[PATCH v2] sched/fair: ignore cache hotness for SMT migration

From: Josh Don
Date: Tue Aug 04 2020 - 15:34:21 EST


SMT siblings share caches, so cache hotness should be irrelevant for
cross-sibling migration.

Proposed-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 1a68a0536add..abdb54e2339f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7402,6 +7402,10 @@ static int task_hot(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
if (unlikely(task_has_idle_policy(p)))
return 0;

+ /* SMT siblings share cache */
+ if (env->sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY)
+ return 0;
+
/*
* Buddy candidates are cache hot:
*/
--
2.28.0.163.g6104cc2f0b6-goog