The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     2ab4092fc82d6001fdd9d51dbba27d04dec967e0
Gitweb:        
https://git.kernel.org/tip/2ab4092fc82d6001fdd9d51dbba27d04dec967e0
Author:        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
AuthorDate:    Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:26:34 +02:00
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:40:54 +02:00

sched/fair: Spread out tasks evenly when not overloaded

When there is only one CPU per group, using the idle CPUs to evenly spread
tasks doesn't make sense and nr_running is a better metrics.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bseg...@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggem...@arm.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.le...@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
Cc: morten.rasmus...@arm.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: hdan...@sina.com
Cc: pa...@linux.ibm.com
Cc: pa...@redhat.com
Cc: quentin.per...@arm.com
Cc: r...@surriel.com
Cc: sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: valentin.schnei...@arm.com
Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571405198-27570-8-git-send-email-vincent.guit...@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index e6a3db0..f489f60 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -8591,18 +8591,34 @@ static struct sched_group *find_busiest_group(struct 
lb_env *env)
            busiest->sum_nr_running > local->sum_nr_running + 1)
                goto force_balance;
 
-       if (busiest->group_type != group_overloaded &&
-            (env->idle == CPU_NOT_IDLE ||
-             local->idle_cpus <= (busiest->idle_cpus + 1)))
-               /*
-                * If the busiest group is not overloaded
-                * and there is no imbalance between this and busiest group
-                * wrt. idle CPUs, it is balanced. The imbalance
-                * becomes significant if the diff is greater than 1 otherwise
-                * we might end up just moving the imbalance to another
-                * group.
-                */
-               goto out_balanced;
+       if (busiest->group_type != group_overloaded) {
+               if (env->idle == CPU_NOT_IDLE)
+                       /*
+                        * If the busiest group is not overloaded (and as a
+                        * result the local one too) but this CPU is already
+                        * busy, let another idle CPU try to pull task.
+                        */
+                       goto out_balanced;
+
+               if (busiest->group_weight > 1 &&
+                   local->idle_cpus <= (busiest->idle_cpus + 1))
+                       /*
+                        * If the busiest group is not overloaded
+                        * and there is no imbalance between this and busiest
+                        * group wrt idle CPUs, it is balanced. The imbalance
+                        * becomes significant if the diff is greater than 1
+                        * otherwise we might end up to just move the imbalance
+                        * on another group. Of course this applies only if
+                        * there is more than 1 CPU per group.
+                        */
+                       goto out_balanced;
+
+               if (busiest->sum_h_nr_running == 1)
+                       /*
+                        * busiest doesn't have any tasks waiting to run
+                        */
+                       goto out_balanced;
+       }
 
 force_balance:
        /* Looks like there is an imbalance. Compute it */

Reply via email to