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Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Three changes: fix a race that can result in FPU corruption, plus two
cleanups"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu: Deactivate FPU state after failure during state load
x86/fpu/xstate: Make xfeature_is_supervisor()/xfeature_is_user() return bool
x86/fpu/xstate: Fix small issues
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cpu-features updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change in this cycle was a large series from Sean
Christopherson to clean up the handling of VMX features. This both
fixes bugs/inconsistencies and makes the code more coherent and
future-proof.
There are also two cleanups and a minor TSX syslog messages
enhancement"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/cpu: Remove redundant cpu_detect_cache_sizes() call
x86/cpu: Print "VMX disabled" error message iff KVM is enabled
KVM: VMX: Allow KVM_INTEL when building for Centaur and/or Zhaoxin CPUs
perf/x86: Provide stubs of KVM helpers for non-Intel CPUs
KVM: VMX: Use VMX_FEATURE_* flags to define VMCS control bits
KVM: VMX: Check for full VMX support when verifying CPU compatibility
KVM: VMX: Use VMX feature flag to query BIOS enabling
KVM: VMX: Drop initialization of IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR
x86/cpufeatures: Add flag to track whether MSR IA32_FEAT_CTL is configured
x86/cpu: Set synthetic VMX cpufeatures during init_ia32_feat_ctl()
x86/cpu: Print VMX flags in /proc/cpuinfo using VMX_FEATURES_*
x86/cpu: Detect VMX features on Intel, Centaur and Zhaoxin CPUs
x86/vmx: Introduce VMX_FEATURES_*
x86/cpu: Clear VMX feature flag if VMX is not fully enabled
x86/zhaoxin: Use common IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR initialization
x86/centaur: Use common IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR initialization
x86/mce: WARN once if IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR is left unlocked
x86/intel: Initialize IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR at boot
tools/x86: Sync msr-index.h from kernel sources
selftests, kvm: Replace manual MSR defs with common msr-index.h
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invariance
On some platforms such as the Dell XPS 13 laptop the firmware disables turbo
when the machine is disconnected from AC, and viceversa it enables it again
when it's reconnected. In these cases a _PPC ACPI notification is issued.
The scheduler needs to know freq_max for frequency-invariant calculations.
To account for turbo availability to come and go, record freq_max at boot as
if turbo was available and store it in a helper variable. Use a setter
function to swap between freq_base and freq_max every time turbo goes off or on.
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-7-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On all ATOM CPUs prior to Goldmont, set freq_max to the 1-core
turbo ratio.
We intended to perform tests validating that this patch doesn't regress in
terms of energy efficiency, given that this is the primary concern on Atom
processors. Alas, we found out that turbostat doesn't support reading RAPL
interfaces on our test machine (Airmont), and we don't have external equipment
to measure power consumption; all we have is the performance results of the
benchmarks we ran.
Test machine:
Platform : Dell Wyse 3040 Thin Client[1]
CPU Model : Intel Atom x5-Z8350 (aka Cherry Trail, aka Airmont)
Fam/Mod/Ste : 6:76:4
Topology : 1 socket, 4 cores / 4 threads
Memory : 2G
Storage : onboard flash, XFS filesystem
[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/wyse-endpoints-and-software/wyse-3040-thin-client/spd/wyse-3040-thin-client
Base frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
Min Operating Freq 266 |***
Low Freq Mode 800 |********
Base Freq 2400 |************************
4 Cores 2800 |****************************
3 Cores 2800 |****************************
2 Cores 3200 |********************************
1 Core 3200 |********************************
Tested kernels:
Baseline : v5.4-rc1, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Comparison #1 : v5.4-rc1, intel_pstate active , powersave
Comparison #2 : v5.4-rc1, this patch, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
tbench, hackbench and kernbench performed the same under all three kernels;
dbench ran faster with intel_pstate/powersave and the git unit tests were a
lot faster with intel_pstate/powersave and invariant schedutil wrt the
baseline. Not that any of this is terrbily interesting anyway, one doesn't buy
an Atom system to go fast. Power consumption regressions aren't expected but
we lack the equipment to make that measurement. Turbostat seems to think that
reading RAPL on this machine isn't a good idea and we're trusting that
decision.
comparison ratio of performance with baseline; 1.00 means neutral,
lower is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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dbench 0.90 ~
kernbench 0.98 0.97
gitsource 0.63 0.43
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-6-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On GOLDMONT (aka Apollo Lake), GOLDMONT_D (aka Denverton) and
GOLDMONT_PLUS CPUs (aka Gemini Lake) set freq_max to the highest frequency
reported by the CPU.
The encoding of turbo ratios for GOLDMONT* is identical to the one for
SKYLAKE_X, but we treat the Atom case apart because we want to set freq_max to
a higher value, thus the ratio freq_curr/freq_max to be lower, leading to more
conservative frequency selections (favoring power efficiency).
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-5-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On Xeon Phi CPUs set freq_max to the second-highest frequency
reported by the CPU.
Xeon Phi CPUs such as Knights Landing and Knights Mill typically have either
one or two turbo frequencies; in the former case that's 100 MHz above the base
frequency, in the latter case the two levels are 100 MHz and 200 MHz above
base frequency.
We set freq_max to the second-highest frequency reported by the CPU. This
could be the base frequency (if only one turbo level is available) or the first
turbo level (if two levels are available). The rationale is to compromise
between power efficiency or performance -- going straight to max turbo would
favor efficiency and blindly using base freq would favor performance.
For reference, this is how MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT must be parsed on a Xeon Phi
to get the available frequencies (taken from a comment in turbostat's sources):
[0] -- Reserved
[7:1] -- Base value of number of active cores of bucket 1.
[15:8] -- Base value of freq ratio of bucket 1.
[20:16] -- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 2.
i.e. active cores of bucket 2 =
active cores of bucket 1 + delta
[23:21] -- Negative delta of freq ratio of bucket 2.
i.e. freq ratio of bucket 2 =
freq ratio of bucket 1 - delta
[28:24]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 3.
[31:29]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 3.
[36:32]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 4.
[39:37]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 4.
[44:40]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 5.
[47:45]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 5.
[52:48]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 6.
[55:53]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 6.
[60:56]-- +ve delta of number of active cores of bucket 7.
[63:61]-- -ve delta of freq ratio of bucket 7.
1. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: TBENCH +5%
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS (ALL OTHERS)
3. TEST SETUP
1. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: TBENCH +5%
-------------------------------------
A performance evaluation was conducted on a Knights Mill machine (see "Test
Setup" below), were the frequency-invariance patch (on schedutil) is compared
to both non-invariant schedutil and active intel_pstate with powersave: all
three tested kernels behave the same performance-wise and with regard to power
consumption (performance per watt). The only notable difference is tbench:
comparison ratio of performance with baseline; 1.00 means neutral,
higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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tbench 1.04 1.05
performance-per-watt ratios with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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tbench 1.03 1.04
which essentially means that frequency-invariant schedutil is 5% better than
baseline, the same as intel_pstate+powersave.
As the results above are averaged over the varying parameter, here the detailed
table.
Varying parameter : number of clients
Unit : MB/sec (higher is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 49.06 +- 2.12% ( ) 51.66 +- 1.52% ( 5.30%) 52.87 +- 0.88% ( 7.76%)
Hmean 2 93.82 +- 0.45% ( ) 103.24 +- 0.70% ( 10.05%) 105.90 +- 0.70% ( 12.88%)
Hmean 4 192.46 +- 1.15% ( ) 215.95 +- 0.60% ( 12.21%) 215.78 +- 1.43% ( 12.12%)
Hmean 8 406.74 +- 2.58% ( ) 438.58 +- 0.36% ( 7.83%) 437.61 +- 0.97% ( 7.59%)
Hmean 16 857.70 +- 1.22% ( ) 890.26 +- 0.72% ( 3.80%) 889.11 +- 0.73% ( 3.66%)
Hmean 32 1760.10 +- 0.92% ( ) 1791.70 +- 0.44% ( 1.79%) 1787.95 +- 0.44% ( 1.58%)
Hmean 64 3183.50 +- 0.34% ( ) 3183.19 +- 0.36% ( -0.01%) 3187.53 +- 0.36% ( 0.13%)
Hmean 128 4830.96 +- 0.31% ( ) 4846.53 +- 0.30% ( 0.32%) 4855.86 +- 0.30% ( 0.52%)
Hmean 256 5467.98 +- 0.38% ( ) 5793.80 +- 0.28% ( 5.96%) 5821.94 +- 0.17% ( 6.47%)
Hmean 512 5398.10 +- 0.06% ( ) 5745.56 +- 0.08% ( 6.44%) 5503.68 +- 0.07% ( 1.96%)
Hmean 1024 5290.43 +- 0.63% ( ) 5221.07 +- 0.47% ( -1.31%) 5277.22 +- 0.80% ( -0.25%)
Hmean 1088 5139.71 +- 0.57% ( ) 5236.02 +- 0.71% ( 1.87%) 5190.57 +- 0.41% ( 0.99%)
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS (ALL OTHERS)
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* pgbench (both read/write and read-only)
* NASA Parallel Benchmarks (NPB), MPI or OpenMP for message-passing
* hackbench
* netperf
* dbench
* kernbench
* gitsource (git unit test suite)
3. TEST SETUP
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Test machine:
CPU Model : Intel Xeon Phi CPU 7255 @ 1.10GHz (a.k.a. Knights Mill)
Fam/Mod/Ste : 6:133:0
Topology : 1 socket, 68 cores / 272 threads
Memory : 96G
Storage : rotary, XFS filesystem
Max EFFICiency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1000 |**********
BASE 1100 |***********
68C 1100 |***********
30C 1200 |************
Tested kernels:
Baseline : v5.2, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Comparison #1 : v5.2, intel_pstate active , powersave
Comparison #2 : v5.2, this patch, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-4-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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The scheduler needs the ratio freq_curr/freq_max for frequency-invariant
accounting. On SKYLAKE_X CPUs set freq_max to the highest frequency that can
be sustained by a group of at least 4 cores.
