sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid
Introduce per-mm/cpu current concurrency id (mm_cid) to fix a PostgreSQL sysbench regression reported by Aaron Lu. Keep track of the currently allocated mm_cid for each mm/cpu rather than freeing them immediately on context switch. This eliminates most atomic operations when context switching back and forth between threads belonging to different memory spaces in multi-threaded scenarios (many processes, each with many threads). The per-mm/per-cpu mm_cid values are serialized by their respective runqueue locks. Thread migration is handled by introducing invocation to sched_mm_cid_migrate_to() (with destination runqueue lock held) in activate_task() for migrating tasks. If the destination cpu's mm_cid is unset, and if the source runqueue is not actively using its mm_cid, then the source cpu's mm_cid is moved to the destination cpu on migration. Introduce a task-work executed periodically, similarly to NUMA work, which delays reclaim of cid values when they are unused for a period of time. Keep track of the allocation time for each per-cpu cid, and let the task work clear them when they are observed to be older than SCHED_MM_CID_PERIOD_NS and unused. This task work also clears all mm_cids which are greater or equal to the Hamming weight of the mm cidmask to keep concurrency ids compact. Because we want to ensure the mm_cid converges towards the smaller values as migrations happen, the prior optimization that was done when context switching between threads belonging to the same mm is removed, because it could delay the lazy release of the destination runqueue mm_cid after it has been replaced by a migration. Removing this prior optimization is not an issue performance-wise because the introduced per-mm/per-cpu mm_cid tracking also covers this more specific case. Fixes: af7f588d ("sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID") Reported-by:Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by:
Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230327080502.GA570847@ziqianlu-desk2/
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