From nobody Fri Oct 3 06:35:02 2025 Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [198.175.65.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97EC53D3B3 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2025 02:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.175.65.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756953739; cv=none; b=BvYSWsZbg/4oEcMWW99XTARCgcVflUJhLdpMxQoqnAU+ncNADQHbCNbkHlWxxa4ZkaKWHf2FZPawL/ecYxv2jO7rMRhU1nv7UkC7JXoLlbW0CGcS/JJDpRqeGdD2iUohau/iOKyrEiWXVTbsmshNFPiCMZOiidCHV6D3KRMivl4= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756953739; c=relaxed/simple; bh=MmlMyUM/g9OdYnI+5g+ZZTqkAmkUxSVm2SO5V2HqfwE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=pzL8F/Cb96X50UT3gaIFCdexOXRSM62GWMZJ9aDhYIgFb1/q3kVseOhkauw1B1a0cpz/CtI42nHWpsMID4mRFgB4tObDJrCfRECIqUeiBeepYx+EkObfdYz6DDBGB1MSRJxVb11HlymxnCRY/3f3GOSzJyxyS+5TDZn3G7mZw+I= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=intel.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=intel.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b=Qw/YU7pH; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.175.65.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b="Qw/YU7pH" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1756953738; x=1788489738; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding; bh=MmlMyUM/g9OdYnI+5g+ZZTqkAmkUxSVm2SO5V2HqfwE=; b=Qw/YU7pHEHFGLGLgAJL7tnxIE4391csOnoOfX8BLT5FNdZSEEcZXg8dy 8JFR+cX6Rh2VvkD2Q6EFIg0qkPsy0u/FhBgyhbaemHNuYupDDDhwCxQGJ TaLZJeM5ZguM4bEb4R9aKLxTxkjpRGLSr7q8QcZ1UaDmALSoj4fZR2RY/ +ujQiP9cixKAW2d8DNlaPy09gSmqIukw0cqLoYdkkxxjm5IlPGmuSPYva d/URb7pYP0kDDikRxlQKYPZnly4jdYw3iN+2bVjjh8IZp1skAUEpGxhYf JLEjea/BznX6+n6uYA3HgwgkhgWyUhxqTApio91j7B6WrQLEcL8kfCH9j g==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: pagf3Tp0S1aAuJM6A/PCJQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: j/+7J/yHQPaqQXqXTgMw6g== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11531"; a="59349813" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.17,312,1747724400"; d="scan'208";a="59349813" Received: from fmviesa006.fm.intel.com ([10.60.135.146]) by orvoesa110.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 03 Sep 2025 19:42:18 -0700 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: S7CXBptjROqXRp4VmnUpQg== X-CSE-MsgGUID: 7dTdGjlxQZGkZ4R2I7fDcw== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.18,237,1751266800"; d="scan'208";a="171694568" Received: from linux-pnp-server-17.sh.intel.com ([10.239.166.49]) by fmviesa006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Sep 2025 19:42:13 -0700 From: Pan Deng To: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, vschneid@redhat.com, tianyou.li@intel.com, yu.c.chen@intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, pan.deng@intel.com Subject: [PATCH v3] sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_vec layout to mitigate cache line contention Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 10:46:28 +0800 Message-ID: <20250904024630.458897-1-pan.deng@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.5 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When running a multi-instance FFmpeg workload on an HCC system, significant cache line contention is observed around `cpupri_vec->count` and `mask` in struct root_domain. The SUT is a 2-socket machine with 240 physical cores and 480 logical CPUs. 60 FFmpeg instances are launched, each pinned to 4 physical cores (8 logical CPUs) for transcoding tasks. Sub-threads use RT priority 99 with FIFO scheduling. FPS is used as score. perf c2c tool reveals: root_domain cache line 3: - `cpupri->pri_to_cpu[0].count` (offset 0x38) is heavily loaded/stored and contends with other fields, since counts[0] is more frequently updated than others along with a rt task enqueues an empty runq or dequeues from a non-overloaded runq. - cycles per load: ~10K to 59K cpupri's last cache line: - `cpupri_vec->count` and `mask` contends. The transcoding threads use rt pri 99, so that the contention occurs in the end. - cycles per load: ~1.5K to 10.5K This change mitigates `cpupri_vec->count`, `mask` related contentions by separating each count and mask into different cache lines. As a result: - FPS improves by ~11% - Kernel cycles% drops from ~20% to ~11% - `count` and `mask` related cache line contention is mitigated, perf c2c shows root_domain cache line 3 `cycles per