Re: [RFC][PATCH -rt] sched: fully ignore RT tasks for CFS load-balancing

[Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Since -rt runs IRQs and SoftIRQs as RT tasks and load-balancing is done
> from softirq context, there is always at least one RT task (and very
> likely multiple) running when we balance.
> 
> The current (and totally broken) interaction between RT tasks and CFS
> load-balancing makes it so that we'll try to evacuate a significant
> amount of tasks due to RT tasks being runnable.
> 
> Solve this in another broken way by not accounting RT tasks at all.
> 
> This will likely break another class of cases, but until we can properly
> fix this, we might as well do this.

Peter,

Do we know why this became a problem lately?  I don't recall seeing load 
balancing issues like this way back around 2.6.21 or 22 when CFS was 
released.  Is the cpu_load stuff fairly recent?

--
Darren

> 
> Chucked-on-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> ---
>  kernel/sched_rt.c |    4 ----
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c
> index adcbc68..385d31f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched_rt.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c
> @@ -926,8 +926,6 @@ static void enqueue_task_rt(struct rq *rq, struct
> task_struct *p, int wakeup)
> 
>  	if (!task_current(rq, p) && p->rt.nr_cpus_allowed > 1)
>  		enqueue_pushable_task(rq, p);
> -
> -	inc_cpu_load(rq, p->se.load.weight);
>  }
> 
>  static void dequeue_task_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int
> sleep)
> @@ -942,8 +940,6 @@ static void dequeue_task_rt(struct rq *rq, struct
> task_struct *p, int sleep)
>  	dequeue_rt_entity(rt_se);
> 
>  	dequeue_pushable_task(rq, p);
> -
> -	dec_cpu_load(rq, p->se.load.weight);
>  }
> 
>  /*
> 
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-- 
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team