Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Improve newidle lb cost tracking and early abort

[Tim Chen]

On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 14:15 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> 
> > It seems to make sense to skip the call
> > to nohz_newidle_balance() for this case? 
> 
> nohz_newidle_balance() also tests this condition :
> (this_rq->avg_idle < sysctl_sched_migration_cost)
> and doesn't set NOHZ_NEWILB_KICKi in such case
> 
> But this patch now used the condition :
> this_rq->avg_idle < sd->max_newidle_lb_cost
> and sd->max_newidle_lb_cost can be higher than
> sysctl_sched_migration_cost
> 
> which means that we can set NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK:
> -although we decided to skip newidle loop
> -or when we abort because this_rq->avg_idle < curr_cost + sd-
> >max_newidle_lb_cost 
> 
> This is even more true when sysctl_sched_migration_cost is lowered
> which is your case IIRC
> 
> The patch below ensures that we don't set NOHZ_NEWILB_KICK in such
> cases:
> 

Thanks. Will ask our benchmark team to give it a spin.

Tim