sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic
When a CPU lowers its priority (schedules out a high priority task for a lower priority one), a check is made to see if any other CPU has overloaded RT tasks (more than one). It checks the rto_mask to determine this and if so it will request to pull one of those tasks to itself if the non running RT task is of higher priority than the new priority of the next task to run on the current CPU. When we deal with large number of CPUs, the original pull logic suffered from large lock contention on a single CPU run queue, which caused a huge latency across all CPUs. This was caused by only having one CPU having overloaded RT tasks and a bunch of other CPUs lowering their priority. To solve this issue, commit: b6366f04 ("sched/rt: Use IPI to trigger RT task push migration instead of pulling") changed the way to request a pull. Instead of grabbing the lock of the overloaded CPU's runqueue, it simply sent an IPI to that CPU to do the work. Although the IPI logic worked very well in removing the large latency build up, it still could suffer from a large number of IPIs being sent to a single CPU. On a 80 CPU box, I measured over 200us of processing IPIs. Worse yet, when I tested this on a 120 CPU box, with a stress test that had lots of RT tasks scheduling on all CPUs, it actually triggered the hard lockup detector! One CPU had so many IPIs sent to it, and due to the restart mechanism that is triggered when the source run queue has a priority status change, the CPU spent minutes! processing the IPIs. Thinking about this further, I realized there's no reason for each run queue to send its own IPI. As all CPUs with overloaded tasks must be scanned regardless if there's one or many CPUs lowering their priority, because there's no current way to find the CPU with the highest priority task that can schedule to one of these CPUs, there really only needs to be one IPI being sent around at a time. This greatly simplifies the code! The new approach is to have each root domain have its own irq work, as the rto_mask is per root domain. The root domain has the following fields attached to it: rto_push_work - the irq work to process each CPU set in rto_mask rto_lock - the lock to protect some of the other rto fields rto_loop_start - an atomic that keeps contention down on rto_lock the first CPU scheduling in a lower priority task is the one to kick off the process. rto_loop_next - an atomic that gets incremented for each CPU that schedules in a lower priority task. rto_loop - a variable protected by rto_lock that is used to compare against rto_loop_next rto_cpu - The cpu to send the next IPI to, also protected by the rto_lock. When a CPU schedules in a lower priority task and wants to make sure overloaded CPUs know about it. It increments the rto_loop_next. Then it atomically sets rto_loop_start with a cmpxchg. If the old value is not "0", then it is done, as another CPU is kicking off the IPI loop. If the old value is "0", then it will take the rto_lock to synchronize with a possible IPI being sent around to the overloaded CPUs. If rto_cpu is greater than or equal to nr_cpu_ids, then there's either no IPI being sent around, or one is about to finish. Then rto_cpu is set to the first CPU in rto_mask and an IPI is sent to that CPU. If there's no CPUs set in rto_mask, then there's nothing to be done. When the CPU receives the IPI, it will first try to push any RT tasks that is queued on the CPU but can't run because a higher priority RT task is currently running on that CPU. Then it takes the rto_lock and looks for the next CPU in the rto_mask. If it finds one, it simply sends an IPI to that CPU and the process continues. If there's no more CPUs in the rto_mask, then rto_loop is compared with rto_loop_next. If they match, everything is done and the process is over. If they do not match, then a CPU scheduled in a lower priority task as the IPI was being passed around, and the process needs to start again. The first CPU in rto_mask is sent the IPI. This change removes this duplication of work in the IPI logic, and greatly lowers the latency caused by the IPIs. This removed the lockup happening on the 120 CPU machine. It also simplifies the code tremendously. What else could anyone ask for? Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for simplifying the rto_loop_start atomic logic and supplying me with the rto_start_trylock() and rto_start_unlock() helper functions. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170424114732.1aac6dc4@gandalf.local.homeSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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