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Commit a55c7454 authored by Matt Fleming's avatar Matt Fleming Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems



SD_BALANCE_{FORK,EXEC} and SD_WAKE_AFFINE are stripped in sd_init()
for any sched domains with a NUMA distance greater than 2 hops
(RECLAIM_DISTANCE). The idea being that it's expensive to balance
across domains that far apart.

However, as is rather unfortunately explained in:

  commit 32e45ff4 ("mm: increase RECLAIM_DISTANCE to 30")

the value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE is based on node distance tables from
2011-era hardware.

Current AMD EPYC machines have the following NUMA node distances:

 node distances:
 node   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
   0:  10  16  16  16  32  32  32  32
   1:  16  10  16  16  32  32  32  32
   2:  16  16  10  16  32  32  32  32
   3:  16  16  16  10  32  32  32  32
   4:  32  32  32  32  10  16  16  16
   5:  32  32  32  32  16  10  16  16
   6:  32  32  32  32  16  16  10  16
   7:  32  32  32  32  16  16  16  10

where 2 hops is 32.

The result is that the scheduler fails to load balance properly across
NUMA nodes on different sockets -- 2 hops apart.

For example, pinning 16 busy threads to NUMA nodes 0 (CPUs 0-7) and 4
(CPUs 32-39) like so,

  $ numactl -C 0-7,32-39 ./spinner 16

causes all threads to fork and remain on node 0 until the active
balancer kicks in after a few seconds and forcibly moves some threads
to node 4.

Override node_reclaim_distance for AMD Zen.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190808195301.13222-3-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent a2cbfd46
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