It was reported that in moving to 6.1, a larger then 10%
regression was seen in the performance of
clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID,...).
Using a simple reproducer, I found:
5.10:
100000000 calls in
24345994193 ns => 243.460 ns per call
100000000 calls in
24288172050 ns => 242.882 ns per call
100000000 calls in
24289135225 ns => 242.891 ns per call
6.1:
100000000 calls in
28248646742 ns => 282.486 ns per call
100000000 calls in
28227055067 ns => 282.271 ns per call
100000000 calls in
28177471287 ns => 281.775 ns per call
The cause of this was finally narrowed down to the addition of
psi_account_irqtime() in update_rq_clock_task(), in commit
52b1364ba0b1 ("sched/psi: Add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ
pressure").
In my initial attempt to resolve this, I leaned towards moving
all accounting work out of the clock_gettime() call path, but it
wasn't very pretty, so it will have to wait for a later deeper
rework. Instead, Peter shared this approach:
Rework psi_account_irqtime() to use its own psi_irq_time base
for accounting, and move it out of the hotpath, calling it
instead from sched_tick() and __schedule().
In testing this, we found the importance of ensuring
psi_account_irqtime() is run under the rq_lock, which Johannes
Weiner helpfully explained, so also add some lockdep annotations
to make that requirement clear.
With this change the performance is back in-line with 5.10:
6.1+fix:
100000000 calls in
24297324597 ns => 242.973 ns per call
100000000 calls in
24318869234 ns => 243.189 ns per call
100000000 calls in
24291564588 ns => 242.916 ns per call
Reported-by: Jimmy Shiu <jimmyshiu@google.com>
Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240618215909.4099720-1-jstultz@google.com
rq->prev_irq_time += irq_delta;
delta -= irq_delta;
- psi_account_irqtime(rq->curr, irq_delta);
delayacct_irq(rq->curr, irq_delta);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
{
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
- struct task_struct *curr = rq->curr;
+ struct task_struct *curr;
struct rq_flags rf;
unsigned long hw_pressure;
u64 resched_latency;
rq_lock(rq, &rf);
+ curr = rq->curr;
+ psi_account_irqtime(rq, curr, NULL);
+
update_rq_clock(rq);
hw_pressure = arch_scale_hw_pressure(cpu_of(rq));
update_hw_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, hw_pressure);
++*switch_count;
migrate_disable_switch(rq, prev);
+ psi_account_irqtime(rq, prev, next);
psi_sched_switch(prev, next, !task_on_rq_queued(prev));
trace_sched_switch(sched_mode & SM_MASK_PREEMPT, prev, next, prev_state);
enum psi_states s;
u32 state_mask;
+ lockdep_assert_rq_held(cpu_rq(cpu));
groupc = per_cpu_ptr(group->pcpu, cpu);
/*
}
#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
-void psi_account_irqtime(struct task_struct *task, u32 delta)
+void psi_account_irqtime(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr, struct task_struct *prev)
{
- int cpu = task_cpu(task);
+ int cpu = task_cpu(curr);
struct psi_group *group;
struct psi_group_cpu *groupc;
- u64 now;
+ u64 now, irq;
+ s64 delta;
if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
return;
- if (!task->pid)
+ if (!curr->pid)
+ return;
+
+ lockdep_assert_rq_held(rq);
+ group = task_psi_group(curr);
+ if (prev && task_psi_group(prev) == group)
return;
now = cpu_clock(cpu);
+ irq = irq_time_read(cpu);
+ delta = (s64)(irq - rq->psi_irq_time);
+ if (delta < 0)
+ return;
+ rq->psi_irq_time = irq;
- group = task_psi_group(task);
do {
if (!group->enabled)
continue;
#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
u64 prev_irq_time;
+ u64 psi_irq_time;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
u64 prev_steal_time;
void psi_task_change(struct task_struct *task, int clear, int set);
void psi_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next,
bool sleep);
-void psi_account_irqtime(struct task_struct *task, u32 delta);
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+void psi_account_irqtime(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr, struct task_struct *prev);
+#else
+static inline void psi_account_irqtime(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr,
+ struct task_struct *prev) {}
+#endif /*CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING */
/*
* PSI tracks state that persists across sleeps, such as iowaits and
* memory stalls. As a result, it has to distinguish between sleeps,
static inline void psi_sched_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *next,
bool sleep) {}
-static inline void psi_account_irqtime(struct task_struct *task, u32 delta) {}
+static inline void psi_account_irqtime(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr,
+ struct task_struct *prev) {}
#endif /* CONFIG_PSI */
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_INFO