sched/fair: Do not migrate on wake_affine_weight() if weights are equal

wake_affine_weight() will consider migrating a task to, or near, the current
CPU if there is a load imbalance. If the CPUs share LLC then either CPU
is valid as a search-for-idle-sibling target and equally appropriate for
stacking two tasks on one CPU if an idle sibling is unavailable. If they do
not share cache then a cross-node migration potentially impacts locality
so while they are equal from a CPU capacity point of view, they are not
equal in terms of memory locality. In either case, it's more appropriate
to migrate only if there is a difference in their effective load.

This patch modifies wake_affine_weight() to only consider migrating a task
if there is a load imbalance for normal wakeups but will allow potential
stacking if the loads are equal and it's a sync wakeup.

For the most part, the different in performance is marginal. For example,
on a 4-socket server running netperf UDP_STREAM on localhost the differences
are as follows:

                                      4.15.0                 4.15.0
                                       16rc0          noequal-v1r23
 Hmean     send-64         355.47 (   0.00%)      349.50 (  -1.68%)
 Hmean     send-128        697.98 (   0.00%)      693.35 (  -0.66%)
 Hmean     send-256       1328.02 (   0.00%)     1318.77 (  -0.70%)
 Hmean     send-1024      5051.83 (   0.00%)     5051.11 (  -0.01%)
 Hmean     send-2048      9637.02 (   0.00%)     9601.34 (  -0.37%)
 Hmean     send-3312     14355.37 (   0.00%)    14414.51 (   0.41%)
 Hmean     send-4096     16464.97 (   0.00%)    16301.37 (  -0.99%)
 Hmean     send-8192     26722.42 (   0.00%)    26428.95 (  -1.10%)
 Hmean     send-16384    38137.81 (   0.00%)    38046.11 (  -0.24%)
 Hmean     recv-64         355.47 (   0.00%)      349.50 (  -1.68%)
 Hmean     recv-128        697.98 (   0.00%)      693.35 (  -0.66%)
 Hmean     recv-256       1328.02 (   0.00%)     1318.77 (  -0.70%)
 Hmean     recv-1024      5051.83 (   0.00%)     5051.11 (  -0.01%)
 Hmean     recv-2048      9636.95 (   0.00%)     9601.30 (  -0.37%)
 Hmean     recv-3312     14355.32 (   0.00%)    14414.48 (   0.41%)
 Hmean     recv-4096     16464.74 (   0.00%)    16301.16 (  -0.99%)
 Hmean     recv-8192     26721.63 (   0.00%)    26428.17 (  -1.10%)
 Hmean     recv-16384    38136.00 (   0.00%)    38044.88 (  -0.24%)
 Stddev    send-64           7.30 (   0.00%)        4.75 (  34.96%)
 Stddev    send-128         15.15 (   0.00%)       22.38 ( -47.66%)
 Stddev    send-256         13.99 (   0.00%)       19.14 ( -36.81%)
 Stddev    send-1024       105.73 (   0.00%)       67.38 (  36.27%)
 Stddev    send-2048       294.57 (   0.00%)      223.88 (  24.00%)
 Stddev    send-3312       302.28 (   0.00%)      271.74 (  10.10%)
 Stddev    send-4096       195.92 (   0.00%)      121.10 (  38.19%)
 Stddev    send-8192       399.71 (   0.00%)      563.77 ( -41.04%)
 Stddev    send-16384     1163.47 (   0.00%)     1103.68 (   5.14%)
 Stddev    recv-64           7.30 (   0.00%)        4.75 (  34.96%)
 Stddev    recv-128         15.15 (   0.00%)       22.38 ( -47.66%)
 Stddev    recv-256         13.99 (   0.00%)       19.14 ( -36.81%)
 Stddev    recv-1024       105.73 (   0.00%)       67.38 (  36.27%)
 Stddev    recv-2048       294.59 (   0.00%)      223.89 (  24.00%)
 Stddev    recv-3312       302.24 (   0.00%)      271.75 (  10.09%)
 Stddev    recv-4096       196.03 (   0.00%)      121.14 (  38.20%)
 Stddev    recv-8192       399.86 (   0.00%)      563.65 ( -40.96%)
 Stddev    recv-16384     1163.79 (   0.00%)     1103.86 (   5.15%)

The difference in overall performance is marginal but note that most
measurements are less variable. There were similar observations for other
netperf comparisons. hackbench with sockets or threads with processes or
threads showed minor difference with some reduction of migration. tbench
showed only marginal differences that were within the noise. dbench,
regardless of filesystem, showed minor differences all of which are
within noise. Multiple machines, both UMA and NUMA were tested without
any regressions showing up.

