On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 05:05:56PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> Task migration happens when target just a bit less then source cpu load.
> To reduce such situation happens, aggravate the target cpu load with
> sd->imbalance_pct/100.
> 
> This patch removes the hackbench thread regression on Daniel's
> Intel Core2 server.
> 
> a5d6e63               +patch1~3               +patch1~4
> hackbench -T -s 4096 -l 1000 -g 10 -f 40
> 27.914"         38.694"                       28.587"
> 28.390"         38.341"                       29.513"
> 28.048"         38.626"                       28.706"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex....@linaro.org>

Hi Alex,

We obsevered 150% performance gain with vm-scalability/300s-mmap-pread-seq
testcase with this patch applied. Here is a list of changes we got so far:

testbox : brickland
testcase: vm-scalability/300s-mmap-pread-seq


    f1b6442c7dd12802e622      d70495ef86f397816d73  
       (parent commit)            (this commit)
------------------------  ------------------------  
             26393249.80      +150.9%  66223933.60  vm-scalability.throughput

                  225.12       -49.9%       112.75  time.elapsed_time
                36333.40       -90.7%      3392.20  vmstat.system.cs
                    2.40      +375.0%        11.40  vmstat.cpu.id
              3770081.60       -97.7%     87673.40  time.major_page_faults
              3975276.20       -97.0%    117409.60  
time.voluntary_context_switches
                    3.05      +301.7%        12.24  iostat.cpu.idle
                21118.41       -70.3%      6277.19  time.system_time
                   18.40      +130.4%        42.40  vmstat.cpu.us
                   77.00       -41.3%        45.20  vmstat.cpu.sy
                47459.60       -31.3%     32592.20  vmstat.system.in
                82435.40       -12.1%     72443.60  
time.involuntary_context_switches
                 5128.13       +14.0%      5848.30  time.user_time
                11656.20        -7.8%     10745.60  
time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got
           1069997484.80        +0.3% 1073679919.00 time.minor_page_faults


        --yliu
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index bccdd89..c49b7ba 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ static inline unsigned long group_weight(struct 
> task_struct *p, int nid)
>  
>  static unsigned long weighted_cpuload(const int cpu);
>  static unsigned long source_load(int cpu);
> -static unsigned long target_load(int cpu);
> +static unsigned long target_load(int cpu, int imbalance_pct);
>  static unsigned long power_of(int cpu);
>  static long effective_load(struct task_group *tg, int cpu, long wl, long wg);
>  
> @@ -3809,11 +3809,17 @@ static unsigned long source_load(int cpu)
>   * Return a high guess at the load of a migration-target cpu weighted
>   * according to the scheduling class and "nice" value.
>   */
> -static unsigned long target_load(int cpu)
> +static unsigned long target_load(int cpu, int imbalance_pct)
>  {
>       struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
>       unsigned long total = weighted_cpuload(cpu);
>  
> +     /*
> +      * without cpu_load decay, in most of time cpu_load is same as total
> +      * so we need to make target a bit heavier to reduce task migration
> +      */
> +     total = total * imbalance_pct / 100;
> +
>       if (!sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
>               return total;
>  
> @@ -4033,7 +4039,7 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct 
> task_struct *p, int sync)
>       this_cpu  = smp_processor_id();
>       prev_cpu  = task_cpu(p);
>       load      = source_load(prev_cpu);
> -     this_load = target_load(this_cpu);
> +     this_load = target_load(this_cpu, 100);
>  
>       /*
>        * If sync wakeup then subtract the (maximum possible)
> @@ -4089,7 +4095,7 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct 
> task_struct *p, int sync)
>  
>       if (balanced ||
>           (this_load <= load &&
> -          this_load + target_load(prev_cpu) <= tl_per_task)) {
> +          this_load + target_load(prev_cpu, 100) <= tl_per_task)) {
>               /*
>                * This domain has SD_WAKE_AFFINE and
>                * p is cache cold in this domain, and
> @@ -4135,7 +4141,7 @@ find_idlest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, struct 
> task_struct *p, int this_cpu)
>                       if (local_group)
>                               load = source_load(i);
>                       else
> -                             load = target_load(i);
> +                             load = target_load(i, sd->imbalance_pct);
>  
>                       avg_load += load;
>               }
> @@ -5478,7 +5484,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env 
> *env,
>  
>               /* Bias balancing toward cpus of our domain */
>               if (local_group)
> -                     load = target_load(i);
> +                     load = target_load(i, env->sd->imbalance_pct);
>               else
>                       load = source_load(i);
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.1.2
> 
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