[tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT sibling

From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Dec 16 2011 - 06:36:43 EST


Commit-ID: ab2789213d224202237292d78aaa0c386c7b28b2
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ab2789213d224202237292d78aaa0c386c7b28b2
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:47:00 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:44:58 +0100

sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT sibling

Mike Galbraith reported that this recent commit:

commit 4dcfe1025b513c2c1da5bf5586adb0e80148f612
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 10 13:01:10 2011 +0100

sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible

stopped selecting an idle SMT sibling when there are no idle
cores in a single socket system.

Intent of the select_idle_sibling() was to fallback to an idle
SMT sibling, if it fails to identify an idle core. But this
fallback was not happening on systems where all the scheduler
domains had `SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES' flag set.

Fix it. Slightly bigger patch of cleaning all these goto's etc
is queued up for the next release.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323978421.1984.244.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched_fair.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index a78ed27..8a39fa3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -2352,13 +2352,11 @@ again:
if (!smt && (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER))
continue;

- if (!(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)) {
- if (!smt) {
- smt = 1;
- goto again;
- }
+ if (smt && !(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER))
+ break;
+
+ if (!(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES))
break;
- }

sg = sd->groups;
do {
@@ -2378,6 +2376,10 @@ next:
sg = sg->next;
} while (sg != sd->groups);
}
+ if (!smt) {
+ smt = 1;
+ goto again;
+ }
done:
rcu_read_unlock();

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