linux/kernel/sched
Vincent Guittot c32b430829 sched/fair: Improve spreading of utilization
During load_balancing, a group with spare capacity will try to pull some
utilizations from an overloaded group. In such case, the load balance
looks for the runqueue with the highest utilization. Nevertheless, it
should also ensure that there are some pending tasks to pull otherwise
the load balance will fail to pull a task and the spread of the load will
be delayed.

This situation is quite transient but it's possible to highlight the
effect with a short run of sysbench test so the time to spread task impacts
the global result significantly.

Below are the average results for 15 iterations on an arm64 octo core:
sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=8  --max-requests=1000 run

                           tip/sched/core  +patchset
total time:                172ms           158ms
per-request statistics:
         avg:                1.337ms         1.244ms
         max:               21.191ms        10.753ms

The average max doesn't fully reflect the wide spread of the value which
ranges from 1.350ms to more than 41ms for the tip/sched/core and from
1.350ms to 21ms with the patch.

Other factors like waiting for an idle load balance or cache hotness
can delay the spreading of the tasks which explains why we can still
have up to 21ms with the patch.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312165429.990-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2020-03-20 13:06:20 +01:00
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autogroup.c sched/autogroup: Make autogroup_path() always available 2019-06-24 19:23:40 +02:00
autogroup.h sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
clock.c sched/clock: Use static_branch_likely() with sched_clock_running 2019-11-29 08:10:54 +01:00
completion.c sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees 2018-07-17 09:30:34 +02:00
core.c psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups 2020-03-20 13:06:18 +01:00
cpuacct.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cpudeadline.c Linux 5.2-rc5 2019-06-17 12:12:27 +02:00
cpudeadline.h sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cpufreq.c cpufreq: Avoid leaving stale IRQ work items during CPU offline 2019-12-12 17:59:43 +01:00
cpufreq_schedutil.c sched/uclamp: Rename uclamp_util_with() into uclamp_rq_util_with() 2019-12-25 10:42:08 +01:00
cpupri.c sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems 2020-03-06 12:57:27 +01:00
cpupri.h sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems 2020-03-06 12:57:27 +01:00
cputime.c sched/vtime: Prevent unstable evaluation of WARN(vtime->state) 2020-03-06 12:57:16 +01:00
deadline.c sched/deadline: Make two functions static 2020-03-06 12:57:24 +01:00
debug.c sched/pelt: Add a new runnable average signal 2020-02-24 11:36:36 +01:00
fair.c sched/fair: Improve spreading of utilization 2020-03-20 13:06:20 +01:00
features.h sched/fair/util_est: Implement faster ramp-up EWMA on utilization increases 2019-10-29 10:01:07 +01:00
idle.c idle: fix spelling mistake "iterrupts" -> "interrupts" 2020-01-17 10:19:22 +01:00
isolation.c genirq, sched/isolation: Isolate from handling managed interrupts 2020-01-22 16:29:49 +01:00
loadavg.c timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick 2020-01-28 21:36:44 +01:00
Makefile psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
membarrier.c membarrier: Fix RCU locking bug caused by faulty merge 2019-10-01 21:27:50 +02:00
pelt.c sched/pelt: Add support to track thermal pressure 2020-03-06 12:57:17 +01:00
pelt.h sched/pelt: Add support to track thermal pressure 2020-03-06 12:57:17 +01:00
psi.c psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags 2020-03-20 13:06:19 +01:00
rt.c sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks 2020-03-06 12:57:29 +01:00
sched-pelt.h sched/fair: Fix "runnable_avg_yN_inv" not used warnings 2019-06-17 12:15:58 +02:00
sched.h sched: Avoid scale real weight down to zero 2020-03-20 13:06:19 +01:00
stats.c proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
stats.h psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags 2020-03-20 13:06:19 +01:00
stop_task.c sched/core: Further clarify sched_class::set_next_task() 2019-11-11 08:35:21 +01:00
swait.c kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions 2019-01-04 13:13:48 -08:00
topology.c sched/topology: Don't enable EAS on SMT systems 2020-03-06 12:57:23 +01:00
wait.c Add wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() 2019-10-31 15:12:23 +00:00
wait_bit.c sched/wait: fix ___wait_var_event(exclusive) 2019-12-17 13:32:50 +01:00