linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: fix and clean up calculate

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Message-ID: <53D7BAA5.8080404@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:15:49 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, jhladky@...hat.com,
	ktkhai@...allels.com, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: fix and clean up calculate_imbalance

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On 07/29/2014 10:59 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:04:50AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>> In situations where all the domains are overloaded, or where
>>> only the busiest domain is overloaded, that code is also
>>> superfluous, since the normal env->imbalance calculation will
>>> figure out how much to move. Remove the load_above_capacity
>>> calculation.
>> 
>> IMHO, we should not remove that part which is used by
>> prefer_sibling
>> 
>> Originally, we had 2 type of busiest group: overloaded or
>> imbalanced. You add a new one which has only a avg_load higher
>> than other so you should handle this new case and keep the other
>> ones unchanged
> 
> Right, so we want that code for overloaded -> overloaded migrations
> such as not to cause idle cpus in an attempt to balance things.
> Idle cpus are worse than imbalance.
> 
> But in case of overloaded/imb -> !overloaded migrations we can
> allow it, and in fact want to allow it in order to balance idle
> cpus.

In case the destination is over the average load, or the source is under
the average load, fix_small_imbalance() determines env->imbalance.

The "load_above_capacity" calculation is only reached when busiest is
busier than average, and the destination is under the average load.
In that case, env->imbalance ends up as the minimum of busiest - avg
and avg - target.

Is there any case where limiting it further to "load - capacity" from
the busiest domain makes a difference?

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