linux-stable/kernel
Barry Song 233e7aca4c sched/fair: Use dst group while checking imbalance for NUMA balancer
Barry Song noted the following

	Something is wrong. In find_busiest_group(), we are checking if
	src has higher load, however, in task_numa_find_cpu(), we are
	checking if dst will have higher load after balancing. It seems
	it is not sensible to check src.

	It maybe cause wrong imbalance value, for example,

	if dst_running = env->dst_stats.nr_running + 1 results in 3 or
	above, and src_running = env->src_stats.nr_running - 1 results
	in 1;

	The current code is thinking imbalance as 0 since src_running is
	smaller than 2.  This is inconsistent with load balancer.

Basically, in find_busiest_group(), the NUMA imbalance is ignored if moving
a task "from an almost idle domain" to a "domain with spare capacity". This
patch forbids movement "from a misplaced domain" to "an almost idle domain"
as that is closer to what the CPU load balancer expects.

This patch is not a universal win. The old behaviour was intended to allow
a task from an almost idle NUMA node to migrate to its preferred node if
the destination had capacity but there are corner cases.  For example,
a NAS compute load could be parallelised to use 1/3rd of available CPUs
but not all those potential tasks are active at all times allowing this
logic to trigger. An obvious example is specjbb 2005 running various
numbers of warehouses on a 2 socket box with 80 cpus.

specjbb
                               5.9.0-rc4              5.9.0-rc4
                                 vanilla        dstbalance-v1r1
Hmean     tput-1     46425.00 (   0.00%)    43394.00 *  -6.53%*
Hmean     tput-2     98416.00 (   0.00%)    96031.00 *  -2.42%*
Hmean     tput-3    150184.00 (   0.00%)   148783.00 *  -0.93%*
Hmean     tput-4    200683.00 (   0.00%)   197906.00 *  -1.38%*
Hmean     tput-5    236305.00 (   0.00%)   245549.00 *   3.91%*
Hmean     tput-6    281559.00 (   0.00%)   285692.00 *   1.47%*
Hmean     tput-7    338558.00 (   0.00%)   334467.00 *  -1.21%*
Hmean     tput-8    340745.00 (   0.00%)   372501.00 *   9.32%*
Hmean     tput-9    424343.00 (   0.00%)   413006.00 *  -2.67%*
Hmean     tput-10   421854.00 (   0.00%)   434261.00 *   2.94%*
Hmean     tput-11   493256.00 (   0.00%)   485330.00 *  -1.61%*
Hmean     tput-12   549573.00 (   0.00%)   529959.00 *  -3.57%*
Hmean     tput-13   593183.00 (   0.00%)   555010.00 *  -6.44%*
Hmean     tput-14   588252.00 (   0.00%)   599166.00 *   1.86%*
Hmean     tput-15   623065.00 (   0.00%)   642713.00 *   3.15%*
Hmean     tput-16   703924.00 (   0.00%)   660758.00 *  -6.13%*
Hmean     tput-17   666023.00 (   0.00%)   697675.00 *   4.75%*
Hmean     tput-18   761502.00 (   0.00%)   758360.00 *  -0.41%*
Hmean     tput-19   796088.00 (   0.00%)   798368.00 *   0.29%*
Hmean     tput-20   733564.00 (   0.00%)   823086.00 *  12.20%*
Hmean     tput-21   840980.00 (   0.00%)   856711.00 *   1.87%*
Hmean     tput-22   804285.00 (   0.00%)   872238.00 *   8.45%*
Hmean     tput-23   795208.00 (   0.00%)   889374.00 *  11.84%*
Hmean     tput-24   848619.00 (   0.00%)   966783.00 *  13.92%*
Hmean     tput-25   750848.00 (   0.00%)   903790.00 *  20.37%*
Hmean     tput-26   780523.00 (   0.00%)   962254.00 *  23.28%*
Hmean     tput-27  1042245.00 (   0.00%)   991544.00 *  -4.86%*
Hmean     tput-28  1090580.00 (   0.00%)  1035926.00 *  -5.01%*
Hmean     tput-29   999483.00 (   0.00%)  1082948.00 *   8.35%*
Hmean     tput-30  1098663.00 (   0.00%)  1113427.00 *   1.34%*
Hmean     tput-31  1125671.00 (   0.00%)  1134175.00 *   0.76%*
Hmean     tput-32   968167.00 (   0.00%)  1250286.00 *  29.14%*
Hmean     tput-33  1077676.00 (   0.00%)  1060893.00 *  -1.56%*
Hmean     tput-34  1090538.00 (   0.00%)  1090933.00 *   0.04%*
Hmean     tput-35   967058.00 (   0.00%)  1107421.00 *  14.51%*
Hmean     tput-36  1051745.00 (   0.00%)  1210663.00 *  15.11%*
Hmean     tput-37  1019465.00 (   0.00%)  1351446.00 *  32.56%*
Hmean     tput-38  1083102.00 (   0.00%)  1064541.00 *  -1.71%*
Hmean     tput-39  1232990.00 (   0.00%)  1303623.00 *   5.73%*
Hmean     tput-40  1175542.00 (   0.00%)  1340943.00 *  14.07%*
Hmean     tput-41  1127826.00 (   0.00%)  1339492.00 *  18.77%*
Hmean     tput-42  1198313.00 (   0.00%)  1411023.00 *  17.75%*
Hmean     tput-43  1163733.00 (   0.00%)  1228253.00 *   5.54%*
Hmean     tput-44  1305562.00 (   0.00%)  1357886.00 *   4.01%*
Hmean     tput-45  1326752.00 (   0.00%)  1406061.00 *   5.98%*
Hmean     tput-46  1339424.00 (   0.00%)  1418451.00 *   5.90%*
Hmean     tput-47  1415057.00 (   0.00%)  1381570.00 *  -2.37%*
Hmean     tput-48  1392003.00 (   0.00%)  1421167.00 *   2.10%*
Hmean     tput-49  1408374.00 (   0.00%)  1418659.00 *   0.73%*
Hmean     tput-50  1359822.00 (   0.00%)  1391070.00 *   2.30%*
Hmean     tput-51  1414246.00 (   0.00%)  1392679.00 *  -1.52%*
Hmean     tput-52  1432352.00 (   0.00%)  1354020.00 *  -5.47%*
Hmean     tput-53  1387563.00 (   0.00%)  1409563.00 *   1.59%*
Hmean     tput-54  1406420.00 (   0.00%)  1388711.00 *  -1.26%*
Hmean     tput-55  1438804.00 (   0.00%)  1387472.00 *  -3.57%*
Hmean     tput-56  1399465.00 (   0.00%)  1400296.00 *   0.06%*
Hmean     tput-57  1428132.00 (   0.00%)  1396399.00 *  -2.22%*
Hmean     tput-58  1432385.00 (   0.00%)  1386253.00 *  -3.22%*
Hmean     tput-59  1421612.00 (   0.00%)  1371416.00 *  -3.53%*
Hmean     tput-60  1429423.00 (   0.00%)  1389412.00 *  -2.80%*
Hmean     tput-61  1396230.00 (   0.00%)  1351122.00 *  -3.23%*
Hmean     tput-62  1418396.00 (   0.00%)  1383098.00 *  -2.49%*
Hmean     tput-63  1409918.00 (   0.00%)  1374662.00 *  -2.50%*
Hmean     tput-64  1410236.00 (   0.00%)  1376216.00 *  -2.41%*
Hmean     tput-65  1396405.00 (   0.00%)  1364418.00 *  -2.29%*
Hmean     tput-66  1395975.00 (   0.00%)  1357326.00 *  -2.77%*
Hmean     tput-67  1392986.00 (   0.00%)  1349642.00 *  -3.11%*
Hmean     tput-68  1386541.00 (   0.00%)  1343261.00 *  -3.12%*
Hmean     tput-69  1374407.00 (   0.00%)  1342588.00 *  -2.32%*
Hmean     tput-70  1377513.00 (   0.00%)  1334654.00 *  -3.11%*
Hmean     tput-71  1369319.00 (   0.00%)  1334952.00 *  -2.51%*
Hmean     tput-72  1354635.00 (   0.00%)  1329005.00 *  -1.89%*
Hmean     tput-73  1350933.00 (   0.00%)  1318942.00 *  -2.37%*
Hmean     tput-74  1351714.00 (   0.00%)  1316347.00 *  -2.62%*
Hmean     tput-75  1352198.00 (   0.00%)  1309974.00 *  -3.12%*
Hmean     tput-76  1349490.00 (   0.00%)  1286064.00 *  -4.70%*
Hmean     tput-77  1336131.00 (   0.00%)  1303684.00 *  -2.43%*
Hmean     tput-78  1308896.00 (   0.00%)  1271024.00 *  -2.89%*
Hmean     tput-79  1326703.00 (   0.00%)  1290862.00 *  -2.70%*
Hmean     tput-80  1336199.00 (   0.00%)  1291629.00 *  -3.34%*

