[patch] sched: fix next_interval determination in idle_balance()

[Ingo Molnar]

2.6.22 must-have item - perhaps suitable for -stable too, because it was 
reproduced on 2.6.21.5 too.

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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [patch] sched: fix next_interval determination in idle_balance()

Fix massive SMP imbalance on NUMA nodes observed on 2.6.21.5 with CFS. 
(and later on reproduced without CFS as well).

The intervals of domains that do not have SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE must be 
considered for the calculation of the time of the next balance. 
Otherwise we may defer rebalancing forever and nodes might stay idle for 
very long times.

Siddha also spotted that the conversion of the balance interval to 
jiffies is missing. Fix that to.

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

also continue the loop if !(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE).

Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It did in fact trigger under all three of mainline, CFS, and -rt 
including CFS -- see below for a couple of emails from last Friday 
giving results for these three on the AMD box (where it happened) and on 
a single-quad NUMA-Q system (where it did not, at least not with such 
severity).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched.c |   22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: v/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- v.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ v/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2938,17 +2938,21 @@ static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, s
 	unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + 60 *  HZ;
 
 	for_each_domain(this_cpu, sd) {
-		if (sd->flags & SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE) {
+		unsigned long interval;
+
+		if (!(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE))
+			continue;
+
+		if (sd->flags & SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE)
 			/* If we've pulled tasks over stop searching: */
 			pulled_task = load_balance_newidle(this_cpu,
-							this_rq, sd);
-			if (time_after(next_balance,
-				  sd->last_balance + sd->balance_interval))
-				next_balance = sd->last_balance
-						+ sd->balance_interval;
-			if (pulled_task)
-				break;
-		}
+								this_rq, sd);
+
+		interval = msecs_to_jiffies(sd->balance_interval);
+		if (time_after(next_balance, sd->last_balance + interval))
+			next_balance = sd->last_balance + interval;
+		if (pulled_task)
+			break;
 	}
 	if (!pulled_task)
 		/*
-
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