load` drops from ~10K-59K to ~0.5K-8K, cpupri's last cache line no longer appears in the report. - stress-ng cyclic benchmark is improved ~31.4%, command: stress-ng/stress-ng --cyclic $(nproc) --cyclic-policy fifo \ --timeout 30 --minimize --metrics - rt-tests/pi_stress is improved ~76.5%, command: rt-tests/pi_stress -D 30 -g $(($(nproc) / 2)) - sched_normal tests hackbench and schbench are unaffected. Appendix: 1. Current layout of contended data structure: struct root_domain { ... struct irq_work rto_push_work; /* 120 32 */ /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) was 24 bytes ago --- */ raw_spinlock_t rto_lock; /* 152 4 */ int rto_loop; /* 156 4 */ int rto_cpu; /* 160 4 */ atomic_t rto_loop_next; /* 164 4 */ atomic_t rto_loop_start; /* 168 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ cpumask_var_t rto_mask; /* 176 8 */ /* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) was 8 bytes hence --- */ struct cpupri cpupri; /* 184 1624 */ /* --- cacheline 28 boundary (1792 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */ struct perf_domain * pd; /* 1808 8 */ /* size: 1816, cachelines: 29, members: 21 */ /* sum members: 1802, holes: 3, sum holes: 14 */ /* forced alignments: 1 */ /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); 2. Perf c2c report of root_domain cache line 3: Reviewed-by: Tim Chen ------- ------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------ Rmt Lcl Store Data Load Total Symbol Hitm% Hitm% L1 Hit% offset cycles records ------- ------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------ 353 44 62 0xff14d42c400e3880 ------- ------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------ 0.00% 2.27% 0.00% 0x0 21683 6 __flush_smp_call_function_ 0.00% 2.27% 0.00% 0x0 22294 5 __flush_smp_call_function_ 0.28% 0.00% 0.00% 0x0 0 2 irq_work_queue_on 0.28% 0.00% 0.00% 0x0 27824 4 irq_work_single 0.00% 0.00% 1.61% 0x0 28151 6 irq_work_queue_on 0.57% 0.00% 0.00% 0x18 21822 8 native_queued_spin_lock_sl 0.28% 2.27% 0.00% 0x18 16101 10 native_queued_spin_lock_sl 0.57% 0.00% 0.00% 0x18 33199 5 native_queued_spin_lock_sl 0.00% 0.00% 1.61% 0x18 10908 32 _raw_spin_lock 0.00% 0.00% 1.61% 0x18 59770 2 _raw_spin_lock 0.00% 0.00% 1.61% 0x18 0 1 _raw_spin_unlock 1.42% 0.00% 0.00% 0x20 12918 20 pull_rt_task 0.85% 0.00% 25.81% 0x24 31123 199 pull_rt_task 0.85% 0.00% 3.23% 0x24 38218 24 pull_rt_task 0.57% 4.55% 19.35% 0x28 30558 207 pull_rt_task 0.28% 0.00% 0.00% 0x28 55504 10 pull_rt_task 18.70% 18.18% 0.00% 0x30 26438 291 dequeue_pushable_task 17.28% 22.73% 0.00% 0x30 29347 281 enqueue_pushable_task 1.70% 2.27% 0.00% 0x30 12819 31 enqueue_pushable_task 0.28% 0.00% 0.00% 0x30 17726 18 dequeue_pushable_task 34.56% 29.55% 0.00% 0x38 25509 527 cpupri_find_fitness 13.88% 11.36% 24.19% 0x38 30654 342 cpupri_set 3.12% 2.27% 0.00% 0x38 18093 39 cpupri_set 1.70% 0.00% 0.00% 0x38 37661 52 cpupri_find_fitness 1.42% 2.27% 19.35% 0x38 31110 211 cpupri_set 1.42% 0.00% 1.61% 0x38 45035 31 cpupri_set 3. Perf c2c report of cpupri's last cache line ------- ------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------ Rmt Lcl Store Data Load Total Symbol Hitm% Hitm% L1 Hit% offset cycles records ------- ------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------ 149 43 41 0xff14d42c400e3ec0 ------- ------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------ 8.72% 11.63% 0.00% 0x8 2001 165 cpupri_find_fitness 1.34% 2.33% 0.00% 0x18 1456 151 cpupri_find_fitness 8.72% 9.30% 58.54% 0x28 1744 263 cpupri_set 2.01% 4.65% 41.46% 0x28 1958 301 cpupri_set 1.34% 0.00% 0.00% 0x28 10580 6 cpupri_set 69.80% 67.44% 0.00% 0x30 1754 347 cpupri_set 8.05% 4.65% 0.00% 0x30 2144 256 cpupri_set Signed-off-by: Pan Deng Signed-off-by: Tianyou Li Signed-off-by: Chen Yu Reviewed-by: Tim Chen --- Changes since v1=EF=BC=9A - Use ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp instead of ____cacheline_aligned to avoid wasting memory on UP systems. kernel/sched/cpupri.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpupri.h b/kernel/sched/cpupri.h index 6f562088c056..f6bb74517fd6 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/cpupri.h +++ b/kernel/sched/cpupri.h @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ =20 struct cpupri_vec { atomic_t count; - cpumask_var_t mask; + cpumask_var_t mask ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; }; =20 struct cpupri { --=20 2.43.5