Psi polling mechanism is trying to minimize the number of wakeups to
run psi_poll_work and is currently relying on timer_pending() to detect
when this work is already scheduled. This provides a window of opportunity
for psi_group_change to schedule an immediate psi_poll_work after
poll_timer_fn got called but before psi_poll_work could reschedule itself.
Below is the depiction of this entire window:
poll_timer_fn
wake_up_interruptible(&group->poll_wait);
psi_poll_worker
wait_event_interruptible(group->poll_wait, ...)
psi_poll_work
psi_schedule_poll_work
if (timer_pending(&group->poll_timer)) return;
...
mod_timer(&group->poll_timer, jiffies + delay);
Prior to 461daba06b we used to rely on poll_scheduled atomic which was
reset and set back inside psi_poll_work and therefore this race window
was much smaller.
The larger window causes increased number of wakeups and our partners
report visible power regression of ~10mA after applying 461daba06b.
Bring back the poll_scheduled atomic and make this race window even
narrower by resetting poll_scheduled only when we reach polling expiration
time. This does not completely eliminate the possibility of extra wakeups
caused by a race with psi_group_change however it will limit it to the
worst case scenario of one extra wakeup per every tracking window (0.5s
in the worst case).
This patch also ensures correct ordering between clearing poll_scheduled
flag and obtaining changed_states using memory barrier. Correct ordering
between updating changed_states and setting poll_scheduled is ensured by
atomic_xchg operation.
By tracing the number of immediate rescheduling attempts performed by
psi_group_change and the number of these attempts being blocked due to
psi monitor being already active, we can assess the effects of this change:
Before the patch:
Run#1 Run#2 Run#3
Immediate reschedules attempted: 684365 1385156 1261240
Immediate reschedules blocked: 682846 1381654 1258682
Immediate reschedules (delta): 1519 3502 2558
Immediate reschedules (% of attempted): 0.22% 0.25% 0.20%
After the patch:
Run#1 Run#2 Run#3
Immediate reschedules attempted: 882244 770298 426218
Immediate reschedules blocked: 881996 769796 426074
Immediate reschedules (delta): 248 502 144
Immediate reschedules (% of attempted): 0.03% 0.07% 0.03%
The number of non-blocked immediate reschedules dropped from 0.22-0.25%
to 0.03-0.07%. The drop is attributed to the decrease in the race window
size and the fact that we allow this race only when psi monitors reach
polling window expiration time.
Fixes: 461daba06b ("psi: eliminate kthread_worker from psi trigger scheduling mechanism")
Reported-by: Kathleen Chang <yt.chang@mediatek.com>
Reported-by: Wenju Xu <wenju.xu@mediatek.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.jmchen@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: SH Chen <show-hong.chen@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028194541.813985-1-surenb@google.com
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