linux/kernel
Valentin Schneider 757ffdd705 sched/fair: Set rq->rd->overload when misfit
Idle balance is a great opportunity to pull a misfit task. However,
there are scenarios where misfit tasks are present but idle balance is
prevented by the overload flag.

A good example of this is a workload of n identical tasks. Let's suppose
we have a 2+2 Arm big.LITTLE system. We then spawn 4 fairly
CPU-intensive tasks - for the sake of simplicity let's say they are just
CPU hogs, even when running on big CPUs.

They are identical tasks, so on an SMP system they should all end at
(roughly) the same time. However, in our case the LITTLE CPUs are less
performing than the big CPUs, so tasks running on the LITTLEs will have
a longer completion time.

This means that the big CPUs will complete their work earlier, at which
point they should pull the tasks from the LITTLEs. What we want to
happen is summarized as follows:

a,b,c,d are our CPU-hogging tasks _ signifies idling

  LITTLE_0 | a a a a _ _
  LITTLE_1 | b b b b _ _
  ---------|-------------
    big_0  | c c c c a a
    big_1  | d d d d b b
		    ^
		    ^
      Tasks end on the big CPUs, idle balance happens
      and the misfit tasks are pulled straight away

This however won't happen, because currently the overload flag is only
set when there is any CPU that has more than one runnable task - which
may very well not be the case here if our CPU-hogging workload is all
there is to run.

