Re: [PATCH] Reduce rq lock contention in load_balance()

[Abel Wu]

Hi Ying,

On 11/24/22 5:07 PM, chenying wrote:
> ...
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index a4a20046e586..384690bda8c3 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -954,6 +954,7 @@ struct balance_callback {
>   struct rq {
>       /* runqueue lock: */
>       raw_spinlock_t        __lock;
> +    raw_spinlock_t          lb_lock;

Do we really need a new lock for doing this? I may suggest the
following:

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 87522c3de7b2..30d84e066a9a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1048,6 +1048,7 @@ struct rq {

        struct balance_callback *balance_callback;

+       unsigned char           balancing;
        unsigned char           nohz_idle_balance;
        unsigned char           idle_balance;

and skip in-balancing runqueues early when find_busiest_queue().

Thanks,
	Abel

>       /*
>        * nr_running and cpu_load should be in the same cacheline because