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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: miltonm@bga.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ego@in.ibm.com
Subject: sched: question on group_capacity when SMT > 2
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:42:00 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22074.1270003320@neuling.org> (raw)

Peter & Ingo,

At the end of update_sg_lb_stats() we have this calculation:

  sgs->group_capacity =
		DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(group->cpu_power, SCHED_LOAD_SCALE);

At the sibling level when we have SMT2, cpu_power will be 1178/2
(provided we are not scaling power with freq say) and SCHED_LOAD_SCALE
will be 1024, resulting in group_capacity being 1.

If we have SMT4, cpu_power will be 1178/4, hence group_capacity will end
up as 0.  Shouldn't group capacity always be >= 1?  Do we need to round
this up instead or make sure group_capacity is minimum of 1?  Or do we
need to change the way we calculate cpu_power in the SMT > 2 case? 

A similar problem could occur in SMT2 mode if cpu_power was scaled down
to less than 1024.

(FWIW the undocumented sprinkling of DIV_ROUND_blah in kernel/sched* is
somewhat disconcerting)

Regards,
Mikey

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