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On asymmetric CPU capacity systems load intensive tasks can end up on CPUs that don't suit their compute demand. In this scenarios 'misfit' tasks should be migrated to CPUs with higher compute capacity to ensure better throughput. group_misfit_task indicates this scenario, but tweaks to the load-balance code are needed to make the migrations happen. Misfit balancing only makes sense between a source group of lower per-CPU capacity and destination group of higher compute capacity. Otherwise, misfit balancing is ignored. group_misfit_task has lowest priority so any imbalance due to overload is dealt with first. The modifications are: 1. Only pick a group containing misfit tasks as the busiest group if the destination group has higher capacity and has spare capacity. 2. When the busiest group is a 'misfit' group, skip the usual average load and group capacity checks. 3. Set the imbalance for 'misfit' balancing sufficiently high for a task to be pulled ignoring average load. 4. Pick the CPU with the highest misfit load as the source CPU. 5. If the misfit task is alone on the source CPU, go for active balancing. Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530699470-29808-5-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.