Provide a comment explaining the LLC related nohz kick in nohz_balancer_kick().
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 380a72e42678..62f6aead7e73 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -9543,8 +9543,13 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq) sds = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu)); if (sds) { /* - * XXX: write a coherent comment on why we do this. - * See also: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] + * If there is an imbalance between LLC domains (IOW we could + * increase the overall cache use), we need some less-loaded LLC + * domain to pull some load. Likewise, we may need to spread + * load within the current LLC domain (e.g. packed SMT cores but + * other CPUs are idle). We can't really know from here how busy + * the others are - so just get a nohz balance going if it looks + * like this LLC domain has tasks we could move. */ nr_busy = atomic_read(&sds->nr_busy_cpus); if (nr_busy > 1) { -- 2.20.1
