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The fair scheduler performs periodic load balance on every CPU to check if it can pull some tasks from other busy CPUs. The duration of this periodic load balance is set to sd->balance_interval for the idle CPUs and is calculated by multiplying the sd->balance_interval with the sd->busy_factor (set to 32 by default) for the busy CPUs. The multiplication is done for busy CPUs to avoid doing load balance too often and rather spend more time executing actual task. While that is the right thing to do for the CPUs busy with SCHED_OTHER or SCHED_BATCH tasks, it may not be the optimal thing for CPUs running only SCHED_IDLE tasks. With the recent enhancements in the fair scheduler around SCHED_IDLE CPUs, we now prefer to enqueue a newly-woken task to a SCHED_IDLE CPU instead of other busy or idle CPUs. The same reasoning should be applied to the load balancer as well to make it migrate tasks more aggressively to a SCHED_IDLE CPU, as that will reduce the scheduling latency of the migrated (SCHED_OTHER) tasks. This patch makes minimal changes to the fair scheduler to do the next load balance soon after the last non SCHED_IDLE task is dequeued from a runqueue, i.e. making the CPU SCHED_IDLE. Also the sd->busy_factor is ignored while calculating the balance_interval for such CPUs. This is done to avoid delaying the periodic load balance by few hundred milliseconds for SCHED_IDLE CPUs. This is tested on ARM64 Hikey620 platform (octa-core) with the help of rt-app and it is verified, using kernel traces, that the newly SCHED_IDLE CPU does load balancing shortly after it becomes SCHED_IDLE and pulls tasks from other busy CPUs. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e485827eb8fe7db0943d6f3f6e0f5a4a70272781.1578471925.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.