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2020-12-15sched: Optimize finish_lock_switch()Peter Zijlstra
The kernel test robot measured a -1.6% performance regression on will-it-scale/sched_yield due to commit: 2558aacff858 ("sched/hotplug: Ensure only per-cpu kthreads run during hotplug") Even though we were careful to replace a single load with another single load from the same cacheline. Restore finish_lock_switch() to the exact state before the offending patch and solve the problem differently. Fixes: 2558aacff858 ("sched/hotplug: Ensure only per-cpu kthreads run during hotplug") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201210161408.GX3021@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
2020-11-24sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RTThomas Gleixner
Now that the scheduler can deal with migrate disable properly, there is no real compelling reason to make it only available for RT. There are quite some code pathes which needlessly disable preemption in order to prevent migration and some constructs like kmap_atomic() enforce it implicitly. Making it available independent of RT allows to provide a preemptible variant of kmap_atomic() and makes the code more consistent in general. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Grudgingly-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.269943012@linutronix.de
2020-11-10sched: Remove select_task_rq()'s sd_flag parameterValentin Schneider
Only select_task_rq_fair() uses that parameter to do an actual domain search, other classes only care about what kind of wakeup is happening (fork, exec, or "regular") and thus just translate the flag into a wakeup type. WF_TTWU and WF_EXEC have just been added, use these along with WF_FORK to encode the wakeup types we care about. For select_task_rq_fair(), we can simply use the shiny new WF_flag : SD_flag mapping. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201102184514.2733-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-11-10sched: Add WF_TTWU, WF_EXEC wakeup flagsValentin Schneider
To remove the sd_flag parameter of select_task_rq(), we need another way of encoding wakeup types. There already is a WF_FORK flag, add the missing two. With that said, we still need an easy way to turn WF_foo into SD_bar (e.g. WF_TTWU into SD_BALANCE_WAKE). As suggested by Peter, let's make our lives easier and make them match exactly, and throw in some compile-time checks for good measure. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201102184514.2733-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-11-10Merge branch 'sched/migrate-disable'Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-10sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs rt/dl balancingPeter Zijlstra
In order to minimize the interference of migrate_disable() on lower priority tasks, which can be deprived of runtime due to being stuck below a higher priority task. Teach the RT/DL balancers to push away these higher priority tasks when a lower priority task gets selected to run on a freshly demoted CPU (pull). This adds migration interference to the higher priority task, but restores bandwidth to system that would otherwise be irrevocably lost. Without this it would be possible to have all tasks on the system stuck on a single CPU, each task preempted in a migrate_disable() section with a single high priority task running. This way we can still approximate running the M highest priority tasks on the system. Migrating the top task away is (ofcourse) still subject to migrate_disable() too, which means the lower task is subject to an interference equivalent to the worst case migrate_disable() section. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102347.499155098@infradead.org
2020-11-10sched/core: Make migrate disable and CPU hotplug cooperativeThomas Gleixner
On CPU unplug tasks which are in a migrate disabled region cannot be pushed to a different CPU until they returned to migrateable state. Account the number of tasks on a runqueue which are in a migrate disabled section and make the hotplug wait mechanism respect that. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102347.067278757@infradead.org
2020-11-10sched: Add migrate_disable()Peter Zijlstra
Add the base migrate_disable() support (under protest). While migrate_disable() is (currently) required for PREEMPT_RT, it is also one of the biggest flaws in the system. Notably this is just the base implementation, it is broken vs sched_setaffinity() and hotplug, both solved in additional patches for ease of review. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.818170844@infradead.org
2020-11-10sched: Massage set_cpus_allowed()Peter Zijlstra
Thread a u32 flags word through the *set_cpus_allowed*() callchain. This will allow adding behavioural tweaks for future users. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.729082820@infradead.org
