Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"

Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for
repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a
significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by
Jeremy Eder:

  We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code
  that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads.
  The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so
  we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers.  We also
  have data from a large database setup where performance is also
  measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily
  share-able.

  Included below are test results from 3 test kernels:

  kernel       reverts
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  1) vanilla   upstream (no reverts)

  2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c

  3) test      reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4
                       e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c

  In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4%
  after reverting 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4.  When
  69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 is included, C0 residency
  never seems to get above 40%.  Taking that patch out gets C0 near
  100% quite often, and performance increases.

  The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @
  1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test.

  - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency
    almost entirely in the 30,40% bin.
  - The last pair, which reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4,
    shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins.

  Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the
  particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3
  test kernels.  We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where
  we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact
  boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above
  baseline.

  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0):
  TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts)
  TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     1]: *
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    49]:
  *************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit
  e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c)
  TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    59]:
  ***********************************************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  Sender %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [     2]: **
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [    58]:
  **********************************************************
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [     0]:

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4
  and e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c)
  TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95

  Receiver %c0
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     1]: *
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    27]: ***************************
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     2]: **
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     0]:
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     2]: **
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     0]:
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     0]:
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    28]: ****************************

  Sender:
      0.0000 -    10.0000 [     1]: *
     10.0000 -    20.0000 [     0]:
     20.0000 -    30.0000 [     0]:
     30.0000 -    40.0000 [    11]: ***********
     40.0000 -    50.0000 [     0]:
     50.0000 -    60.0000 [     1]: *
     60.0000 -    70.0000 [     0]:
     70.0000 -    80.0000 [     3]: ***
     80.0000 -    90.0000 [     7]: *******
     90.0000 -   100.0000 [    38]: **************************************

  These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to
  stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield
  measurably better performance), by reverting commit
  69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4.

Requested-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: 3.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c

@@ -28,13 +28,6 @@
 #define MAX_INTERESTING 50000
 #define STDDEV_THRESH 400
 
-/* 60 * 60 > STDDEV_THRESH * INTERVALS = 400 * 8 */
-#define MAX_DEVIATION 60
-
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer, menu_hrtimer);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, hrtimer_status);
-/* menu hrtimer mode */
-enum {MENU_HRTIMER_STOP, MENU_HRTIMER_REPEAT};
 
 /*
  * Concepts and ideas behind the menu governor
@@ -198,42 +191,17 @@ static u64 div_round64(u64 dividend, u32 divisor)
 	return div_u64(dividend + (divisor / 2), divisor);
 }
 
-/* Cancel the hrtimer if it is not triggered yet */
-void menu_hrtimer_cancel(void)
-{
-	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-	struct hrtimer *hrtmr = &per_cpu(menu_hrtimer, cpu);
-
-	/* The timer is still not time out*/
-	if (per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu)) {
-		hrtimer_cancel(hrtmr);
-		per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu) = MENU_HRTIMER_STOP;
-	}
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(menu_hrtimer_cancel);
-
-/* Call back for hrtimer is triggered */
-static enum hrtimer_restart menu_hrtimer_notify(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
-{
-	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-
-	per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu) = MENU_HRTIMER_STOP;
-
-	return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
-}
-
 /*
  * Try detecting repeating patterns by keeping track of the last 8
  * intervals, and checking if the standard deviation of that set
  * of points is below a threshold. If it is... then use the
  * average of these 8 points as the estimated value.
  */
-static u32 get_typical_interval(struct menu_device *data)
+static void get_typical_interval(struct menu_device *data)
 {
 	int i = 0, divisor = 0;
 	uint64_t max = 0, avg = 0, stddev = 0;
 	int64_t thresh = LLONG_MAX; /* Discard outliers above this value. */
-	unsigned int ret = 0;
 
 again:
 
@@ -274,16 +242,13 @@ again:
 	if (((avg > stddev * 6) && (divisor * 4 >= INTERVALS * 3))
 							|| stddev <= 20) {
 		data->predicted_us = avg;
-		ret = 1;
-		return ret;
+		return;
 
 	} else if ((divisor * 4) > INTERVALS * 3) {
 		/* Exclude the max interval */
 		thresh = max - 1;
 		goto again;
 	}
-
-	return ret;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -298,9 +263,6 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	int i;
 	int multiplier;
 	struct timespec t;
-	int repeat = 0, low_predicted = 0;
-	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-	struct hrtimer *hrtmr = &per_cpu(menu_hrtimer, cpu);
 
 	if (data->needs_update) {
 		menu_update(drv, dev);
@@ -335,7 +297,7 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	data->predicted_us = div_round64(data->expected_us * data->correction_factor[data->bucket],
 					 RESOLUTION * DECAY);
 
-	repeat = get_typical_interval(data);
+	get_typical_interval(data);
 
 	/*
 	 * We want to default to C1 (hlt), not to busy polling
@@ -356,10 +318,8 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 
 		if (s->disabled || su->disable)
 			continue;
-		if (s->target_residency > data->predicted_us) {
-			low_predicted = 1;
+		if (s->target_residency > data->predicted_us)
 			continue;
-		}
 		if (s->exit_latency > latency_req)
 			continue;
 		if (s->exit_latency * multiplier > data->predicted_us)
@@ -369,28 +329,6 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 		data->exit_us = s->exit_latency;
 	}
 
-	/* not deepest C-state chosen for low predicted residency */
-	if (low_predicted) {
-		unsigned int timer_us = 0;
-
-		/*
-		 * Set a timer to detect whether this sleep is much
-		 * longer than repeat mode predicted.  If the timer
-		 * triggers, the code will evaluate whether to put
-		 * the CPU into a deeper C-state.
-		 * The timer is cancelled on CPU wakeup.
-		 */
-		timer_us = 2 * (data->predicted_us + MAX_DEVIATION);
-
-		if (repeat && (4 * timer_us < data->expected_us)) {
-			RCU_NONIDLE(hrtimer_start(hrtmr,
-				ns_to_ktime(1000 * timer_us),
-				HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED));
-			/* In repeat case, menu hrtimer is started */
-			per_cpu(hrtimer_status, cpu) = MENU_HRTIMER_REPEAT;
-		}
-	}
-
 	return data->last_state_idx;
 }
 
@@ -481,9 +419,6 @@ static int menu_enable_device(struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
 				struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 {
 	struct menu_device *data = &per_cpu(menu_devices, dev->cpu);
-	struct hrtimer *t = &per_cpu(menu_hrtimer, dev->cpu);
-	hrtimer_init(t, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
-	t->function = menu_hrtimer_notify;
 
 	memset(data, 0, sizeof(struct menu_device));
 

include/linux/tick.h

@@ -174,10 +174,4 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_task_switch(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
 #endif
 
 
-# ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU
-extern void menu_hrtimer_cancel(void);
-# else
-static inline void menu_hrtimer_cancel(void) {}
-# endif /* CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU */
-
 #endif

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

@@ -827,13 +827,10 @@ void tick_nohz_irq_exit(void)
 {
 	struct tick_sched *ts = &__get_cpu_var(tick_cpu_sched);
 
-	if (ts->inidle) {
-		/* Cancel the timer because CPU already waken up from the C-states*/
-		menu_hrtimer_cancel();
+	if (ts->inidle)
 		__tick_nohz_idle_enter(ts);
-	} else {
+	else
 		tick_nohz_full_stop_tick(ts);
-	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -931,8 +928,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
 
 	ts->inidle = 0;
 
-	/* Cancel the timer because CPU already waken up from the C-states*/
-	menu_hrtimer_cancel();
 	if (ts->idle_active || ts->tick_stopped)
 		now = ktime_get();