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Shrikanth Hegde authored
CPU cfs bandwidth controller uses hrtimer. Currently there is no initial value set. Hence all period timers would align at expiry. This happens when there are multiple CPU cgroup's. There is a performance gain that can be achieved here if the timers are interleaved when the utilization of each CPU cgroup is low and total utilization of all the CPU cgroup's is less than 50%. If the timers are interleaved, then the unthrottled cgroup can run freely without many context switches and can also benefit from SMT Folding. This effect will be further amplified in SPLPAR environment. This commit adds a random offset after initializing each hrtimer. This would result in interleaving the timers at expiry, which helps in achieving the said performance gain. This was tested on powerpc platform with 8 core SMT=8. Socket power was measured when the workload. Benchmarked the stress-ng with power information. Throughput oriented benchmarks show significant gain up to 25% while power consumption increases up to 15%. Workload: stress-ng --cpu=32 --cpu-ops=50000. 1CG - 1 cgroup is running. 2CG - 2 cgroups are running together. Time taken to complete stress-ng in seconds and power is in watts. each cgroup is throttled at 25% with 100ms as the period value. 6.2-rc6 | with patch 8 core 1CG power 2CG power | 1CG power 2 CG power 27.5 80.6 40 90 | 27.3 82 32.3 104 27.5 81 40.2 91 | 27.5 81 38.7 96 27.7 80 40.1 89 | 27.6 80 29.7 106 27.7 80.1 40.3 94 | 27.6 80 31.5 105 Latency might be affected by this change. That could happen if the CPU was in a deep idle state which is possible if we interleave the timers. Used schbench for measuring the latency. Each cgroup is throttled at 25% with period value is set to 100ms. Numbers are when both the cgroups are running simultaneously. Latency values don't degrade much. Some improvement is seen in tail latencies. 6.2-rc6 with patch Groups: 16 50.0th: 39.5 42.5 75.0th: 924.0 922.0 90.0th: 972.0 968.0 95.0th: 1005.5 994.0 99.0th: 4166.0 2287.0 99.5th: 7314.0 7448.0 99.9th: 15024.0 13600.0 Groups: 32 50.0th: 819.0 463.0 75.0th: 1596.0 918.0 90.0th: 5992.0 1281.5 95.0th: 13184.0 2765.0 99.0th: 21792.0 14240.0 99.5th: 25696.0 18920.0 99.9th: 33280.0 35776.0 Groups: 64 50.0th: 4806.0 3440.0 75.0th: 31136.0 33664.0 90.0th: 54144.0 58752.0 95.0th: 66176.0 67200.0 99.0th: 84736.0 91520.0 99.5th: 97408.0 114048.0 99.9th: 136448.0 140032.0 Initial RFC PATCH, discussions and details on the problem: Link1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5ae3cb09-8c9a-11e8-75a7-cc774d9bc283@linux.vnet.ibm.com/ Link2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/9c57c92c-3e0c-b8c5-4be9-8f4df344a347@linux.vnet.ibm.com/Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde<sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223185153.1499710-1-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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