From: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 0ae78eec8aa64e645866e75005162603a77a0f49 ]
If the task is pinned to a cpu, setting the misfit status means that
we'll unnecessarily continuously attempt to migrate the task but fail.
This continuous failure will cause the balance_interval to increase to
a high value, and eventually cause unnecessary significant delays in
balancing the system when real imbalance happens.
Caught while testing uclamp where rt-app calibration loop was pinned to
cpu 0, shortly after which we spawn another task with high util_clamp
value. The task was failing to migrate after over 40ms of runtime due to
balance_interval unnecessary expanded to a very high value from the
calibration loop.
Not done here, but it could be useful to extend the check for pinning to
verify that the affinity of the task has a cpu that fits. We could end
up in a similar situation otherwise.
Fixes: 3b1baa6496e6 ("sched/fair: Add 'group_misfit_task' load-balance type")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210119120755.2425264-1-qais.yousef@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 3dd7c10d6a582..611adca1e6d0c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3814,7 +3814,7 @@ static inline void update_misfit_status(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq)
if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_asym_cpucapacity))
return;
- if (!p) {
+ if (!p || p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1) {
rq->misfit_task_load = 0;
return;
}
--
2.27.0
