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There is a report that when uclamp is enabled, a netperf UDP test
regresses compared to a kernel compiled without uclamp.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200529100806.GA3070@suse.de/
While investigating the root cause, there were no sign that the uclamp
code is doing anything particularly expensive but could suffer from bad
cache behavior under certain circumstances that are yet to be
understood.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200616110824.dgkkbyapn3io6wik@e107158-lin/
To reduce the pressure on the fast path anyway, add a static key that is
by default will skip executing uclamp logic in the
enqueue/dequeue_task() fast path until it's needed.
As soon as the user start using util clamp by:
1. Changing uclamp value of a task with sched_setattr()
2. Modifying the default sysctl_sched_util_clamp_{min, max}
3. Modifying the default cpu.uclamp.{min, max} value in cgroup
We flip the static key now that the user has opted to use util clamp.
Effectively re-introducing uclamp logic in the enqueue/dequeue_task()
fast path. It stays on from that point forward until the next reboot.
This should help minimize the effect of util clamp on workloads that
don't need it but still allow distros to ship their kernels with uclamp
compiled in by default.
SCHED_WARN_ON() in uclamp_rq_dec_id() was removed since now we can end
up with unbalanced call to uclamp_rq_dec_id() if we flip the key while
a task is running in the rq. Since we know it is harmless we just
quietly return if we attempt a uclamp_rq_dec_id() when
rq->uclamp[].bucket[].tasks is 0.
In schedutil, we introduce a new uclamp_is_enabled() helper which takes
the static key into account to ensure RT boosting behavior is retained.
The following results demonstrates how this helps on 2 Sockets Xeon E5
2x10-Cores system.
nouclamp uclamp uclamp-static-key
Hmean send-64 162.43 ( 0.00%) 157.84 * -2.82%* 163.39 * 0.59%*
Hmean send-128 324.71 ( 0.00%) 314.78 * -3.06%* 326.18 * 0.45%*
Hmean send-256 641.55 ( 0.00%) 628.67 * -2.01%* 648.12 * 1.02%*
Hmean send-1024 2525.28 ( 0.00%) 2448.26 * -3.05%* 2543.73 * 0.73%*
Hmean send-2048 4836.14 ( 0.00%) 4712.08 * -2.57%* 4867.69 * 0.65%*
Hmean send-3312 7540.83 ( 0.00%) 7425.45 * -1.53%* 7621.06 * 1.06%*
Hmean send-4096 9124.53 ( 0.00%) 8948.82 * -1.93%* 9276.25 * 1.66%*
Hmean send-8192 15589.67 ( 0.00%) 15486.35 * -0.66%* 15819.98 * 1.48%*
Hmean send-16384 26386.47 ( 0.00%) 25752.25 * -2.40%* 26773.74 * 1.47%*
The perf diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is
disabled in the fast path:
8.73% -1.55% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_to_wake_up
0.07% +0.04% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] deactivate_task
0.13% -0.02% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] activate_task
The diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is enabled
in the fast path:
8.73% -0.72% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_to_wake_up
0.13% +0.39% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] activate_task
0.07% +0.38% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] deactivate_task
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