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sched/core: Fix wake_affine() performance regression

Eric reported a sysbench regression against commit: 3fed382b46ba ("sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()") Similarly, Rik was looking at the NAS-lu.C benchmark, which regressed against his v3.10 enterprise kernel. PRE (current tip/master): ivb-ep sysbench: 2: [30 secs] transactions: 64110 (2136.94 per sec.) 5: [30 secs] transactions: 143644 (4787.99 per sec.) 10: [30 secs] transactions: 274298 (9142.93 per sec.) 20: [30 secs] transactions: 418683 (13955.45 per sec.) 40: [30 secs] transactions: 320731 (10690.15 per sec.) 80: [30 secs] transactions: 355096 (11834.28 per sec.) hsw-ex NAS: OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds = 18.01 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds = 17.89 OMP_PROC_BIND/lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds = 17.93 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds = 434.68 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds = 405.36 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds = 433.83 POST (+patch): ivb-ep sysbench: 2: [30 secs] transactions: 64494 (2149.75 per sec.) 5: [30 secs] transactions: 145114 (4836.99 per sec.) 10: [30 secs] transactions: 278311 (9276.69 per sec.) 20: [30 secs] transactions: 437169 (14571.60 per sec.) 40: [30 secs] transactions: 669837 (22326.73 per sec.) 80: [30 secs] transactions: 631739 (21055.88 per sec.) hsw-ex NAS: lu.C.x_threads_144_run_1.log: Time in seconds = 23.36 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_2.log: Time in seconds = 22.96 lu.C.x_threads_144_run_3.log: Time in seconds = 22.52 This patch takes out all the shiny wake_affine() stuff and goes back to utter basics. Between the two CPUs involved with the wakeup (the CPU doing the wakeup and the CPU we ran on previously) pick the CPU we can run on _now_. This restores much of the regressions against the older kernels, but leaves some ground in the overloaded case. The default-enabled WA_WEIGHT (which will be introduced in the next patch) is an attempt to address the overloaded situation.

Peter Zijlstra committed 9 years ago

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@@ -71,14 +71,6 @@ struct sched_domain_shared { · 70 unmodified lines
71 atomic_t ref;71 atomic_t ref;
72 atomic_t nr_busy_cpus;72 atomic_t nr_busy_cpus;
73 int has_idle_cores;73 int has_idle_cores;
74
75 /*
76 * Some variables from the most recent sd_lb_stats for this domain,
77 * used by wake_affine().
78 */
79 unsigned long nr_running;
80 unsigned long load;
81 unsigned long capacity;
82};74};
83 75
84struct sched_domain {76struct sched_domain {