From the changelog of commit 31e07522be56 ("tools/power turbostat: fix
decoding for GLM, DNV, SKX turbo-ratio limits"):
> Newer processors do not hard-code the the number of cpus in each bin
> to {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} Rather, they can specify any number
> of CPUS in each of the 8 bins:
>
> eg.
>
> ...
> 37 * 100.0 = 3600.0 MHz max turbo 4 active cores
> 38 * 100.0 = 3700.0 MHz max turbo 3 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3800.0 MHz max turbo 2 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3900.0 MHz max turbo 1 active cores
>
> could now look something like this:
>
> ...
> 37 * 100.0 = 3600.0 MHz max turbo 16 active cores
> 38 * 100.0 = 3700.0 MHz max turbo 8 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3800.0 MHz max turbo 4 active cores
> 39 * 100.0 = 3900.0 MHz max turbo 2 active cores
This encoding of turbo levels applies to both SKYLAKE_X and GOLDMONT/GOLDMONT_D,
but we treat these two classes in separate commits because their freq_max
values need to be different. For SKX we prefer a lower freq_max in the ratio
freq_curr/freq_max, allowing load and utilization to overshoot and the
schedutil governor to be more performance-oriented. Models from the Atom
series (such as GOLDMONT*) are handled in a forthcoming commit as they have to
favor power-efficiency over performance.
Results from a performance evaluation follow.
1. TEST SETUP
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
3. NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
4. DETAILED TABLES
1. TEST SETUP
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Test machine:
CPU Model : Intel Xeon Platinum 8260L CPU @ 2.40GHz (a.k.a. Cascade Lake)
Fam/Mod/Ste : 6:85:6
Topology : 2 sockets, 24 cores / 48 threads each socket
Memory : 192G
Storage : SSD, XFS filesystem
Max EFFICiency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1000 |**********
BASE 2400 |************************
24C 3100 |*******************************
20C 3300 |*********************************
16C 3600 |************************************
12C 3600 |************************************
8C 3600 |************************************
4C 3700 |*************************************
2C 3900 |***************************************
Tested kernels:
Baseline : v5.2, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
Comparison #1 : v5.2, intel_pstate active , powersave+HWP
Comparison #2 : v5.2, this patch, intel_pstate passive, schedutil
2. NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
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* pgbench read/write
* NASA Parallel Benchmarks (NPB), MPI or OpenMP for message-passing
* hackbench
* netperf
3. NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
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comparison ratio with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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pgbench read-only 1.10 ~
tbench 1.82 1.14
comparison ratio with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, lower is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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dbench ~ 0.97
kernbench 0.88 0.78
gitsource[*] ~ 0.46
[*] "gitsource" consists in running git's unit tests
tilde (~) means 1.00, ie result identical to baseline
Performance per watt:
performance-per-watt ratios with baseline; 1.00 means neutral, higher is better:
I_PSTATE FREQ-INV
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dbench 0.92 0.91
tbench 1.26 1.04
kernbench 0.95 0.96
gitsource 1.03 1.30
Similarly to earlier Xeons, measurable performance gains over non-invariant
schedutil are observed on dbench, tbench, kernel compilation and running the
git unit tests suite. Looking at the detailed tables show that the patch
scores the largest difference when the machine is lightly loaded. Power
efficiency suffers lightly on kernbench and a bit more on dbench, but largely
improves on gitsource (which also runs considerably faster). For reference, we
also report results using active intel_pstate with powersave and HWP; the
largest gap between non-invariant schedutil and intel_pstate+powersave is
still tbench, which runs 82% better and with 26% improved efficiency on the
latter configuration -- this divide isn't closed yet by frequency-invariant
schedutil.
4. DETAILED TABLES
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Benchmark : tbench4 (i.e. dbench4 over the network, actually loopback)
Varying parameter : number of clients
Unit : MB/sec (higher is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate/HWP 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 183.56 +- 0.21% ( ) 516.12 +- 0.57% ( 181.18%) 185.59 +- 0.59% ( 1.11%)
Hmean 2 365.75 +- 0.25% ( ) 1015.14 +- 0.33% ( 177.55%) 402.59 +- 4.48% ( 10.07%)
Hmean 4 720.99 +- 0.44% ( ) 1951.75 +- 0.28% ( 170.70%) 738.39 +- 1.72% ( 2.41%)
Hmean 8 1449.93 +- 0.34% ( ) 3830.56 +- 0.24% ( 164.19%) 1750.36 +- 4.65% ( 20.72%)
Hmean 16 2874.26 +- 0.57% ( ) 7381.62 +- 0.53% ( 156.82%) 4348.35 +- 2.22% ( 51.29%)
Hmean 32 6116.17 +- 5.10% ( ) 13013.05 +- 0.08% ( 112.76%) 8980.35 +- 0.66% ( 46.83%)
Hmean 64 14485.04 +- 3.46% ( ) 17835.12 +- 0.35% ( 23.13%) 16540.73 +- 0.51% ( 14.19%)
Hmean 128 30779.16 +- 3.20% ( ) 32796.94 +- 2.13% ( 6.56%) 31512.58 +- 0.20% ( 2.38%)
Hmean 256 34664.66 +- 0.81% ( ) 34604.67 +- 0.46% ( -0.17%) 34943.70 +- 0.25% ( 0.80%)
Hmean 384 33957.51 +- 0.11% ( ) 34091.50 +- 0.14% ( 0.39%) 33921.41 +- 0.09% ( -0.11%)
Benchmark : kernbench (kernel compilation)
Varying parameter : number of jobs
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate/HWP 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 332.94 +- 0.40% ( ) 260.16 +- 0.45% ( 21.86%) 233.56 +- 0.21% ( 29.85%)
Amean 4 173.04 +- 0.43% ( ) 138.76 +- 0.03% ( 19.81%) 123.59 +- 0.11% ( 28.58%)
Amean 8 89.65 +- 0.20% ( ) 73.54 +- 0.09% ( 17.97%) 65.69 +- 0.10% ( 26.72%)
Amean 16 48.08 +- 1.41% ( ) 41.64 +- 1.61% ( 13.40%) 36.00 +- 1.80% ( 25.11%)
Amean 32 28.78 +- 0.72% ( ) 26.61 +- 1.99% ( 7.55%) 23.19 +- 1.68% ( 19.43%)
Amean 64 20.46 +- 1.85% ( ) 19.76 +- 0.35% ( 3.42%) 17.38 +- 0.92% ( 15.06%)
Amean 128 18.69 +- 1.70% ( ) 17.59 +- 1.04% ( 5.90%) 15.73 +- 1.40% ( 15.85%)
Amean 192 18.82 +- 1.01% ( ) 17.76 +- 0.77% ( 5.67%) 15.57 +- 1.80% ( 17.28%)
Benchmark : gitsource (time to run the git unit test suite)
Varying parameter : none
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate/HWP 5.2.0 freq-inv
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 792.49 +- 0.20% ( ) 779.35 +- 0.24% ( 1.66%) 427.14 +- 0.16% ( 46.10%)
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-3-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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Implement arch_scale_freq_capacity() for 'modern' x86. This function
is used by the scheduler to correctly account usage in the face of
DVFS.
