From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/fair: Clean up active balance nr_balance_failed trickery
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:42:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jhjo8h12dsn.mognet@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210203151429.rnbdgt7wyoaz2vui@e107158-lin>
>> @@ -9805,9 +9810,6 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
>> active_load_balance_cpu_stop, busiest,
>> &busiest->active_balance_work);
>> }
>> -
>> - /* We've kicked active balancing, force task migration. */
>> - sd->nr_balance_failed = sd->cache_nice_tries+1;
>
> This has an impact on future calls to need_active_balance() too, no? We enter
> this path because need_active_balance() returned true; one of the conditions it
> checks for is
>
> return unlikely(sd->nr_balance_failed > sd->cache_nice_tries+2);
>
> So since we used to reset nr_balanced_failed to cache_nice_tries+1, the above
> condition would be false in the next call or two IIUC. But since we remove
> that, we could end up here again soon.
>
> Was this intentional?
>
Partially, I'd say :-)
If you look at active_load_balance_cpu_stop(), it does
sd->nr_balance_failed = 0;
when it successfully pulls a task. So we get a reset of the failed counter
on pull, which I've preserved. As for interactions with later
need_active_balance(), the commit that introduced the current counter write
(which is over 15 years old!):
3950745131e2 ("[PATCH] sched: fix SMT scheduling problems")
only states the task_hot() issue; thus I'm doubtful whether said
interaction was intentional.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-03 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-28 18:31 [PATCH 0/8] sched/fair: misfit task load-balance tweaks Valentin Schneider
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/8] sched/fair: Clean up active balance nr_balance_failed trickery Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:14 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-03 18:42 ` Valentin Schneider [this message]
2021-02-04 15:05 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-05 13:51 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-05 14:05 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-05 14:34 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: Add more sched_asym_cpucapacity static branch checks Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:14 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-09 8:42 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 3/8] sched/fair: Tweak misfit-related capacity checks Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:15 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-03 18:42 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-05 14:31 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-05 16:59 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-05 17:17 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-05 20:07 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-08 15:29 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-08 17:49 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 4/8] sched/fair: Use dst_cpu's capacity rather than group {min, max} capacity Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:15 ` Qais Yousef
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 5/8] sched/fair: Make check_misfit_status() only compare dynamic capacities Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:15 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-04 10:49 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-02-04 11:34 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-04 14:57 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 6/8] sched/fair: Filter out locally-unsolvable misfit imbalances Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:16 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-03 18:43 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 7/8] sched/fair: Attempt misfit active balance when migration_type != migrate_misfit Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:16 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-03 18:43 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-04 11:44 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-02-04 12:22 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-09 8:58 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-09 18:19 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-01-28 18:31 ` [PATCH 8/8] sched/fair: Relax task_hot() for misfit tasks Valentin Schneider
2021-02-03 15:17 ` Qais Yousef
2021-02-08 16:21 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-08 18:24 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-09 8:56 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-03 15:14 ` [PATCH 0/8] sched/fair: misfit task load-balance tweaks Qais Yousef
2021-02-03 18:43 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-02-04 12:03 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-02-04 12:36 ` Valentin Schneider
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