Re: [PATCH] sched: Call update_group_power only for local_group

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:12 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> commit 871e35b moved update_group_power() call in update_sg_lb_stats(),
> resulting in it being called for each group, even though it only updates
> the power of local group. As a result we have frequent redundant
> update_group_power() calls.
> 
> Move it back under "if (local_group)" condition.
> 
> This reduces the number of calls to update_group_power by a factor of 4
> on my 4 core in 4 NUMA nodes test system.

Hrm,.. so Gautham removed that because for things like the NO_HZ
balancer the initial balance_cpu == this_cpu constraint doesn't hold.

Not I don't think the local_group constraint holds for that either, so
the below would again break that..

Should we perhaps have a conditional on this_rq->nohz_balance_kick or
so?

> --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
> @@ -2359,8 +2359,11 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
>  	unsigned int balance_cpu = -1, first_idle_cpu = 0;
>  	unsigned long avg_load_per_task = 0;
>  
> -	if (local_group)
> +	if (local_group) {
>  		balance_cpu = group_first_cpu(group);
> +		update_group_power(sd, this_cpu);
> +	}
> +
>  
>  	/* Tally up the load of all CPUs in the group */
>  	max_cpu_load = 0;