From 3cb0243767fd033bdce95f4f1b5882172a2f8119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davi Chaves Azevedo Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:37:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] sched/cache: Refresh LLC capacity across CPU hotplug, to fix capacity underestimation bug The scheduler scales LLC capacity by the fraction of cache-sharing CPUs covered by a domain: llc_bytes = cache_size * span_weight / shared_weight During CPU teardown, sched_cpu_deactivate() rebuilds scheduler domains before cacheinfo_cpu_pre_down() removes the CPU from shared_cpu_map. The new domains therefore use the old sharing weight. The later call to sched_update_llc_bytes() looks up the departing CPU's sd_llc, which has already been detached, and returns without correcting the surviving CPUs. On a Ryzen 5 7535U with twelve logical CPUs sharing a 16 MiB LLC, offlining one SMT sibling left the remaining CPUs with: llc_bytes = floor(16777216 * 11 / 12) = 15379114 bytes The correct capacity is still 16777216 bytes. On systems with active cache-aware scheduling, an underestimated capacity can cause exceed_llc_capacity() to reject aggregation for a process whose footprint would fit. Unchanged cpuset partitions sharing the physical cache can also retain stale capacity when a CPU comes online in another partition. Pass the cache-sharing mask already retained by cacheinfo to the scheduler update. Refresh every surviving CPU using its own LLC domain so that each partition receives the correct share. This also preserves the correction needed as cache-sharing maps grow during boot. Keep the existing CPU-hotplug and scheduler-domain synchronization. The update remains on the hotplug path; no steady-state scheduling operation or persistent allocation is added. Fixes: 7030513a0877 ("sched/cache: Calculate the LLC size and store it in sched_domain") Signed-off-by: Davi Chaves Azevedo Signed-off-by: Tim Chen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Chen Yu Reviewed-by: Tim Chen Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak Tested-by: Chen Yu Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak Cc: # v7.2.x Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6751d93e15889e624796c74db0bfe66603d60b1b.1790035273.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com --- drivers/base/cacheinfo.c | 11 ++++++----- include/linux/sched/topology.h | 4 ++-- kernel/sched/topology.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c index 9f9c72727a05..7a47a392568a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c +++ b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c @@ -1040,9 +1040,10 @@ static int cacheinfo_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu) rc = cache_add_dev(cpu); if (rc) goto err; - if (cpu_map_shared_cache(true, cpu, &cpu_map)) + if (cpu_map_shared_cache(true, cpu, &cpu_map)) { update_per_cpu_data_slice_size(true, cpu, cpu_map); - sched_update_llc_bytes(cpu); + sched_update_llc_bytes(cpu_map); + } return 0; err: free_cache_attributes(cpu); @@ -1059,10 +1060,10 @@ static int cacheinfo_cpu_pre_down(unsigned int cpu) cpu_cache_sysfs_exit(cpu); free_cache_attributes(cpu); - if (nr_shared > 1) + if (nr_shared > 1) { update_per_cpu_data_slice_size(false, cpu, cpu_map); - - sched_update_llc_bytes(cpu); + sched_update_llc_bytes(cpu_map); + } return 0; } diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h index b5d9d7c2b8ad..f96812d71c51 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h @@ -281,9 +281,9 @@ static inline int task_node(const struct task_struct *p) } #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE -extern void sched_update_llc_bytes(unsigned int cpu); +extern void sched_update_llc_bytes(const struct cpumask *cpus); #else -static inline void sched_update_llc_bytes(unsigned int cpu) { } +static inline void sched_update_llc_bytes(const struct cpumask *cpus) { } #endif #endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_TOPOLOGY_H */ diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c index 0248227d983a..3dab0253976f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c @@ -985,8 +985,8 @@ void sched_cache_active_set(void) } /* - * Update the bottom sched_domain's llc_bytes for @cpu and all its - * LLC siblings. Called from cacheinfo_cpu_online() or + * Update the bottom sched_domain's llc_bytes for @cpus sharing a physical + * LLC. Called from cacheinfo_cpu_online() or * cacheinfo_cpu_pre_down() with cpu hotplug lock held. * * Note: get_effective_llc_bytes() returns 0 on PowerPC. @@ -996,17 +996,13 @@ void sched_cache_active_set(void) * and does not populates the per-CPU struct cpu_cacheinfo array * that get_cpu_cacheinfo_llc() reads. */ -void sched_update_llc_bytes(unsigned int cpu) +void sched_update_llc_bytes(const struct cpumask *cpus) { struct sched_domain *sd, *sdp; unsigned int i; sched_domains_mutex_lock(); - sdp = rcu_dereference_sched_domain(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu)); - if (!sdp) - goto unlock; - /* * ci->shared_cpu_map is built incrementally as CPUs come * online, so the first CPU in an LLC initially sees @@ -1014,14 +1010,22 @@ void sched_update_llc_bytes(unsigned int cpu) * get_effective_llc_bytes(). Re-evaluating every LLC * sibling on each online event corrects this once the full * shared_cpu_map is known. + * + * The departing CPU's domains have already been detached when + * cacheinfo removes it. Use the surviving cache siblings instead. + * They may belong to different cpuset partitions, so use each CPU's + * own LLC domain to scale its share of the physical cache. */ - for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sdp)) { + for_each_cpu(i, cpus) { + sdp = rcu_dereference_sched_domain(per_cpu(sd_llc, i)); + if (!sdp) + continue; + sd = rcu_dereference_sched_domain(cpu_rq(i)->sd); if (sd) sd->llc_bytes = get_effective_llc_bytes(i, sdp); } -unlock: sched_domains_mutex_unlock(); }