The biggest risk with a patch like this is affecting wakeup latencies.
However, the schbench load from Facebook which is very sensitive to wakeup
latency showed a mixed result with mostly improvements in wakeup latency:

                                      4.15.0                 4.15.0
                                       16rc0          noequal-v1r23
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-1        38.00 (   0.00%)       38.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-1        49.00 (   0.00%)       41.00 (  16.33%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-1        52.00 (   0.00%)       50.00 (   3.85%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-1        54.00 (   0.00%)       51.00 (   5.56%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-1        63.00 (   0.00%)       60.00 (   4.76%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-1        66.00 (   0.00%)       61.00 (   7.58%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-1        78.00 (   0.00%)       65.00 (  16.67%)
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-2        38.00 (   0.00%)       38.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-2        42.00 (   0.00%)       43.00 (  -2.38%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-2        46.00 (   0.00%)       48.00 (  -4.35%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-2        49.00 (   0.00%)       50.00 (  -2.04%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-2        55.00 (   0.00%)       57.00 (  -3.64%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-2        58.00 (   0.00%)       60.00 (  -3.45%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-2        65.00 (   0.00%)       68.00 (  -4.62%)
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-4        41.00 (   0.00%)       41.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-4        45.00 (   0.00%)       46.00 (  -2.22%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-4        50.00 (   0.00%)       50.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-4        54.00 (   0.00%)       53.00 (   1.85%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-4        61.00 (   0.00%)       61.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-4        65.00 (   0.00%)       64.00 (   1.54%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-4        76.00 (   0.00%)       82.00 (  -7.89%)
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-8        48.00 (   0.00%)       46.00 (   4.17%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-8        55.00 (   0.00%)       54.00 (   1.82%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-8        60.00 (   0.00%)       59.00 (   1.67%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-8        63.00 (   0.00%)       63.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-8        71.00 (   0.00%)       69.00 (   2.82%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-8        74.00 (   0.00%)       73.00 (   1.35%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-8        98.00 (   0.00%)       90.00 (   8.16%)
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-16       56.00 (   0.00%)       55.00 (   1.79%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-16       68.00 (   0.00%)       67.00 (   1.47%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-16       77.00 (   0.00%)       78.00 (  -1.30%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-16       82.00 (   0.00%)       84.00 (  -2.44%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-16       90.00 (   0.00%)       93.00 (  -3.33%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-16       93.00 (   0.00%)       97.00 (  -4.30%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-16      110.00 (   0.00%)      110.00 (   0.00%)
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-32       68.00 (   0.00%)       62.00 (   8.82%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-32       90.00 (   0.00%)       83.00 (   7.78%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-32      110.00 (   0.00%)      100.00 (   9.09%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-32      122.00 (   0.00%)      111.00 (   9.02%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-32      145.00 (   0.00%)      133.00 (   8.28%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-32      154.00 (   0.00%)      143.00 (   7.14%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-32     2316.00 (   0.00%)      515.00 (  77.76%)
 Lat 50.00th-qrtle-35       69.00 (   0.00%)       72.00 (  -4.35%)
 Lat 75.00th-qrtle-35       92.00 (   0.00%)       95.00 (  -3.26%)
 Lat 90.00th-qrtle-35      111.00 (   0.00%)      114.00 (  -2.70%)
 Lat 95.00th-qrtle-35      122.00 (   0.00%)      124.00 (  -1.64%)
 Lat 99.00th-qrtle-35      142.00 (   0.00%)      144.00 (  -1.41%)
 Lat 99.50th-qrtle-35      150.00 (   0.00%)      154.00 (  -2.67%)
 Lat 99.90th-qrtle-35     6104.00 (   0.00%)     5640.00 (   7.60%)

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index ae3e6f877711..a07920f3a2fd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5747,7 +5747,16 @@ wake_affine_weight(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
 		prev_eff_load *= 100 + (sd->imbalance_pct - 100) / 2;
 	prev_eff_load *= capacity_of(this_cpu);
 
-	return this_eff_load <= prev_eff_load ? this_cpu : nr_cpumask_bits;
+	/*
+	 * If sync, adjust the weight of prev_eff_load such that if
+	 * prev_eff == this_eff that select_idle_sibling() will consider
+	 * stacking the wakee on top of the waker if no other CPU is
+	 * idle.
+	 */
+	if (sync)
+		prev_eff_load += 1;
+
+	return this_eff_load < prev_eff_load ? this_cpu : nr_cpumask_bits;
 }
 
 static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,