linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 8/8] sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance

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Message-ID: <20081218175658.29812.62512.stgit@drishya.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:26:59 +0530
From:	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vatsa <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	David Collier-Brown <davecb@....com>,
	Tim Connors <tconnors@...ro.swin.edu.au>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 8/8] sched: idle_balance() does not call
	load_balance_newidle()

load_balance_newidle() does not get called if SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
is set at higher level domain (3-CPU) and not in low level domain
(2-MC).

pulled_task is initialised to -1 and checked for non-zero which
is always true if the lowest level sched_domain does not have
SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag set.

Trivial fix to initialise pulled_task to zero.

This patch has been queued for 2.6.29
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/8/213

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 kernel/sched.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index f82a7a0..e6a88bf 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3773,7 +3773,7 @@ out_balanced:
 static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq)
 {
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
-	int pulled_task = -1;
+	int pulled_task = 0;
 	unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + HZ;
 	cpumask_t tmpmask;
 

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