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SubjectRe: [Patch] Idle balancer: cache align nohz structure to improve idle load balancing scalability
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On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 01:32 -0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 16:52 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > @@ -3317,6 +3317,7 @@ static void update_cpu_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> >
> > cpu_rq(cpu)->cpu_power = power;
> > sdg->sgp->power = power;
> > + atomic_set(&sdg->sgp->nr_busy_cpus, sdg->group_weight);
> > }
> >
> > static void update_group_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> > @@ -3339,6 +3340,7 @@ static void update_group_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> > } while (group != child->groups);
> >
> > sdg->sgp->power = power;
> > + atomic_set(&sdg->sgp->nr_busy_cpus, sdg->group_weight);
> > }
>
> So we run this rather frequently, and it will trample all over:
>
> > + */
> > + for_each_domain(cpu, sd)
> > + atomic_dec(&sd->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus);
>
> because I cannot see any serialization between those sites.

That was an overlook from myside. I moved the initialization of this to
init_sched_groups_power() now and there is no need to re-do this
everytime we call the update_group_power().

> Also, isn't it rather weird to just assume all cpus are busy in
> update_group_power()? If you would actually set the right value in
> update_cpu_power() you could use a straight sum in update_group_power()
> and get a more or less accurate number out.

I will post an updated patch soon (once we complete the performance
analysis of this patch with respect to other workloads) but the below
hunk gives an idea of what I am planning to do now.

@@ -7369,6 +7384,7 @@ static void init_sched_groups_power(int cpu, struct sched_
return;

update_group_power(sd, cpu);
+ atomic_set(&sg->sgp->nr_busy_cpus, sg->group_weight);
}

/*

thanks,
suresh



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