On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 16:28 -0700, Jason Low wrote: > Okay, so perhaps we can also try continuing nohz load balancing if we > find that there are overloaded CPUs in the system.
Something like the following. --- diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index fdae26e..d636bf7 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -7620,6 +7620,16 @@ out: } #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON +static inline bool nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq); + +static inline void pass_nohz_balance(struct rq *this_rq, int this_cpu) +{ + clear_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu)); + nohz.next_balance = jiffies; + if (nohz_kick_needed(this_rq)) + nohz_balancer_kick(); +} + /* * In CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON case, the idle balance kickee will do the * rebalancing for all the cpus for whom scheduler ticks are stopped. @@ -7631,8 +7641,10 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle) int balance_cpu; if (idle != CPU_IDLE || - !test_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu))) - goto end; + !test_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu))) { + pass_nohz_balance(this_rq, this_cpu); + return; + } for_each_cpu(balance_cpu, nohz.idle_cpus_mask) { if (balance_cpu == this_cpu || !idle_cpu(balance_cpu)) @@ -7643,8 +7655,10 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle) * work being done for other cpus. Next load * balancing owner will pick it up. */ - if (need_resched()) - break; + if (need_resched()) { + pass_nohz_balance(this_rq, this_cpu); + return; + } rq = cpu_rq(balance_cpu); @@ -7664,7 +7678,6 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle) this_rq->next_balance = rq->next_balance; } nohz.next_balance = this_rq->next_balance; -end: clear_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu)); } @@ -7687,7 +7700,7 @@ static inline bool nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq) int nr_busy, cpu = rq->cpu; bool kick = false; - if (unlikely(rq->idle_balance)) + if (unlikely(idle_cpu(cpu))) return false; /* @@ -7707,7 +7720,7 @@ static inline bool nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq) if (time_before(now, nohz.next_balance)) return false; - if (rq->nr_running >= 2) + if (rq->nr_running >= 2 || rq->rd->overload) return true; rcu_read_lock(); @@ -7757,16 +7770,14 @@ static void run_rebalance_domains(struct softirq_action *h) enum cpu_idle_type idle = this_rq->idle_balance ? CPU_IDLE : CPU_NOT_IDLE; + rebalance_domains(this_rq, idle); + /* * If this cpu has a pending nohz_balance_kick, then do the * balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus whose ticks are - * stopped. Do nohz_idle_balance *before* rebalance_domains to - * give the idle cpus a chance to load balance. Else we may - * load balance only within the local sched_domain hierarchy - * and abort nohz_idle_balance altogether if we pull some load. + * stopped. */ nohz_idle_balance(this_rq, idle); - rebalance_domains(this_rq, idle); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/