linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/fair: fix update the nohz.next_balance even if we haven't done any load balance

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Message-Id: <1427441100-6892-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:25:00 +0800
From:	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: fix update the nohz.next_balance even if we haven't done any load balance

As Srikar pointed out (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/27/26):

| With the current code when the ilb cpus are not free: 
| - We would be updating the nohz.next_balance even through we havent done
|   any load balance.
| - We might iterate thro the nohz.idle_cpus_mask()s to find balance_cpus.

This patch fix it by adding need_resched check with the idle check, and 
keep the need_resched check in for loop to catch ilb get busy. 

Suggested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0576ce0..1d3e17f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7639,7 +7639,8 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
 	int balance_cpu;
 
 	if (idle != CPU_IDLE ||
-	    !test_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu)))
+	    !test_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu)) ||
+		need_resched())
 		goto end;
 
 	for_each_cpu(balance_cpu, nohz.idle_cpus_mask) {
-- 
1.9.1

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