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From: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] sched: set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:09:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286996978-7007-3-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286996978-7007-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com>

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 <ncrao@google.com>
---
 kernel/sched_fair.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index db3f674..0dd1021 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -2378,7 +2378,7 @@ 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;
@@ -2389,6 +2389,7 @@ 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);
@@ -2406,8 +2407,10 @@ 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;
 		}
@@ -2447,7 +2450,8 @@ 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 =
-- 
1.7.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-13 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13 19:09 [PATCH 0/4][RFC v2] Improve load balancing when tasks have large weight differential Nikhil Rao
2010-10-13 19:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched: do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot Nikhil Rao
2010-10-13 19:09 ` Nikhil Rao [this message]
2010-10-18 19:23   ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu tip-bot for Nikhil Rao
2010-10-13 19:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched: drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity Nikhil Rao
2010-10-14  5:48   ` Nikhil Rao
2010-10-14 23:42     ` Suresh Siddha
2010-10-15 11:50     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-15 16:13       ` Nikhil Rao
2010-10-15 17:05         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-15 17:13           ` Suresh Siddha
2010-10-15 17:24             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-15 17:27           ` Nikhil Rao
2010-10-13 19:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched: force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity Nikhil Rao
2010-10-15 12:06   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-15 12:18     ` Mike Galbraith
2010-10-15 12:20       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-15 12:35         ` Mike Galbraith
2010-10-15 16:19           ` Nikhil Rao
2010-10-15 12:08   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-15 16:20     ` Nikhil Rao
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-15 20:12 [PATCH 0/4][RFC v3] Improve load balancing when tasks have large weight differential -v3 Nikhil Rao
2010-10-15 20:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched: set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu Nikhil Rao

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