Commit 7fd0d2dd authored Sep 05, 2007 by Suresh Siddha Committed by Ingo Molnar Sep 05, 2007

sched: fix MC/HT scheduler optimization, without breaking the FUZZ logic.



First fix the check
	if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_load_per_task)
with this
	if (*imbalance < busiest_load_per_task)

As the current check is always false for nice 0 tasks (as
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ is same as busiest_load_per_task for nice 0
tasks).

With the above change, imbalance was getting reset to 0 in the corner
case condition, making the FUZZ logic fail. Fix it by not corrupting the
imbalance and change the imbalance, only when it finds that the HT/MC
optimization is needed.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent b21010ed

kernel/sched.c

+3 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ group_next:
		* a think about bumping its value to force at least one task to be
		* moved
		*/
		if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_load_per_task) {
		if (*imbalance < busiest_load_per_task) {
		unsigned long tmp, pwr_now, pwr_move;
		unsigned int imbn;

		@@ -2564,9 +2564,7 @@ small_imbalance:
		pwr_move /= SCHED_LOAD_SCALE;

		/* Move if we gain throughput */
		if (pwr_move <= pwr_now)
		goto out_balanced;

		if (pwr_move > pwr_now)
		*imbalance = busiest_load_per_task;
		}

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