Re: VolanoMark regression with 2.6.27-rc1

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 20 2008 - 09:32:37 EST


On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:51 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > And I must admit to having overlooked the effect on wake_affine..
> >
> > Chris, could you see the effect of this on smp group fairness?

Just realized my brainfart..

---
Subject: sched: load-balance bias fixes
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 20 15:28:51 CEST 2008

Yanmin spotted a regression with my patch that introduces LB_BIAS:

commit 93b75217df39e6d75889cc6f8050343286aff4a5
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 27 13:41:33 2008 +0200

And I just spotted the brainfart - I should have replaced min/max with avg
instead of removing it completely.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 6 ++++++
kernel/sched.c | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/kernel.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ static inline char *pack_hex_byte(char *
(void) (&_max1 == &_max2); \
_max1 > _max2 ? _max1 : _max2; })

+#define avg(x, y) ({ \
+ typeof(x) _avg1 = ((x)+1)/2; \
+ typeof(x) _avg2 = ((y)+1)/2; \
+ (void) (&_avg1 == &_avg2); \
+ _avg1 + _avg2; })
+
/**
* clamp - return a value clamped to a given range with strict typechecking
* @val: current value
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2008,9 +2008,12 @@ static unsigned long source_load(int cpu
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
unsigned long total = weighted_cpuload(cpu);

- if (type == 0 || !sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
+ if (type == 0)
return total;

+ if (!sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
+ return avg(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
+
return min(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
}

@@ -2023,9 +2026,12 @@ static unsigned long target_load(int cpu
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
unsigned long total = weighted_cpuload(cpu);

- if (type == 0 || !sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
+ if (type == 0)
return total;

+ if (!sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
+ return avg(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
+
return max(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
}



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