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Lingutla Chandrasekhar b56ad4febe sched/fair: Ignore percpu threads for imbalance pulls
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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>
2021-05-11 14:04:11 +02:00
arch x86/build: Propagate $(CLANG_FLAGS) to $(REALMODE_FLAGS) 2021-05-11 14:04:06 +02:00
block block: only update parent bi_status when bio fail 2021-04-16 11:46:38 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - check for ERR pointers in crypto_destroy_tfm() 2021-05-11 14:04:05 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: fix typo in NVMEM 2021-04-14 08:24:18 +02:00
drivers media: gscpa/stv06xx: fix memory leak 2021-05-11 14:04:11 +02:00
fs btrfs: convert logic BUG_ON()'s in replace_path to ASSERT()'s 2021-05-11 14:04:07 +02:00
include power: supply: bq27xxx: fix power_avg for newer ICs 2021-05-11 14:04:08 +02:00
init init/Kconfig: make COMPILE_TEST depend on HAS_IOMEM 2021-04-10 13:34:32 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel sched/fair: Ignore percpu threads for imbalance pulls 2021-05-11 14:04:11 +02:00
lib avoid __memcat_p link failure 2021-05-07 10:51:37 +02:00
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mm mm: fix race by making init_zero_pfn() early_initcall 2021-04-07 14:47:42 +02:00
net gro: ensure frag0 meets IP header alignment 2021-04-21 12:56:17 +02:00
samples samples, bpf: Add missing munmap in xdpsock 2021-03-17 17:03:33 +01:00
scripts ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount 2021-03-09 11:09:39 +01:00
security integrity: double check iint_cache was initialized 2021-03-30 14:35:24 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add MIDI quirk for Vox ToneLab EX 2021-05-07 10:51:37 +02:00
tools perf ftrace: Fix access to pid in array when setting a pid filter 2021-05-07 10:51:37 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
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