LLC, the number of CPUs to scan is:
sum_util%   0    5   15   25  35  45  55   65   75   85   86 ...
scan_nr   112  111  108  102  93  81  65   47   25    1    0 ...
For a platform with 16 CPUs per LLC, the number of CPUs to scan is:
sum_util%   0    5   15   25  35  45  55   65   75   85   86 ...
scan_nr    16   15   15   14  13  11   9    6    3    0    0 ...
Furthermore, to minimize the overhead of calculating the metrics in
select_idle_cpu(), borrow the statistics from periodic load balance.
As mentioned by Abel, on a platform with 112 CPUs per LLC, the
sum_util calculated by periodic load balance after 112 ms would
decay to about 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.7 = 8.75%, thus bringing a delay
in reflecting the latest utilization. But it is a trade-off.
Checking the util_avg in newidle load balance would be more frequent,
but it brings overhead - multiple CPUs write/read the per-LLC shared
variable and introduces cache contention. Tim also mentioned that,
it is allowed to be non-optimal in terms of scheduling for the
short-term variations, but if there is a long-term trend in the load
behavior, the scheduler can adjust for that.
When SIS_UTIL is enabled, the select_idle_cpu() uses the nr_scan
calculated by SIS_UTIL instead of the one from SIS_PROP. As Peter and
Mel suggested, SIS_UTIL should be enabled by default.
This patch is based on the util_avg, which is very sensitive to the
CPU frequency invariance. There is an issue that, when the max frequency
has been clamp, the util_avg would decay insanely fast when
the CPU is idle. Commit  | ||
|  Thomas Gleixner | 539fbb5be0 | sched: Disable TTWU_QUEUE on RT The queued remote wakeup mechanism has turned out to be suboptimal for RT enabled kernels. The maximum latencies go up by a factor of > 5x in certain scenarious. This is caused by either long wake lists or by a large number of TTWU IPIs which are processed back to back. Disable it for RT. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928122411.482262764@linutronix.de | ||
|  Paul Turner | c006fac556 | sched: Warn on long periods of pending need_resched CPU scheduler marks need_resched flag to signal a schedule() on a particular CPU. But, schedule() may not happen immediately in cases where the current task is executing in the kernel mode (no preemption state) for extended periods of time. This patch adds a warn_on if need_resched is pending for more than the time specified in sysctl resched_latency_warn_ms. If it goes off, it is likely that there is a missing cond_resched() somewhere. Monitoring is done via the tick and the accuracy is hence limited to jiffy scale. This also means that we won't trigger the warning if the tick is disabled. This feature (LATENCY_WARN) is default disabled. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210416212936.390566-1-joshdon@google.com | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 0c2de3f054 | sched,fair: Alternative sched_slice() The current sched_slice() seems to have issues; there's two possible things that could be improved: - the 'nr_running' used for __sched_period() is daft when cgroups are considered. Using the RQ wide h_nr_running seems like a much more consistent number. - (esp) cgroups can slice it real fine, which makes for easy over-scheduling, ensure min_gran is what the name says. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210412102001.611897312@infradead.org | ||
|  Ingo Molnar | 3b03706fa6 | sched: Fix various typos Fix ~42 single-word typos in scheduler code comments. We have accumulated a few fun ones over the years. :-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org | ||
|  Juri Lelli | e0ee463c93 | sched/features: Distinguish between NORMAL and DEADLINE hrtick The HRTICK feature has traditionally been servicing configurations that need precise preemptions point for NORMAL tasks. More recently, the feature has been extended to also service DEADLINE tasks with stringent runtime enforcement needs (e.g., runtime < 1ms with HZ=1000). Enabling HRTICK sched feature currently enables the additional timer and task tick for both classes, which might introduced undesired overhead for no additional benefit if one needed it only for one of the cases. Separate HRTICK sched feature in two (and leave the traditional case name unmodified) so that it can be selectively enabled when needed. With: $ echo HRTICK > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features the NORMAL/fair hrtick gets enabled. With: $ echo HRTICK_DL > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features the DEADLINE hrtick gets enabled. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210208073554.14629-3-juri.lelli@redhat.com | ||
|  Mel Gorman | e6e0dc2d54 | sched/fair: Remove SIS_AVG_CPU SIS_AVG_CPU was introduced as a means of avoiding a search when the average search cost indicated that the search would likely fail. It was a blunt instrument and disabled by commit | ||
|  Daniel Bristot de Oliveira | 2586af1ac1 | sched/rt: Disable RT_RUNTIME_SHARE by default The RT_RUNTIME_SHARE sched feature enables the sharing of rt_runtime between CPUs, allowing a CPU to run a real-time task up to 100% of the time while leaving more space for non-real-time tasks to run on the CPU that lend rt_runtime. The problem is that a CPU can easily borrow enough rt_runtime to allow a spinning rt-task to run forever, starving per-cpu tasks like kworkers, which are non-real-time by design. This patch disables RT_RUNTIME_SHARE by default, avoiding this problem. The feature will still be present for users that want to enable it, though. Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b776ab46817e3db5d8ef79175fa0d71073c051c7.1600697903.git.bristot@redhat.com | ||
|  Patrick Bellasi | b8c9636140 | sched/fair/util_est: Implement faster ramp-up EWMA on utilization increases The estimated utilization for a task: util_est = max(util_avg, est.enqueue, est.ewma) is defined based on: - util_avg: the PELT defined utilization - est.enqueued: the util_avg at the end of the last activation - est.ewma: a exponential moving average on the est.enqueued samples According to this definition, when a task suddenly changes its bandwidth requirements from small to big, the EWMA will need to collect multiple samples before converging up to track the new big utilization. This slow convergence towards bigger utilization values is not aligned to the default scheduler behavior, which is to optimize for performance. Moreover, the est.ewma component fails to compensate for temporarely utilization drops which spans just few est.enqueued samples. To let util_est do a better job in the scenario depicted above, change its definition by making util_est directly follow upward motion and only decay the est.ewma on downward. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@matbug.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191023205630.14469-1-patrick.bellasi@matbug.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Dietmar Eggemann | 1c1b8a7b03 | sched/fair: Replace source_load() & target_load() with weighted_cpuload() With LB_BIAS disabled, source_load() & target_load() return weighted_cpuload(). Replace both with calls to weighted_cpuload(). The function to obtain the load index (sd->*_idx) for an sd, get_sd_load_idx(), can be removed as well. Finally, get rid of the sched feature LB_BIAS. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527062116.11512-3-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Dietmar Eggemann | fdf5f315d5 | sched/fair: Disable LB_BIAS by default LB_BIAS allows the adjustment on how conservative load should be
balanced.
The rq->cpu_load[idx] array is used for this functionality. It contains
weighted CPU load decayed average values over different intervals
(idx = 1..4). Idx = 0 is the weighted CPU load itself.
The values are updated during scheduler_tick, before idle balance and at
nohz exit.
There are 5 different types of idx's per sched domain (sd). Each of them
is used to index into the rq->cpu_load[idx] array in a specific scenario
(busy, idle and newidle for load balancing, forkexec for wake-up
slow-path load balancing and wake for affine wakeup based on weight).
Only the sd idx's for busy and idle load balancing are set to 2,3 or 1,2
respectively. All the other sd idx's are set to 0.
Conservative load balancing is achieved for sd idx's >= 1 by using the
min/max (source_load()/target_load()) value between the current weighted
CPU load and the rq->cpu_load[sd idx -1] for the busiest(idlest)/local
CPU load in load balancing or vice versa in the wake-up slow-path load
balancing.
There is no conservative balancing for sd idx = 0 since only current
weighted CPU load is used in this case.
It is very likely that LB_BIAS' influence on load balancing can be
neglected (see test results below). This is further supported by:
(1) Weighted CPU load today is by itself a decayed average value (PELT)
    (cfs_rq->avg->runnable_load_avg) and not the instantaneous load
    (rq->load.weight) it was when LB_BIAS was introduced.
(2) Sd imbalance_pct is used for CPU_NEWLY_IDLE and CPU_NOT_IDLE (relate
    to sd's newidle and busy idx) in find_busiest_group() when comparing
    busiest and local avg load to make load balancing even more
    conservative.
(3) The sd forkexec and newidle idx are always set to 0 so there is no
    adjustment on how conservatively load balancing is done here.
(4) Affine wakeup based on weight (wake_affine_weight()) will not be
    impacted since the sd wake idx is always set to 0.
Let's disable LB_BIAS by default for a few kernel releases to make sure
that no workload and no scheduler topology is affected. The benefit of
being able to remove the LB_BIAS dependency from source_load() and
target_load() is that the entire rq->cpu_load[idx] code could be removed
in this case.
It is really hard to say if there is no regression w/o testing this with
a lot of different workloads on a lot of different platforms, especially
NUMA machines.
The following 104 LKP (Linux Kernel Performance) tests were run by the
0-Day guys mostly on multi-socket hosts with a larger number of logical
cpus (88, 192).
The base for the test was commit  | ||
|  Patrick Bellasi | d519329f72 | sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates The estimated utilization of a task is currently updated every time the task is dequeued. However, to keep overheads under control, PELT signals are effectively updated at maximum once every 1ms. Thus, for really short running tasks, it can happen that their util_avg value has not been updates since their last enqueue. If such tasks are also frequently running tasks (e.g. the kind of workload generated by hackbench) it can also happen that their util_avg is updated only every few activations. This means that updating util_est at every dequeue potentially introduces not necessary overheads and it's also conceptually wrong if the util_avg signal has never been updated during a task activation. Let's introduce a throttling mechanism on task's util_est updates to sync them with util_avg updates. To make the solution memory efficient, both in terms of space and load/store operations, we encode a synchronization flag into the LSB of util_est.enqueued. This makes util_est an even values only metric, which is still considered good enough for its purpose. The synchronization bit is (re)set by __update_load_avg_se() once the PELT signal of a task has been updated during its last activation. Such a throttling mechanism allows to keep under control util_est overheads in the wakeup hot path, thus making it a suitable mechanism which can be enabled also on high-intensity workload systems. Thus, this now switches on by default the estimation utilization scheduler feature. Suggested-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-5-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Patrick Bellasi | 7f65ea42eb | sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT The util_avg signal computed by PELT is too variable for some use-cases.
For example, a big task waking up after a long sleep period will have its
utilization almost completely decayed. This introduces some latency before
schedutil will be able to pick the best frequency to run a task.
The same issue can affect task placement. Indeed, since the task
utilization is already decayed at wakeup, when the task is enqueued in a
CPU, this can result in a CPU running a big task as being temporarily
represented as being almost empty. This leads to a race condition where
other tasks can be potentially allocated on a CPU which just started to run
a big task which slept for a relatively long period.
Moreover, the PELT utilization of a task can be updated every [ms], thus
making it a continuously changing value for certain longer running
tasks. This means that the instantaneous PELT utilization of a RUNNING
task is not really meaningful to properly support scheduler decisions.
For all these reasons, a more stable signal can do a better job of
representing the expected/estimated utilization of a task/cfs_rq.
Such a signal can be easily created on top of PELT by still using it as
an estimator which produces values to be aggregated on meaningful
events.
This patch adds a simple implementation of util_est, a new signal built on
top of PELT's util_avg where:
    util_est(task) = max(task::util_avg, f(task::util_avg@dequeue))
This allows to remember how big a task has been reported by PELT in its
previous activations via f(task::util_avg@dequeue), which is the new
_task_util_est(struct task_struct*) function added by this patch.
If a task should change its behavior and it runs longer in a new
activation, after a certain time its util_est will just track the
original PELT signal (i.e. task::util_avg).
The estimated utilization of cfs_rq is defined only for root ones.
That's because the only sensible consumer of this signal are the
scheduler and schedutil when looking for the overall CPU utilization
due to FAIR tasks.
