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From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] sched: fix group_capacity for thread level consolidation
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:52:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120116162255.29759.6264.stgit@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120116161740.29759.4679.stgit@localhost>

sched_powersavings for threaded systems need this fix for
consolidation to sibling threads to work.  Since threads have
fractional capacity, group_capacity will turn out to be one
always and not accommodate another task in the sibling thread.

This fix makes group_capacity a function of cpumask_weight that
will enable the power saving load balancer to pack tasks among
sibling threads and keep more cores idle.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index bae6ec8..c94e768 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4012,6 +4012,21 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu,
 		 */
 		if (prefer_sibling && !local_group && sds->this_has_capacity)
 			sgs.group_capacity = min(sgs.group_capacity, 1UL);
+		/*
+		 * If power savings balance is set at this domain, then
+		 * make capacity equal to number of hardware threads to
+		 * accommodate more tasks until capacity is reached.
+		 */
+		else if (sd->flags & SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE)
+			sgs.group_capacity =
+				cpumask_weight(sched_group_cpus(sg));
+
+			/*
+			 * The default group_capacity is rounded from sum of
+			 * fractional cpu_powers of sibling hardware threads
+			 * in order to enable fair use of available hardware
+			 * resources.
+			 */
 
 		if (local_group) {
 			sds->this_load = sgs.avg_load;


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-16 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-16 16:22 [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] sched: unified sched_powersavings tunables Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-16 16:22 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] sched: unified sched_powersavings sysfs tunable Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-25 14:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 10:42     ` Jens Axboe
2012-01-26 11:08       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 11:26         ` Jens Axboe
2012-01-26 12:04           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 12:13             ` Jens Axboe
2012-01-26 12:39               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 12:46                 ` Jens Axboe
2012-01-28 12:06             ` [tip:sched/core] sched, block: Unify cache detection tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27  9:35     ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] sched: unified sched_powersavings sysfs tunable Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-25 14:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27  9:16     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-25 15:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-25 15:12     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-01-25 15:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27  9:22     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-27  9:40       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-16 16:22 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [this message]
2012-01-25 15:38   ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] sched: fix group_capacity for thread level consolidation Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27  9:10     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-01-17 18:44 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] sched: unified sched_powersavings tunables Vaidyanathan Srinivasan

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