sched: Fix the rq->next_balance logic in rebalance_domains() and idle_balance()
authorJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Fri, 9 May 2014 00:49:22 +0000 (17:49 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 22 May 2014 09:16:32 +0000 (11:16 +0200)
commit52a08ef1f13a11289c9e18cd4cfb4e51c024058b
treefbdde6221312e3ab2ea3a258a94d3e24dace5c54
parenta9467fa3cd2d5bf39e7cb7d0706d29d7ef4df212
sched: Fix the rq->next_balance logic in rebalance_domains() and idle_balance()

Currently, in idle_balance(), we update rq->next_balance when we pull_tasks.
However, it is also important to update this in the !pulled_tasks case too.

When the CPU is "busy" (the CPU isn't idle), rq->next_balance gets computed
using sd->busy_factor (so we increase the balance interval when the CPU is
busy). However, when the CPU goes idle, rq->next_balance could still be set
to a large value that was computed with the sd->busy_factor.

Thus, we need to also update rq->next_balance in idle_balance() in the cases
where !pulled_tasks too, so that rq->next_balance gets updated without taking
the busy_factor into account when the CPU is about to go idle.

This patch makes rq->next_balance get updated independently of whether or
not we pulled_task. Also, we add logic to ensure that we always traverse
at least 1 of the sched domains to get a proper next_balance value for
updating rq->next_balance.

Additionally, since load_balance() modifies the sd->balance_interval, we
need to re-obtain the sched domain's interval after the call to
load_balance() in rebalance_domains() before we update rq->next_balance.

This patch adds and uses 2 new helper functions, update_next_balance() and
get_sd_balance_interval() to update next_balance and obtain the sched
domain's balance_interval.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399596562.2200.7.camel@j-VirtualBox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c