From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934041AbbELTkO (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 15:40:14 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:34048 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964799AbbELTjJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 15:39:09 -0400 From: Morten Rasmussen To: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org, Dietmar Eggemann , yuyang.du@intel.com, preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mturquette@linaro.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, Juri Lelli , sgurrappadi@nvidia.com, pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, morten.rasmussen@arm.com Subject: [RFCv4 PATCH 32/34] sched: Consider a not over-utilized energy-aware system as balanced Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 20:39:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1431459549-18343-33-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1431459549-18343-1-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com> References: <1431459549-18343-1-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Dietmar Eggemann In case the system operates below the tipping point indicator, introduced in ("sched: Add over-utilization/tipping point indicator"), bail out in find_busiest_group after the dst and src group statistics have been checked. There is simply no need to move usage around because all involved cpus still have spare cycles available. For an energy-aware system below its tipping point, we rely on the task placement of the wakeup path. This works well for short running tasks. The existence of long running tasks on one of the involved cpus lets the system operate over its tipping point. To be able to move such a task (whose load can't be used to average the load among the cpus) from a src cpu with lower capacity than the dst_cpu, an additional rule has to be implemented in need_active_balance. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index fe41e1e..83218e0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -7340,6 +7340,10 @@ static struct sched_group *find_busiest_group(struct lb_env *env) * this level. */ update_sd_lb_stats(env, &sds); + + if (energy_aware() && !env->dst_rq->rd->overutilized) + goto out_balanced; + local = &sds.local_stat; busiest = &sds.busiest_stat; -- 1.9.1