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2023-12-06cgroup/cpuset: Include isolated cpuset CPUs in cpu_is_isolated() checkWaiman Long
Currently, the cpu_is_isolated() function checks only the statically isolated CPUs specified via the "isolcpus" and "nohz_full" kernel command line options. This function is used by vmstat and memcg to reduce interference with isolated CPUs by not doing stat flushing or scheduling works on those CPUs. Workloads running on isolated CPUs within isolated cpuset partitions should receive the same treatment to reduce unnecessary interference. This patch introduces a new cpuset_cpu_is_isolated() function to be called by cpu_is_isolated() so that the set of dynamically created cpuset isolated CPUs will be included in the check. Assuming that testing a bit in a cpumask is atomic, no synchronization primitive is currently used to synchronize access to the cpuset's isolated_cpus mask. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-04-18sched/isolation: add cpu_is_isolated() APIFrederic Weisbecker
Patch series "memcg, cpuisol: do not interfere pcp cache charges draining with cpuisol workloads". Leonardo has reported [1] that pcp memcg charge draining can interfere with cpu isolated workloads. The said draining is done from a WQ context with a pcp worker scheduled on each CPU which holds any cached charges for a specific memcg hierarchy. Operation is not really a common operation [2]. It can be triggered from the userspace though so some care is definitely due. Leonardo has tried to address the issue by allowing remote charge draining [3]. This approach requires an additional locking to synchronize pcp caches sync from a remote cpu from local pcp consumers. Even though the proposed lock was per-cpu there is still potential for contention and less predictable behavior. This patchset addresses the issue from a different angle. Rather than dealing with a potential synchronization, cpus which are isolated are simply never scheduled to be drained. This means that a small amount of charges could be laying around and waiting for a later use or they are flushed when a different memcg is charged from the same cpu. More details are in patch 2. The first patch from Frederic is implementing an abstraction to tell whether a specific cpu has been isolated and therefore require a special treatment. This patch (of 2): Provide this new API to check if a CPU has been isolated either through isolcpus= or nohz_full= kernel parameter. It aims at avoiding kernel load deemed to be safely spared on CPUs running sensitive workload that can't bear any disturbance, such as pcp cache draining. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230317134448.11082-1-mhocko@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230317134448.11082-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-02-16sched/isolation: Use single feature type while referring to housekeeping cpumaskFrederic Weisbecker
Refer to housekeeping APIs using single feature types instead of flags. This prevents from passing multiple isolation features at once to housekeeping interfaces, which soon won't be possible anymore as each isolation features will have their own cpumask. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-5-frederic@kernel.org
2020-06-15isolcpus: Affine unbound kernel threads to housekeeping cpusMarcelo Tosatti
This is a kernel enhancement that configures the cpu affinity of kernel threads via kernel boot option nohz_full=. When this option is specified, the cpumask is immediately applied upon kthread launch. This does not affect kernel threads that specify cpu and node. This allows CPU isolation (that is not allowing certain threads to execute on certain CPUs) without using the isolcpus=domain parameter, making it possible to enable load balancing on such CPUs during runtime (see kernel-parameters.txt). Note-1: this is based off on Wind River's patch at https://github.com/starlingx-staging/stx-integ/blob/master/kernel/kernel-std/centos/patches/affine-compute-kernel-threads.patch Difference being that this patch is limited to modifying kernel thread cpumask. Behaviour of other threads can be controlled via cgroups or sched_setaffinity. Note-2: Wind River's patch was based off Christoph Lameter's patch at https://lwn.net/Articles/565932/ with the only difference being the kernel parameter changed from kthread to kthread_cpus. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-3-frederic@kernel.org
2020-01-22genirq, sched/isolation: Isolate from handling managed interruptsMing Lei
The affinity of managed interrupts is completely handled in the kernel and cannot be changed via the /proc/irq/* interfaces from user space. As the kernel tries to spread out interrupts evenly accross CPUs on x86 to prevent vector exhaustion, it can happen that a managed interrupt whose affinity mask contains both isolated and housekeeping CPUs is routed to an isolated CPU. As a consequence IO submitted on a housekeeping CPU causes interrupts on the isolated CPU. Add a new sub-parameter 'managed_irq' for 'isolcpus' and the corresponding logic in the interrupt affinity selection code. The subparameter indicates to the interrupt affinity selection logic that it should try to avoid the above scenario. This isolation is best effort and only effective if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a device queue contains isolated and housekeeping CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU cannot disturb the isolated CPU. If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are only happening when tasks running on those isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those queues. If the affinity mask contains both housekeeping and isolated CPUs, but none of the contained housekeeping CPUs is online, then the interrupt is also routed to an isolated CPU. Interrupts are only delivered when one of the isolated CPUs in the affinity mask submits IO. If one of the contained housekeeping CPUs comes online, the CPU hotplug logic migrates the interrupt automatically back to the upcoming housekeeping CPU. Depending on the type of interrupt controller, this can require that at least one interrupt is delivered to the isolated CPU in order to complete the migration. [ tglx: Removed unused parameter, added and edited comments/documentation and rephrased the changelog so it contains more details. ] Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120091625.17912-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