2020-11-10sched/core: Wait for tasks being pushed away on hotplugThomas Gleixner
RT kernels need to ensure that all tasks which are not per CPU kthreads have left the outgoing CPU to guarantee that no tasks are force migrated within a migrate disabled section. There is also some desire to (ab)use fine grained CPU hotplug control to clear a CPU from active state to force migrate tasks which are not per CPU kthreads away for power control purposes. Add a mechanism which waits until all tasks which should leave the CPU after the CPU active flag is cleared have moved to a different online CPU. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.377836842@infradead.org
2020-11-10sched/hotplug: Ensure only per-cpu kthreads run during hotplugPeter Zijlstra
In preparation for migrate_disable(), make sure only per-cpu kthreads are allowed to run on !active CPUs. This is ran (as one of the very first steps) from the cpu-hotplug task which is a per-cpu kthread and completion of the hotplug operation only requires such tasks. This constraint enables the migrate_disable() implementation to wait for completion of all migrate_disable regions on this CPU at hotplug time without fear of any new ones starting. This replaces the unlikely(rq->balance_callbacks) test at the tail of context_switch with an unlikely(rq->balance_work), the fast path is not affected. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.292709163@infradead.org
2020-11-10sched: Fix balance_callback()Peter Zijlstra
The intent of balance_callback() has always been to delay executing balancing operations until the end of the current rq->lock section. This is because balance operations must often drop rq->lock, and that isn't safe in general. However, as noted by Scott, there were a few holes in that scheme; balance_callback() was called after rq->lock was dropped, which means another CPU can interleave and touch the callback list. Rework code to call the balance callbacks before dropping rq->lock where possible, and otherwise splice the balance list onto a local stack. This guarantees that the balance list must be empty when we take rq->lock. IOW, we'll only ever run our own balance callbacks. Reported-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.203901269@infradead.org
2020-10-29sched: Remove relyance on STRUCT_ALIGNMENTPeter Zijlstra
Florian reported that all of kernel/sched/ is rebuild when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is changed, which, while not a bug is unexpected. This is due to us including vmlinux.lds.h. Jakub explained that the problem is that we put the alignment requirement on the type instead of on a variable. Type alignment is a minimum, the compiler is free to pick any larger alignment for a specific instance of the type (eg. the variable). So force the type alignment on all individual variable definitions and remove the undesired dependency on vmlinux.lds.h. Fixes: 85c2ce9104eb ("sched, vmlinux.lds: Increase STRUCT_ALIGNMENT to 64 bytes for GCC-4.9") Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2020-10-29sched/deadline: Fix sched_dl_global_validate()Peng Liu
When change sched_rt_{runtime, period}_us, we validate that the new settings should at least accommodate the currently allocated -dl bandwidth: sched_rt_handler() --> sched_dl_bandwidth_validate() { new_bw = global_rt_runtime()/global_rt_period(); for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { dl_b = dl_bw_of(cpu); if (new_bw < dl_b->total_bw) <------- ret = -EBUSY; } } But under CONFIG_SMP, dl_bw is per root domain , but not per CPU, dl_b->total_bw is the allocated bandwidth of the whole root domain. Instead, we should compare dl_b->total_bw against "cpus*new_bw", where 'cpus' is the number of CPUs of the root domain. Also, below annotation(in kernel/sched/sched.h) implied implementation only appeared in SCHED_DEADLINE v2[1], then deadline scheduler kept evolving till got merged(v9), but the annotation remains unchanged, meaningless and misleading, update it. * With respect to SMP, the bandwidth is given on a per-CPU basis, * meaning that: * - dl_bw (< 100%) is the bandwidth of the system (group) on each CPU; * - dl_total_bw array contains, in the i-eth element, the currently * allocated bandwidth on the i-eth CPU. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1267385230.13676.101.camel@Palantir/ Fixes: 332ac17ef5bf ("sched/deadline: Add bandwidth management for SCHED_DEADLINE tasks") Signed-off-by: Peng Liu <iwtbavbm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/db6bbda316048cda7a1bbc9571defde193a8d67e.1602171061.git.iwtbavbm@gmail.com
2020-10-29sched/deadline: Optimize sched_dl_global_validate()Peng Liu
