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| author | Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> | 2011-12-12 20:21:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2012-01-27 13:28:49 +0100 |
| commit | 4ec4412e1e91f44a3dcb97b6c9172a13fc78bac9 (patch) | |
| tree | a98f635907975c2f14c01c24418e102337250b8d /kernel/sched | |
| parent | 39be350127ec60a078edffe5b4915dafba4ba514 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-4ec4412e1e91f44a3dcb97b6c9172a13fc78bac9.tar.gz lwn-4ec4412e1e91f44a3dcb97b6c9172a13fc78bac9.zip | |
sched: Ensure cpu_power periodic update
With a lot of small tasks, the softirq sched is nearly never called
when no_hz is enabled. In this case load_balance() is mainly called
with the newly_idle mode which doesn't update the cpu_power.
Add a next_update field which ensure a maximum update period when
there is short activity.
Having stale cpu_power information can skew the load-balancing
decisions, this is cured by the guaranteed update.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323717668-2143-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/fair.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 7c6414fc669d..8e77a6bd597b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ calc_delta_mine(unsigned long delta_exec, unsigned long weight, const struct sched_class fair_sched_class; +static unsigned long __read_mostly max_load_balance_interval = HZ/10; + /************************************************************** * CFS operations on generic schedulable entities: */ @@ -3776,6 +3778,11 @@ void update_group_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu) struct sched_domain *child = sd->child; struct sched_group *group, *sdg = sd->groups; unsigned long power; + unsigned long interval; + + interval = msecs_to_jiffies(sd->balance_interval); + interval = clamp(interval, 1UL, max_load_balance_interval); + sdg->sgp->next_update = jiffies + interval; if (!child) { update_cpu_power(sd, cpu); @@ -3883,12 +3890,15 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd, * domains. In the newly idle case, we will allow all the cpu's * to do the newly idle load balance. */ - if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && local_group) { - if (balance_cpu != this_cpu) { - *balance = 0; - return; - } - update_group_power(sd, this_cpu); + if (local_group) { + if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) { + if (balance_cpu != this_cpu) { + *balance = 0; + return; + } + update_group_power(sd, this_cpu); + } else if (time_after_eq(jiffies, group->sgp->next_update)) + update_group_power(sd, this_cpu); } /* Adjust by relative CPU power of the group */ @@ -4945,8 +4955,6 @@ static int __cpuinit sched_ilb_notifier(struct notifier_block *nfb, static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(balancing); -static unsigned long __read_mostly max_load_balance_interval = HZ/10; - /* * Scale the max load_balance interval with the number of CPUs in the system. * This trades load-balance latency on larger machines for less cross talk. |