[RFC PATCH 16/16 v3] Intercept periodic load balancing

[Yuyang Du]

We intercept load balancing to contain the load and load balancing in
the consolidated CPUs according to our consolidating mechanism.

In periodic load balancing, we do two things:

1) Skip pulling task to the non-consolidated CPUs.

2) In addition, for consolidated Idle CPU, we aggressively pull tasks from
   non-consolidated CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 1b8dd45..d22ac87 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7260,17 +7260,54 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle, struc
 static void run_rebalance_domains(struct softirq_action *h)
 {
 	struct rq *this_rq = this_rq();
+	int this_cpu = cpu_of(this_rq);
+	struct sched_domain *sd;
 	enum cpu_idle_type idle = this_rq->idle_balance ?
 						CPU_IDLE : CPU_NOT_IDLE;
 
-	rebalance_domains(this_rq, idle);
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	sd = top_flag_domain(this_cpu, SD_WORKLOAD_CONSOLIDATION);
+	if (sd) {
+		struct cpumask *nonshielded_cpus = __get_cpu_var(load_balance_mask);
 
-	/*
-	 * If this cpu has a pending nohz_balance_kick, then do the
-	 * balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus whose ticks are
-	 * stopped.
-	 */
-	nohz_idle_balance(this_rq, idle);
+		/*
+		 * if we encounter shielded cpus here, don't do balance on them
+		 */
+		cpumask_copy(nonshielded_cpus, cpu_active_mask);
+
+		wc_nonshielded_mask(this_cpu, sd, nonshielded_cpus);
+
+		/*
+		 * aggressively unload the shielded cpus to unshielded cpus
+		 */
+		wc_unload(nonshielded_cpus, sd);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+
+		if (cpumask_test_cpu(this_cpu, nonshielded_cpus)) {
+			struct cpumask *idle_cpus = __get_cpu_var(local_cpu_mask);
+			cpumask_and(idle_cpus, nonshielded_cpus, nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
+
+			rebalance_domains(this_rq, idle);
+
+			/*
+			 * If this cpu has a pending nohz_balance_kick, then do the
+			 * balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus whose ticks are
+			 * stopped.
+			 */
+			nohz_idle_balance(this_rq, idle, idle_cpus);
+		}
+	}
+	else {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+		rebalance_domains(this_rq, idle);
+
+		/*
+		 * If this cpu has a pending nohz_balance_kick, then do the
+		 * balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus whose ticks are
+		 * stopped.
+		 */
+		nohz_idle_balance(this_rq, idle, nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
+	}
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.7.9.5

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