The present patch addresses Intel processors specifically and has positive
performance and performance-per-watt implications for the schedutil cpufreq
governor, bringing it closer to, if not on-par with, the powersave governor
from the intel_pstate driver/framework.
Large performance gains are obtained when the machine is lightly loaded and
no regression are observed at saturation. The benchmarks with the largest
gains are kernel compilation, tbench (the networking version of dbench) and
shell-intensive workloads.
1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
* Without it, a task looks larger if the CPU runs slower
2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
* freq invariance accounting requires knowing the ratio freq_curr/freq_max
2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
* Use delta_APERF / delta_MPERF * freq_base (a.k.a "BusyMHz")
2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
* It varies with time (turbo). As an approximation, we set it to a
constant, i.e. 4-cores turbo frequency.
3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
* The invariant schedutil's formula has no feedback loop and reacts faster
to utilization changes
4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
* In some cases tasks can't reach max util despite how hard they try
5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
5.1 MACHINES
* Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell
5.2 SETUP
* baseline Linux v5.2 w/ non-invariant schedutil. Tested freq_max = 1-2-3-4-8-12
active cores turbo w/ invariant schedutil, and intel_pstate/powersave
5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
* NAS Parallel Benchmark (HPC), hackbench
5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
* tbench (10-30% better), kernbench (10-15% better),
shell-intensive-scripts (30-50% better)
* no regressions
5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
* dbench (5% worse on one machine), kernbench (3% worse),
tbench (5-10% better), shell-intensive-scripts (10-40% better)
6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
* Xeon Core before Scalable Performance processors line (Xeon Gold/Platinum
etc have different MSRs semantic for querying turbo levels)
7. REFERENCES
* MMTests performance testing framework, github.com/gormanm/mmtests
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
For example; suppose a CPU has two frequencies: 500 and 1000 Mhz. When
running a task that would consume 1/3rd of a CPU at 1000 MHz, it would
appear to consume 2/3rd (or 66.6%) when running at 500 MHz, giving the
false impression this CPU is almost at capacity, even though it can go
faster [*]. In a nutshell, without frequency scale-invariance tasks look
larger just because the CPU is running slower.
[*] (footnote: this assumes a linear frequency/performance relation; which
everybody knows to be false, but given realities its the best approximation
we can make.)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Accounting for frequency changes in PELT signals requires the computation of
the ratio freq_curr / freq_max. On x86 neither of those terms is readily
available.
2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
====================
Since modern x86 has hardware control over the actual frequency we run
at (because amongst other things, Turbo-Mode), we cannot simply use
the frequency as requested through cpufreq.
Instead we use the APERF/MPERF MSRs to compute the effective frequency
over the recent past. Also, because reading MSRs is expensive, don't
do so every time we need the value, but amortize the cost by doing it
every tick.
2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
=================
Obtaining freq_max is also non-trivial because at any time the hardware can
provide a frequency boost to a selected subset of cores if the package has
enough power to spare (eg: Turbo Boost). This means that the maximum frequency
available to a given core changes with time.
The approach taken in this change is to arbitrarily set freq_max to a constant
value at boot. The value chosen is the "4-cores (4C) turbo frequency" on most
microarchitectures, after evaluating the following candidates:
* 1-core (1C) turbo frequency (the fastest turbo state available)
* around base frequency (a.k.a. max P-state)
* something in between, such as 4C turbo
To interpret these options, consider that this is the denominator in
freq_curr/freq_max, and that ratio will be used to scale PELT signals such as
util_avg and load_avg. A large denominator will undershoot (util_avg looks a
bit smaller than it really is), viceversa with a smaller denominator PELT
signals will tend to overshoot. Given that PELT drives frequency selection
in the schedutil governor, we will have:
freq_max set to | effect on DVFS
--------------------+------------------
1C turbo | power efficiency (lower freq choices)
base freq | performance (higher util_avg, higher freq requests)
4C turbo | a bit of both
4C turbo proves to be a good compromise in a number of benchmarks (see below).
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Once an architecture implements a frequency scale-invariant utilization (the
PELT signal util_avg), schedutil switches its frequency selection formula from
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_curr * util [non-invariant util signal]
to
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * util [invariant util signal]
where, in the second formula, freq_max is set to the 1C turbo frequency (max
turbo). The advantage of the second formula, whose usage we unlock with this
patch, is that freq_next doesn't depend on the current frequency in an
iterative fashion, but can jump to any frequency in a single update. This
absence of feedback in the formula makes it quicker to react to utilization
changes and more robust against pathological instabilities.
Compare it to the update formula of intel_pstate/powersave:
freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * Busy%
where again freq_max is 1C turbo and Busy% is the percentage of time not spent
idling (calculated with delta_MPERF / delta_TSC); essentially the same as
invariant schedutil, and largely responsible for intel_pstate/powersave good
reputation. The non-invariant schedutil formula is derived from the invariant
one by approximating util_inv with util_raw * freq_curr / freq_max, but this
has limitations.
Testing shows improved performances due to better frequency selections when
the machine is lightly loaded, and essentially no change in behaviour at
saturation / overutilization.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
It's been shown that it is possible to create pathological scenarios where a
CPU-bound task cannot reach max utilization, if the normalizing factor
freq_max is fixed to a constant value (see [Lelli-2018]).
If freq_max is set to 4C turbo as we do here, one needs to peg at least 5
cores in a package doing some busywork, and observe that none of those task
will ever reach max util (1024) because they're all running at less than the
4C turbo frequency.
While this concern still applies, we believe the performance benefit of
frequency scale-invariant PELT signals outweights the cost of this limitation.
[Lelli-2018]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180517150418.GF22493@localhost.localdomain/
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
5.1 MACHINES
============
We tested the patch on three machines, with Skylake, Broadwell and Haswell
CPUs. The details are below, together with the available turbo ratios as
reported by the appropriate MSRs.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA:
Single socket E3-1240 v5, Skylake 4 cores/8 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 800 |********
BASE 3500 |***********************************
4C 3700 |*************************************
3C 3800 |**************************************
2C 3900 |***************************************
1C 3900 |***************************************
* 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA:
Two sockets E5-2698 v4, 2x Broadwell 20 cores/40 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1200 |************
BASE 2200 |**********************
8C 2900 |*****************************
7C 3000 |******************************
6C 3100 |*******************************
5C 3200 |********************************
4C 3300 |*********************************
3C 3400 |**********************************
2C 3600 |************************************
1C 3600 |************************************
* 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Two sockets E5-2670 v3, 2x Haswell 12 cores/24 threads
Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):
EFFIC 1200 |************
BASE 2300 |***********************
12C 2600 |**************************
11C 2600 |**************************
10C 2600 |**************************
9C 2600 |**************************
8C 2600 |**************************
7C 2600 |**************************
6C 2600 |**************************
5C 2700 |***************************
4C 2800 |****************************
3C 2900 |*****************************
2C 3100 |*******************************
1C 3100 |*******************************
5.2 SETUP
=========
* The baseline is Linux v5.2 with schedutil (non-invariant) and the intel_pstate
driver in passive mode.
* The rationale for choosing the various freq_max values to test have been to
try all the 1-2-3-4C turbo levels (note that 1C and 2C turbo are identical
on all machines), plus one more value closer to base_freq but still in the
turbo range (8C turbo for both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA).
* In addition we've run all tests with intel_pstate/powersave for comparison.
* The filesystem is always XFS, the userspace is openSUSE Leap 15.1.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA is capable of HWP (Hardware-Managed P-States), so the runs
with active intel_pstate on this machine use that.
This gives, in terms of combinations tested on each machine:
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
* Baseline: Linux v5.2, non-invariant schedutil, intel_pstate passive
* intel_pstate active + powersave + HWP
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 1C turbo
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 3C turbo
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 4C turbo
* both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
* [same as 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA, but no HWP capable]
* invariant schedutil, freq_max = 8C turbo
(which on 48x-HASWELL-NUMA is the same as 12C turbo, or "all cores turbo")
5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
=====================
5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
------------------------
Tests that didn't show any measurable difference in performance on any of the
test machines between non-invariant schedutil and our patch are:
* NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) using either MPI or openMP for IPC, any
computational kernel
* flexible I/O (FIO)
* hackbench (using threads or processes, and using pipes or sockets)
5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
----------------------------
What follow are summary tables where each benchmark result is given a score.
* A tilde (~) means a neutral result, i.e. no difference from baseline.
* Scores are computed with the ratio result_new / result_baseline, so a tilde
means a score of 1.00.
