Re: [PATCH v2] sched/task_group: Re-layout structure to reduce false sharing

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 01:47:56PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:

> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > index ec7b3e0a2b20..4fbd4b3a4bdd 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > @@ -389,6 +389,19 @@ struct task_group {
> >  #endif
> >  #endif
> >  
> > +	struct rcu_head		rcu;
> > +	struct list_head	list;
> > +
> > +	struct list_head	siblings;
> > +	struct list_head	children;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * To reduce false sharing, current layout is optimized to make
> > +	 * sure load_avg is in a different cacheline from parent, rt_se
> > +	 * and rt_rq.
> > +	 */

That comment is misleading I think; you don't particularly care about
those fields more than any other active fields that would cause false
sharing.

> > +	struct task_group	*parent;
> > +
> 
> I wonder if we can simply do:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index ec7b3e0a2b20..31b73e8d9568 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -385,7 +385,9 @@ struct task_group {
>  	 * it in its own cacheline separated from the fields above which
>  	 * will also be accessed at each tick.
>  	 */
> -	atomic_long_t		load_avg ____cacheline_aligned;
> +	struct {
> +		atomic_long_t		load_avg;
> +	} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
>  #endif
>  #endif
> 
> This way it can make sure there is no false sharing with load_avg no
> matter how the layout of this structure changes in the future.

This. Also, ISTR there was a series to split this atomic across nodes;
whatever happend to that, and can we still measure an improvement over
this with that approach?