Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Aggressive balance in domains whose groupsshare package resources

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Oct 22 2013 - 18:23:42 EST


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:15:02PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 828ed97..bbcd96b 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5165,6 +5165,8 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
> {
> int ld_moved, cur_ld_moved, active_balance = 0;
> struct sched_group *group;
> + struct sched_domain *child;
> + int share_pkg_res = 0;
> struct rq *busiest;
> unsigned long flags;
> struct cpumask *cpus = __get_cpu_var(load_balance_mask);
> @@ -5190,6 +5192,10 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
>
> schedstat_inc(sd, lb_count[idle]);
>
> + child = sd->child;
> + if (child && child->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)
> + share_pkg_res = 1;
> +
> redo:
> if (!should_we_balance(&env)) {
> *continue_balancing = 0;
> @@ -5202,6 +5208,7 @@ redo:
> goto out_balanced;
> }
>
> +redo_grp:
> busiest = find_busiest_queue(&env, group);
> if (!busiest) {
> schedstat_inc(sd, lb_nobusyq[idle]);
> @@ -5292,6 +5299,11 @@ more_balance:
> if (!cpumask_empty(cpus)) {
> env.loop = 0;
> env.loop_break = sched_nr_migrate_break;
> + if (share_pkg_res &&
> + cpumask_intersects(cpus,
> + to_cpumask(group->cpumask)))

sched_group_cpus()

> + goto redo_grp;
> +
> goto redo;
> }
> goto out_balanced;
> @@ -5318,9 +5330,15 @@ more_balance:
> */
> if (!cpumask_test_cpu(this_cpu,
> tsk_cpus_allowed(busiest->curr))) {
> + cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu_of(busiest), cpus);
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&busiest->lock,
> flags);
> env.flags |= LBF_ALL_PINNED;
> + if (share_pkg_res &&
> + cpumask_intersects(cpus,
> + to_cpumask(group->cpumask)))
> + goto redo_grp;
> +
> goto out_one_pinned;
> }

Man this retry logic is getting annoying.. isn't there anything saner we
can do?
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