* The results in the score ratio are the geometric means of results running
the benchmark with different parameters (eg: for kernbench: using 1, 2, 4,
... number of processes; for pgbench: varying the number of clients, and so
on).
* The first three tables show higher-is-better kind of tests (i.e. measured in
operations/second), the subsequent three show lower-is-better kind of tests
(i.e. the workload is fixed and we measure elapsed time, think kernbench).
* "gitsource" is a name we made up for the test consisting in running the
entire unit tests suite of the Git SCM and measuring how long it takes. We
take it as a typical example of shell-intensive serialized workload.
* In the "I_PSTATE" column we have the results for intel_pstate/powersave. Other
columns show invariant schedutil for different values of freq_max. 4C turbo
is circled as it's the value we've chosen for the final implementation.
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 1.14 ~ ~ | 1.11 | 1.14
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
netperf-udp 1.06 ~ 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.07
netperf-tcp ~ 1.03 ~ | 1.01 | 1.02
tbench4 1.57 1.18 1.22 | 1.30 | 1.56
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-udp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-tcp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
tbench4 1.30 1.14 1.14 | 1.16 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 1.15 ~ ~ | 1.06 | 1.16
pgbench-rw ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
netperf-udp 1.05 0.97 1.04 | 1.04 | 1.02
netperf-tcp 0.96 1.01 1.01 | 1.01 | 1.01
tbench4 1.50 1.05 1.13 | 1.13 | 1.25
+------+
In the table above we see that active intel_pstate is slightly better than our
4C-turbo patch (both in reference to the baseline non-invariant schedutil) on
read-only pgbench and much better on tbench. Both cases are notable in which
it shows that lowering our freq_max (to 8C-turbo and 12C-turbo on
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA respectively) helps invariant
schedutil to get closer.
If we ignore active intel_pstate and focus on the comparison with baseline
alone, there are several instances of double-digit performance improvement.
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
dbench4 1.23 0.95 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.95
kernbench 0.93 0.83 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.82
gitsource 0.98 0.49 0.49 | 0.49 | 0.48
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
kernbench ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
gitsource 0.92 0.55 0.55 | 0.55 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ | ~
kernbench 0.94 0.90 0.89 | 0.90 | 0.90
gitsource 0.97 0.69 0.69 | 0.69 | 0.69
+------+
dbench is not very remarkable here, unless we notice how poorly active
intel_pstate is performing on 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA: 23% regression versus
non-invariant schedutil. We repeated that run getting consistent results. Out
of scope for the patch at hand, but deserving future investigation. Other than
that, we previously ran this campaign with Linux v5.0 and saw the patch doing
better on dbench a the time. We haven't checked closely and can only speculate
at this point.
On the NUMA boxes kernbench gets 10-15% improvements on average; we'll see in
the detailed tables that the gains concentrate on low process counts (lightly
loaded machines).
The test we call "gitsource" (running the git unit test suite, a long-running
single-threaded shell script) appears rather spectacular in this table (gains
of 30-50% depending on the machine). It is to be noted, however, that
gitsource has no adjustable parameters (such as the number of jobs in
kernbench, which we average over in order to get a single-number summary
score) and is exactly the kind of low-parallelism workload that benefits the
most from this patch. When looking at the detailed tables of kernbench or
tbench4, at low process or client counts one can see similar numbers.
5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
-----------------------------------
Machine : 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Benchmark : tbench4 (i.e. dbench4 over the network, actually loopback)
Varying parameter : number of clients
Unit : MB/sec (higher is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 126.73 +- 0.31% ( ) 315.91 +- 0.66% ( 149.28%) 125.03 +- 0.76% ( -1.34%)
Hmean 2 258.04 +- 0.62% ( ) 614.16 +- 0.51% ( 138.01%) 269.58 +- 1.45% ( 4.47%)
Hmean 4 514.30 +- 0.67% ( ) 1146.58 +- 0.54% ( 122.94%) 533.84 +- 1.99% ( 3.80%)
Hmean 8 1111.38 +- 2.52% ( ) 2159.78 +- 0.38% ( 94.33%) 1359.92 +- 1.56% ( 22.36%)
Hmean 16 2286.47 +- 1.36% ( ) 3338.29 +- 0.21% ( 46.00%) 2720.20 +- 0.52% ( 18.97%)
Hmean 32 4704.84 +- 0.35% ( ) 4759.03 +- 0.43% ( 1.15%) 4774.48 +- 0.30% ( 1.48%)
Hmean 64 7578.04 +- 0.27% ( ) 7533.70 +- 0.43% ( -0.59%) 7462.17 +- 0.65% ( -1.53%)
Hmean 128 6998.52 +- 0.16% ( ) 6987.59 +- 0.12% ( -0.16%) 6909.17 +- 0.14% ( -1.28%)
Hmean 192 6901.35 +- 0.25% ( ) 6913.16 +- 0.10% ( 0.17%) 6855.47 +- 0.21% ( -0.66%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo 5.2.0 12C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean 1 128.43 +- 0.28% ( 1.34%) 130.64 +- 3.81% ( 3.09%) 153.71 +- 5.89% ( 21.30%)
Hmean 2 311.70 +- 6.15% ( 20.79%) 281.66 +- 3.40% ( 9.15%) 305.08 +- 5.70% ( 18.23%)
Hmean 4 641.98 +- 2.32% ( 24.83%) 623.88 +- 5.28% ( 21.31%) 906.84 +- 4.65% ( 76.32%)
Hmean 8 1633.31 +- 1.56% ( 46.96%) 1714.16 +- 0.93% ( 54.24%) 2095.74 +- 0.47% ( 88.57%)
Hmean 16 3047.24 +- 0.42% ( 33.27%) 3155.02 +- 0.30% ( 37.99%) 3634.58 +- 0.15% ( 58.96%)
Hmean 32 4734.31 +- 0.60% ( 0.63%) 4804.38 +- 0.23% ( 2.12%) 4674.62 +- 0.27% ( -0.64%)
Hmean 64 7699.74 +- 0.35% ( 1.61%) 7499.72 +- 0.34% ( -1.03%) 7659.03 +- 0.25% ( 1.07%)
Hmean 128 6935.18 +- 0.15% ( -0.91%) 6942.54 +- 0.10% ( -0.80%) 7004.85 +- 0.12% ( 0.09%)
Hmean 192 6901.62 +- 0.12% ( 0.00%) 6856.93 +- 0.10% ( -0.64%) 6978.74 +- 0.10% ( 1.12%)
This is one of the cases where the patch still can't surpass active
intel_pstate, not even when freq_max is as low as 12C-turbo. Otherwise, gains are
visible up to 16 clients and the saturated scenario is the same as baseline.
The scores in the summary table from the previous sections are ratios of
geometric means of the results over different clients, as seen in this table.
Machine : 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA
Benchmark : kernbench (kernel compilation)
Varying parameter : number of jobs
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE) 5.2.0 intel_pstate 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 379.68 +- 0.06% ( ) 330.20 +- 0.43% ( 13.03%) 285.93 +- 0.07% ( 24.69%)
Amean 4 200.15 +- 0.24% ( ) 175.89 +- 0.22% ( 12.12%) 153.78 +- 0.25% ( 23.17%)
Amean 8 106.20 +- 0.31% ( ) 95.54 +- 0.23% ( 10.03%) 86.74 +- 0.10% ( 18.32%)
Amean 16 56.96 +- 1.31% ( ) 53.25 +- 1.22% ( 6.50%) 48.34 +- 1.73% ( 15.13%)
Amean 32 34.80 +- 2.46% ( ) 33.81 +- 0.77% ( 2.83%) 30.28 +- 1.59% ( 12.99%)
Amean 64 26.11 +- 1.63% ( ) 25.04 +- 1.07% ( 4.10%) 22.41 +- 2.37% ( 14.16%)
Amean 128 24.80 +- 1.36% ( ) 23.57 +- 1.23% ( 4.93%) 21.44 +- 1.37% ( 13.55%)
Amean 160 24.85 +- 0.56% ( ) 23.85 +- 1.17% ( 4.06%) 21.25 +- 1.12% ( 14.49%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo 5.2.0 8C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 2 284.08 +- 0.13% ( 25.18%) 283.96 +- 0.51% ( 25.21%) 285.05 +- 0.21% ( 24.92%)
Amean 4 153.18 +- 0.22% ( 23.47%) 154.70 +- 1.64% ( 22.71%) 153.64 +- 0.30% ( 23.24%)
Amean 8 87.06 +- 0.28% ( 18.02%) 86.77 +- 0.46% ( 18.29%) 86.78 +- 0.22% ( 18.28%)
Amean 16 48.03 +- 0.93% ( 15.68%) 47.75 +- 1.99% ( 16.17%) 47.52 +- 1.61% ( 16.57%)
Amean 32 30.23 +- 1.20% ( 13.14%) 30.08 +- 1.67% ( 13.57%) 30.07 +- 1.67% ( 13.60%)
Amean 64 22.59 +- 2.02% ( 13.50%) 22.63 +- 0.81% ( 13.32%) 22.42 +- 0.76% ( 14.12%)
Amean 128 21.37 +- 0.67% ( 13.82%) 21.31 +- 1.15% ( 14.07%) 21.17 +- 1.93% ( 14.63%)
Amean 160 21.68 +- 0.57% ( 12.76%) 21.18 +- 1.74% ( 14.77%) 21.22 +- 1.00% ( 14.61%)
The patch outperform active intel_pstate (and baseline) by a considerable
margin; the summary table from the previous section says 4C turbo and active
intel_pstate are 0.83 and 0.93 against baseline respectively, so 4C turbo is
0.83/0.93=0.89 against intel_pstate (~10% better on average). There is no
noticeable difference with regard to the value of freq_max.
