[PATCH 5/7] sched/fair: Kick nohz balance if rq->misfit_task

[Morten Rasmussen]

From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>

There already are a few conditions in nohz_kick_needed() to ensure
a nohz kick is triggered, but they are not enough for some misfit
task scenarios. Excluding asym packing, those are:

* rq->nr_running >=2: Not relevant here because we are running a
misfit task, it needs to be migrated regardless and potentially through
active balance.
* sds->nr_busy_cpus > 1: If there is only the misfit task being run
on a group of low capacity cpus, this will be evaluated to False.
* rq->cfs.h_nr_running >=1 && check_cpu_capacity(): Not relevant here,
misfit task needs to be migrated regardless of rt/IRQ pressure

As such, this commit adds an rq->misfit_task condition to trigger a
nohz kick.

The idea to kick a nohz balance for misfit tasks originally came from
Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>, and a similar patch was submitted for
the Android Common Kernel - see [1].

[1]: https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/eas-dev/2016-September/000551.html

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@xxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index e036aef3f10a..1439b784b1f0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9411,6 +9411,9 @@ static inline bool nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq)
 	if (rq->nr_running >= 2)
 		return true;
 
+	if (rq->misfit_task_load)
+		return true;
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	sds = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu));
 	if (sds) {
-- 
2.7.4