scheduler fix

GIT PULL Ingo Molnar 1 participant 1 message Apr 7, 2011

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Ingo Molnar

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2011-04-07 17:38 UTC #0 lore raw

Linus,

Please pull the latest sched-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git sched-fixes-for-linus

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Peter Zijlstra (1):
sched: Clean up rebalance_domains() load-balance interval calculation

 kernel/sched.c      |    3 +++
 kernel/sched_fair.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

kernel/sched.c +3 -0

index a884551..17b4d22 100644
@@ -6331,6 +6331,9 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
 		break;
 #endif
 	}
+
+	update_max_interval();
+
 	return NOTIFY_OK;
 }

kernel/sched_fair.c +12 -4

index c7ec5c8..80ecd09 100644
@@ -3820,6 +3820,17 @@ void select_nohz_load_balancer(int stop_tick)
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(balancing);
 
+static unsigned long __read_mostly max_load_balance_interval = HZ/10;
+
+/*
+ * Scale the max load_balance interval with the number of CPUs in the system.
+ * This trades load-balance latency on larger machines for less cross talk.
+ */
+static void update_max_interval(void)
+{
+	max_load_balance_interval = HZ*num_online_cpus()/10;
+}
+
 /*
  * It checks each scheduling domain to see if it is due to be balanced,
  * and initiates a balancing operation if so.

@@ -3849,10 +3860,7 @@ static void rebalance_domains(int cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
 
 		/* scale ms to jiffies */
 		interval = msecs_to_jiffies(interval);
-		if (unlikely(!interval))
-			interval = 1;
-		if (interval > HZ*num_online_cpus()/10)
-			interval = HZ*num_online_cpus()/10;
+		interval = clamp(interval, 1UL, max_load_balance_interval);
 
 		need_serialize = sd->flags & SD_SERIALIZE;