Re: [PATCH v4 08/12] sched: move cfs task on a CPU with higher capacity

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Jul 28 2014 - 15:05:32 EST


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On 07/28/2014 01:51 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> If the CPU is used for handling lot of IRQs, trig a load balance to
> check if it's worth moving its tasks on another CPU that has more
> capacity.
>
> As a sidenote, this will note generate more spurious ilb because we
> already trig an ilb if there is more than 1 busy cpu. If this cpu
> is the only one that has a task, we will trig the ilb once for
> migrating the task.
>
> The nohz_kick_needed function has been cleaned up a bit while
> adding the new test
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 69
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file
> changed, 49 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index
> 6843016..1cde8dd 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++
> b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -5969,6 +5969,14 @@ static bool
> update_sd_pick_busiest(struct lb_env *env, return true; }
>
> + /* + * The group capacity is reduced probably because of
> activity from other + * sched class or interrupts which use part
> of the available capacity + */ + if ((sg->sgc->capacity_orig *
> 100) > (sgs->group_capacity * + env->sd->imbalance_pct)) +
> return true; + return false; }

Isn't this already reflected in avg_load, by having avg_load increase
due to the capacity decreasing when a cpu is busy with non-CFS loads?

Also, this part of update_sd_pick_busiest will not be reached in the
!SD_ASYM_PACKING case once my patch is applied, so this is a small
conflict between our series :)

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