[GIT pull] scheduler fix for 4.17

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun May 13 2018 - 08:09:29 EST


Linus,

please pull the latest sched-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched-urgent-for-linus

Revert the new NUMA aware placement approach which turned out to create
more problems than it solved.

Thanks,

tglx

------------------>
Mel Gorman (1):
Revert "sched/numa: Delay retrying placement for automatic NUMA balance after wake_affine()"


kernel/sched/fair.c | 57 +----------------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 54dc31e7ab9b..f43627c6bb3d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1854,7 +1854,6 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
static void numa_migrate_preferred(struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long interval = HZ;
- unsigned long numa_migrate_retry;

/* This task has no NUMA fault statistics yet */
if (unlikely(p->numa_preferred_nid == -1 || !p->numa_faults))
@@ -1862,18 +1861,7 @@ static void numa_migrate_preferred(struct task_struct *p)

/* Periodically retry migrating the task to the preferred node */
interval = min(interval, msecs_to_jiffies(p->numa_scan_period) / 16);
- numa_migrate_retry = jiffies + interval;
-
- /*
- * Check that the new retry threshold is after the current one. If
- * the retry is in the future, it implies that wake_affine has
- * temporarily asked NUMA balancing to backoff from placement.
- */
- if (numa_migrate_retry > p->numa_migrate_retry)
- return;
-
- /* Safe to try placing the task on the preferred node */
- p->numa_migrate_retry = numa_migrate_retry;
+ p->numa_migrate_retry = jiffies + interval;

/* Success if task is already running on preferred CPU */
if (task_node(p) == p->numa_preferred_nid)
@@ -5922,48 +5910,6 @@ wake_affine_weight(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
return this_eff_load < prev_eff_load ? this_cpu : nr_cpumask_bits;
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
-static void
-update_wa_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int target)
-{
- unsigned long interval;
-
- if (!static_branch_likely(&sched_numa_balancing))
- return;
-
- /* If balancing has no preference then continue gathering data */
- if (p->numa_preferred_nid == -1)
- return;
-
- /*
- * If the wakeup is not affecting locality then it is neutral from
- * the perspective of NUMA balacing so continue gathering data.
- */
- if (cpu_to_node(prev_cpu) == cpu_to_node(target))
- return;
-
- /*
- * Temporarily prevent NUMA balancing trying to place waker/wakee after
- * wakee has been moved by wake_affine. This will potentially allow
- * related tasks to converge and update their data placement. The
- * 4 * numa_scan_period is to allow the two-pass filter to migrate
- * hot data to the wakers node.
- */
- interval = max(sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay,
- p->numa_scan_period << 2);
- p->numa_migrate_retry = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(interval);
-
- interval = max(sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay,
- current->numa_scan_period << 2);
- current->numa_migrate_retry = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(interval);
-}
-#else
-static void
-update_wa_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int target)
-{
-}
-#endif
-
static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
{
@@ -5979,7 +5925,6 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
if (target == nr_cpumask_bits)
return prev_cpu;

- update_wa_numa_placement(p, prev_cpu, target);
schedstat_inc(sd->ttwu_move_affine);
schedstat_inc(p->se.statistics.nr_wakeups_affine);
return target;