Valentin Schneider d66ab02a3c UPSTREAM: sched/fair: Kick nohz balance if rq->misfit_task_load
There already are a few conditions in nohz_kick_needed() to ensure
a nohz kick is triggered, but they are not enough for some misfit
task scenarios. Excluding asym packing, those are:

 - rq->nr_running >=2: Not relevant here because we are running a
   misfit task, it needs to be migrated regardless and potentially through
   active balance.

 - sds->nr_busy_cpus > 1: If there is only the misfit task being run
   on a group of low capacity CPUs, this will be evaluated to False.

 - rq->cfs.h_nr_running >=1 && check_cpu_capacity(): Not relevant here,
   misfit task needs to be migrated regardless of rt/IRQ pressure

As such, this commit adds an rq->misfit_task_load condition to trigger a
nohz kick.

The idea to kick a nohz balance for misfit tasks originally came from
Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>, and a similar patch was submitted for
the Android Common Kernel - see:

  https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/eas-dev/2016-September/000551.html

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/1530699470-29808-6-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 5fbdfae522)
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>

Change-Id: I1ad94a5688987950355b4fe0190cd5965aec035e
2018-10-26 11:44:47 +01:00
2018-10-15 16:31:29 -04:00
2018-10-22 07:37:37 +01:00

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