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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2014-07-29 17:15:11 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-08-12 12:48:20 +0200
commit9a5d9ba6a3631d55c358fe1bdbaa162a97471a05 (patch)
tree4fca0c599811ec113deef0e3b7e762170fa208b1 /kernel/sched/fair.c
parentcaeb178c60f4f93f1b45c0bc056b5cf6d217b67f (diff)
sched/fair: Allow calculate_imbalance() to move idle cpus
Allow calculate_imbalance() to 'create' idle cpus in the busiest group if there are idle cpus in the local group. Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140729152705.GX12054@laptop.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 94377254254e..df1ed176c7b7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6273,12 +6273,11 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *s
return fix_small_imbalance(env, sds);
}
- if (busiest->group_type == group_overloaded) {
- /*
- * Don't want to pull so many tasks that a group would go idle.
- * Except of course for the group_imb case, since then we might
- * have to drop below capacity to reach cpu-load equilibrium.
- */
+ /*
+ * If there aren't any idle cpus, avoid creating some.
+ */
+ if (busiest->group_type == group_overloaded &&
+ local->group_type == group_overloaded) {
load_above_capacity =
(busiest->sum_nr_running - busiest->group_capacity_factor);