Nest and core IMC (In-Memory Collection counters) assigns a particular
cpu as the designated target for counter data collection. During
system boot, the first online cpu in a chip gets assigned as the
designated cpu for that chip(for nest-imc) and the first online cpu in
a core gets assigned as the designated cpu for that core(for
core-imc).
If the designated cpu goes offline, the next online cpu from the same
chip(for nest-imc)/core(for core-imc) is assigned as the next target,
and the event context is migrated to the target cpu. Currently,
cpumask_any_but() function is used to find the target cpu. Though this
function is expected to return a `random` cpu, this always returns the
next online cpu.
If all cpus in a chip/core is offlined in a sequential manner,
starting from the first cpu, the event migration has to happen for all
the cpus which goes offline. Since the migration process involves a
grace period, the total time taken to offline all the cpus will be
significantly high.
Example:
In a system which has 2 sockets, with
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-87
NUMA node8 CPU(s): 88-175
Time taken to offline cpu 88-175:
real 2m56.099s
user 0m0.191s
sys 0m0.000s
Use cpumask_last() to choose the target cpu, when the designated cpu
goes online, so the migration will happen only when the last_cpu in
the mask goes offline. This way the time taken to offline all cpus in
a chip/core can be reduced.
With the patch:
Time taken to offline cpu 88-175:
real 0m12.207s
user 0m0.171s
sys 0m0.000s
Offlining all cpus in reverse order is also taken care because,
cpumask_any_but() is used to find the designated cpu if the last cpu
in the mask goes offline. Since cpumask_any_but() always return the
first cpu in the mask, that becomes the designated cpu and migration
will happen only when the first_cpu in the mask goes offline.
Example: With the patch,
Time taken to offline cpu from 175-88:
real 0m9.330s
user 0m0.110s
sys 0m0.000s
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
*/
nid = cpu_to_node(cpu);
l_cpumask = cpumask_of_node(nid);
- target = cpumask_any_but(l_cpumask, cpu);
+ target = cpumask_last(l_cpumask);
+
+ /*
+ * If this(target) is the last cpu in the cpumask for this chip,
+ * check for any possible online cpu in the chip.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(target == cpu))
+ target = cpumask_any_but(l_cpumask, cpu);
/*
* Update the cpumask with the target cpu and
return 0;
/* Find any online cpu in that core except the current "cpu" */
- ncpu = cpumask_any_but(cpu_sibling_mask(cpu), cpu);
+ ncpu = cpumask_last(cpu_sibling_mask(cpu));
+
+ if (unlikely(ncpu == cpu))
+ ncpu = cpumask_any_but(cpu_sibling_mask(cpu), cpu);
if (ncpu >= 0 && ncpu < nr_cpu_ids) {
cpumask_set_cpu(ncpu, &core_imc_cpumask);