From 757ffdd705ee942fc8150b17942d968601d2a15b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Schneider Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:17:47 +0100 Subject: sched/fair: Set rq->rd->overload when misfit Idle balance is a great opportunity to pull a misfit task. However, there are scenarios where misfit tasks are present but idle balance is prevented by the overload flag. A good example of this is a workload of n identical tasks. Let's suppose we have a 2+2 Arm big.LITTLE system. We then spawn 4 fairly CPU-intensive tasks - for the sake of simplicity let's say they are just CPU hogs, even when running on big CPUs. They are identical tasks, so on an SMP system they should all end at (roughly) the same time. However, in our case the LITTLE CPUs are less performing than the big CPUs, so tasks running on the LITTLEs will have a longer completion time. This means that the big CPUs will complete their work earlier, at which point they should pull the tasks from the LITTLEs. What we want to happen is summarized as follows: a,b,c,d are our CPU-hogging tasks _ signifies idling LITTLE_0 | a a a a _ _ LITTLE_1 | b b b b _ _ ---------|------------- big_0 | c c c c a a big_1 | d d d d b b ^ ^ Tasks end on the big CPUs, idle balance happens and the misfit tasks are pulled straight away This however won't happen, because currently the overload flag is only set when there is any CPU that has more than one runnable task - which may very well not be the case here if our CPU-hogging workload is all there is to run. As such, this commit sets the overload flag in update_sg_lb_stats when a group is flagged as having a misfit task. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530699470-29808-10-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/sched.h | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched/sched.h') diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index 938063639793..85b3a2bf6c2b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -715,7 +715,11 @@ struct root_domain { cpumask_var_t span; cpumask_var_t online; - /* Indicate more than one runnable task for any CPU */ + /* + * Indicate pullable load on at least one CPU, e.g: + * - More than one runnable task + * - Running task is misfit + */ int overload; /* -- cgit