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sched/fair: Avoid pulling tasks from non-overloaded higher capacity groups
authorMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:41:10 +0000 (14:41 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:29:06 +0000 (10:29 +0100)
commit9e0994c0a1c1f82c705f1f66388e1bcffcee8bb9
tree201386837c202af26b39a8ff1e07b2f35ea3b807
parentbf475ce0a3dd75b5d1df6c6c14ae25168caa15ac
sched/fair: Avoid pulling tasks from non-overloaded higher capacity groups

For asymmetric CPU capacity systems it is counter-productive for
throughput if low capacity CPUs are pulling tasks from non-overloaded
CPUs with higher capacity. The assumption is that higher CPU capacity is
preferred over running alone in a group with lower CPU capacity.

This patch rejects higher CPU capacity groups with one or less task per
CPU as potential busiest group which could otherwise lead to a series of
failing load-balancing attempts leading to a force-migration.

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: freedom.tan@mediatek.com
Cc: keita.kobayashi.ym@renesas.com
Cc: mgalbraith@suse.de
Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476452472-24740-5-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c