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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 3/3] sched/fair: Rename sgc->imbalance to sgc->pinned_task
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:20:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928042018.10618-4-jemmywong512@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928042018.10618-1-jemmywong512@gmail.com>

sgc->imbalance does not describe a load skew either. It is set only
when a child domain failed to balance because some tasks were pinned by
cpus_ptr, and the parent then classifies the group as group_pinned_task
so that it can force a migration.

The old name also collides with env->imbalance, the amount of load
still to move, and with imbalance_pct. And after the previous rename,
sg_imbalanced() returns group_pinned_task, so the helper and the group
type no longer agree.

Rename the field to pinned_task and its reader to sg_pinned_task().

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Jemmy Wong <jemmywong512@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c  | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 kernel/sched/sched.h |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index aa63950976aa..43bdca636461 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -11595,7 +11595,7 @@ static inline bool check_misfit_status(struct rq *rq)
 }
 
 /*
- * Group imbalance indicates (and tries to solve) the problem where balancing
+ * sgc->pinned_task indicates (and tries to solve) the problem where balancing
  * groups is inadequate due to ->cpus_ptr constraints.
  *
  * Imagine a situation of two groups of 4 CPUs each and 4 tasks each with a
@@ -11623,9 +11623,9 @@ static inline bool check_misfit_status(struct rq *rq)
  * subtle and fragile situation.
  */
 
-static inline int sg_imbalanced(struct sched_group *group)
+static inline int sg_pinned_task(struct sched_group *group)
 {
-	return group->sgc->imbalance;
+	return group->sgc->pinned_task;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -11700,7 +11700,7 @@ group_type group_classify(unsigned int imbalance_pct,
 	if (sgs->group_llc_balance)
 		return group_llc_balance;
 
-	if (sg_imbalanced(group))
+	if (sg_pinned_task(group))
 		return group_pinned_task;
 
 	if (sgs->group_asym_packing)
@@ -13619,10 +13619,10 @@ static int sched_balance_rq(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
 		 * We failed to reach balance because of affinity.
 		 */
 		if (sd_parent) {
-			int *group_imbalance = &sd_parent->groups->sgc->imbalance;
+			int *pinned_task = &sd_parent->groups->sgc->pinned_task;
 
 			if ((env.flags & LBF_SOME_PINNED) && env.imbalance > 0)
-				*group_imbalance = 1;
+				*pinned_task = 1;
 		}
 
 		/* All tasks on this runqueue were pinned by CPU affinity */
@@ -13722,21 +13722,21 @@ static int sched_balance_rq(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
 out_balanced:
 	/*
 	 * We reach balance although we may have faced some affinity
-	 * constraints. Clear the imbalance flag only if other tasks got
+	 * constraints. Clear the pinned flag only if other tasks got
 	 * a chance to move and fix the imbalance.
 	 */
 	if (sd_parent && !(env.flags & LBF_ALL_PINNED)) {
-		int *group_imbalance = &sd_parent->groups->sgc->imbalance;
+		int *pinned_task = &sd_parent->groups->sgc->pinned_task;
 
-		if (*group_imbalance)
-			*group_imbalance = 0;
+		if (*pinned_task)
+			*pinned_task = 0;
 	}
 
 out_all_pinned:
 	/*
 	 * We reach balance because all tasks are pinned at this level so
-	 * we can't migrate them. Let the imbalance flag set so parent level
-	 * can try to migrate them.
+	 * we can't migrate them. Let the pinned flag stay set so the parent
+	 * level can try to migrate them.
 	 */
 	schedstat_inc(sd->lb_balanced[idle]);
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index e656c7059bf8..b64966dde395 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -2257,7 +2257,11 @@ struct sched_group_capacity {
 	unsigned long		min_capacity;		/* Min per-CPU capacity in group */
 	unsigned long		max_capacity;		/* Max per-CPU capacity in group */
 	unsigned long		next_update;
-	int			imbalance;		/* XXX unrelated to capacity but shared group state */
+	/*
+	 * Set when a child domain cannot balance pinned tasks.
+	 * XXX unrelated to capacity, but it is shared group state.
+	 */
+	int			pinned_task;
 
 	int			id;
 
-- 
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-28  4:21 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 ` [PATCH 1/3] sched/fair: Add smt_balance and llc_balance to the decision matrix Jemmy Wong
2026-09-28  4:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] sched/fair: Rename group_imbalanced to group_pinned_task Jemmy Wong
2026-09-28  4:20 ` Jemmy Wong [this message]

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