kernel_optimize_test/kernel/sched
Rik van Riel 9722c2dac7 sched: Calculate effective load even if local weight is 0
Thomas Hellstrom bisected a regression where erratic 3D performance is
experienced on virtual machines as measured by glxgears. It identified
commit 58d081b5 ("sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA
node") as the problem which had modified the behaviour of effective_load.

Effective load calculates the difference to the system-wide load if a
scheduling entity was moved to another CPU. The task group is not heavier
as a result of the move but overall system load can increase/decrease as a
result of the change. Commit 58d081b5 ("sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs
on a preferred NUMA node") changed effective_load to make it suitable for
calculating if a particular NUMA node was compute overloaded. To reduce
the cost of the function, it assumed that a current sched entity weight
of 0 was uninteresting but that is not the case.

wake_affine() uses a weight of 0 for sync wakeups on the grounds that it
is assuming the waking task will sleep and not contribute to load in the
near future. In this case, we still want to calculate the effective load
of the sched entity hierarchy. As effective_load is no longer used by
task_numa_compare since commit fb13c7ee (sched/numa: Use a system-wide
search to find swap/migration candidates), this patch simply restores the
historical behaviour.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ Wrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140106113912.GC6178@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-12 09:22:15 +01:00
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auto_group.c
auto_group.h
clock.c
completion.c sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c 2013-11-06 07:49:19 +01:00
core.c sched: Assign correct scheduling domain to 'sd_llc' 2013-12-17 15:08:43 +01:00
cpuacct.c cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methods 2013-08-08 20:11:24 -04:00
cpuacct.h
cpupri.c sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings 2013-07-18 09:58:21 +02:00
cpupri.h
cputime.c Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-05 12:36:46 -07:00
debug.c sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping 2013-10-29 12:02:32 +01:00
fair.c sched: Calculate effective load even if local weight is 0 2014-01-12 09:22:15 +01:00
features.h sched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults 2013-10-09 12:40:27 +02:00
idle_task.c sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap() 2013-10-09 12:40:46 +02:00
Makefile sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c 2013-11-06 07:49:19 +01:00
proc.c sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline 2013-06-27 10:07:44 +02:00
rt.c sched/rt: Fix rq's cpupri leak while enqueue/dequeue child RT entities 2013-12-17 15:08:44 +01:00
sched.h sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus 2013-11-06 12:37:55 +01:00
stats.c
stats.h sched: Micro-optimize by dropping unnecessary task_rq() calls 2013-09-25 13:51:06 +02:00
stop_task.c sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap() 2013-10-09 12:40:46 +02:00
wait.c sched: Move wait code from core.c to wait.c 2013-11-06 07:49:18 +01:00