[PATCH 03/19] sched/numa: Simplify load_too_imbalanced

Srikar Dronamraju
2018-06-04T10:01:03Z

Currently load_too_imbalance() cares about the slope of imbalance.
It doesn't care of the direction of the imbalance.

However this may not work if nodes that are being compared have
dissimilar capacities. Few nodes might have more cores than other nodes
in the system. Also unlike traditional load balance at a NUMA sched
domain, multiple requests to migrate from the same source node to same
destination node may run in parallel. This can cause huge load
imbalance. This is specially true on a larger machines with either large
cores per node or more number of nodes in the system. Hence allow
move/swap only if the imbalance is going to reduce.

Testcase Time: Min Max Avg StdDev
numa01.sh Real: 516.14 892.41 739.84 151.32
numa01.sh Sys: 153.16 192.99 177.70 14.58
numa01.sh User: 39821.04 69528.92 57193.87 10989.48
numa02.sh Real: 60.91 62.35 61.58 0.63
numa02.sh Sys: 16.47 26.16 21.20 3.85
numa02.sh User: 5227.58 5309.61 5265.17 31.04
numa03.sh Real: 739.07 917.73 795.75 64.45
numa03.sh Sys: 94.46 136.08 109.48 14.58
numa03.sh User: 57478.56 72014.09 61764.48 5343.69
numa04.sh Real: 442.61 715.43 530.31 96.12
numa04.sh Sys: 224.90 348.63 285.61 48.83
numa04.sh User: 35836.84 47522.47 40235.41 3985.26
numa05.sh Real: 386.13 489.17 434.94 43.59
numa05.sh Sys: 144.29 438.56 278.80 105.78
numa05.sh User: 33255.86 36890.82 34879.31 1641.98

Testcase Time: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change
numa01.sh Real: 435.78 653.81 534.58 83.20 38.39%
numa01.sh Sys: 121.93 187.18 145.90 23.47 21.79%
numa01.sh User: 37082.81 51402.80 43647.60 5409.75 31.03%
numa02.sh Real: 60.64 61.63 61.19 0.40 0.637%
numa02.sh Sys: 14.72 25.68 19.06 4.03 11.22%
numa02.sh User: 5210.95 5266.69 5233.30 20.82 0.608%
numa03.sh Real: 746.51 808.24 780.36 23.88 1.972%
numa03.sh Sys: 97.26 108.48 105.07 4.28 4.197%
numa03.sh User: 58956.30 61397.05 60162.95 1050.82 2.661%
numa04.sh Real: 465.97 519.27 484.81 19.62 9.385%
numa04.sh Sys: 304.43 359.08 334.68 20.64 -14.6%
numa04.sh User: 37544.16 41186.15 39262.44 1314.91 2.478%
numa05.sh Real: 411.57 457.20 433.29 16.58 0.380%
numa05.sh Sys: 230.05 435.48 339.95 67.58 -17.9%
numa05.sh User: 33325.54 36896.31 35637.84 1222.64 -2.12%

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 20 ++------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 57d1ee8..ea32a66 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1507,28 +1507,12 @@ static bool load_too_imbalanced(long src_load, long dst_load,
src_capacity = env->src_stats.compute_capacity;
dst_capacity = env->dst_stats.compute_capacity;

- /* We care about the slope of the imbalance, not the direction. */
- if (dst_load < src_load)
- swap(dst_load, src_load);
-
- /* Is the difference below the threshold? */
- imb = dst_load * src_capacity * 100 -
- src_load * dst_capacity * env->imbalance_pct;
- if (imb <= 0)
- return false;
+ imb = abs(dst_load * src_capacity - src_load * dst_capacity);

- /*
- * The imbalance is above the allowed threshold.
- * Compare it with the old imbalance.
- */
orig_src_load = env->src_stats.load;
orig_dst_load = env->dst_stats.load;

- if (orig_dst_load < orig_src_load)
- swap(orig_dst_load, orig_src_load);
-
- old_imb = orig_dst_load * src_capacity * 100 -
- orig_src_load * dst_capacity * env->imbalance_pct;
+ old_imb = abs(orig_dst_load * src_capacity - orig_src_load * dst_capacity);

/* Would this change make things worse? */
return (imb > old_imb);
--
1.8.3.1