Under CONFIG_SMP, dl_bw is per root domain, but not per CPU. When checking or updating dl_bw, currently iterating every CPU is overdoing, just need iterate each root domain once. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peng Liu <iwtbavbm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/78d21ee792cc48ff79e8cd62a5f26208463684d6.1602171061.git.iwtbavbm@gmail.com
2020-10-14sched/features: Fix !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL caseJuri Lelli
Commit: 765cc3a4b224e ("sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds") made sched features static for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG configurations, but overlooked the CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL cases. For the latter echoing changes to /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features has the nasty effect of effectively changing what sched_features reports, but without actually changing the scheduler behaviour (since different translation units get different sysctl_sched_features). Fix CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL configurations by properly restructuring ifdefs. Fixes: 765cc3a4b224e ("sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds") Co-developed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@matbug.net> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013053114.160628-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
2020-10-14sched: Replace zero-length array with flexible-arrayzhuguangqing
In the following commit: 04f5c362ec6d: ("sched/fair: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array") a zero-length array cpumask[0] has been replaced with cpumask[]. But there is still a cpumask[0] in 'struct sched_group_capacity' which was missed. The point of using [] instead of [0] is that with [] the compiler will generate a build warning if it isn't the last member of a struct. [ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: zhuguangqing <zhuguangqing@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201014140220.11384-1-zhuguangqing83@gmail.com
2020-08-06sched: Fix use of count for nr_running tracepointPhil Auld
The count field is meant to tell if an update to nr_running is an add or a subtract. Make it do so by adding the missing minus sign. Fixes: 9d246053a691 ("sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running") Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200805203138.1411-1-pauld@redhat.com
2020-08-01sched: Document arch_scale_*_capacity()Valentin Schneider
Rather that hide their purpose in some dark, damp corner of Documentation/, add some documentation to the default implementations. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200731192016.7484-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-07-28sched: Remove duplicated tick_nohz_full_enabled() checkMiaohe Lin
In sched_update_tick_dependency() there's two calls that check whether nohz_full is enabled: tick_nohz_full_cpu() does it implicitly, while there's also an explicit call to tick_nohz_full_enabled(). Remove the duplicated, open coded check. [ mingo: Amended the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1595935075-14223-1-git-send-email-linmiaohe@huawei.com
2020-07-22sched: Better document ttwu()Peter Zijlstra
Dave hit the problem fixed by commit: b6e13e85829f ("sched/core: Fix ttwu() race") and failed to understand much of the code involved. Per his request a few comments to (hopefully) clarify things. Requested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702125211.GQ4800@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
2020-07-08sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_runningPhil Auld
Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks ->nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the form of a heat map. The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at: https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be found at: https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core. Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629192303.GC120228@lorien.usersys.redhat.com
2020-07-08sched/uclamp: Protect uclamp fast path code with static keyQais Yousef
There is a report that when uclamp is enabled, a netperf UDP test regresses compared to a kernel compiled without uclamp. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200529100806.GA3070@suse.de/ While investigating the root cause, there were no sign that the uclamp code is doing anything particularly expensive but could suffer from bad cache behavior under certain circumstances that are yet to be understood. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200616110824.dgkkbyapn3io6wik@e107158-lin/ To reduce the pressure on the fast path anyway, add a static key that is by default will skip executing uclamp logic in the enqueue/dequeue_task() fast path until it's needed. As soon as the user start using util clamp by: 1. Changing uclamp value of a task with sched_setattr() 2. Modifying the default sysctl_sched_util_clamp_{min, max} 3. Modifying the default cpu.uclamp.