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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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Peter Zijlstra 2011-02-21 18:56:47 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent cc57aa8f4b
commit 866ab43efd
1 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -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)