UPSTREAM: sched/fair: Avoid pulling tasks from non-overloaded higher capacity groups
authorMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:41:10 +0000 (14:41 +0100)
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:07:24 +0000 (16:37 +0530)
commita7806572c867e544c2f2d2bb6e788d09fd625bdc
treecb0175939043aeeebb44d3f5571dbbeef6d75b49
parent9ce3ac86686c8942a4e8a48c192e3de23f1252c3
UPSTREAM: sched/fair: Avoid pulling tasks from non-overloaded higher capacity groups

For asymmetric CPU capacity systems it is counter-productive for
throughput if low capacity CPUs are pulling tasks from non-overloaded
CPUs with higher capacity. The assumption is that higher CPU capacity is
preferred over running alone in a group with lower CPU capacity.

This patch rejects higher CPU capacity groups with one or less task per
CPU as potential busiest group which could otherwise lead to a series of
failing load-balancing attempts leading to a force-migration.

Change-Id: I428875bb6267c780026ef75e2882300738d016e7
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: freedom.tan@mediatek.com
Cc: keita.kobayashi.ym@renesas.com
Cc: mgalbraith@suse.de
Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476452472-24740-5-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 9e0994c0a1c1f82c705f1f66388e1bcffcee8bb9)
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
kernel/sched/fair.c