linux/kernel/sched
Vincent Guittot afdeee0510 sched: Fix imbalance flag reset
The imbalance flag can stay set whereas there is no imbalance.

Let assume that we have 3 tasks that run on a dual cores /dual cluster system.
We will have some idle load balance which are triggered during tick.
Unfortunately, the tick is also used to queue background work so we can reach
the situation where short work has been queued on a CPU which already runs a
task. The load balance will detect this imbalance (2 tasks on 1 CPU and an idle
CPU) and will try to pull the waiting task on the idle CPU. The waiting task is
a worker thread that is pinned on a CPU so an imbalance due to pinned task is
detected and the imbalance flag is set.

Then, we will not be able to clear the flag because we have at most 1 task on
each CPU but the imbalance flag will trig to useless active load balance
between the idle CPU and the busy CPU.

We need to reset of the imbalance flag as soon as we have reached a balanced
state. If all tasks are pinned, we don't consider that as a balanced state and
let the imbalance flag set.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409051215-16788-2-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-19 12:35:24 +02:00
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auto_group.c sched: Change autogroup_move_group() to use for_each_thread() 2014-08-20 09:47:18 +02:00
auto_group.h Revert "sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled" 2012-12-11 10:23:45 +01:00
clock.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
completion.c sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c 2013-11-06 07:49:19 +01:00
core.c sched: Add default-disabled option to BUG() when stack end location is overwritten 2014-09-19 12:35:24 +02:00
cpuacct.c cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes 2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00
cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier 2013-04-10 13:54:20 +02:00
cpudeadline.c sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:28 +02:00
cpudeadline.h sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:28 +02:00
cpupri.c Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
cpupri.h sched/cpupri: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:29 +02:00
cputime.c sched, time: Fix lock inversion in thread_group_cputime() 2014-09-19 12:35:17 +02:00
deadline.c sched/dl: Simplify pick_dl_task() 2014-09-19 12:35:20 +02:00
debug.c sched: s/do_each_thread/for_each_process_thread/ in debug.c 2014-08-20 09:47:17 +02:00
fair.c sched: Fix imbalance flag reset 2014-09-19 12:35:24 +02:00
features.h sched: Rename capacity related flags 2014-06-05 11:52:32 +02:00
idle_task.c sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr() 2014-07-16 13:38:19 +02:00
idle.c ACPI and power management updates for 3.17-rc1 2014-08-06 20:34:19 -07:00
Makefile sched/idle: Move cpu/idle.c to sched/idle.c 2014-02-11 09:58:30 +01:00
proc.c cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU runqueues less 2014-08-06 21:17:45 +02:00
rt.c sched/rt: Remove useless if from cleanup pick_next_task_rt() 2014-09-19 12:35:20 +02:00
sched.h sched: Teach scheduler to understand TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING state 2014-08-20 14:53:00 +02:00
stats.c kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
stats.h sched: Micro-optimize by dropping unnecessary task_rq() calls 2013-09-25 13:51:06 +02:00
stop_task.c sched: Add wrapper for checking task_struct::on_rq 2014-08-20 14:52:59 +02:00
wait.c sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout 2014-07-16 15:10:41 +02:00