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Lingutla Chandrasekhar 2f5f4cce49 sched/fair: Ignore percpu threads for imbalance pulls 
[ Upstream commit 9bcb959d05 ]

During load balance, LBF_SOME_PINNED will be set if any candidate task
cannot be detached due to CPU affinity constraints. This can result in
setting env->sd->parent->sgc->group_imbalance, which can lead to a group
being classified as group_imbalanced (rather than any of the other, lower
group_type) when balancing at a higher level.

In workloads involving a single task per CPU, LBF_SOME_PINNED can often be
set due to per-CPU kthreads being the only other runnable tasks on any
given rq. This results in changing the group classification during
load-balance at higher levels when in reality there is nothing that can be
done for this affinity constraint: per-CPU kthreads, as the name implies,
don't get to move around (modulo hotplug shenanigans).

It's not as clear for userspace tasks - a task could be in an N-CPU cpuset
with N-1 offline CPUs, making it an "accidental" per-CPU task rather than
an intended one. KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU gives us an indisputable signal which
we can leverage here to not set LBF_SOME_PINNED.

Note that the aforementioned classification to group_imbalance (when
nothing can be done) is especially problematic on big.LITTLE systems, which
have a topology the likes of:

  DIE [          ]
  MC  [    ][    ]
       0  1  2  3
       L  L  B  B

  arch_scale_cpu_capacity(L) < arch_scale_cpu_capacity(B)

Here, setting LBF_SOME_PINNED due to a per-CPU kthread when balancing at MC
level on CPUs [0-1] will subsequently prevent CPUs [2-3] from classifying
the [0-1] group as group_misfit_task when balancing at DIE level. Thus, if
CPUs [0-1] are running CPU-bound (misfit) tasks, ill-timed per-CPU kthreads
can significantly delay the upgmigration of said misfit tasks. Systems
relying on ASYM_PACKING are likely to face similar issues.

Signed-off-by: Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@codeaurora.org>
[Use kthread_is_per_cpu() rather than p->nr_cpus_allowed]
[Reword changelog]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210407220628.3798191-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2021-05-11 14:47:29 +02:00
arch ARM: dts: at91: change the key code of the gpio key 2021-05-11 14:47:20 +02:00
block block: return -EBUSY when there are open partitions in blkdev_reread_part 2021-04-28 13:39:59 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 11:37:59 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - check for ERR pointers in crypto_destroy_tfm() 2021-05-11 14:47:16 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: fix typo in NVMEM 2021-04-14 08:42:12 +02:00
drivers media: gscpa/stv06xx: fix memory leak 2021-05-11 14:47:29 +02:00
fs btrfs: convert logic BUG_ON()'s in replace_path to ASSERT()'s 2021-05-11 14:47:22 +02:00
include power: supply: bq27xxx: fix power_avg for newer ICs 2021-05-11 14:47:24 +02:00
init init/Kconfig: make COMPILE_TEST depend on HAS_IOMEM 2021-04-10 13:36:11 +02:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel sched/fair: Ignore percpu threads for imbalance pulls 2021-05-11 14:47:29 +02:00
lib dyndbg: fix parsing file query without a line-range suffix 2021-05-11 14:47:11 +02:00
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mm mm: ptdump: fix build failure 2021-04-21 13:00:57 +02:00
net net: qrtr: Avoid potential use after free in MHI send 2021-05-07 11:04:31 +02:00
samples samples, bpf: Add missing munmap in xdpsock 2021-03-17 17:06:12 +01:00
scripts kasan: fix hwasan build for gcc 2021-04-28 13:40:02 +02:00
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tools selftests/resctrl: Fix checking for < 0 for unsigned values 2021-05-11 14:47:27 +02:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: Use kvm_pfn_t for local PFN variable in hva_to_pfn_remapped() 2021-02-26 10:13:01 +01:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Jason Cooper to CREDITS 2020-11-30 10:20:34 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: move the staging subsystem to lists.linux.dev 2021-03-25 09:04:18 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.10.35 2021-05-07 11:04:33 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.