{min, max} value in cgroup We flip the static key now that the user has opted to use util clamp. Effectively re-introducing uclamp logic in the enqueue/dequeue_task() fast path. It stays on from that point forward until the next reboot. This should help minimize the effect of util clamp on workloads that don't need it but still allow distros to ship their kernels with uclamp compiled in by default. SCHED_WARN_ON() in uclamp_rq_dec_id() was removed since now we can end up with unbalanced call to uclamp_rq_dec_id() if we flip the key while a task is running in the rq. Since we know it is harmless we just quietly return if we attempt a uclamp_rq_dec_id() when rq->uclamp[].bucket[].tasks is 0. In schedutil, we introduce a new uclamp_is_enabled() helper which takes the static key into account to ensure RT boosting behavior is retained. The following results demonstrates how this helps on 2 Sockets Xeon E5 2x10-Cores system. nouclamp uclamp uclamp-static-key Hmean send-64 162.43 ( 0.00%) 157.84 * -2.82%* 163.39 * 0.59%* Hmean send-128 324.71 ( 0.00%) 314.78 * -3.06%* 326.18 * 0.45%* Hmean send-256 641.55 ( 0.00%) 628.67 * -2.01%* 648.12 * 1.02%* Hmean send-1024 2525.28 ( 0.00%) 2448.26 * -3.05%* 2543.73 * 0.73%* Hmean send-2048 4836.14 ( 0.00%) 4712.08 * -2.57%* 4867.69 * 0.65%* Hmean send-3312 7540.83 ( 0.00%) 7425.45 * -1.53%* 7621.06 * 1.06%* Hmean send-4096 9124.53 ( 0.00%) 8948.82 * -1.93%* 9276.25 * 1.66%* Hmean send-8192 15589.67 ( 0.00%) 15486.35 * -0.66%* 15819.98 * 1.48%* Hmean send-16384 26386.47 ( 0.00%) 25752.25 * -2.40%* 26773.74 * 1.47%* The perf diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is disabled in the fast path: 8.73% -1.55% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_to_wake_up 0.07% +0.04% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] deactivate_task 0.13% -0.02% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] activate_task The diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is enabled in the fast path: 8.73% -0.72% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_to_wake_up 0.13% +0.39% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] activate_task 0.07% +0.38% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] deactivate_task Fixes: 69842cba9ace ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting") Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630112123.12076-3-qais.yousef@arm.com
2020-07-08sched, vmlinux.lds: Increase STRUCT_ALIGNMENT to 64 bytes for GCC-4.9Peter Zijlstra
For some mysterious reason GCC-4.9 has a 64 byte section alignment for structures, all other GCC versions (and Clang) tested (including 4.8 and 5.0) are fine with the 32 bytes alignment. Getting this right is important for the new SCHED_DATA macro that creates an explicitly ordered array of 'struct sched_class' in the linker script and expect pointer arithmetic to work. Fixes: c3a340f7e7ea ("sched: Have sched_class_highest define by vmlinux.lds.h") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630144905.GX4817@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
2020-07-08Merge branch 'sched/urgent'Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-28sched/core: s/WF_ON_RQ/WQ_ON_CPU/Peter Zijlstra
Use a better name for this poorly named flag, to avoid confusion... Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622100825.785115830@infradead.org
2020-06-25sched: Remove struct sched_class::next fieldSteven Rostedt (VMware)
Now that the sched_class descriptors are defined in order via the linker script vmlinux.lds.h, there's no reason to have a "next" pointer to the previous priroity structure. The order of the sturctures can be aligned as an array, and used to index and find the next sched_class descriptor. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219214558.845353593@goodmis.org
2020-06-25sched: Have sched_class_highest define by vmlinux.lds.hSteven Rostedt (VMware)
Now that the sched_class descriptors are defined by the linker script, and this needs to be aware of the existance of stop_sched_class when SMP is enabled or not, as it is used as the "highest" priority when defined. Move the declaration of sched_class_highest to the same location in the linker script that inserts stop_sched_class, and this will also make it easier to see what should be defined as the highest class, as this linker script location defines the priorities as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219214558.682913590@goodmis.org
2020-06-15sched/deadline: Make DL capacity-awareLuca Abeni
