From: Nikhil Rao Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:23:25 +0000 (+0100) Subject: sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~10186^2~476 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e1d0fe98a1067b91a2d50040db69b18e5ef3446;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu Commit: 2582f0eba54066b5e98ff2b27ef0cfa833b59f54 upstream When cycling through sched groups to determine the busiest group, set group_imb only if the busiest cpu has more than 1 runnable task. This patch fixes the case where two cpus in a group have one runnable task each, but there is a large weight differential between these two tasks. The load balancer is unable to migrate any task from this group, and hence do not consider this group to be imbalanced. Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1286996978-7007-3-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com> [ small code readability edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 0a1fb240ec37..d985956bbfbd 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -3745,7 +3745,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, int local_group, const struct cpumask *cpus, int *balance, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs) { - unsigned long load, max_cpu_load, min_cpu_load; + unsigned long load, max_cpu_load, min_cpu_load, max_nr_running; int i; unsigned int balance_cpu = -1, first_idle_cpu = 0; unsigned long avg_load_per_task = 0; @@ -3759,6 +3759,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, /* Tally up the load of all CPUs in the group */ max_cpu_load = 0; min_cpu_load = ~0UL; + max_nr_running = 0; for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_group_cpus(group), cpus) { struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i); @@ -3776,8 +3777,10 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, load = target_load(i, load_idx); } else { load = source_load(i, load_idx); - if (load > max_cpu_load) + if (load > max_cpu_load) { max_cpu_load = load; + max_nr_running = rq->nr_running; + } if (min_cpu_load > load) min_cpu_load = load; } @@ -3815,11 +3818,10 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, if (sgs->sum_nr_running) avg_load_per_task = sgs->sum_weighted_load / sgs->sum_nr_running; - if ((max_cpu_load - min_cpu_load) > 2*avg_load_per_task) + if ((max_cpu_load - min_cpu_load) > 2*avg_load_per_task && max_nr_running > 1) sgs->group_imb = 1; - sgs->group_capacity = - DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(group->cpu_power, SCHED_LOAD_SCALE); + sgs->group_capacity = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(group->cpu_power, SCHED_LOAD_SCALE); } /**