sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:47:45 +0000 (16:47 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:18:12 +0000 (13:18 -0700)
commit337a01799916217f16d5eec290c465465d7570fe
treed8401afd453227d3a8b0f1c3a21f8d87e620bda4
parent6efd9bbce0d4b02d295f28054caa74e6edf811b7
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()

commit 99bd5e2f245d8cd17d040c82d40becdb3efd9b69 upstream

Issues in the current select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
in the context of a task wake-up:

a) Once we select the idle sibling, we use that domain (spanning the cpu that
   the task is currently woken-up and the idle sibling that we found) in our
   wake_affine() decisions. This domain is completely different from the
   domain(we are supposed to use) that spans the cpu that the task currently
   woken-up and the cpu where the task previously ran.

b) We do select_idle_sibling() check only for the cpu that the task is
   currently woken-up on. If select_task_rq_fair() selects the previously run
   cpu for waking the task, doing a select_idle_sibling() check
   for that cpu also helps and we don't do this currently.

c) In the scenarios where the cpu that the task is woken-up is busy but
   with its HT siblings are idle, we are selecting the task be woken-up
   on the idle HT sibling instead of a core that it previously ran
   and currently completely idle. i.e., we are not taking decisions based on
   wake_affine() but directly selecting an idle sibling that can cause
   an imbalance at the SMT/MC level which will be later corrected by the
   periodic load balancer.

Fix this by first going through the load imbalance calculations using
wake_affine() and once we make a decision of woken-up cpu vs previously-ran cpu,
then choose a possible idle sibling for waking up the task on.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1270079265.7835.8.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/sched_fair.c