For this reason, the estimated utilization of a root cfs_rq is simply
defined as:
    util_est(cfs_rq) = max(cfs_rq::util_avg, cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued)
where:
    cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued = sum(_task_util_est(task))
                                 for each RUNNABLE task on that root cfs_rq
It's worth noting that the estimated utilization is tracked only for
objects of interests, specifically:
 - Tasks: to better support tasks placement decisions
 - root cfs_rqs: to better support both tasks placement decisions as
                 well as frequencies selection
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-2-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Greg Kroah-Hartman | b24413180f | License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | f2cdd9cc6c | sched/core: Address more wake_affine() regressions The trivial wake_affine_idle() implementation is very good for a number of workloads, but it comes apart at the moment there are no idle CPUs left, IOW. the overloaded case. hackbench: NO_WA_WEIGHT WA_WEIGHT hackbench-20 : 7.362717561 seconds 6.450509391 seconds (win) netperf: NO_WA_WEIGHT WA_WEIGHT TCP_SENDFILE-1 : Avg: 54524.6 Avg: 52224.3 TCP_SENDFILE-10 : Avg: 48185.2 Avg: 46504.3 TCP_SENDFILE-20 : Avg: 29031.2 Avg: 28610.3 TCP_SENDFILE-40 : Avg: 9819.72 Avg: 9253.12 TCP_SENDFILE-80 : Avg: 5355.3 Avg: 4687.4 TCP_STREAM-1 : Avg: 41448.3 Avg: 42254 TCP_STREAM-10 : Avg: 24123.2 Avg: 25847.9 TCP_STREAM-20 : Avg: 15834.5 Avg: 18374.4 TCP_STREAM-40 : Avg: 5583.91 Avg: 5599.57 TCP_STREAM-80 : Avg: 2329.66 Avg: 2726.41 TCP_RR-1 : Avg: 80473.5 Avg: 82638.8 TCP_RR-10 : Avg: 72660.5 Avg: 73265.1 TCP_RR-20 : Avg: 52607.1 Avg: 52634.5 TCP_RR-40 : Avg: 57199.2 Avg: 56302.3 TCP_RR-80 : Avg: 25330.3 Avg: 26867.9 UDP_RR-1 : Avg: 108266 Avg: 107844 UDP_RR-10 : Avg: 95480 Avg: 95245.2 UDP_RR-20 : Avg: 68770.8 Avg: 68673.7 UDP_RR-40 : Avg: 76231 Avg: 75419.1 UDP_RR-80 : Avg: 34578.3 Avg: 35639.1 UDP_STREAM-1 : Avg: 64684.3 Avg: 66606 UDP_STREAM-10 : Avg: 52701.2 Avg: 52959.5 UDP_STREAM-20 : Avg: 30376.4 Avg: 29704 UDP_STREAM-40 : Avg: 15685.8 Avg: 15266.5 UDP_STREAM-80 : Avg: 8415.13 Avg: 7388.97 (wins and losses) sysbench: NO_WA_WEIGHT WA_WEIGHT sysbench-mysql-2 : 2135.17 per sec. 2142.51 per sec. sysbench-mysql-5 : 4809.68 per sec. 4800.19 per sec. sysbench-mysql-10 : 9158.59 per sec. 9157.05 per sec. sysbench-mysql-20 : 14570.70 per sec. 14543.55 per sec. sysbench-mysql-40 : 22130.56 per sec. 22184.82 per sec. sysbench-mysql-80 : 20995.56 per sec. 21904.18 per sec. sysbench-psql-2 : 1679.58 per sec. 1705.06 per sec. sysbench-psql-5 : 3797.69 per sec. 3879.93 per sec. sysbench-psql-10 : 7253.22 per sec. 7258.06 per sec. sysbench-psql-20 : 11166.75 per sec. 11220.00 per sec. sysbench-psql-40 : 17277.28 per sec. 17359.78 per sec. sysbench-psql-80 : 17112.44 per sec. 17221.16 per sec. (increase on the top end) tbench: NO_WA_WEIGHT Throughput 685.211 MB/sec 2 clients 2 procs max_latency=0.123 ms Throughput 1596.64 MB/sec 5 clients 5 procs max_latency=0.119 ms Throughput 2985.47 MB/sec 10 clients 10 procs max_latency=0.262 ms Throughput 4521.15 MB/sec 20 clients 20 procs max_latency=0.506 ms Throughput 9438.1 MB/sec 40 clients 40 procs max_latency=2.052 ms Throughput 8210.5 MB/sec 80 clients 80 procs max_latency=8.310 ms WA_WEIGHT Throughput 697.292 MB/sec 2 clients 2 procs max_latency=0.127 ms Throughput 1596.48 MB/sec 5 clients 5 procs max_latency=0.080 ms Throughput 2975.22 MB/sec 10 clients 10 procs max_latency=0.254 ms Throughput 4575.14 MB/sec 20 clients 20 procs max_latency=0.502 ms Throughput 9468.65 MB/sec 40 clients 40 procs max_latency=2.069 ms Throughput 8631.73 MB/sec 80 clients 80 procs max_latency=8.605 ms (increase on the top end) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | d153b15344 | sched/core: Fix wake_affine() performance regression Eric reported a sysbench regression against commit: | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 1ad3aaf3fc | sched/core: Implement new approach to scale select_idle_cpu() Hackbench recently suffered a bunch of pain, first by commit: | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | af85596c74 | sched/topology: Remove FORCE_SD_OVERLAP Its an obsolete debug mechanism and future code wants to rely on properties this undermines. Namely, it would be good to assume that SD_OVERLAP domains have children, but if we build the entire hierarchy with SD_OVERLAP this is obviously false. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 26ae58d23b | sched/core: Add WARNING for multiple update_rq_clock() calls Now that we have no missing calls, add a warning to find multiple calls. By having only a single update_rq_clock() call per rq-lock section, the section appears 'atomic' wrt time. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | 4c77b18cf8 | sched/fair: Make select_idle_cpu() more aggressive Kitsunyan reported desktop latency issues on his Celeron 887 because
