From 681fa1413b869ca73f685b9c8769cdd645879804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Morten Rasmussen Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 17:16:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Prevent unnecessary active balance of single task in sched group Scenarios with the busiest group having just one task and the local being idle on topologies with sched groups with different numbers of cpus manage to dodge all load-balance bailout conditions resulting the nr_balance_failed counter to be incremented. This eventually causes a pointless active migration of the task. This patch prevents this by not incrementing the counter when the busiest group only has one task. ASYM_PACKING migrations and migrations due to reduced capacity should still take place as these are explicitly captured by need_active_balance(). A better solution would be to not attempt the load-balance in the first place, but that requires significant changes to the order of bailout conditions and statistics gathering. cc: Ingo Molnar cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index fe40cdb8e640..632163ef7628 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -5629,6 +5629,7 @@ struct lb_env { int new_dst_cpu; enum cpu_idle_type idle; long imbalance; + unsigned int src_grp_nr_running; /* The set of CPUs under consideration for load-balancing */ struct cpumask *cpus; @@ -6591,6 +6592,8 @@ next_group: if (env->sd->flags & SD_NUMA) env->fbq_type = fbq_classify_group(&sds->busiest_stat); + env->src_grp_nr_running = sds->busiest_stat.sum_nr_running; + if (!env->sd->parent) { /* update overload indicator if we are at root domain */ if (env->dst_rq->rd->overload != overload) @@ -7219,7 +7222,8 @@ more_balance: * excessive cache_hot migrations and active balances. */ if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) - sd->nr_balance_failed++; + if (env.src_grp_nr_running > 1) + sd->nr_balance_failed++; if (need_active_balance(&env)) { raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&busiest->lock, flags); -- 2.20.1