From e1f78c15ae83f0f1ee8b779f4c28aef3ae918c08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Schneider Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:12:07 +0100 Subject: sched/fair: Don't increase sd->balance_interval on newidle balance [ Upstream commit 3f130a37c442d5c4d66531b240ebe9abfef426b5 ] When load_balance() fails to move some load because of task affinity, we end up increasing sd->balance_interval to delay the next periodic balance in the hopes that next time we look, that annoying pinned task(s) will be gone. However, idle_balance() pays no attention to sd->balance_interval, yet it will still lead to an increase in balance_interval in case of pinned tasks. If we're going through several newidle balances (e.g. we have a periodic task), this can lead to a huge increase of the balance_interval in a very small amount of time. To prevent that, don't increase the balance interval when going through a newidle balance. This is a similar approach to what is done in commit 58b26c4c0257 ("sched: Increment cache_nice_tries only on periodic lb"), where we disregard newidle balance and rely on periodic balance for more stable results. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537974727-30788-2-git-send-email-valentin.schneider@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index d8afae1bd5c5..b765a58cf20f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -7950,13 +7950,22 @@ out_all_pinned: sd->nr_balance_failed = 0; out_one_pinned: + ld_moved = 0; + + /* + * idle_balance() disregards balance intervals, so we could repeatedly + * reach this code, which would lead to balance_interval skyrocketting + * in a short amount of time. Skip the balance_interval increase logic + * to avoid that. + */ + if (env.idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) + goto out; + /* tune up the balancing interval */ if (((env.flags & LBF_ALL_PINNED) && sd->balance_interval < MAX_PINNED_INTERVAL) || (sd->balance_interval < sd->max_interval)) sd->balance_interval *= 2; - - ld_moved = 0; out: return ld_moved; } -- cgit v1.2.3