of commit:
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|  Morten Rasmussen | 8cd5601c50 | sched/fair: Convert arch_scale_cpu_capacity() from weak function to #define Bring arch_scale_cpu_capacity() in line with the recent change of its
arch_scale_freq_capacity() sibling in commit  | ||
|  Srikar Dronamraju | 2b49d84b25 | sched/numa: Remove the NUMA sched_feature Variable sched_numa_balancing is available for both CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. All code paths now check for sched_numa_balancing. Hence remove sched_feat(NUMA). Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439290813-6683-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Peter Zijlstra | a9280514bf | sched/fair: Make the entity load aging on attaching tunable In case there are problems with the aging on attach, provide a debug knob to turn it off. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Srikar Dronamraju | 2a1ed24ce9 | sched/numa: Prefer NUMA hotness over cache hotness The current load balancer may not try to prevent a task from moving out of a preferred node to a less preferred node. The reason for this being: - Since sched features NUMA and NUMA_RESIST_LOWER are disabled by default, migrate_degrades_locality() always returns false. - Even if NUMA_RESIST_LOWER were to be enabled, if its cache hot, migrate_degrades_locality() never gets called. The above behaviour can mean that tasks can move out of their preferred node but they may be eventually be brought back to their preferred node by numa balancer (due to higher numa faults). To avoid the above, this commit merges migrate_degrades_locality() and migrate_improves_locality(). It also replaces 3 sched features NUMA, NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER and NUMA_RESIST_LOWER by a single sched feature NUMA. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434455762-30857-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Steven Rostedt | b6366f048e | sched/rt: Use IPI to trigger RT task push migration instead of pulling When debugging the latencies on a 40 core box, where we hit 300 to 500 microsecond latencies, I found there was a huge contention on the runqueue locks. Investigating it further, running ftrace, I found that it was due to the pulling of RT tasks. The test that was run was the following: cyclictest --numa -p95 -m -d0 -i100 This created a thread on each CPU, that would set its wakeup in iterations of 100 microseconds. The -d0 means that all the threads had the same interval (100us). Each thread sleeps for 100us and wakes up and measures its latencies. cyclictest is maintained at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clrkwllms/rt-tests.git What happened was another RT task would be scheduled on one of the CPUs that was running our test, when the other CPU tests went to sleep and scheduled idle. This caused the "pull" operation to execute on all these CPUs. Each one of these saw the RT task that was overloaded on the CPU of the test that was still running, and each one tried to grab that task in a thundering herd way. To grab the task, each thread would do a double rq lock grab, grabbing its own lock as well as the rq of the overloaded CPU. As the sched domains on this box was rather flat for its size, I saw up to 12 CPUs block on this lock at once. This caused a ripple affect with the rq locks especially since the taking was done via a double rq lock, which means that several of the CPUs had their own rq locks held while trying to take this rq lock. As these locks were blocked, any wakeups or load balanceing on these CPUs would also block on these locks, and the wait time escalated. I've tried various methods to lessen the load, but things like an atomic counter to only let one CPU grab the task wont work, because the task may have a limited affinity, and we may pick the wrong CPU to take that lock and do the pull, to only find out that the CPU we picked isn't in the task's affinity. Instead of doing the PULL, I now have the CPUs that want the pull to send over an IPI to the overloaded CPU, and let that CPU pick what CPU to push the task to. No more need to grab the rq lock, and the push/pull algorithm still works fine. With this patch, the latency dropped to just 