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authorPatrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>2017-11-08 18:41:01 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-09 07:35:08 +0100
commit765cc3a4b224e22bf524fabe40284a524f37cdd0 (patch)
tree1b02f1fd33a924d961d806f337c246542e6ef88e /Makefile
parent8a103df440afea30c91ebd42e61dc644e647f4bd (diff)
sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds
When the kernel is compiled with !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG support, we expect that all SCHED_FEAT are turned into compile time constants being propagated to support compiler optimizations. Specifically, we expect that code blocks like this: if (sched_feat(FEATURE_NAME) [&& <other_conditions>]) { /* FEATURE CODE */ } are turned into dead-code in case FEATURE_NAME defaults to FALSE, and thus being removed by the compiler from the finale image. For this mechanism to properly work it's required for the compiler to have full access, from each translation unit, to whatever is the value defined by the sched_feat macro. This macro is defined as: #define sched_feat(x) (sysctl_sched_features & (1UL << __SCHED_FEAT_##x)) and thus, the compiler can optimize that code only if the value of sysctl_sched_features is visible within each translation unit. Since: 029632fbb ("sched: Make separate sched*.c translation units") the scheduler code has been split into separate translation units however the definition of sysctl_sched_features is part of kernel/sched/core.c while, for all the other scheduler modules, it is visible only via kernel/sched/sched.h as an: extern const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_features Unfortunately, an extern reference does not allow the compiler to apply constants propagation. Thus, on !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG kernel we still end up with code to load a memory reference and (eventually) doing an unconditional jump of a chunk of code. This mechanism is unavoidable when sched_features can be turned on and off at run-time. However, this is not the case for "production" kernels compiled with !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. In this case, sysctl_sched_features is just a constant value which cannot be changed at run-time and thus memory loads and jumps can be avoided altogether. This patch fixes the case of !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG kernel by declaring a local version of the sysctl_sched_features constant for each translation unit. This will ultimately allow the compiler to perform constants propagation and dead-code pruning. Tests have been done, with !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG on a v4.14-rc8 with and without the patch, by running 30 iterations of: perf bench sched messaging --pipe --thread --group 4 --loop 50000 on a 40 cores Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz using the powersave governor to rule out variations due to frequency scaling. Statistics on the reported completion time: count mean std min 99% max v4.14-rc8 30.0 15.7831 0.176032 15.442 16.01226 16.014 v4.14-rc8+patch 30.0 15.5033 0.189681 15.232 15.93938 15.962 ... show a 1.8% speedup on average completion time and 0.5% speedup in the 99 percentile. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171108184101.16006-1-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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