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From: Jemmy Wong <jemmywong512@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] sched/fair: Add smt_balance and llc_balance to the decision matrix
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:20:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928042018.10618-2-jemmywong512@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928042018.10618-1-jemmywong512@gmail.com>

The group-type matrix was introduced in commit 0b0695f2b34a
("sched/fair: Rework load_balance()"). When commit fee1759e4f04
("sched/fair: Determine active load balance for SMT sched groups")
added group_smt_balance and commit f38cc2f0d8a3 ("sched/cache:
Prioritize tasks preferring destination LLC during balancing")
added group_llc_balance, neither commit updated the matrix table.

Both types are only tagged on non-local groups in update_sg_lb_stats(),
so their local columns are N/A.

As busiest, group_smt_balance is only set when dst_cpu is idle and the
SMT group runs more than one task. Against a local has_spare or
fully_busy group it goes through the nr_idle checks, where a non-SMT
dst group may also force the pull via smt_vs_nonsmt_groups(). Against a
local imbalanced or overloaded group the local group is busier and the
pair is balanced.

As busiest, group_llc_balance is not an unconditional force. A local
overloaded group is busier and the pair is balanced; otherwise the
nr_idle checks apply, with prefer_sibling still able to force the pull
when the local group has spare capacity.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Jemmy Wong <jemmywong512@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7455a83a6a99..f9ddcecfd19d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -12947,13 +12947,15 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *s
 /*
  * Decision matrix according to the local and busiest group type:
  *
- * busiest \ local has_spare fully_busy misfit asym imbalanced overloaded
- * has_spare        nr_idle   balanced   N/A    N/A  balanced   balanced
- * fully_busy       nr_idle   nr_idle    N/A    N/A  balanced   balanced
- * misfit_task      force     N/A        N/A    N/A  N/A        N/A
- * asym_packing     force     force      N/A    N/A  force      force
- * imbalanced       force     force      N/A    N/A  force      force
- * overloaded       force     force      N/A    N/A  force      avg_load
+ * busiest \ local has_spare fully_busy misfit smt asym imbalanced llc overloaded
+ * has_spare        nr_idle   balanced   N/A   N/A  N/A  balanced  N/A  balanced
+ * fully_busy       nr_idle   nr_idle    N/A   N/A  N/A  balanced  N/A  balanced
+ * misfit_task      force     N/A        N/A   N/A  N/A  N/A       N/A  N/A
+ * smt_balance      nr_idle   nr_idle    N/A   N/A  N/A  balanced  N/A  balanced
+ * asym_packing     force     force      N/A   N/A  N/A  force     N/A  force
+ * imbalanced       force     force      N/A   N/A  N/A  force     N/A  force
+ * llc_balance      nr_idle   nr_idle    N/A   N/A  N/A  nr_idle   N/A  balanced
+ * overloaded       force     force      N/A   N/A  N/A  force     N/A  avg_load
  *
  * N/A :      Not Applicable because already filtered while updating
  *            statistics.
-- 
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-28  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-28  4:20 [PATCH 0/3] sched/fair: Update decision matrix and rename pinned-task group state Jemmy Wong
2026-09-28  4:20 ` Jemmy Wong [this message]
2026-09-28  4:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] sched/fair: Rename group_imbalanced to group_pinned_task Jemmy Wong
2026-09-28  4:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] sched/fair: Rename sgc->imbalance to sgc->pinned_task Jemmy Wong

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