Re: [PATCH] sched: balance_cpu to consider other cpus in its groupas target of (pinned) task migration

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

* Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> [2012-06-04 14:47:43]:

> You need a good reason to run RT, and being able to starve others to
> death ain't it, so I don't see a good reason to care about the 95% case
> enough to fiddle with load balancing to accommodate the oddball case.

While starvation of SCHED_OTHER task was an extreme case, the point
remains that SCHED_OTHER tasks are better served by moving them away
from cpus running rt tasks that are partially cpu intensive. While the
current code has the nuts and bolts to recognize this situation
(scale_rt_power), it fails to effect SCHED_OTHER task movement because of how
one cpu from a sched_group is designated to pull tasks on behalf of its
siblings and that chosen balance_cpu may not be in the task's cpus_allowed mask
(but the task can run on one or more of its sibling cpus).

- vatsa

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