From: Qais Yousef Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:07:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: sched/eas: Don't update misfit status if the task is pinned X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.4.0-74.83~1051 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6db37c255f0736e73abe3f113f19a4746f13c61;p=mirror_ubuntu-focal-kernel.git sched/eas: Don't update misfit status if the task is pinned BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1918974 [ 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret Acked-by: Valentin Schneider Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210119120755.2425264-1-qais.yousef@arm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa Signed-off-by: Kelsey Skunberg --- diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 3dd7c10d6a58..611adca1e6d0 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; }