[PATCH v6 06/23] sched/fair: Load balance only among preferred CPUs

[Shrikanth Hegde]

Consider only preferred CPUs for load balance.

With this, load balance will end up choosing a preferred CPUs for pull.
This makes it not fight against the push task mechanism which happens
at tick. Also, this stops active balance to happen on non-preferred CPU
pulling the load.

This means there is no load balancing if the task is pinned only to
non-preferred CPUs. They will continue to run where they were previously
running before the CPUs was marked as non-preferred.

Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index ce05acf52d35..9b2931b559d6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -13391,7 +13391,8 @@ static int sched_balance_rq(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
 	};
 	bool need_unlock = false;
 
-	cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), cpu_active_mask);
+	/* Spread load among preferred CPUs */
+	cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), cpu_preferred_mask);
 
 	schedstat_inc(sd->lb_count[idle]);
 
-- 
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