From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, pauld@redhat.com,
valentin.schneider@arm.com, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
quentin.perret@arm.com, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] sched/fair: use load instead of runnable load
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:07:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190806160743.GW2332@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1564670424-26023-7-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 04:40:22PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> runnable load has been introduced to take into account the case
> where blocked load biases the load balance decision which was selecting
> underutilized group with huge blocked load whereas other groups were
> overloaded.
>
> The load is now only used when groups are overloaded. In this case,
> it's worth being conservative and taking into account the sleeping
> tasks that might wakeup on the cpu.
This one scares me a little. I have the feeling I'm missing/forgetting
something.
Also; while the regular load-balance (find-busiest) stuff is now all
aware of idle, this change also impacts wake_affine and find_idlest, and
they've not changed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 14:40 [PATCH v2 0/8] sched/fair: rework the CFS load balance Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] sched/fair: clean up asym packing Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] sched/fair: rename sum_nr_running to sum_h_nr_running Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] sched/fair: remove meaningless imbalance calculation Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] sched/fair: rework load_balance Vincent Guittot
2019-08-05 17:07 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-26 9:26 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-08-28 10:25 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-06 15:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-26 9:31 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-08-06 17:17 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-07 11:16 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-26 10:11 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-08-28 14:19 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-29 14:26 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-08-30 14:33 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] sched/fair: use rq->nr_running when balancing load Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] sched/fair: use load instead of runnable load Vincent Guittot
2019-08-06 16:07 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-08-26 15:45 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] sched/fair: evenly spread tasks when not overloaded Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] sched/fair: use utilization to select misfit task Vincent Guittot
2019-08-01 16:27 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-02 8:29 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-08-02 10:49 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-02 12:56 ` [PATCH v3] " Vincent Guittot
2019-08-02 14:27 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-05 11:01 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-08-29 19:23 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] sched/fair: rework the CFS load balance Phil Auld
2019-08-30 6:46 ` Vincent Guittot
[not found] ` <20190809052124.13016-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2019-09-02 13:07 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] sched/fair: use rq->nr_running when balancing load Vincent Guittot
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