150us over a 20 hour run. Without the patch, the huge latencies would trigger in seconds. I've created a new sched feature called RT_PUSH_IPI, which is enabled by default. When RT_PUSH_IPI is not enabled, the old method of grabbing the rq locks and having the pulling CPU do the work is implemented. When RT_PUSH_IPI is enabled, the IPI is sent to the overloaded CPU to do a push. To enabled or disable this at run time: # mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug # echo RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features or # echo NO_RT_PUSH_IPI > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features Update: This original patch would send an IPI to all CPUs in the RT overload list. But that could theoretically cause the reverse issue. That is, there could be lots of overloaded RT queues and one CPU lowers its priority. It would then send an IPI to all the overloaded RT queues and they could then all try to grab the rq lock of the CPU lowering its priority, and then we have the same problem. The latest design sends out only one IPI to the first overloaded CPU. It tries to push any tasks that it can, and then looks for the next overloaded CPU that can push to the source CPU. The IPIs stop when all overloaded CPUs that have pushable tasks that have priorities greater than the source CPU are covered. In case the source CPU lowers its priority again, a flag is set to tell the IPI traversal to restart with the first RT overloaded CPU after the source CPU. Parts-suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@purestorage.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150318144946.2f3cc982@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Nicolas Pitre | 5d4dfddd4f | sched: Rename capacity related flags It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler work may create confusion with the notion of energy consumption if "power" is used too liberally. Let's rename the following feature flags since they do relate to capacity: SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER -> SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY ARCH_POWER -> ARCH_CAPACITY NONTASK_POWER -> NONTASK_CAPACITY Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e93lpnxb87owfievqatey6b5@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Mel Gorman | 7a0f308337 | sched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults Just as "sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node" favours moving tasks towards nodes with a higher number of recorded NUMA hinting faults, this patch resists moving tasks towards nodes with lower faults. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-24-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Mel Gorman | 3a7053b322 | sched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher number of NUMA faults during active load balancing. Ideally this is self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced. [srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
|  Mel Gorman | b726b7dfb4 | Revert "mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node" PTE scanning and NUMA hinting fault handling is expensive so commit
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|  Waiman Long | 41fcb9f230 | mutex: Move mutex spinning code from sched/core.c back to mutex.c As mentioned by Ingo, the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN scheduler feature bit was really just an early hack to make with/without mutex-spinning testable. So it is no longer necessary. This patch removes the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN feature bit and move the mutex spinning code from kernel/sched/core.c back to kernel/mutex.c which is where they should belong. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chandramouleeswaran Aswin <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Norton Scott J <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366226594-5506-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | ||
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Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma
Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.
  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.
  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are
    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397
  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.
  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.
  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."
* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
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