On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:34:01AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> [ Upstream commit 01cfcde9c26d8555f0e6e9aea9d6049f87683998 ]
> 
> task_h_load() can return 0 in some situations like running stress-ng
> mmapfork, which forks thousands of threads, in a sched group on a 224 cores
> system. The load balance doesn't handle this correctly because
> env->imbalance never decreases and it will stop pulling tasks only after
> reaching loop_max, which can be equal to the number of running tasks of
> the cfs. Make sure that imbalance will be decreased by at least 1.
> 
> We can't simply ensure that task_h_load() returns at least one because it
> would imply to handle underflow in other places.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> [removed misfit part which was not implemented yet]
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]> # v4.19 v4.14 v4.9 v4.4
> cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
> Link: 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> ---
> 
> This patch also applies on v4.14.188 v4.9.230 and v4.4.230

Thanks for all of the backports, now queued up.

greg k-h

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