runnable load has been introduced to take into account the case where
blocked load biases the wake up path which may end to select an overloaded
CPU with a large number of runnable tasks instead of an underutilized
CPU with a huge blocked load.
Tha wake up path now starts to looks for idle CPUs before comparing
runnable load and it's worth aligning the wake up path with the
load_balance.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index acca869..39a37ae 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5485,7 +5485,7 @@ wake_affine_weight(struct sched_domain *sd, struct
task_struct *p,
s64 this_eff_load, prev_eff_load;
unsigned long task_load;
- this_eff_load = cpu_runnable_load(cpu_rq(this_cpu));
+ this_eff_load = cpu_load(cpu_rq(this_cpu));
if (sync) {
unsigned long current_load = task_h_load(current);
@@ -5503,7 +5503,7 @@ wake_affine_weight(struct sched_domain *sd, struct
task_struct *p,
this_eff_load *= 100;
this_eff_load *= capacity_of(prev_cpu);
- prev_eff_load = cpu_runnable_load(cpu_rq(prev_cpu));
+ prev_eff_load = cpu_load(cpu_rq(prev_cpu));
prev_eff_load -= task_load;
if (sched_feat(WA_BIAS))
prev_eff_load *= 100 + (sd->imbalance_pct - 100) / 2;
@@ -5591,7 +5591,7 @@ find_idlest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, struct
task_struct *p,
max_spare_cap = 0;
for_each_cpu(i, sched_group_span(group)) {
- load = cpu_runnable_load(cpu_rq(i));
+ load = cpu_load(cpu_rq(i));
runnable_load += load;
avg_load += cfs_rq_load_avg(&cpu_rq(i)->cfs);
@@ -5732,7 +5732,7 @@ find_idlest_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct
task_struct *p, int this
continue;
}
- load = cpu_runnable_load(cpu_rq(i));
+ load = cpu_load(cpu_rq(i));
if (load < min_load) {
min_load = load;
least_loaded_cpu = i;
--
2.7.4
