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Commit 8ad075c2 authored by Josh Don's avatar Josh Don Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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sched: Async unthrottling for cfs bandwidth



CFS bandwidth currently distributes new runtime and unthrottles cfs_rq's
inline in an hrtimer callback. Runtime distribution is a per-cpu
operation, and unthrottling is a per-cgroup operation, since a tg walk
is required. On machines with a large number of cpus and large cgroup
hierarchies, this cpus*cgroups work can be too much to do in a single
hrtimer callback: since IRQ are disabled, hard lockups may easily occur.
Specifically, we've found this scalability issue on configurations with
256 cpus, O(1000) cgroups in the hierarchy being throttled, and high
memory bandwidth usage.

To fix this, we can instead unthrottle cfs_rq's asynchronously via a
CSD. Each cpu is responsible for unthrottling itself, thus sharding the
total work more fairly across the system, and avoiding hard lockups.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221117005418.3499691-1-joshdon@google.com
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