Machine : 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
Benchmark : gitsource (time to run the git unit test suite)
Varying parameter : none
Unit : seconds (lower is better)
5.2.0 vanilla 5.2.0 intel_pstate/hwp 5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 858.85 +- 1.16% ( ) 791.94 +- 0.21% ( 7.79%) 474.95 ( 44.70%)
5.2.0 3C-turbo 5.2.0 4C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean 475.26 +- 0.20% ( 44.66%) 474.34 +- 0.13% ( 44.77%)
In this test, which is of interest as representing shell-intensive
(i.e. fork-intensive) serialized workloads, invariant schedutil outperforms
intel_pstate/powersave by a whopping 40% margin.
5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
---------------------------------------------
The following table shows average power consumption in watt for each
benchmark. Data comes from turbostat (package average), which in turn is read
from the RAPL interface on CPUs. We know the patch affects CPU frequencies so
it's reasonable to ignore other power consumers (such as memory or I/O). Also,
we don't have a power meter available in the lab so RAPL is the best we have.
turbostat sampled average power every 10 seconds for the entire duration of
each benchmark. We took all those values and averaged them (i.e. with don't
have detail on a per-parameter granularity, only on whole benchmarks).
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 130.01 142.77 131.11 132.45 | 134.65 | 136.84
pgbench-rw 68.30 60.83 71.45 71.70 | 71.65 | 72.54
dbench4 90.25 59.06 101.43 99.89 | 101.10 | 102.94
netperf-udp 65.70 69.81 66.02 68.03 | 68.27 | 68.95
netperf-tcp 88.08 87.96 88.97 88.89 | 88.85 | 88.20
tbench4 142.32 176.73 153.02 163.91 | 165.58 | 176.07
kernbench 92.94 101.95 114.91 115.47 | 115.52 | 115.10
gitsource 40.92 41.87 75.14 75.20 | 75.40 | 75.70
+--------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro 46.49 46.68 46.56 46.59 | 46.52 |
pgbench-rw 29.34 31.38 30.98 31.00 | 31.00 |
dbench4 27.28 27.37 27.49 27.41 | 27.38 |
netperf-udp 22.33 22.41 22.36 22.35 | 22.36 |
netperf-tcp 27.29 27.29 27.30 27.31 | 27.33 |
tbench4 41.13 45.61 43.10 43.33 | 43.56 |
kernbench 42.56 42.63 43.01 43.01 | 43.01 |
gitsource 13.32 13.69 17.33 17.30 | 17.35 |
+--------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
+--------+
BASELINE I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 128.84 136.04 129.87 132.43 | 132.30 | 134.86
pgbench-rw 37.68 37.92 37.17 37.74 | 37.73 | 37.31
dbench4 28.56 28.73 28.60 28.73 | 28.70 | 28.79
netperf-udp 56.70 60.44 56.79 57.42 | 57.54 | 57.52
netperf-tcp 75.49 75.27 75.87 76.02 | 76.01 | 75.95
tbench4 115.44 139.51 119.53 123.07 | 123.97 | 130.22
kernbench 83.23 91.55 95.58 95.69 | 95.72 | 96.04
gitsource 36.79 36.99 39.99 40.34 | 40.35 | 40.23
+--------+
A lower power consumption isn't necessarily better, it depends on what is done
with that energy. Here are tables with the ratio of performance-per-watt on
each machine and benchmark. Higher is always better; a tilde (~) means a
neutral ratio (i.e. 1.00).
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 8C
pgbench-ro 1.04 1.06 0.94 | 1.07 | 1.08
pgbench-rw 1.10 0.97 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.97
dbench4 1.24 0.94 0.95 | 0.94 | 0.92
netperf-udp ~ 1.02 1.02 | ~ | 1.02
netperf-tcp ~ 1.02 ~ | ~ | 1.02
tbench4 1.26 1.10 1.06 | 1.12 | 1.26
kernbench 0.98 0.97 0.97 | 0.97 | 0.98
gitsource ~ 1.11 1.11 | 1.11 | 1.13
+------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE/HWP 1C 3C | 4C |
pgbench-ro ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
pgbench-rw 0.95 0.97 0.96 | 0.96 |
dbench4 ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-udp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
netperf-tcp ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
tbench4 1.17 1.09 1.08 | 1.10 |
kernbench ~ ~ ~ | ~ |
gitsource 1.06 1.40 1.40 | 1.40 |
+------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
+------+
I_PSTATE 1C 3C | 4C | 12C
pgbench-ro 1.09 ~ 1.09 | 1.03 | 1.11
pgbench-rw ~ 0.86 ~ | ~ | 0.86
dbench4 ~ 1.02 1.02 | 1.02 | ~
netperf-udp ~ 0.97 1.03 | 1.02 | ~
netperf-tcp 0.96 ~ ~ | ~ | ~
tbench4 1.24 ~ 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.11
kernbench 0.97 0.97 0.98 | 0.97 | 0.96
gitsource 1.03 1.33 1.32 | 1.32 | 1.33
+------+
These results are overall pleasing: in plenty of cases we observe
performance-per-watt improvements. The few regressions (read/write pgbench and
dbench on the Broadwell machine) are of small magnitude. kernbench loses a few
percentage points (it has a 10-15% performance improvement, but apparently the
increase in power consumption is larger than that). tbench4 and gitsource, which
benefit the most from the patch, keep a positive score in this table which is
a welcome surprise; that suggests that in those particular workloads the
non-invariant schedutil (and active intel_pstate, too) makes some rather
suboptimal frequency selections.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The patch addresses Xeon Core processors that use MSR_PLATFORM_INFO and
MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT to advertise their base frequency and turbo frequencies
respectively. This excludes the recent Xeon Scalable Performance processors
line (Xeon Gold, Platinum etc) whose MSRs have to be parsed differently.
Subsequent patches will address:
* Xeon Scalable Performance processors and Atom Goldmont/Goldmont Plus
* Xeon Phi (Knights Landing, Knights Mill)
* Atom Silvermont
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 7. REFERENCES
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Tests have been run with the help of the MMTests performance testing
framework, see github.com/gormanm/mmtests. The configuration file names for
the benchmark used are:
db-pgbench-timed-ro-small-xfs
db-pgbench-timed-rw-small-xfs
io-dbench4-async-xfs
network-netperf-unbound
network-tbench
scheduler-unbound
workload-kerndevel-xfs
workload-shellscripts-xfs
hpc-nas-c-class-mpi-full-xfs
hpc-nas-c-class-omp-full
All those benchmarks are generally available on the web:
pgbench: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/pgbench.html
netperf: https://hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/
dbench/tbench: https://dbench.samba.org/
gitsource: git unit test suite, github.com/git/git
NAS Parallel Benchmarks: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html
hackbench: https://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull misc x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc changes:
- Enhance #GP fault printouts by distinguishing between canonical and
non-canonical address faults, and also add KASAN fault decoding.
- Fix/enhance the x86 NMI handler by putting the duration check into
a direct function call instead of an irq_work which we know to be
broken in some cases.
