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authorVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>2018-08-07 16:29:35 +0200
committerVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>2018-08-07 16:29:35 +0200
commitab96d40e9de8434b426e9d618f24f23bd4c42a7d (patch)
tree812348b17b4f145e3f969f7af26c770d0704bf9d
parentf84f0ee3514bcfe8a71570d5845d9ea25193d3d0 (diff)
sched/fair: fix unnecessary increase of balance intervalsched-fix-asym_packing
In case of active balance, we increase the balance interval to cover pinned tasks cases not covered by all_pinned logic. Neverthless, the active migration triggered by asym packing should be treated as the normal unbalanced case and reset the interval to default value otherwise active migration for asym_packing can be easily delayed for hundreds of ms because of this all_pinned detection mecanism. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c27
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5f1b6c62497f..ceb6bedb48fe 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -8360,22 +8360,32 @@ static struct rq *find_busiest_queue(struct lb_env *env,
*/
#define MAX_PINNED_INTERVAL 512
-static int need_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)
+static inline bool
+asym_active_balance(enum cpu_idle_type idle, unsigned int flags, int dst, int src)
{
- struct sched_domain *sd = env->sd;
-
- if (env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE) {
+ if (idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE) {
/*
* ASYM_PACKING needs to force migrate tasks from busy but
* lower priority CPUs in order to pack all tasks in the
* highest priority CPUs.
*/
- if ((sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING) &&
- sched_asym_prefer(env->dst_cpu, env->src_cpu))
- return 1;
+ if ((flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING) &&
+ sched_asym_prefer(dst, src))
+ return true;
}
+ return false;
+}
+
+static int need_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)
+{
+ struct sched_domain *sd = env->sd;
+
+
+ if (asym_active_balance(env->idle, sd->flags, env->dst_cpu, env->src_cpu))
+ return 1;
+
/*
* The dst_cpu is idle and the src_cpu CPU has only 1 CFS task.
* It's worth migrating the task if the src_cpu's capacity is reduced
@@ -8650,7 +8660,8 @@ more_balance:
} else
sd->nr_balance_failed = 0;
- if (likely(!active_balance)) {
+ if (likely(!active_balance) ||
+ asym_active_balance(env.idle, sd->flags, env.dst_cpu, env.src_cpu)) {
/* We were unbalanced, so reset the balancing interval */
sd->balance_interval = sd->min_interval;
} else {