The current SCHED_DEADLINE (DL) scheduler uses a global EDF scheduling algorithm w/o considering CPU capacity or task utilization. This works well on homogeneous systems where DL tasks are guaranteed to have a bounded tardiness but presents issues on heterogeneous systems. A DL task can migrate to a CPU which does not have enough CPU capacity to correctly serve the task (e.g. a task w/ 70ms runtime and 100ms period on a CPU w/ 512 capacity). Add the DL fitness function dl_task_fits_capacity() for DL admission control on heterogeneous systems. A task fits onto a CPU if: CPU original capacity / 1024 >= task runtime / task deadline Use this function on heterogeneous systems to try to find a CPU which meets this criterion during task wakeup, push and offline migration. On homogeneous systems the original behavior of the DL admission control should be retained. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520134243.19352-5-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
2020-06-15sched/deadline: Improve admission control for asymmetric CPU capacitiesLuca Abeni
The current SCHED_DEADLINE (DL) admission control ensures that sum of reserved CPU bandwidth < x * M where x = /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_{runtime,period}_us M = # CPUs in root domain. DL admission control works well for homogeneous systems where the capacity of all CPUs are equal (1024). I.e. bounded tardiness for DL and non-starvation of non-DL tasks is guaranteed. But on heterogeneous systems where capacity of CPUs are different it could fail by over-allocating CPU time on smaller capacity CPUs. On an Arm big.LITTLE/DynamIQ system DL tasks can easily starve other tasks making it unusable. Fix this by explicitly considering the CPU capacity in the DL admission test by replacing M with the root domain CPU capacity sum. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520134243.19352-4-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
2020-06-15sched/core: Remove redundant 'preempt' param from sched_class->yield_to_task()Dietmar Eggemann
Commit 6d1cafd8b56e ("sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()") moved the code to resched the CPU from yield_to_task_fair() to yield_to() making the preempt parameter in sched_class->yield_to_task() unnecessary. Remove it. No other sched_class implements yield_to_task(). Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200603080304.16548-3-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
2020-05-28sched: Replace rq::wake_listPeter Zijlstra
The recent commit: 90b5363acd47 ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()") got smp_call_function_single_async() subtly wrong. Even though it will return -EBUSY when trying to re-use a csd, that condition is not atomic and still requires external serialization. The change in ttwu_queue_remote() got this wrong. While on first reading ttwu_queue_remote() has an atomic test-and-set that appears to serialize the use, the matching 'release' is not in the right place to actually guarantee this serialization. The actual race is vs the sched_ttwu_pending() call in the idle loop; that can run the wakeup-list without consuming the CSD. Instead of trying to chain the lists, merge them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.129371594@infradead.org
2020-05-28sched: Add rq::ttwu_pendingPeter Zijlstra
In preparation of removing rq->wake_list, replace the !list_empty(rq->wake_list) with rq->ttwu_pending. This is not fully equivalent as this new variable is racy. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.070399698@infradead.org
2020-05-28smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()Peter Zijlstra
Just like the ttwu_queue_remote() IPI, make use of _TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG to avoid sending IPIs to idle CPUs. [ mingo: Fix UP build bug. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.953304789@infradead.org
2020-05-28sched: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() usage for ILBPeter Zijlstra
The recent commit: 90b5363acd47 ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()") got smp_call_function_single_async() subtly wrong. Even though it will return -EBUSY when trying to re-use a csd, that condition is not atomic and still requires external serialization. The change in kick_ilb() got this wrong. While on first reading kick_ilb() has an atomic test-and-set that appears to serialize the use, the matching 'release' is not in the right place to actually guarantee this serialization. Rework the nohz_idle_balance() trigger so that the release is in the IPI callback and thus guarantees the required serialization for the CSD. Fixes: 90b5363acd47 ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()") Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.778543557@infradead.org
2020-05-25sched/core: Offload wakee task activation if it the wakee is deschedulingMel Gorman