As such, this commit sets the overload flag in update_sg_lb_stats when
a group is flagged as having a misfit task.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
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: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530699470-29808-10-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-09-10 11:05:53 +02:00
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bpf bpf: avoid misuse of psock when TCP_ULP_BPF collides with another ULP 2018-09-02 22:31:10 +02:00
cgroup Merge branch 'for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2018-08-24 13:19:27 -07:00
configs kconfig: tinyconfig: remove stale stack protector fixups 2018-06-15 07:15:28 +09:00
debug treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
dma kernel/dma/direct: take DMA offset into account in dma_direct_supported 2018-09-01 15:42:28 +02:00
events treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
gcov gcov: remove CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT 2018-06-08 18:56:02 +09:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 10:47:26 -07:00
livepatch Merge branch 'for-4.19/upstream' into for-linus 2018-08-20 18:33:50 +02:00
locking Updates for v4.19: 2018-08-20 18:32:00 -07:00
power PM / sleep: wakeup: Fix build error caused by missing SRCU support 2018-08-15 00:07:08 +02:00
printk printk/tracing: Do not trace printk_nmi_enter() 2018-09-06 11:24:05 -04:00
rcu Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
sched sched/fair: Set rq->rd->overload when misfit 2018-09-10 11:05:53 +02:00
time clocksource: Revert "Remove kthread" 2018-09-06 23:38:35 +02:00
trace Masami found an off by one bug in the code that keeps "notrace" functions 2018-08-23 13:07:00 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt kconfig: include kernel/Kconfig.preempt from init/Kconfig 2018-08-02 08:06:54 +09:00
Makefile kbuild: move bin2c back to scripts/ from scripts/basic/ 2018-07-18 01:18:05 +09:00
acct.c kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space() 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
async.c kernel/async.c: revert "async: simplify lowest_in_progress()" 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
audit.c audit: use ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64() for timestamps 2018-07-17 14:45:08 -04:00
audit.h audit: track the owner of the command mutex ourselves 2018-02-23 11:22:22 -05:00
audit_fsnotify.c fsnotify: add fsnotify_add_inode_mark() wrappers 2018-05-18 14:58:22 +02:00
audit_tree.c \n 2018-08-17 09:41:28 -07:00
audit_watch.c audit: fix use-after-free in audit_add_watch 2018-07-18 11:43:36 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit: rename FILTER_TYPE to FILTER_EXCLUDE 2018-06-19 10:39:54 -04:00
auditsc.c audit/stable-4.18 PR 20180814 2018-08-15 10:46:54 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
compat.c time: Enable get/put_compat_itimerspec64 always 2018-06-24 14:39:47 +02:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Prevent state corruption on error rollback 2018-09-06 15:21:38 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c kernel/crash_core.c: print timestamp using time64_t 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: Use raw_spinlocks 2018-04-27 14:34:51 +02:00
dma.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
exit.c signal: Pass pid type into group_send_sig_info 2018-07-21 12:57:35 -05:00
extable.c extable: Make init_kernel_text() global 2018-02-21 16:54:06 +01:00
fail_function.c bpf/error-inject/kprobes: Clear current_kprobe and enable preempt in kprobe 2018-06-21 12:33:19 +02:00
fork.c mm: respect arch_dup_mmap() return value 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
freezer.c PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend 2018-08-06 12:35:20 +02:00
futex.c futex: Mark expected switch fall-throughs 2018-08-20 18:23:00 +02:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators 2017-12-14 16:00:49 -08:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
iomem.c memremap: split devm_memremap_pages() and memremap() infrastructure 2018-05-15 23:08:33 -07:00
irq_work.c irq/work: Improve the flag definitions 2018-01-08 19:43:15 +01:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Disable jump labels in __exit code 2018-03-20 08:57:17 +01:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms, x86: Export addresses of PTI entry trampolines 2018-08-14 19:12:29 -03:00
kcmp.c
kcov.c sched/core / kcov: avoid kcov_area during task switch 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
kexec.c kexec: add call to LSM hook in original kexec_load syscall 2018-07-16 12:31:57 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: yield to scheduler when loading kimage segments 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
kexec_file.c treewide: Use array_size() in vzalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
kexec_internal.h
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Replace %p with other pointer types 2018-06-21 17:33:42 +02:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
latencytop.c
memremap.c libnvdimm-for-4.19_dax-memory-failure 2018-08-25 18:43:59 -07:00
module-internal.h modsign: log module name in the event of an error 2018-07-02 11:36:17 +02:00
module.c module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
module_signing.c modsign: log module name in the event of an error 2018-07-02 11:36:17 +02:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: add SPDX identifier 2018-01-05 18:43:00 +11:00
panic.c Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
params.c kernel/params.c: downgrade warning for unsafe parameters 2018-04-11 10:28:37 -07:00
pid.c pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID 2018-07-21 10:43:12 -05:00
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
profile.c
ptrace.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
range.c
reboot.c PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend 2018-08-06 12:35:20 +02:00
relay.c kernel/relay.c: change return type to vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
resource.c libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
rseq.c rseq: uapi: Declare rseq_cs field as union, update includes 2018-07-10 22:18:52 +02:00
seccomp.c audit/stable-4.18 PR 20180605 2018-06-06 16:34:00 -07:00
signal.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-08-22 12:34:08 -07:00
smp.c cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation 2018-08-07 12:25:30 +02:00
smpboot.c smpboot: Remove cpumask from the API 2018-07-03 09:20:44 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirq 2018-08-03 15:52:10 +02:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
sys.c Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-08-24 09:25:39 -07:00
sys_ni.c Merge branch 'core-rseq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-10 10:17:09 -07:00
sysctl.c namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c staging: irda: remove remaining remants of irda code removal 2018-04-16 11:26:49 +02:00
task_work.c locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-12-17 13:57:15 +01:00
taskstats.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
test_kprobes.c kprobes: Remove jprobe API implementation 2018-06-21 12:33:05 +02:00
torture.c torture: Keep old-school dmesg format 2018-06-25 11:30:10 -07:00
tracepoint.c kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c headers: untangle kmemleak.h from mm.h 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
uid16.c fs: add do_fchownat(), ksys_fchown() helpers and ksys_{,l}chown() wrappers 2018-04-02 20:15:59 +02:00
uid16.h kernel: provide ksys_*() wrappers for syscalls called by kernel/uid16.c 2018-04-02 20:15:30 +02:00
umh.c umh: fix race condition 2018-06-07 16:56:28 -04:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c userns: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock() 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
user_namespace.c userns: move user access out of the mutex 2018-08-11 02:05:53 -05:00
utsname.c uts: create "struct uts_namespace" from kmem_cache 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory 2018-08-11 02:05:53 -05:00
watchdog.c watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace 2018-08-30 12:56:40 +02:00
watchdog_hld.c watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace 2018-08-30 12:56:40 +02:00
workqueue.c watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace 2018-08-30 12:56:40 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: Set worker->desc to workqueue name by default 2018-05-18 08:47:13 -07:00