[PATCH] sched/fair: ignore cache hotness for SMT migration

From: Josh Don
Date: Mon Aug 03 2020 - 20:06:18 EST


SMT siblings share caches, so cache hotness should be irrelevant for
cross-sibling migration.

Proposed-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 2ba8f230feb9..5b203b55bcb2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7402,6 +7402,9 @@ static int task_hot(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
if (unlikely(task_has_idle_policy(p)))
return 0;

+ if ((env->sd->flags & cpu_smt_flags()) == cpu_smt_flags())
+ return 0;
+
/*
* Buddy candidates are cache hot:
*/
--
2.28.0.163.g6104cc2f0b6-goog