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Mel Gorman 5d4cf996cf sched: Assign correct scheduling domain to 'sd_llc' ... Commit 42eb088e (sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy) corrected a NULL dereference on sd_busy but the fix also altered what scheduling domain it used for the 'sd_llc' percpu variable. One impact of this is that a task selecting a runqueue may consider idle CPUs that are not cache siblings as candidates for running. Tasks are then running on CPUs that are not cache hot. This was found through bisection where ebizzy threads were not seeing equal performance and it looked like a scheduling fairness issue. This patch mitigates but does not completely fix the problem on all machines tested implying there may be an additional bug or a common root cause. Here are the average range of performance seen by individual ebizzy threads. It was tested on top of candidate patches related to x86 TLB range flushing. 4-core machine 3.13.0-rc3 3.13.0-rc3 vanilla fixsd-v3r3 Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Mean 2 0.34 ( 0.00%) 0.10 ( 70.59%) Mean 3 1.29 ( 0.00%) 0.93 ( 27.91%) Mean 4 7.08 ( 0.00%) 0.77 ( 89.12%) Mean 5 193.54 ( 0.00%) 2.14 ( 98.89%) Mean 6 151.12 ( 0.00%) 2.06 ( 98.64%) Mean 7 115.38 ( 0.00%) 2.04 ( 98.23%) Mean 8 108.65 ( 0.00%) 1.92 ( 98.23%) 8-core machine Mean 1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Mean 2 0.40 ( 0.00%) 0.21 ( 47.50%) Mean 3 23.73 ( 0.00%) 0.89 ( 96.25%) Mean 4 12.79 ( 0.00%) 1.04 ( 91.87%) Mean 5 13.08 ( 0.00%) 2.42 ( 81.50%) Mean 6 23.21 ( 0.00%) 69.46 (-199.27%) Mean 7 15.85 ( 0.00%) 101.72 (-541.77%) Mean 8 109.37 ( 0.00%) 19.13 ( 82.51%) Mean 12 124.84 ( 0.00%) 28.62 ( 77.07%) Mean 16 113.50 ( 0.00%) 24.16 ( 78.71%) It's eliminated for one machine and reduced for another. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217092124.GV11295@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>		2013-12-17 15:08:43 +01:00
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cpu	sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count	2013-09-25 14:07:49 +02:00
debug	kdb: Add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDB	2013-10-03 18:47:54 +02:00
events	perf: Remove fragile swevent hlist optimization	2013-11-19 16:57:42 +01:00
gcov	gcov: reuse kbasename helper	2013-11-13 12:09:34 +09:00
irq	Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2013-12-02 10:15:39 -08:00
locking	locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static	2013-11-13 13:50:17 +01:00
power	Merge branch 'pm-sleep'	2013-11-19 01:07:08 +01:00
printk	printk.c: comments should refer to /proc/vmcore instead of /proc/vmcoreinfo	2013-11-13 12:09:14 +09:00
rcu	NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz enabled	2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
sched	sched: Assign correct scheduling domain to 'sd_llc'	2013-12-17 15:08:43 +01:00
time	nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off	2013-11-29 12:23:03 +01:00
trace	A regression showed up that there's a large delay when enabling	2013-12-06 08:34:16 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit.c	Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit	2013-11-21 19:18:14 -08:00
audit.h	audit: call audit_bprm() only once to add AUDIT_EXECVE information	2013-11-05 11:15:03 -05:00
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c	audit: do not reject all AUDIT_INODE filter types	2013-11-05 11:09:16 -05:00
auditsc.c	audit: fix type of sessionid in audit_set_loginuid()	2013-11-06 11:47:24 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c	kernel/bounds: avoid circular dependencies in generated headers	2013-11-19 14:20:12 -08:00
capability.c	xfs: update for v3.12-rc1	2013-09-09 11:19:09 -07:00
cgroup.c	cgroup: fix cgroup_subsys_state leak for seq_files	2013-11-27 18:16:21 -05:00
cgroup_freezer.c	cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in the iteration	2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c	Linux 3.12-rc4	2013-10-09 12:36:13 +02:00
cpu.c	Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2013-11-14 16:55:11 +09:00
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c	cpuset: Fix memory allocator deadlock	2013-11-27 13:52:47 -05:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c	kernel/delayacct.c: remove redundant checking in __delayacct_add_tsk()	2013-11-13 12:09:12 +09:00
dma.c
elfcore.c	switch elf_core_write_extra_phdrs() to dump_emit()	2013-11-09 00:16:23 -05:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c	kernel/extable: fix address-checks for core_kernel and init areas	2013-11-28 09:49:41 -08:00
fork.c	mm: implement split page table lock for PMD level	2013-11-15 09:32:15 +09:00
