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authorMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>2015-01-21 10:27:07 +0000
committerJuri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>2015-03-03 16:43:00 +0000
commitc0949c8ec7a2f0ef288641b4cf3acd96563237f7 (patch)
tree8bb24792dda1da87d95ded0c71ec70bfe9c8443d
parent353fa945e172db51aee98304256432d723ffdcdf (diff)
sched: Enable active migration for cpus of lower capacity
Add an extra criteria to need_active_balance() to kick off active load balance if the source cpu is overutilized and has lower capacity than the destination cpus. cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index bb2e7c798c0..3a8a8acc3b8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6943,6 +6943,13 @@ static int need_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)
return 1;
}
+ if ((capacity_of(env->src_cpu) < capacity_of(env->dst_cpu)) &&
+ env->src_rq->cfs.h_nr_running == 1 &&
+ cpu_overutilized(env->src_cpu, env->sd) &&
+ !cpu_overutilized(env->dst_cpu, env->sd)) {
+ return 1;
+ }
+
return unlikely(sd->nr_balance_failed > sd->cache_nice_tries+2);
}