- Clean up do_general_protection() a bit"
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/nmi: Remove irq_work from the long duration NMI handler
x86/traps: Cleanup do_general_protection()
x86/kasan: Print original address on #GP
x86/dumpstack: Introduce die_addr() for die() with #GP fault address
x86/traps: Print address on #GP
x86/insn-eval: Add support for 64-bit kernel mode
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc cleanups all around the map"
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/CPU/AMD: Remove amd_get_topology_early()
x86/tsc: Remove redundant assignment
x86/crash: Use resource_size()
x86/cpu: Add a missing prototype for arch_smt_update()
x86/nospec: Remove unused RSB_FILL_LOOPS
x86/vdso: Provide missing include file
x86/Kconfig: Correct spelling and punctuation
Documentation/x86/boot: Fix typo
x86/boot: Fix a comment's incorrect file reference
x86/process: Remove set but not used variables prev and next
x86/Kconfig: Fix Kconfig indentation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 resource control updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main change in this tree is the extension of the resctrl procfs
ABI with a new file that helps tooling to navigate from tasks back to
resctrl groups: /proc/{pid}/cpu_resctrl_groups.
Also fix static key usage for certain feature combinations and
simplify the task exit resctrl case"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Add task resctrl information display
x86/resctrl: Check monitoring static key in the MBM overflow handler
x86/resctrl: Do not reconfigure exiting tasks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot update from Ingo Molnar:
"Two minor changes: fix an atypical binutils combination build bug, and
also fix a VRAM size check for simplefb"
* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sysfb: Fix check for bad VRAM size
x86/boot: Discard .eh_frame sections
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc updates:
- Remove last remaining calls to exception_enter/exception_exit() and
simplify the entry code some more.
- Remove force_iret()
- Add support for "Fast Short Rep Mov", which is available starting
with Ice Lake Intel CPUs - and make the x86 assembly version of
memmove() use REP MOV for all sizes when FSRM is available.
- Micro-optimize/simplify the 32-bit boot code a bit.
- Use a more future-proof SYSRET instruction mnemonic"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Simplify calculation of output address
x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix to SYSRET
x86: Remove force_iret()
x86/cpufeatures: Add support for fast short REP; MOVSB
x86/context-tracking: Remove exception_enter/exit() from KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT async page fault
x86/context-tracking: Remove exception_enter/exit() from do_page_fault()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 apic fix from Ingo Molnar:
"A single commit that simplifies the code and gets rid of a compiler
warning"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic/uv: Avoid unused variable warning
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pick up single-commit branches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Ftrace is one of the last W^X violators (after this only KLP is
left). These patches move it over to the generic text_poke()
interface and thereby get rid of this oddity. This requires a
surprising amount of surgery, by Peter Zijlstra.
- x86/AMD PMUs: add support for 'Large Increment per Cycle Events' to
count certain types of events that have a special, quirky hw ABI
(by Kim Phillips)
- kprobes fixes by Masami Hiramatsu
Lots of tooling updates as well, the following subcommands were
updated: annotate/report/top, c2c, clang, record, report/top TUI,
sched timehist, tests; plus updates were done to the gtk ui, libperf,
headers and the parser"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
perf/x86/amd: Add support for Large Increment per Cycle Events
perf/x86/amd: Constrain Large Increment per Cycle events
perf/x86/intel/rapl: Add Comet Lake support
tracing: Initialize ret in syscall_enter_define_fields()
perf header: Use last modification time for timestamp
perf c2c: Fix return type for histogram sorting comparision functions
perf beauty sockaddr: Fix augmented syscall format warning
perf/ui/gtk: Fix gtk2 build
perf ui gtk: Add missing zalloc object
perf tools: Use %define api.pure full instead of %pure-parser
libperf: Setup initial evlist::all_cpus value
perf report: Fix no libunwind compiled warning break s390 issue
perf tools: Support --prefix/--prefix-strip
perf report: Clarify in help that --children is default
tools build: Fix test-clang.cpp with Clang 8+
perf clang: Fix build with Clang 9
kprobes: Fix optimize_kprobe()/unoptimize_kprobe() cancellation logic
tools lib: Fix builds when glibc contains strlcpy()
perf report/top: Make 'e' visible in the help and make it toggle showing callchains
perf report/top: Do not offer annotation for symbols without samples
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Cleanup of the GOP [graphics output] handling code in the EFI stub
- Complete refactoring of the mixed mode handling in the x86 EFI stub
- Overhaul of the x86 EFI boot/runtime code
- Increase robustness for mixed mode code
- Add the ability to disable DMA at the root port level in the EFI
stub
- Get rid of RWX mappings in the EFI memory map and page tables,
where possible
- Move the support code for the old EFI memory mapping style into its
only user, the SGI UV1+ support code.
- plus misc fixes, updates, smaller cleanups.
... and due to interactions with the RWX changes, another round of PAT
cleanups make a guest appearance via the EFI tree - with no side
effects intended"
* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
efi/x86: Disable instrumentation in the EFI runtime handling code
efi/libstub/x86: Fix EFI server boot failure
efi/x86: Disallow efi=old_map in mixed mode
x86/boot/compressed: Relax sed symbol type regex for LLVM ld.lld
efi/x86: avoid KASAN false positives when accessing the 1: 1 mapping
efi: Fix handling of multiple efi_fake_mem= entries
efi: Fix efi_memmap_alloc() leaks
efi: Add tracking for dynamically allocated memmaps
efi: Add a flags parameter to efi_memory_map
efi: Fix comment for efi_mem_type() wrt absent physical addresses
efi/arm: Defer probe of PCIe backed efifb on DT systems
efi/x86: Limit EFI old memory map to SGI UV machines
efi/x86: Avoid RWX mappings for all of DRAM
efi/x86: Don't map the entire kernel text RW for mixed mode
x86/mm: Fix NX bit clearing issue in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd
efi/libstub/x86: Fix unused-variable warning
efi/libstub/x86: Use mandatory 16-byte stack alignment in mixed mode
efi/libstub/x86: Use const attribute for efi_is_64bit()
efi: Allow disabling PCI busmastering on bridges during boot
efi/x86: Allow translating 64-bit arguments for mixed mode calls
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are to move the ORC unwind table sorting from early
init to build-time - this speeds up booting.
No change in functionality intended"
* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/unwind/orc: Fix !CONFIG_MODULES build warning
x86/unwind/orc: Remove boot-time ORC unwind tables sorting
scripts/sorttable: Implement build-time ORC unwind table sorting
scripts/sorttable: Rename 'sortextable' to 'sorttable'
scripts/sortextable: Refactor the do_func() function
scripts/sortextable: Remove dead code
scripts/sortextable: Clean up the code to meet the kernel coding style better
scripts/sortextable: Rewrite error/success handling
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull header cleanup from Ingo Molnar:
"This is a treewide cleanup, mostly (but not exclusively) with x86
impact, which breaks implicit dependencies on the asm/realtime.h
header and finally removes it from asm/acpi.h"
* 'core-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/ACPI/sleep: Move acpi_get_wakeup_address() into sleep.c, remove <asm/realmode.h> from <asm/acpi.h>
ACPI/sleep: Convert acpi_wakeup_address into a function
x86/ACPI/sleep: Remove an unnecessary include of asm/realmode.h
ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Explicitly include linux/io.h for virt_to_phys()
vmw_balloon: Explicitly include linux/io.h for virt_to_phys()
virt: vbox: Explicitly include linux/io.h to pick up various defs
efi/capsule-loader: Explicitly include linux/io.h for page_to_phys()
perf/x86/intel: Explicitly include asm/io.h to use virt_to_phys()
x86/kprobes: Explicitly include vmalloc.h for set_vm_flush_reset_perms()
x86/ftrace: Explicitly include vmalloc.h for set_vm_flush_reset_perms()
x86/boot: Explicitly include realmode.h to handle RM reservations
x86/efi: Explicitly include realmode.h to handle RM trampoline quirk
x86/platform/intel/quark: Explicitly include linux/io.h for virt_to_phys()
x86/setup: Enhance the comments
x86/setup: Clean up the header portion of setup.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The performance deterioration departement provides a few non-scary
fixes and improvements:
- Update the cached HLE state when the TSX state is changed via the
new control register. This ensures feature bit consistency.
- Exclude the new Zhaoxin CPUs from Spectre V2 and SWAPGS
vulnerabilities"
* tag 'x86-pti-2020-01-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/speculation/swapgs: Exclude Zhaoxin CPUs from SWAPGS vulnerability
x86/speculation/spectre_v2: Exclude Zhaoxin CPUs from SPECTRE_V2
x86/cpu: Update cached HLE state on write to TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of SMP core code changes:
- Rework the smp function call core code to avoid the allocation of
an additional cpumask
- Remove the not longer required GFP argument from on_each_cpu_cond()
and on_each_cpu_cond_mask() and fixup the callers"
* tag 'smp-core-2020-01-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
smp: Remove allocation mask from on_each_cpu_cond.*()
smp: Add a smp_cond_func_t argument to smp_call_function_many()
smp: Use smp_cond_func_t as type for the conditional function
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The timekeeping and timers departement provides:
- Time namespace support:
If a container migrates from one host to another then it expects
that clocks based on MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME are not subject to
disruption. Due to different boot time and non-suspended runtime
these clocks can differ significantly on two hosts, in the worst
case time goes backwards which is a violation of the POSIX
requirements.