The previous commit: c6e7bd7afaeb: ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") avoids spinning on p->on_rq when the task is descheduling, but only if the wakee is on a CPU that does not share cache with the waker. This patch offloads the activation of the wakee to the CPU that is about to go idle if the task is the only one on the runqueue. This potentially allows the waker task to continue making progress when the wakeup is not strictly synchronous. This is very obvious with netperf UDP_STREAM running on localhost. The waker is sending packets as quickly as possible without waiting for any reply. It frequently wakes the server for the processing of packets and when netserver is using local memory, it quickly completes the processing and goes back to idle. The waker often observes that netserver is on_rq and spins excessively leading to a drop in throughput. This is a comparison of 5.7-rc6 against "sched: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu" and against this patch labeled vanilla, optttwu-v1r1 and localwakelist-v1r2 respectively. 5.7.0-rc6 5.7.0-rc6 5.7.0-rc6 vanilla optttwu-v1r1 localwakelist-v1r2 Hmean send-64 251.49 ( 0.00%) 258.05 * 2.61%* 305.59 * 21.51%* Hmean send-128 497.86 ( 0.00%) 519.89 * 4.43%* 600.25 * 20.57%* Hmean send-256 944.90 ( 0.00%) 997.45 * 5.56%* 1140.19 * 20.67%* Hmean send-1024 3779.03 ( 0.00%) 3859.18 * 2.12%* 4518.19 * 19.56%* Hmean send-2048 7030.81 ( 0.00%) 7315.99 * 4.06%* 8683.01 * 23.50%* Hmean send-3312 10847.44 ( 0.00%) 11149.43 * 2.78%* 12896.71 * 18.89%* Hmean send-4096 13436.19 ( 0.00%) 13614.09 ( 1.32%) 15041.09 * 11.94%* Hmean send-8192 22624.49 ( 0.00%) 23265.32 * 2.83%* 24534.96 * 8.44%* Hmean send-16384 34441.87 ( 0.00%) 36457.15 * 5.85%* 35986.21 * 4.48%* Note that this benefit is not universal to all wakeups, it only applies to the case where the waker often spins on p->on_rq. The impact can be seen from a "perf sched latency" report generated from a single iteration of one packet size: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Task | Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms | Maximum delay at | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vanilla netperf:4337 | 21709.193 ms | 2932 | avg: 0.002 ms | max: 0.041 ms | max at: 112.154512 s netserver:4338 | 14629.459 ms | 5146990 | avg: 0.001 ms | max: 1615.864 ms | max at: 140.134496 s localwakelist-v1r2 netperf:4339 | 29789.717 ms | 2460 | avg: 0.002 ms | max: 0.059 ms | max at: 138.205389 s netserver:4340 | 18858.767 ms | 7279005 | avg: 0.001 ms | max: 0.362 ms | max at: 135.709683 s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that the average wakeup delay is quite small on both the vanilla kernel and with the two patches applied. However, there are significant outliers with the vanilla kernel with the maximum one measured as 1615 milliseconds with a vanilla kernel but never worse than 0.362 ms with both patches applied and a much higher rate of context switching. Similarly a separate profile of cycles showed that 2.83% of all cycles were spent in try_to_wake_up() with almost half of the cycles spent on spinning on p->on_rq. With the two patches, the percentage of cycles spent in try_to_wake_up() drops to 1.13% Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200524202956.27665-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
2020-05-19sched: Defend cfs and rt bandwidth quota against overflowHuaixin Chang
When users write some huge number into cpu.cfs_quota_us or cpu.rt_runtime_us, overflow might happen during to_ratio() shifts of schedulable checks. to_ratio() could be altered to avoid unnecessary internal overflow, but min_cfs_quota_period is less than 1 << BW_SHIFT, so a cutoff would still be needed. Set a cap MAX_BW for cfs_quota_us and rt_runtime_us to prevent overflow. Signed-off-by: Huaixin Chang <changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200425105248.60093-1-changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com
2020-05-19sched/fair: Replace zero-length array with flexible-arrayGustavo A. R. Silva
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200507192141.GA16183@embeddedor
2020-05-12sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
The scheduler IPI has grown weird and wonderful over the years, time for spring cleaning. Move all the non-trivial stuff out of it and into a regular smp function call IPI. This then reduces the schedule_ipi() to most of it's former NOP glory and ensures to keep the interrupt vector lean and mean. Aside of that avoiding the full irq_enter() in the x86 IPI implementation is incorrect as scheduler_ipi() can be instrumented. To work around that scheduler_ipi() had an irq_enter/exit() hack when heavy work was pending. This is gone now. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134058.361859938@linutronix.de
2020-04-30sched: Make newidle_balance() static againChen Yu
After Commit 6e2df0581f56 ("sched: Fix pick_next_task() vs 'change' pattern race"), there is no need to expose newidle_balance() as it is only used within fair.c file. Change this function back to static again. No functional change. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/83cd3030b031ca5d646cd5e225be10e7a0fdd8f5.1587464698.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com
