linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] sched: limit "all_pinned" balance attempts to sd->span

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:14:57 -0600
From:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
To:	mingo@...e.hu, rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, ghaskins@...ell.com,
	dbahi@...ell.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] sched: limit "all_pinned" balance attempts to sd->span

Load-balancing will never terminate if all cpus are "all_pinned" with
the current algorithm.  This would be pretty unlikely to occur, but we
should protect against it nonetheless.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
---

 kernel/sched.c |   19 ++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 31f91d9..54b27b4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3178,7 +3178,8 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
 	struct sched_group *group;
 	unsigned long imbalance;
 	struct rq *busiest;
-	cpumask_t cpus = CPU_MASK_ALL;
+	cpumask_t cpus = sd->span;
+	int remain = cpus_weight(sd->span) - 1;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/*
@@ -3237,11 +3238,10 @@ redo:
 			resched_cpu(this_cpu);
 
 		/* All tasks on this runqueue were pinned by CPU affinity */
-		if (unlikely(all_pinned)) {
+		if (unlikely(all_pinned && remain)) {
 			cpu_clear(cpu_of(busiest), cpus);
-			if (!cpus_empty(cpus))
-				goto redo;
-			goto out_balanced;
+			remain--;
+			goto redo;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -3332,7 +3332,8 @@ load_balance_newidle(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq, struct sched_domain *sd)
 	int ld_moved = 0;
 	int sd_idle = 0;
 	int all_pinned = 0;
-	cpumask_t cpus = CPU_MASK_ALL;
+	cpumask_t cpus = sd->span;
+	int remain = cpus_weight(sd->span) - 1;
 
 	/*
 	 * When power savings policy is enabled for the parent domain, idle
@@ -3375,10 +3376,10 @@ redo:
 					&all_pinned);
 		spin_unlock(&busiest->lock);
 
-		if (unlikely(all_pinned)) {
+		if (unlikely(all_pinned && remain)) {
 			cpu_clear(cpu_of(busiest), cpus);
-			if (!cpus_empty(cpus))
-				goto redo;
+			remain--;
+			goto redo;
 		}
 	}
 

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