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Srikar Dronamraju 14c73bd344 powerpc/vcpu: Assume dedicated processors as non-preempt
With commit 247f2f6f3c ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on
pre-empted vCPUs"), the scheduler avoids preempted vCPUs to schedule
tasks on wakeup. This leads to wrong choice of CPU, which in-turn
leads to larger wakeup latencies. Eventually, it leads to performance
regression in latency sensitive benchmarks like soltp, schbench etc.

On Powerpc, vcpu_is_preempted() only looks at yield_count. If the
yield_count is odd, the vCPU is assumed to be preempted. However
yield_count is increased whenever the LPAR enters CEDE state (idle).
So any CPU that has entered CEDE state is assumed to be preempted.

Even if vCPU of dedicated LPAR is preempted/donated, it should have
right of first-use since they are supposed to own the vCPU.

On a Power9 System with 32 cores:
  # lscpu
  Architecture:        ppc64le
  Byte Order:          Little Endian
  CPU(s):              128
  On-line CPU(s) list: 0-127
  Thread(s) per core:  8
  Core(s) per socket:  1
  Socket(s):           16
  NUMA node(s):        2
  Model:               2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
  Model name:          POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
  Hypervisor vendor:   pHyp
  Virtualization type: para
  L1d cache:           32K
  L1i cache:           32K
  L2 cache:            512K
  L3 cache:            10240K
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-63
  NUMA node1 CPU(s):   64-127

  # perf stat -a -r 5 ./schbench
  v5.4                               v5.4 + patch
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 45
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 63
        90.0000th: 71                      90.0th: 74
        95.0000th: 77                      95.0th: 78
        *99.0000th: 91                     *99.0th: 82
        99.5000th: 707                     99.5th: 83
        99.9000th: 6920                    99.9th: 86
        min=0, max=10048                   min=0, max=96
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 46
        75.0000th: 61                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 72                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 79                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 691                    *99.0th: 83
        99.5000th: 3972                    99.5th: 85
        99.9000th: 8368                    99.9th: 91
        min=0, max=16606                   min=0, max=117
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 46
        75.0000th: 61                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 71                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 77                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 106                    *99.0th: 83
        99.5000th: 2364                    99.5th: 84
        99.9000th: 7480                    99.9th: 90
        min=0, max=10001                   min=0, max=95
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 47
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 65
        90.0000th: 72                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 78                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 93                     *99.0th: 84
        99.5000th: 108                     99.5th: 85
        99.9000th: 6792                    99.9th: 90
        min=0, max=17681                   min=0, max=117
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 46                      50.0th: 45
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 73                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 79                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 113                    *99.0th: 82
        99.5000th: 2724                    99.5th: 83
        99.9000th: 6184                    99.9th: 93
        min=0, max=9887                    min=0, max=111

   Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (5 runs):

  context-switches    43,373  ( +-  0.40% )   44,597 ( +-  0.55% )
  cpu-migrations       1,211  ( +-  5.04% )      220 ( +-  6.23% )
  page-faults         15,983  ( +-  5.21% )   15,360 ( +-  3.38% )

Waiman Long suggested using static_keys.

Fixes: 247f2f6f3c ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Reported-by: Parth Shah <parth@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Ihor Pasichnyk <Ihor.Pasichnyk@ibm.com>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Parth Shah <parth@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Move the key and setting of the key to pseries/setup.c]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213035036.6913-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
2019-12-13 21:06:57 +11:00
arch powerpc/vcpu: Assume dedicated processors as non-preempt 2019-12-13 21:06:57 +11:00
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