This patch follows from a conversation in CQM/CMT's last series about
speeding up the context switch for cgroup events:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9478617/
This is a low-hanging fruit optimization. It replaces the iteration over
the "pmus" list in cgroup switch by an iteration over a new list that
contains only cpuctxs with at least one cgroup event.
This is necessary because the number of PMUs have increased over the years
e.g modern x86 server systems have well above 50 PMUs.
The iteration over the full PMU list is unneccessary and can be costly in
heavy cache contention scenarios.
Below are some instrumentation measurements with 10, 50 and 90 percentiles
of the total cost of context switch before and after this optimization for
a simple array read/write microbenchark.
Contention
Level Nr events Before (us) After (us) Median
L2 L3 types (10%, 50%, 90%) (10%, 50%, 90% Speedup
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Low Low 1 (1.72, 2.42, 5.85) (1.35, 1.64, 5.46) 29%
High Low 1 (2.08, 4.56, 19.8) (1720, 2.20, 13.7) 51%
High High 1 (2.86, 10.4, 12.7) (2.54, 4.32, 12.1) 58%
Low Low 2 (1.98, 3.20, 6.89) (1.68, 2.41, 8.89) 24%
High Low 2 (2.48, 5.28, 22.4) (2150, 3.69, 14.6) 30%
High High 2 (3.32, 8.09, 13.9) (2.80, 5.15, 13.7) 36%
where:
1 event type = cycles
2 event types = cycles,intel_cqm/llc_occupancy/
Contention L2 Low: workset < L2 cache size.
High: " >> L2 " " .
Contention L3 Low: workset of task on all sockets < L3 cache size.
High: " " " " " " >> L3 " " .
Median Speedup is (50%ile Before - 50%ile After) / 50%ile Before
Unsurprisingly, the benefits of this optimization decrease with the number
of cpuctxs with a cgroup events, yet, is never detrimental.
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118192454.58008-2-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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