From b71188bd2c52b6af022d687347eb4c7c29901580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Morten Rasmussen Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:54:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Disable energy-unfriendly nohz kicks With energy-aware scheduling enabled nohz_kick_needed() generates many nohz idle-balance kicks which lead to nothing when multiple tasks get packed on a single cpu to save energy. This causes unnecessary wake-ups and hence wastes energy. Make these conditions depend on !energy_aware() for now until the energy-aware nohz story gets sorted out. cc: Ingo Molnar cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index ae4f1ee9cf0c..7327221c991e 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -8259,12 +8259,13 @@ 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 && + (!energy_aware() || cpu_overutilized(cpu))) return true; rcu_read_lock(); sd = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_busy, cpu)); - if (sd) { + if (sd && !energy_aware()) { sgc = sd->groups->sgc; nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgc->nr_busy_cpus); -- 2.20.1