linux-kernel - Re: [RFCv3 PATCH 47/48] sched: Enable active migration for cpus of lower capacity

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:40 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	dietmar.eggemann@....com, yuyang.du@...el.com,
	preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mturquette@...aro.org, nico@...aro.org,
	rjw@...ysocki.net, juri.lelli@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFCv3 PATCH 47/48] sched: Enable active migration for cpus of
 lower capacity

On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 06:31:24PM +0000, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> Add an extra criteria to need_active_balance() to kick off active load
> balance if the source cpu is overutilized and has lower capacity than
> the destination cpus.
> 
> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 92fd1d8..1c248f8 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -7379,6 +7379,13 @@ static int need_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)
>  			return 1;
>  	}
>  
> +	if ((capacity_of(env->src_cpu) < capacity_of(env->dst_cpu)) &&
> +				env->src_rq->cfs.h_nr_running == 1 &&
> +				cpu_overutilized(env->src_cpu, env->sd) &&
> +				!cpu_overutilized(env->dst_cpu, env->sd)) {
> +			return 1;
> +	}

Ah, see does this want to get squashed into the previuos patch? Together
they seem to make more sense.
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