From: Ken Chen Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 00:23:22 +0000 (-0700) Subject: sched: Fix sched-domain avg_load calculation X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0432d8f162c7d5d9537b4cb749d44076b76a783;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git sched: Fix sched-domain avg_load calculation In function find_busiest_group(), the sched-domain avg_load isn't calculated at all if there is a group imbalance within the domain. This will cause erroneous imbalance calculation. The reason is that calculate_imbalance() sees sds->avg_load = 0 and it will dump entire sds->max_load into imbalance variable, which is used later on to migrate entire load from busiest CPU to the puller CPU. This has two really bad effect: 1. stampede of task migration, and they won't be able to break out of the bad state because of positive feedback loop: large load delta -> heavier load migration -> larger imbalance and the cycle goes on. 2. severe imbalance in CPU queue depth. This causes really long scheduling latency blip which affects badly on application that has tight latency requirement. The fix is to have kernel calculate domain avg_load in both cases. This will ensure that imbalance calculation is always sensible and the target is usually half way between busiest and puller CPU. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110408002322.3A0D812217F@elm.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c index 7f00772e57c9..60f9d407c5ec 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c @@ -3127,6 +3127,8 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu, if (!sds.busiest || sds.busiest_nr_running == 0) goto out_balanced; + sds.avg_load = (SCHED_LOAD_SCALE * sds.total_load) / sds.total_pwr; + /* * If the busiest group is imbalanced the below checks don't * work because they assumes all things are equal, which typically @@ -3151,7 +3153,6 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu, * Don't pull any tasks if this group is already above the domain * average load. */ - sds.avg_load = (SCHED_LOAD_SCALE * sds.total_load) / sds.total_pwr; if (sds.this_load >= sds.avg_load) goto out_balanced;