2019-07-20KVM: LAPIC: Inject timer interrupt via posted interruptWanpeng Li
Dedicated instances are currently disturbed by unnecessary jitter due to the emulated lapic timers firing on the same pCPUs where the vCPUs reside. There is no hardware virtual timer on Intel for guest like ARM, so both programming timer in guest and the emulated timer fires incur vmexits. This patch tries to avoid vmexit when the emulated timer fires, at least in dedicated instance scenario when nohz_full is enabled. In that case, the emulated timers can be offload to the nearest busy housekeeping cpus since APICv has been found for several years in server processors. The guest timer interrupt can then be injected via posted interrupts, which are delivered by the housekeeping cpu once the emulated timer fires. The host should tuned so that vCPUs are placed on isolated physical processors, and with several pCPUs surplus for busy housekeeping. If disabled mwait/hlt/pause vmexits keep the vCPUs in non-root mode, ~3% redis performance benefit can be observed on Skylake server, and the number of external interrupt vmexits drops substantially. Without patch VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 42916 49.43% 39.30% 0.47us 106.09us 0.71us ( +- 1.09% ) While with patch: VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 6871 9.29% 2.96% 0.44us 57.88us 0.72us ( +- 4.02% ) Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-12-03sched: Fix various typos in commentsIngo Molnar
Go over the scheduler source code and fix common typos in comments - and a typo in an actual variable name. No change in functionality intended. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-21sched/isolation: Isolate workqueues when "nohz_full=" is setFrederic Weisbecker
As we prepare for offloading the residual 1hz scheduler ticks to workqueue, let's affine those to housekeepers so that they don't interrupt the CPUs that don't want to be disturbed. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519186649-3242-5-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Move isolcpus= handling to the housekeeping codeFrederic Weisbecker
We want to centralize the isolation features, to be done by the housekeeping subsystem and scheduler domain isolation is a significant part of it. No intended behaviour change, we just reuse the housekeeping cpumask and core code. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-11-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameterFrederic Weisbecker
We want to centralize the isolation management, done by the housekeeping subsystem. Therefore we need to handle the nohz_full= parameter from there. Since nohz_full= so far has involved unbound timers, watchdog, RCU and tilegx NAPI isolation, we keep that default behaviour. nohz_full= will be deprecated in the future. We want to control the isolation features from the isolcpus= parameter. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-10-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Introduce housekeeping flagsFrederic Weisbecker
Before we implement isolcpus under housekeeping, we need the isolation features to be more finegrained. For example some people want NOHZ_FULL without the full scheduler isolation, others want full scheduler isolation without NOHZ_FULL. So let's cut all these isolation features piecewise, at the risk of overcutting it right now. We can still merge some flags later if they always make sense together. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-9-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Split out new CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y config from ↵Frederic Weisbecker
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL Split the housekeeping config from CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. This way we finally separate the isolation code from NOHZ. Although a dependency to CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL remains for now, while the housekeeping code still deals with NOHZ internals. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-8-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Rename is_housekeeping_cpu() to housekeeping_cpu()Frederic Weisbecker
Fit it into the housekeeping_*() namespace. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-7-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Use its own static keyFrederic Weisbecker
Housekeeping code still depends on the nohz_full static key. Since we want to decouple housekeeping from NOHZ, let's create a housekeeping specific static key. It's mostly relevant for calls to is_housekeeping_cpu() from the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-6-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Make the housekeeping cpumask privateFrederic Weisbecker
Nobody needs to access this detail. housekeeping_cpumask() already takes care of it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-5-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Provide a dynamic off-case to housekeeping_any_cpu()Frederic Weisbecker
housekeeping_any_cpu() doesn't handle correctly the case where CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y and no CPU is in nohz_full mode. So far no caller needs this but let's prepare to avoid any future surprise. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-4-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27sched/isolation: Move housekeeping related code to its own fileFrederic Weisbecker
The housekeeping code is currently tied to the NOHZ code. As we are planning to make housekeeping independent from it, start with moving the relevant code to its own file. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-2-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>