Re: [PATCH V6] sched/fair: Remove group imbalance from calculate_imbalance()

From: Dietmar Eggemann
Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 - 09:34:27 EST


On 28/07/17 13:59, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 01:16:24PM +0100, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
>>>> IIRC the topology you had in mind was MC + DIE level with n (n > 2) DIE
>>>> level sched groups.

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>>> If I then start a 3rd loop, I see 100% 50%,50%. I then kill the 100%.
>>> Then instantly they balance and I get 2x100% back.
>>
>> Yeah, could reproduce on IVB-EP (2x10x2).
>
> OK, I have one of those. What should I do, because I didn't actually see
> anything odd.

Me neither. Sorry, I was unclear. I meant I could reproduce your
example, that one of the 50% task moves to the idle cpu on this machine.

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