freezer.c	freezer: set PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag on tasks that call freeze_processes	2013-07-30 14:05:06 +02:00
futex.c	locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/	2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c	userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy	2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c	Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC	2013-11-15 13:51:36 +09:00
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c	static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called	2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz	kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS	2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial	2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
kmod.c	kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec()	2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
kprobes.c	kprobes: use KSYM_NAME_LEN to size identifier buffers	2013-11-13 12:09:26 +09:00
ksysfs.c	kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()	2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
kthread.c	kthread: make kthread_create() killable	2013-11-13 12:08:59 +09:00
latencytop.c
Makefile	Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security	2013-11-21 19:46:00 -08:00
module-internal.h	KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing	2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
module.c	Mainly boring here, too. rmmod --wait finally removed, though.	2013-11-15 13:27:50 +09:00
module_signing.c	keys: change asymmetric keys to use common hash definitions	2013-10-25 17:15:18 -04:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace	2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
padata.c	padata: make the sequence counter an atomic_t	2013-10-30 12:02:58 +08:00
panic.c	kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer	2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
params.c	kernel/params: fix handling of signed integer types	2013-09-28 12:35:52 -07:00
pid.c	pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure	2013-09-30 14:31:03 -07:00
pid_namespace.c	pid_namespace: make freeing struct pid_namespace rcu-delayed	2013-10-24 23:43:29 -04:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
profile.c
ptrace.c	exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests	2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
range.c
reboot.c	kernel/reboot.c: re-enable the function of variable reboot_default	2013-09-24 17:00:26 -07:00
relay.c
res_counter.c	memcg: reduce function dereference	2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
resource.c
seccomp.c
signal.c	constify copy_siginfo_to_user{,32}()	2013-11-09 00:16:29 -05:00
smp.c	kernel: fix generic_exec_single indentation	2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c	revert "softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs"	2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c	stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()	2013-11-11 12:43:38 +01:00
sys.c	kernel/sys.c: remove obsolete #include <linux/kexec.h>	2013-11-13 12:09:13 +09:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c	Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2013-11-14 16:30:30 +09:00
sysctl_binary.c	kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()	2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
system_certificates.S	kernel/system_certificate.S: use real contents instead of macro GLOBAL()	2013-10-30 12:58:00 +00:00
system_keyring.c	KEYS: Make the system 'trusted' keyring viewable by userspace	2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
task_work.c	task_work: documentation	2013-09-11 15:58:27 -07:00
taskstats.c	genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops()	2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.bc
timer.c	timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)	2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c	userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy	2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
up.c	kernel: provide a __smp_call_function_single stub for !CONFIG_SMP	2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c	KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches	2013-09-24 10:35:19 +01:00
user_namespace.c	KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches	2013-09-24 10:35:19 +01:00
utsname.c	userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy	2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c	watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly	2013-09-24 17:00:25 -07:00
workqueue.c	workqueue: fix pool ID allocation leakage and remove BUILD_BUG_ON() in init_workqueues	2013-11-22 18:14:47 -05:00
workqueue_internal.h