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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2011-02-21 18:56:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-02-23 11:33:57 +0100 |
| commit | 866ab43efd325fae8889ea77a744d03f2b957e38 (patch) | |
| tree | 450263aa8a30abb4a0ab2812643aa7a83711df05 /kernel/sched_fair.c | |
| parent | sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments (diff) | |
| download | linux-866ab43efd325fae8889ea77a744d03f2b957e38.tar.xz linux-866ab43efd325fae8889ea77a744d03f2b957e38.zip | |
sched: Fix the group_imb logic
On a 2*6*2 machine something like:
taskset -c 3-11 bash -c 'for ((i=0;i<9;i++)) do while :; do :; done & done'
_should_ result in 9 busy CPUs, each running 1 task.
However it didn't quite work reliably, most of the time one cpu of the
second socket (6-11) would be idle and one cpu of the first socket
(0-5) would have two tasks on it.
The group_imb logic is supposed to deal with this and detect when a
particular group is imbalanced (like in our case, 0-2 are idle but 3-5
will have 4 tasks on it).
The detection phase needed a bit of a tweak as it was too weak and
required more than 2 avg weight tasks difference between idle and busy
cpus in the group which won't trigger for our test-case. So cure that
to be one or more avg task weight difference between cpus.
Once the detection phase worked, it was then defeated by the f_b_g()
tests trying to avoid ping-pongs. In particular, this_load >= max_load
triggered because the pulling cpu (the (first) idle cpu in on the
second socket, say 6) would find this_load to be 5 and max_load to be
4 (there'd be 5 tasks running on our socket and only 4 on the other
socket).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched_fair.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched_fair.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c index 03496ebc4553..3a88dee165c0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c @@ -2743,7 +2743,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, /* * Consider the group unbalanced when the imbalance is larger - * than the average weight of two tasks. + * than the average weight of a task. * * APZ: with cgroup the avg task weight can vary wildly and * might not be a suitable number - should we keep a @@ -2753,7 +2753,7 @@ 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 && max_nr_running > 1) + if ((max_cpu_load - min_cpu_load) >= avg_load_per_task && max_nr_running > 1) sgs->group_imb = 1; sgs->group_capacity = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(group->cpu_power, SCHED_LOAD_SCALE); @@ -3128,6 +3128,14 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu, if (!sds.busiest || sds.busiest_nr_running == 0) goto out_balanced; + /* + * If the busiest group is imbalanced the below checks don't + * work because they assumes all things are equal, which typically + * isn't true due to cpus_allowed constraints and the like. + */ + if (sds.group_imb) + goto force_balance; + /* SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE trumps SMP nice when underutilized */ if (idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && sds.this_has_capacity && !sds.busiest_has_capacity) |