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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:28:03 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, efault@....de,
	hpa@...or.com, srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, riel@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Reset nr_balance_failed after active
 balancing

Commit-ID:  d02c071183e1c01a76811c878c8a52322201f81f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d02c071183e1c01a76811c878c8a52322201f81f
Author:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:54:44 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:49:44 +0200

sched/fair: Reset nr_balance_failed after active balancing

To force a task migration during active balancing, nr_balance_failed is set
to cache_nice_tries + 1. However nr_balance_failed is not reset. As a side
effect, the next regular load balance under the same sd, a cache hot task
might be migrated, just because nr_balance_failed count is high.

Resetting nr_balance_failed after a successful active balance ensures
that a hot task is not unreasonably migrated. This can be verified by
looking at othe number of hot task migrations reported by /proc/schedstat.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458735884-30105-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0fe30e6..cbb075e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7399,10 +7399,7 @@ more_balance:
 					&busiest->active_balance_work);
 			}
 
-			/*
-			 * We've kicked active balancing, reset the failure
-			 * counter.
-			 */
+			/* We've kicked active balancing, force task migration. */
 			sd->nr_balance_failed = sd->cache_nice_tries+1;
 		}
 	} else
@@ -7637,10 +7634,13 @@ static int active_load_balance_cpu_stop(void *data)
 		schedstat_inc(sd, alb_count);
 
 		p = detach_one_task(&env);
-		if (p)
+		if (p) {
 			schedstat_inc(sd, alb_pushed);
-		else
+			/* Active balancing done, reset the failure counter. */
+			sd->nr_balance_failed = 0;
+		} else {
 			schedstat_inc(sd, alb_failed);
+		}
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 out_unlock: