Commit-ID: 2582f0eba54066b5e98ff2b27ef0cfa833b59f54 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2582f0eba54066b5e98ff2b27ef0cfa833b59f54 Author: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:09:36 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> CommitDate: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:52:17 +0200 sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu When cycling through sched groups to determine the busiest group, set group_imb only if the busiest cpu has more than 1 runnable task. This patch fixes the case where two cpus in a group have one runnable task each, but there is a large weight differential between these two tasks. The load balancer is unable to migrate any task from this group, and hence do not consider this group to be imbalanced. Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> LKML-Reference: <1286996978-7007-3-git-send-email-ncrao@xxxxxxxxxx> [ small code readability edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched_fair.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c index bf87192..3656480 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c @@ -2378,7 +2378,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, int local_group, const struct cpumask *cpus, int *balance, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs) { - unsigned long load, max_cpu_load, min_cpu_load; + unsigned long load, max_cpu_load, min_cpu_load, max_nr_running; int i; unsigned int balance_cpu = -1, first_idle_cpu = 0; unsigned long avg_load_per_task = 0; @@ -2389,6 +2389,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, /* Tally up the load of all CPUs in the group */ max_cpu_load = 0; min_cpu_load = ~0UL; + max_nr_running = 0; for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_group_cpus(group), cpus) { struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i); @@ -2406,8 +2407,10 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, load = target_load(i, load_idx); } else { load = source_load(i, load_idx); - if (load > max_cpu_load) + if (load > max_cpu_load) { max_cpu_load = load; + max_nr_running = rq->nr_running; + } if (min_cpu_load > load) min_cpu_load = load; } @@ -2447,11 +2450,10 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, if (sgs->sum_nr_running) avg_load_per_task = sgs->sum_weighted_load / sgs->sum_nr_running; - if ((max_cpu_load - min_cpu_load) > 2*avg_load_per_task) + if ((max_cpu_load - min_cpu_load) > 2*avg_load_per_task && max_nr_running > 1) sgs->group_imb = 1; - sgs->group_capacity = - DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(group->cpu_power, SCHED_LOAD_SCALE); + sgs->group_capacity = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(group->cpu_power, SCHED_LOAD_SCALE); if (!sgs->group_capacity) sgs->group_capacity = fix_small_capacity(sd, group); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html