kernel/linux.git/include/linux/sched/topology.h, branch v6.12.101

sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00

commit 33cf66d88306663d16e4759e9d24766b0aaa2e17 upstream. Add a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to its success rate. This improves schbench significantly: 6.18-rc4: 2.22 Mrps/s 6.18-rc4+revert: 2.04 Mrps/s 6.18-rc4+revert+random: 2.18 Mrps/S Conversely, per Adam Li this affects SpecJBB slightly, reducing it by 1%: 6.17: -6% 6.17+revert: 0% 6.17+revert+random: -1% Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann Tested-by: Chris Mason Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6825c50d-7fa7-45d8-9b81-c6e7e25738e2@meta.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.770122091@infradead.org [ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.12 ] Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/cpufreq: Rename arch_update_thermal_pressure() => arch_update_hw_pressure()

2024-04-24T10:08:01+00:00

Now that cpufreq provides a pressure value to the scheduler, rename arch_update_thermal_pressure into HW pressure to reflect that it returns a pressure applied by HW (i.e. with a high frequency change) and not always related to thermal mitigation but also generated by max current limitation as an example. Such high frequency signal needs filtering to be smoothed and provide an value that reflects the average available capacity into the scheduler time scale. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Lukasz Luba Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326091616.3696851-5-vincent.guittot@linaro.org

sched/balancing: Rename load_balance() => sched_balance_rq()

2024-03-12T11:00:00+00:00

Standardize scheduler load-balancing function names on the sched_balance_() prefix. Also load_balance() has become somewhat of a misnomer: historically it was the first and primary load-balancing function that was called, but with the introduction of sched domains, it's become a lower layer function that balances runqueues. Rename it to sched_balance_rq() accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308111819.1101550-6-mingo@kernel.org

Merge tag 'sched-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2024-03-12T01:45:16+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: - Fix inconsistency in misfit task load-balancing - Fix CPU isolation bugs in the task-wakeup logic - Rework and unify the sched_use_asym_prio() and sched_asym_prefer() logic - Clean up and simplify ->avg_* accesses - Misc cleanups and fixes * tag 'sched-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/topology: Rename SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES to SD_SHARE_LLC sched/fair: Check the SD_ASYM_PACKING flag in sched_use_asym_prio() sched/fair: Rework sched_use_asym_prio() and sched_asym_prefer() sched/fair: Remove unused parameter from sched_asym() sched/topology: Remove duplicate descriptions from TOPOLOGY_SD_FLAGS sched/fair: Simplify the update_sd_pick_busiest() logic sched/fair: Do strict inequality check for busiest misfit task group sched/fair: Remove unnecessary goto in update_sd_lb_stats() sched/fair: Take the scheduling domain into account in select_idle_core() sched/fair: Take the scheduling domain into account in select_idle_smt() sched/fair: Add READ_ONCE() and use existing helper function to access ->avg_irq sched/fair: Use existing helper functions to access ->avg_rt and ->avg_dl sched/core: Simplify code by removing duplicate #ifdefs

sched/topology: Rename SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES to SD_SHARE_LLC

2024-02-28T14:43:17+00:00

SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES is a bit of a misnomer: its naming suggests that it's sharing all 'package resources' - while in reality it's specifically for sharing the LLC only. Rename it to SD_SHARE_LLC to reduce confusion. [ mingo: Rewrote the confusing changelog as well. ] Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider Signed-off-by: Alex Shi Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider Reviewed-by: Ricardo Neri Reviewed-by: Barry Song Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210113924.1130448-5-alexs@kernel.org

sched: Add a new function to compare if two cpus have the same capacity

2024-02-24T19:48:01+00:00

The new helper function is needed to help blk-mq check if it needs to dispatch the softirq on another CPU to match the performance level the IO requester is running at. This is important on HMP systems where not all CPUs have the same compute capacity. Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240223155749.2958009-2-qyousef@layalina.io Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

sched/topology: Add a new arch_scale_freq_ref() method

2023-12-23T14:52:34+00:00

Create a new method to get a unique and fixed max frequency. Currently cpuinfo.max_freq or the highest (or last) state of performance domain are used as the max frequency when computing the frequency for a level of utilization, but: - cpuinfo_max_freq can change at runtime. boost is one example of such change. - cpuinfo.max_freq and last item of the PD can be different leading to different results between cpufreq and energy model. We need to save the reference frequency that has been used when computing the CPUs capacity and use this fixed and coherent value to convert between frequency and CPU's capacity. In fact, we already save the frequency that has been used when computing the capacity of each CPU. We extend the precision to save kHz instead of MHz currently and we modify the type to be aligned with other variables used when converting frequency to capacity and the other way. [ mingo: Minor edits. ] Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Lukasz Luba Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba Acked-by: Sudeep Holla Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211104855.558096-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org

sched/fair: Remove SIS_PROP

2023-10-24T08:38:44+00:00

SIS_UTIL seems to work well, lets remove the old thing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Vincent Guittot Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231020134337.GD33965@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

sched: Add cpus_share_resources API

2023-10-24T08:38:42+00:00

Add cpus_share_resources() API. This is the preparation for the optimization of select_idle_cpu() on platforms with cluster scheduler level. On a machine with clusters cpus_share_resources() will test whether two cpus are within the same cluster. On a non-cluster machine it will behaves the same as cpus_share_cache(). So we use "resources" here for cache resources. Signed-off-by: Barry Song Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy Reviewed-by: Tim Chen Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot Tested-and-reviewed-by: Chen Yu Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019033323.54147-2-yangyicong@huawei.com

sched/topology: Mark set_sched_topology() __init

2023-06-16T15:08:01+00:00

All callers of set_sched_topology() are within __init section. Mark it __init too. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230603073645.1173332-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com