The performance at the mid-point is better but not universally better. The
patch is a mixed bag depending on the workload, machine and overall
levels of utilisation. Sometimes it's better (sometimes much better),
other times it is worse (sometimes much worse). Given that there isn't a
universally good decision in this section and more people seem to prefer
the patch then it may be best to keep the LB decisions consistent and
revisit imbalance handling when the load balancer code changes settle down.

Jirka Hladky added the following observation.

	Our results are mostly in line with what you see. We observe
	big gains (20-50%) when the system is loaded to 1/3 of the
	maximum capacity and mixed results at the full load - some
	workloads benefit from the patch at the full load, others not,
	but performance changes at the full load are mostly within the
	noise of results (+/-5%). Overall, we think this patch is helpful.

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: Rewrote changelog]
Fixes: fb86f5b211 ("sched/numa: Use similar logic to the load balancer for moving between domains with spare capacity")
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921221849.GI3179@techsingularity.net
2020-09-25 14:23:26 +02:00
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sched sched/fair: Use dst group while checking imbalance for NUMA balancer 2020-09-25 14:23:26 +02:00
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auditfilter.c audit: fix a net reference leak in audit_list_rules_send() 2020-04-22 15:23:10 -04:00
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bounds.c
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kheaders.c
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ksysfs.c
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module_signature.c
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nsproxy.c nsproxy: support CLONE_NEWTIME with setns() 2020-07-08 11:14:22 +02:00
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ptrace.c ptrace: reintroduce usage of subjective credentials in ptrace_has_cap() 2020-01-18 13:51:39 +01:00
range.c
reboot.c arch: remove unicore32 port 2020-07-01 12:09:13 +03:00
regset.c regset: kill ->get() 2020-07-27 14:31:12 -04:00
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sysctl.c mm: use unsigned types for fragmentation score 2020-08-12 10:57:56 -07:00
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watchdog.c kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot parameters to sysctl aliases 2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
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