The time namespace addresses this problem. It allows to set offsets
for clock MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME once after creation and before
tasks are associated with the namespace. These offsets are taken
into account by timers and timekeeping including the VDSO.
Offsets for wall clock based clocks (REALTIME/TAI) are not provided
by this mechanism. While in theory possible, the overhead and code
complexity would be immense and not justified by the esoteric
potential use cases which were discussed at Plumbers '18.
The overhead for tasks in the root namespace (ie where host time
offsets = 0) is in the noise and great effort was made to ensure
that especially in the VDSO. If time namespace is disabled in the
kernel configuration the code is compiled out.
Kudos to Andrei Vagin and Dmitry Sofanov who implemented this
feature and kept on for more than a year addressing review
comments, finding better solutions. A pleasant experience.
- Overhaul of the alarmtimer device dependency handling to ensure
that the init/suspend/resume ordering is correct.
- A new clocksource/event driver for Microchip PIT64
- Suspend/resume support for the Hyper-V clocksource
- The usual pile of fixes, updates and improvements mostly in the
driver code"
* tag 'timers-core-2020-01-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() a stub when CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=n
alarmtimer: Use wakeup source from alarmtimer platform device
alarmtimer: Make alarmtimer platform device child of RTC device
alarmtimer: Update alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() docs to reflect reality
hrtimer: Add missing sparse annotation for __run_timer()
lib/vdso: Only read hrtimer_res when needed in __cvdso_clock_getres()
MIPS: vdso: Define BUILD_VDSO32 when building a 32bit kernel
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Set TSC clocksource as default w/ InvariantTSC
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Untangle stimers and timesync from clocksources
clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Fix sparse warning
clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Rename Exynos to lowercase
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix uninitialized pointer access
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Switch to platform_get_irq
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Fix variable declaration in em_sti_probe
clocksource/drivers/em_sti: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Fix memory leak of timer
clocksource/drivers/cadence-ttc: Use ttc driver as platform driver
clocksource/drivers/timer-microchip-pit64b: Add Microchip PIT64B support
clocksource/drivers/hyper-v: Reserve PAGE_SIZE space for tsc page
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Pull ioremap updates from Christoph Hellwig:
"Remove the ioremap_nocache API (plus wrappers) that are always
identical to ioremap"
* tag 'ioremap-5.6' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/ioremap:
remove ioremap_nocache and devm_ioremap_nocache
MIPS: define ioremap_nocache to ioremap
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These add ACPI support to the intel_idle driver along with an admin
guide document for it, add support for CPR (Core Power Reduction) to
the AVS (Adaptive Voltage Scaling) subsystem, add new hardware support
in a few places, add some new sysfs attributes, debugfs files and
tracepoints, fix bugs and clean up a bunch of things all over.
Specifics:
- Update the ACPI processor driver in order to export
acpi_processor_evaluate_cst() to the code outside of it, add ACPI
support to the intel_idle driver based on that and clean up that
driver somewhat (Rafael Wysocki).
- Add an admin guide document for the intel_idle driver (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Clean up cpuidle core and drivers, enable compilation testing for
some of them (Benjamin Gaignard, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Rafael
Wysocki, Yangtao Li).
- Fix reference counting of OPP (operating performance points) table
structures (Viresh Kumar).
- Add support for CPR (Core Power Reduction) to the AVS (Adaptive
Voltage Scaling) subsystem (Niklas Cassel, Colin Ian King,
YueHaibing).
- Add support for TigerLake Mobile and JasperLake to the Intel RAPL
power capping driver (Zhang Rui).
- Update cpufreq drivers:
- Add i.MX8MP support to imx-cpufreq-dt (Anson Huang).
- Fix usage of a macro in loongson2_cpufreq (Alexandre Oliva).
- Fix cpufreq policy reference counting issues in s3c and
brcmstb-avs (chenqiwu).
- Fix ACPI table reference counting issue and HiSilicon quirk
handling in the CPPC driver (Hanjun Guo).
- Clean up spelling mistake in intel_pstate (Harry Pan).
- Convert the kirkwood and tegra186 drivers to using
devm_platform_ioremap_resource() (Yangtao Li).
- Update devfreq core:
- Add 'name' sysfs attribute for devfreq devices (Chanwoo Choi).
- Clean up the handing of transition statistics and allow them to
be reset by writing 0 to the 'trans_stat' devfreq device
attribute in sysfs (Kamil Konieczny).
- Add 'devfreq_summary' to debugfs (Chanwoo Choi).
- Clean up kerneldoc comments and Kconfig indentation (Krzysztof
Kozlowski, Randy Dunlap).
- Update devfreq drivers:
- Add dynamic scaling for the imx8m DDR controller and clean up
imx8m-ddrc (Leonard Crestez, YueHaibing).
- Fix DT node reference counting and nitialization error code path
in rk3399_dmc and add COMPILE_TEST and HAVE_ARM_SMCCC dependency
for it (Chanwoo Choi, Yangtao Li).
- Fix DT node reference counting in rockchip-dfi and make it use
devm_platform_ioremap_resource() (Yangtao Li).
- Fix excessive stack usage in exynos-ppmu (Arnd Bergmann).
- Fix initialization error code paths in exynos-bus (Yangtao Li).
- Clean up exynos-bus and exynos somewhat (Artur Świgoń, Krzysztof
Kozlowski).
- Add tracepoints for tracking usage_count updates unrelated to
status changes in PM-runtime (Michał Mirosław).
- Add sysfs attribute to control the "sync on suspend" behavior
during system-wide suspend (Jonas Meurer).
- Switch system-wide suspend tests over to 64-bit time (Alexandre
Belloni).
- Make wakeup sources statistics in debugfs cover deleted ones which
used to be the case some time ago (zhuguangqing).
- Clean up computations carried out during hibernation, update
messages related to hibernation and fix a spelling mistake in one
of them (Wen Yang, Luigi Semenzato, Colin Ian King).
- Add mailmap entry for maintainer e-mail address that has not been
functional for several years (Rafael Wysocki)"
* tag 'pm-5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (83 commits)
cpufreq: loongson2_cpufreq: adjust cpufreq uses of LOONGSON_CHIPCFG
intel_idle: Clean up irtl_2_usec()
intel_idle: Move 3 functions closer to their callers
intel_idle: Annotate initialization code and data structures
intel_idle: Move and clean up intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit()
intel_idle: Rearrange intel_idle_cpuidle_driver_init()
intel_idle: Clean up NULL pointer check in intel_idle_init()
intel_idle: Fold intel_idle_probe() into intel_idle_init()
intel_idle: Eliminate __setup_broadcast_timer()
cpuidle: fix cpuidle_find_deepest_state() kerneldoc warnings
cpuidle: sysfs: fix warnings when compiling with W=1
cpuidle: coupled: fix warnings when compiling with W=1
cpufreq: brcmstb-avs: fix imbalance of cpufreq policy refcount
PM: suspend: Add sysfs attribute to control the "sync on suspend" behavior
PM / devfreq: Add debugfs support with devfreq_summary file
Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add intel_idle document
cpuidle: arm: Enable compile testing for some of drivers
PM-runtime: add tracepoints for usage_count changes
cpufreq: intel_pstate: fix spelling mistake: "Whethet" -> "Whether"
PM: hibernate: fix spelling mistake "shapshot" -> "snapshot"
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Add a typedef to for the fastop function prototype to make the code more
readable.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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It also helps eliminate some duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The function now has a single caller, so there is no point
in keeping it separate.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Walk the host page tables to identify hugepage mappings for ZONE_DEVICE
pfns, i.e. DAX pages. Explicitly query kvm_is_zone_device_pfn() when
deciding whether or not to bother walking the host page tables, as DAX
pages do not set up the head/tail infrastructure, i.e. will return false
for PageCompound() even when using huge pages.
Zap ZONE_DEVICE sptes when disabling dirty logging, e.g. if live
migration fails, to allow KVM to rebuild large pages for DAX-based
mappings. Presumably DAX favors large pages, and worst case scenario is
a minor performance hit as KVM will need to re-fault all DAX-based
pages.