2020-04-30sched/fair: Remove distribute_running from CFS bandwidthJosh Don
This is mostly a revert of commit: baa9be4ffb55 ("sched/fair: Fix throttle_list starvation with low CFS quota") The primary use of distribute_running was to determine whether to add throttled entities to the head or the tail of the throttled list. Now that we always add to the tail, we can remove this field. The other use of distribute_running is in the slack_timer, so that we don't start a distribution while one is already running. However, even in the event that this race occurs, it is fine to have two distributions running (especially now that distribute grabs the cfs_b->lock to determine remaining quota before assigning). Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Tested-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200410225208.109717-3-joshdon@google.com
2020-04-08sched/core: Remove unused rq::last_load_update_tickVincent Donnefort
The following commit: 5e83eafbfd3b ("sched/fair: Remove the rq->cpu_load[] update code") eliminated the last use case for rq->last_load_update_tick, so remove the field as well. Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584710495-308969-1-git-send-email-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
2020-04-08sched/fair: Align rq->avg_idle and rq->avg_scan_costValentin Schneider
sched/core.c uses update_avg() for rq->avg_idle and sched/fair.c uses an open-coded version (with the exact same decay factor) for rq->avg_scan_cost. On top of that, select_idle_cpu() expects to be able to compare these two fields. The only difference between the two is that rq->avg_scan_cost is computed using a pure division rather than a shift. Turns out it actually matters, first of all because the shifted value can be negative, and the standard has this to say about it: """ The result of E1 >> E2 is E1 right-shifted E2 bit positions. [...] If E1 has a signed type and a negative value, the resulting value is implementation-defined. """ Not only this, but (arithmetic) right shifting a negative value (using 2's complement) is *not* equivalent to dividing it by the corresponding power of 2. Let's look at a few examples: -4 -> 0xF..FC -4 >> 3 -> 0xF..FF == -1 != -4 / 8 -8 -> 0xF..F8 -8 >> 3 -> 0xF..FF == -1 == -8 / 8 -9 -> 0xF..F7 -9 >> 3 -> 0xF..FE == -2 != -9 / 8 Make update_avg() use a division, and export it to the private scheduler header to reuse it where relevant. Note that this still lets compilers use a shift here, but should prevent any unwanted surprise. The disassembly of select_idle_cpu() remains unchanged on arm64, and ttwu_do_wakeup() gains 2 instructions; the diff sort of looks like this: - sub x1, x1, x0 + subs x1, x1, x0 // set condition codes + add x0, x1, #0x7 + csel x0, x0, x1, mi // x0 = x1 < 0 ? x0 : x1 add x0, x3, x0, asr #3 which does the right thing (i.e. gives us the expected result while still using an arithmetic shift) Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200330090127.16294-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-03-30Merge tag 'smp-core-2020-03-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner: "CPU (hotplug) updates: - Support for locked CSD objects in smp_call_function_single_async() which allows to simplify callsites in the scheduler core and MIPS - Treewide consolidation of CPU hotplug functions which ensures the consistency between the sysfs interface and kernel state. The low level functions cpu_up/down() are now confined to the core code and not longer accessible from random code" * tag 'smp-core-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits) cpu/hotplug: Ignore pm_wakeup_pending() for disable_nonboot_cpus() cpu/hotplug: Hide cpu_up/down() cpu/hotplug: Move bringup of secondary CPUs out of smp_init() torture: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu() firmware: psci: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu() xen/cpuhotplug: Replace cpu_up/down() with device_online/offline() parisc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu() sparc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu() powerpc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu() x86/smp: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu() arm64: hibernate: Use bringup_hibernate_cpu() cpu/hotplug: Provide bringup_hibernate_cpu() arm64: Use reboot_cpu instead of hardconding it to 0 arm64: Don't use disable_nonboot_cpus() ARM: Use reboot_cpu instead of hardcoding it to 0 ARM: Don't use disable_nonboot_cpus() ia64: Replace cpu_down() with smp_shutdown_nonboot_cpus() cpu/hotplug: Create a new function to shutdown nonboot cpus cpu/hotplug: Add new {add,remove}_cpu() functions sched/core: Remove rq.hrtick_csd_pending ...
