[PATCHv4 05/12] sched/fair: Kick nohz balance if rq->misfit_task_load

[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_load 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 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6e885d92fad2..acec93e1dc51 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9505,7 +9505,7 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
 	if (time_before(now, nohz.next_balance))
 		goto out;
 
-	if (rq->nr_running >= 2) {
+	if (rq->nr_running >= 2 || rq->misfit_task_load) {
 		flags = NOHZ_KICK_MASK;
 		goto out;
 	}
-- 
2.7.4