Suggested-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Zeng <jason.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Remove the late "lpage is disallowed" check from set_spte() now that the
initial check is performed after acquiring mmu_lock. Fold the guts of
the remaining helper, __mmu_gfn_lpage_is_disallowed(), into
kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust() to eliminate the unnecessary slot !NULL check.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Fold max_mapping_level() into kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust() now that HugeTLB
mappings are handled in kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust(), i.e. there isn't a
need to pre-calculate the max mapping level. Co-locating all hugepage
checks eliminates a memslot lookup, at the cost of performing the
__mmu_gfn_lpage_is_disallowed() checks while holding mmu_lock.
The latency of lpage_is_disallowed() is likely negligible relative to
the rest of the code run while holding mmu_lock, and can be offset to
some extent by eliminating the mmu_gfn_lpage_is_disallowed() check in
set_spte() in a future patch. Eliminating the check in set_spte() is
made possible by performing the initial lpage_is_disallowed() checks
while holding mmu_lock.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Zap any compound page, e.g. THP or HugeTLB pages, when zapping sptes
that can potentially be converted to huge sptes after disabling dirty
logging on the associated memslot. Note, this approach could result in
false positives, e.g. if a random compound page is mapped into the
guest, but mapping non-huge compound pages into the guest is far from
the norm, and toggling dirty logging is not a frequent operation.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Remove logic to retrieve the original gfn now that HugeTLB mappings are
are identified in FNAME(fetch), i.e. FNAME(page_fault) no longer adjusts
the level or gfn.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Remove KVM's HugeTLB specific logic and instead rely on walking the host
page tables (already done for THP) to identify HugeTLB mappings.
Eliminating the HugeTLB-only logic avoids taking mmap_sem and calling
find_vma() for all hugepage compatible page faults, and simplifies KVM's
page fault code by consolidating all hugepage adjustments into a common
helper.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Remove fast_page_fault()'s optimization to stop the shadow walk if the
iterator level drops below the intended map level. The intended map
level is only acccurate for HugeTLB mappings (THP mappings are detected
after fast_page_fault()), i.e. it's not required for correctness, and
a future patch will also move HugeTLB mapping detection to after
fast_page_fault().
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Explicitly walk the host page tables to identify THP mappings instead
of relying solely on the metadata in struct page. This sets the stage
for using a common method of identifying huge mappings regardless of the
underlying implementation (HugeTLB vs THB vs DAX), and hopefully avoids
the pitfalls of relying on metadata to identify THP mappings, e.g. see
commit 169226f7e0d2 ("mm: thp: handle page cache THP correctly in
PageTransCompoundMap") and the need for KVM to explicitly check for a
THP compound page. KVM will also naturally work with 1gb THP pages, if
they are ever supported.
Walking the tables for THP mappings is likely marginally slower than
querying metadata, but a future patch will reuse the walk to identify
HugeTLB mappings, at which point eliminating the existing VMA lookup for
HugeTLB will make this a net positive.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Refactor transparent_hugepage_adjust() in preparation for walking the
host page tables to identify hugepage mappings, initially for THP pages,
and eventualy for HugeTLB and DAX-backed pages as well. The latter
cases support 1gb pages, i.e. the adjustment logic needs access to the
max allowed level.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Add a helper, lookup_address_in_mm(), to traverse the page tables of a
given mm struct. KVM will use the helper to retrieve the host mapping
level, e.g. 4k vs. 2mb vs. 1gb, of a compound (or DAX-backed) page
without having to resort to implementation specific metadata. E.g. KVM
currently uses different logic for HugeTLB vs. THP, and would add a
third variant for DAX-backed files.
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Use kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_hva() when retrieving the host page size so that the
correct set of memslots is used when handling x86 page faults in SMM.
Fixes: 54bf36aac520 ("KVM: x86: use vcpu-specific functions to read/write/translate GFNs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Add a helper, is_transparent_hugepage(), to explicitly check whether a
compound page is a THP and use it when populating KVM's secondary MMU.
The explicit check fixes a bug where a remapped compound page, e.g. for
an XDP Rx socket, is mapped into a KVM guest and is mistaken for a THP,
which results in KVM incorrectly creating a huge page in its secondary
MMU.
Fixes: 936a5fe6e6148 ("thp: kvm mmu transparent hugepage support")
Reported-by: syzbot+c9d1fb51ac9d0d10c39d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Limit KVM's mapping level for HugeTLB based on its calculated max_level.
The max_level check prior to invoking host_mapping_level() only filters
out the case where KVM cannot create a 2mb mapping, it doesn't handle
the scenario where KVM can create a 2mb but not 1gb mapping, and the
host is using a 1gb HugeTLB mapping.
Fixes: 2f57b7051fe8 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Persist gfn_lpage_is_disallowed() to max_level")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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kvm_vector_hashing_enabled() is just called in kvm.ko module.
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <richard.peng@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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vmx_set_segment() clears segment cache unconditionally, so we should not
clear it again by calling vmx_segment_cache_clear().
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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These two conditions are in conflict, adding 'else' to reduce checking.
Signed-off-by: Haiwei Li <lihaiwei@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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According to section "Checks on Guest Control Registers, Debug Registers, and
and MSRs" in Intel SDM vol 3C, the following checks are performed on vmentry
of nested guests:
If the "load debug controls" VM-entry control is 1, bits 63:32 in the DR7
field must be 0.
In KVM, GUEST_DR7 is set prior to the vmcs02 VM-entry by kvm_set_dr() and the
latter synthesizes a #GP if any bit in the high dword in the former is set.
Hence this field needs to be checked in software.
Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The helper x86_set_memory_region() is only used in vmx_set_tss_addr()
and kvm_arch_destroy_vm(). Push the lock upper in both cases. With
that, drop x86_set_memory_region().
This prepares to allow __x86_set_memory_region() to return a HVA
mapped, because the HVA will need to be protected by the lock too even
after __x86_set_memory_region() returns.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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We've already got the slots_lock, so we should be safe.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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nested_enable_evmcs()
In nested_enable_evmcs() evmcs_already_enabled check doesn't really do
anything: controls are already sanitized and we return '0' regardless.
Just drop the check.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Remove the CONFIG_X86_64 condition from the low level non-canonical
helpers to effectively enable non-canonical checks on 32-bit KVM.
Non-canonical checks are performed by hardware if the CPU *supports*
64-bit mode, whether or not the CPU is actually in 64-bit mode is
irrelevant.
For the most part, skipping non-canonical checks on 32-bit KVM is ok-ish
because 32-bit KVM always (hopefully) drops bits 63:32 of whatever value
it's checking before propagating it to hardware, and architecturally,
the expected behavior for the guest is a bit of a grey area since the
vCPU itself doesn't support 64-bit mode. I.e. a 32-bit KVM guest can
observe the missed checks in several paths, e.g. INVVPID and VM-Enter,
but it's debatable whether or not the missed checks constitute a bug
because technically the vCPU doesn't support 64-bit mode.
The primary motivation for enabling the non-canonical checks is defense
in depth. As mentioned above, a guest can trigger a missed check via
INVVPID or VM-Enter. INVVPID is straightforward as it takes a 64-bit
virtual address as part of its 128-bit INVVPID descriptor and fails if
the address is non-canonical, even if INVVPID is executed in 32-bit PM.
Nested VM-Enter is a bit more convoluted as it requires the guest to
write natural width VMCS fields via memory accesses and then VMPTRLD the
VMCS, but it's still possible. In both cases, KVM is saved from a true
bug only because its flows that propagate values to hardware (correctly)
take "unsigned long" parameters and so drop bits 63:32 of the bad value.
Explicitly performing the non-canonical checks makes it less likely that
a bad value will be propagated to hardware, e.g. in the INVVPID case,
if __invvpid() didn't implicitly drop bits 63:32 then KVM would BUG() on
the resulting unexpected INVVPID failure due to hardware rejecting the
non-canonical address.
The only downside to enabling the non-canonical checks is that it adds a
relatively small amount of overhead, but the affected flows are not hot
paths, i.e. the overhead is negligible.
Note, KVM technically could gate the non-canonical checks on 32-bit KVM
with static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LM), but on bare metal that's an even
bigger waste of code for everyone except the 0.00000000000001% of the
population running on Yonah, and nested 32-bit on 64-bit already fudges
things with respect to 64-bit CPU behavior.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
[Also do so in nested_vmx_check_host_state as reported by Krish. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Writes to MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CONTROL should never fail if the VM-exit
and VM-entry controls are exposed to L1. Promote the checks to perform a
full WARN if kvm_set_msr() fails and remove the now unused macro
SET_MSR_OR_WARN().
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Remove an unused struct x86_emulate_ctxt * param from low level helpers
used to access guest FPU state. The unused param was left behind by
commit 6ab0b9feb82a ("x86,kvm: remove KVM emulator get_fpu / put_fpu").
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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