linux/kernel/sched
Suravee Suthikulpanit 051f3ca02e sched/topology: Introduce NUMA identity node sched domain
On AMD Family17h-based (EPYC) system, a logical NUMA node can contain
upto 8 cores (16 threads) with the following topology.

             ----------------------------
         C0  | T0 T1 |    ||    | T0 T1 | C4
             --------|    ||    |--------
         C1  | T0 T1 | L3 || L3 | T0 T1 | C5
             --------|    ||    |--------
         C2  | T0 T1 | #0 || #1 | T0 T1 | C6
             --------|    ||    |--------
         C3  | T0 T1 |    ||    | T0 T1 | C7
             ----------------------------

Here, there are 2 last-level (L3) caches per logical NUMA node.
A socket can contain upto 4 NUMA nodes, and a system can support
upto 2 sockets. With full system configuration, current scheduler
creates 4 sched domains:

  domain0 SMT       (span a core)
  domain1 MC        (span a last-level-cache)
  domain2 NUMA      (span a socket: 4 nodes)
  domain3 NUMA      (span a system: 8 nodes)

Note that there is no domain to represent cpus spaning a logical
NUMA node.  With this hierarchy of sched domains, the scheduler does
not balance properly in the following cases:

Case1:

 When running 8 tasks, a properly balanced system should
 schedule a task per logical NUMA node. This is not the case for
 the current scheduler.

Case2:

 In some cases, threads are scheduled on the same cpu, while other
 cpus are idle. This results in run-to-run inconsistency. For example:

  taskset -c 0-7 sysbench --num-threads=8 --test=cpu \
                          --cpu-max-prime=100000 run

Total execution time ranges from 25.1s to 33.5s depending on threads
placement, where 25.1s is when all 8 threads are balanced properly
on 8 cpus.

Introducing NUMA identity node sched domain, which is based on how
SRAT/SLIT table define a logical NUMA node. This results in the following
hierarchy of sched domains on the same system described above.

  domain0 SMT       (span a core)
  domain1 MC        (span a last-level-cache)
  domain2 NODE      (span a logical NUMA node)
  domain3 NUMA      (span a socket: 4 nodes)
  domain4 NUMA      (span a system: 8 nodes)

This fixes the improper load balancing cases mentioned above.

Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
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: bp@suse.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504768805-46716-1-git-send-email-suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-10 11:45:28 +02:00
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autogroup.c sched/autogroup: Fix error reporting printk text in autogroup_create() 2017-08-10 17:06:03 +02:00
autogroup.h sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/autogroup.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
clock.c sched/clock: Fix early boot preempt assumption in __set_sched_clock_stable() 2017-05-24 09:10:00 +02:00
completion.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 11:52:29 -07:00
core.c sched/fair: Use reweight_entity() for set_user_nice() 2017-09-29 19:35:14 +02:00
cpuacct.c sched/cputime: Convert kcpustat to nsecs 2017-02-01 09:13:47 +01:00
cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Simplify the cpuacct code 2016-03-21 11:00:28 +01:00
cpudeadline.c sched/deadline: Change return value of cpudl_find() 2017-08-10 12:18:17 +02:00
cpudeadline.h sched/deadline: Split cpudl_set() into cpudl_set() and cpudl_clear() 2016-09-05 13:29:43 +02:00
cpufreq_schedutil.c Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq-sched' 2017-09-04 00:05:22 +02:00
cpufreq.c cpufreq / sched: Pass flags to cpufreq_update_util() 2016-08-16 22:14:55 +02:00
cpupri.c sched/cpupri: Don't re-initialize 'struct cpupri' 2017-08-10 12:18:14 +02:00
cpupri.h sched/cpupri: Remove unnecessary definitions in cpupri.h 2014-11-16 10:58:59 +01:00
cputime.c sched/cputime: Don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context 2017-07-14 10:27:15 +02:00
deadline.c sched/deadline: Rename __dl_clear() to __dl_sub() 2017-10-10 11:45:26 +02:00
debug.c sched/fair: Propagate an effective runnable_load_avg 2017-09-29 19:35:15 +02:00
fair.c Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2017-10-10 11:30:59 +02:00
features.h sched/core: Address more wake_affine() regressions 2017-10-10 10:14:03 +02:00
idle_task.c sched/core: Add wrappers for lockdep_(un)pin_lock() 2017-01-14 11:29:30 +01:00
idle.c sched/idle: Move quiet_vmstate() into the NOHZ code 2017-10-10 11:43:29 +02:00
loadavg.c sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz" 2017-06-22 11:30:01 +02:00
Makefile membarrier: Provide expedited private command 2017-08-17 07:28:05 -07:00
membarrier.c membarrier: Provide expedited private command 2017-08-17 07:28:05 -07:00
rt.c sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks 2017-08-01 14:24:53 +02:00
sched-pelt.h sched/fair: Move the PELT constants into a generated header 2017-04-14 10:26:37 +02:00
sched.h sched/deadline: Rename __dl_clear() to __dl_sub() 2017-10-10 11:45:26 +02:00
stats.c sched: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:37 -08:00
stats.h sched/headers: Move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> and <linux/cputime.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-03 01:45:22 +01:00
stop_task.c sched/core: Add wrappers for lockdep_(un)pin_lock() 2017-01-14 11:29:30 +01:00
swait.c sched/wait: Remove the lockless swait_active() check in swake_up*() 2017-08-10 12:28:53 +02:00
topology.c sched/topology: Introduce NUMA identity node sched domain 2017-10-10 11:45:28 +02:00
wait_bit.c sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry->task_list and wq_head->task_list naming 2017-06-20 12:19:14 +02:00
wait.c sched/wait: Introduce wakeup boomark in wake_up_page_bit 2017-09-14 09:56:18 -07:00