From 46a87b3851f0d6eb05e6d83d5c5a30df0eca8f76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Turner Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:01:13 -0700 Subject: sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks Currently, when updating the affinity of tasks via either cpusets.cpus, or, sched_setaffinity(); tasks not currently running within the newly specified mask will be arbitrarily assigned to the first CPU within the mask. This (particularly in the case that we are restricting masks) can result in many tasks being assigned to the first CPUs of their new masks. This: 1) Can induce scheduling delays while the load-balancer has a chance to spread them between their new CPUs. 2) Can antogonize a poor load-balancer behavior where it has a difficult time recognizing that a cross-socket imbalance has been forced by an affinity mask. This change adds a new cpumask interface to allow iterated calls to distribute within the intersection of the provided masks. The cases that this mainly affects are: - modifying cpuset.cpus - when tasks join a cpuset - when modifying a task's affinity via sched_setaffinity(2) Signed-off-by: Paul Turner Signed-off-by: Josh Don Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef Tested-by: Qais Yousef Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311010113.136465-1-joshdon@google.com --- kernel/sched/core.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 978bf6f6e0ff..014d4f793313 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1650,7 +1650,12 @@ static int __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, if (cpumask_equal(p->cpus_ptr, new_mask)) goto out; - dest_cpu = cpumask_any_and(cpu_valid_mask, new_mask); + /* + * Picking a ~random cpu helps in cases where we are changing affinity + * for groups of tasks (ie. cpuset), so that load balancing is not + * immediately required to distribute the tasks within their new mask. + */ + dest_cpu = cpumask_any_and_distribute(cpu_valid_mask, new_mask); if (dest_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; -- cgit v1.2.3