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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2013-09-15 17:49:13 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-09-20 11:59:36 +0200
commitb18855500fc40da050512d9df82d2f1471e59642 (patch)
treebceb77d57c1a89fe67c98467b9565e9f27d150da /kernel/sched/fair.c
parent7e28b2712e5ebd8d73d25561585bc2ae77da5c30 (diff)
sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > sds->avg_load' case in calculate_imbalance()
In busiest->group_imb case we can come to calculate_imbalance() with local->avg_load >= busiest->avg_load >= sds->avg_load. This can result in imbalance overflow, because it is calculated as follows env->imbalance = min( max_pull * busiest->group_power, (sds->avg_load - local->avg_load) * local->group_power) / SCHED_POWER_SCALE; As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to another if there are pinned tasks. Fix this by skipping the assignment and assuming imbalance=0 in case local->avg_load > sds->avg_load. [ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f596cc6bc0e5e655119dc892c9bfcad26e971f4.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 11cd1366735..0b99aae339c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4896,7 +4896,8 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *s
* max load less than avg load(as we skip the groups at or below
* its cpu_power, while calculating max_load..)
*/
- if (busiest->avg_load < sds->avg_load) {
+ if (busiest->avg_load <= sds->avg_load ||
+ local->avg_load >= sds->avg_load) {
env->imbalance = 0;
return fix_small_imbalance(env, sds);
}