Scheduler code is very hot and every little optimization counts. Instead
of constantly checking sched_numa_balancing when NUMA is disabled,
compile it out.
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
A significant portion of __calc_delta() time is spent in the loop
shifting a u64 by 32 bits. Use `fls` instead of iterating.
This is ~7x faster on benchmarks.
The generic `fls` implementation (`generic_fls`) is still ~4x faster
than the loop.
Architectures that have a better implementation will make use of it. For
example, on x86 we get an additional factor 2 in speed without dedicated
implementation.
On GCC, the asm versions of `fls` are about the same speed as the
builtin. On Clang, the versions that use fls are more than twice as
slow as the builtin. This is because the way the `fls` function is
written, clang puts the value in memory:
https://godbolt.org/z/EfMbYe. This bug is filed at
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?idI406.
```
name cpu/op
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_loop> 9.57ms Â=B112%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_generic_fls> 2.36ms Â=B113%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls> 2.45ms Â=B113%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls_nomem> 1.66ms Â=B112%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls64> 2.46ms Â=B113%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls64_nomem> 1.34ms Â=B115%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_builtin> 1.32ms Â=B111%
```
Signed-off-by: Clement Courbet <courbet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210303224653.2579656-1-joshdon@google.com
Limiting CPU capacity updates, which are quite cheap, results in worse
balancing decisions during opportunistic balancing (e.g., SD_BALANCE_WAKE).
This causes opportunistic placement decisions to be skewed using stale CPU
capacity data, and when a CPU isn't idling much, its capacity suffers from
even more staleness since the only exception to the 100 ms capacity update
ratelimit is a CPU exiting idle.
Since the capacity updates are cheap, always do it when load balancing in
order to improve opportunistic task placement decisions.
Change-Id: If1d451ce742fd093010057e31e71012d47fad70a
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
