Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:00:50PM +1100, Peter Williams wrote:
Problem:
It is undesirable for HT/MC packages to have more than one of their CPUs
busy if there are other packages that have all of their CPUs idle. This
We need to balance even if the other packages are not idle.. For example,
consider a 4-core DP system, if we have 6 runnable(assume same priority)
processes, we want to schedule 3 of them in each package..
Well I hope that when you do a proper implementation for this issue that
it takes this into account. The current implementation doesn't.
Todays active load balance implementation is very simple and generic. And
hence it works smoothly with dual and multi-core..
The application of active balancing to address your problem in the
current implementation is essentially random.
Please read my OLS
2005 paper which talks about different scheduling scenarios and also how
A URL would be handy.
we were planning to implement Power savings policy incase of multi-core..
I had a prototype patch for doing this, which I held it up before going
on vacation, as it needed some rework with your smpnice patch in place..
I will post a patch ontop of current mainline for your reference.
+ } else if (!busiest_has_loaded_cpus && avg_load < max_load) {
I haven't fully digested the result of this patch but should this be
avg_load < max_load or avg_load > max_load ?
Yes. Thanks for spotting that.
Either way, I can show scheduling scenarios which will fail...
I'd be interested to see the ones that would fail with the corrected
code. I can show lots of examples where load balancing fails to do the
right thing without the smpnice patches so it becomes a matter of which
are more important.
- if (rqi->raw_weighted_load > max_load && rqi->nr_running > 1) {
+ if (rqi->nr_running > 1) {
+ if (rqi->raw_weighted_load > max_load || !busiest_is_loaded) {
+ max_load = rqi->raw_weighted_load;
+ busiest = rqi;
+ busiest_is_loaded = 1;
+ }
+ } else if (!busiest_is_loaded && rqi->raw_weighted_load > max_load) {
Please note the point that same scheduling logic has to work for all
the different levels of scheduler domains... I think these checks complicates
the decisions as we go up in the scheduling hirerachy.. Please go through
the HT/MC/MP/Numa combinations and with same/different priority processes for
different scenarios..
Sometimes complexity is necessary. E.g. to handle the limitations of HT
technology. In this case, the complexity is necessary to make "nice"
work on SMP systems. The thing that broke "nice" on SMP systems was the
adoption of separate run queues for each CPU and backing out that change
in order to fix the problem is not an option so alternative solutions
such as smpnice are required.
Even with no HT and MC, this patch has still has issues in the presence
of different priority tasks... consider a simple DP system and run two
instances of high priority tasks(simple infinite loop) and two normal priority
tasks. With "top" I observed that these normal priority tasks keep on jumping
from one processor to another... Ideally with smpnice, we would assume that
each processor should have two tasks (one high priority and another one
with normal priority) ..
Yes, but you are failing to take into account the effect of the other
tasks on your system (e.g. top) that run from time to time. If their
burst of CPU use happens to coincide with some load balancing activity
they will cause an imbalance to be detected (that is different to that
which only considers your test tasks) and this will result in some tasks
being moved. Beware the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle :-).
Peter
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