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| author | Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> | 2026-05-13 23:39:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2026-05-18 22:33:15 +0300 |
| commit | 808915f982c2a52f5d148510ecfab52284de67cf (patch) | |
| tree | 435bd5ae721031b3a18b9f1573bde0920ebdef95 /include/linux | |
| parent | 7030513a08776b2ca70fccd5dfddf7bb5c5c88ba (diff) | |
| download | linux-808915f982c2a52f5d148510ecfab52284de67cf.tar.xz | |
sched/cache: Avoid cache-aware scheduling for memory-heavy processes
Prateek and Tingyin reported that memory-intensive workloads (such as
stream) can saturate memory bandwidth and caches on the preferred LLC
when sched_cache aggregates too many threads.
To mitigate this, estimate a process's memory footprint by comparing
its NUMA balancing fault statistics to the size of the LLC. If the
footprint exceeds the LLC size, skip cache-aware scheduling.
Note that footprint is only an approximation of the memory footprint,
since the kernel lacks suitable metrics to estimate the real working
set. If a user-provided hint is available in the future, it would be
more accurate. A later patch will allow users to provide a hint to
adjust this threshold.
Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Vern Hao <vernhao@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/95cf64a385bcc12f18dcebe9d59e8d3ba8bb318f.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 6701911eaaf7..95729670929c 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2425,6 +2425,7 @@ struct sched_cache_stat { unsigned long epoch; u64 nr_running_avg; unsigned long next_scan; + unsigned long footprint; int cpu; } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; |