linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 007/270] sched/fair: Fix NOHZ next idle balance

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Message-Id: <20200817143756.173459004@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:13:28 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Peng Liu <iwtbavbm@...il.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 007/270] sched/fair: Fix NOHZ next idle balance

From: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>

[ Upstream commit 3ea2f097b17e13a8280f1f9386c331b326a3dbef ]

With commit:
  'b7031a02ec75 ("sched/fair: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK")'
rebalance_domains of the local cfs_rq happens before others idle cpus have
updated nohz.next_balance and its value is overwritten.

Move the update of nohz.next_balance for other idles cpus before balancing
and updating the next_balance of local cfs_rq.

Also, the nohz.next_balance is now updated only if all idle cpus got a
chance to rebalance their domains and the idle balance has not been aborted
because of new activities on the CPU. In case of need_resched, the idle
load balance will be kick the next jiffie in order to address remaining
ilb.

Fixes: b7031a02ec75 ("sched/fair: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK")
Reported-by: Peng Liu <iwtbavbm@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609123748.18636-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 9b16080093be1..20bf1f66733ac 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9385,7 +9385,12 @@ static void kick_ilb(unsigned int flags)
 {
 	int ilb_cpu;
 
-	nohz.next_balance++;
+	/*
+	 * Increase nohz.next_balance only when if full ilb is triggered but
+	 * not if we only update stats.
+	 */
+	if (flags & NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK)
+		nohz.next_balance = jiffies+1;
 
 	ilb_cpu = find_new_ilb();
 
@@ -9703,6 +9708,14 @@ static bool _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * next_balance will be updated only when there is a need.
+	 * When the CPU is attached to null domain for ex, it will not be
+	 * updated.
+	 */
+	if (likely(update_next_balance))
+		nohz.next_balance = next_balance;
+
 	/* Newly idle CPU doesn't need an update */
 	if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) {
 		update_blocked_averages(this_cpu);
@@ -9723,14 +9736,6 @@ static bool _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 	if (has_blocked_load)
 		WRITE_ONCE(nohz.has_blocked, 1);
 
-	/*
-	 * next_balance will be updated only when there is a need.
-	 * When the CPU is attached to null domain for ex, it will not be
-	 * updated.
-	 */
-	if (likely(update_next_balance))
-		nohz.next_balance = next_balance;
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1