2020-03-30Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - Various NUMA scheduling updates: harmonize the load-balancer and NUMA placement logic to not work against each other. The intended result is better locality, better utilization and fewer migrations. - Introduce Thermal Pressure tracking and optimizations, to improve task placement on thermally overloaded systems. - Implement frequency invariant scheduler accounting on (some) x86 CPUs. This is done by observing and sampling the 'recent' CPU frequency average at ~tick boundaries. The CPU provides this data via the APERF/MPERF MSRs. This hopefully makes our capacity estimates more precise and keeps tasks on the same CPU better even if it might seem overloaded at a lower momentary frequency. (As usual, turbo mode is a complication that we resolve by observing the maximum frequency and renormalizing to it.) - Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan to improve capacity utilization on asymmetric topologies. (big.LITTLE systems) - PSI fixes and optimizations. - RT scheduling capacity awareness fixes & improvements. - Optimize the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED constraints code. - Misc fixes, cleanups and optimizations - see the changelog for details" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits) threads: Update PID limit comment according to futex UAPI change sched/fair: Fix condition of avg_load calculation sched/rt: cpupri_find: Trigger a full search as fallback kthread: Do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule() sched/fair: Improve spreading of utilization sched: Avoid scale real weight down to zero psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags MAINTAINERS: Add maintenance information for psi psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared cgroups psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair warning thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks sched/rt: Allow pulling unfitting task sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems sched/rt: Re-instate old behavior in select_task_rq_rt() sched/rt: cpupri_find: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case sched/fair: Fix reordering of enqueue/dequeue_task_fair() sched/fair: Fix runnable_avg for throttled cfs ...
2020-03-21sched/swait: Prepare usage in completionsThomas Gleixner
As a preparation to use simple wait queues for completions: - Provide swake_up_all_locked() to support complete_all() - Make __prepare_to_swait() public available This is done to enable the usage of complete() within truly atomic contexts on a PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.228481202@linutronix.de
2020-03-20sched: Avoid scale real weight down to zeroMichael Wang
During our testing, we found a case that shares no longer working correctly, the cgroup topology is like: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/A (shares=102400) /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/A/B (shares=2) /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/A/B/C (shares=1024) /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/D (shares=1024) /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/D/E (shares=1024) /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/D/E/F (shares=1024) The same benchmark is running in group C & F, no other tasks are running, the benchmark is capable to consumed all the CPUs. We suppose the group C will win more CPU resources since it could enjoy all the shares of group A, but it's F who wins much more. The reason is because we have group B with shares as 2, since A->cfs_rq.load.weight == B->se.load.weight == B->shares/nr_cpus, so A->cfs_rq.load.weight become very small. And in calc_group_shares() we calculate shares as: load = max(scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight), cfs_rq->avg.load_avg); shares = (tg_shares * load) / tg_weight; Since the 'cfs_rq->load.weight' is too small, the load become 0 after scale down, although 'tg_shares' is 102400, shares of the se which stand for group A on root cfs_rq become 2. While the se of D on root cfs_rq is far more bigger than 2, so it wins the battle. Thus when scale_load_down() scale real weight down to 0, it's no longer telling the real story, the caller will have the wrong information and the calculation will be buggy. This patch add check in scale_load_down(), so the real weight will be >= MIN_SHARES after scale, after applied the group C wins as expected. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/38e8e212-59a1-64b2-b247-b6d0b52d8dc1@linux.alibaba.com
2020-03-06sched/core: Remove rq.hrtick_csd_pendingPeter Xu
Now smp_call_function_single_async() provides the protection that we'll return with -EBUSY if the csd object is still pending, then we don't need the rq.hrtick_csd_pending any more. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191216213125.9536-4-peterx@redhat.com
2020-03-06sched/deadline: Make two functions staticYu Chen
Since commit 06a76fe08d4 ("sched/deadline: Move DL related code from sched/core.c to sched/deadline.c"), DL related code moved to deadline.c. Make the following two functions static since they're only used in deadline.c: dl_change_utilization() init_dl_rq_bw_ratio() Signed-off-by: Yu Chen <chen.yu@easystack.cn> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200228100329.16927-1-chen.yu@easystack.cn
2020-03-06sched/fair: Enable tuning of decay periodThara Gopinath
Thermal pressure follows pelt signals which means the decay period for thermal pressure is the default pelt decay period. Depending on SoC characteristics and thermal activity, it might be beneficial to decay thermal pressure slower, but still in-tune with the pelt signals. One way to achieve this is to provide a command line parameter to set a decay shift parameter to an integer between 0 and 10. Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-10-thara.gopinath@linaro.org