Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Fix the decision for load balance

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Keisuke Nishimura wrote:
> should_we_balance is called for the decision to do load-balancing.
> When sched ticks invoke this function, only one CPU should return
> true. However, in the current code, two CPUs can return true. The
> following situation, where b means busy and i means idle, is an
> example, because CPU 0 and CPU 2 return true.
> 
>         [0, 1] [2, 3]
>          b  b   i  b
> 
> This fix checks if there exists an idle CPU with busy sibling(s)
> after looking for a CPU on an idle core. If some idle CPUs with busy
> siblings are found, just the first one should do load-balancing.
> 
> Fixes: b1bfeab9b002 ("sched/fair: Consider the idle state of the whole core for load balance")
> Signed-off-by: Keisuke Nishimura <keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>

I'll sit on this until after the merge window, but then I'll queue it
for sched/urgent.

Thanks!