linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/fair: use dst group while checking imbalance for NUMA balancer

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Message-ID: <20200907072708.8664-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Sep 2020 19:27:08 +1200
From:   Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
To:     <mingo@...hat.com>, <peterz@...radead.org>,
        <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, <bsegall@...gle.com>,
        <mgorman@...e.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <linuxarm@...wei.com>, Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>, Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: use dst group while checking imbalance for NUMA balancer

Something is wrong. In find_busiest_group(), we are checking if src has
higher load, however, in task_numa_find_cpu(), we are checking if dst
will have higher load after balancing. It seems it is not sensible to
check src.
It maybe cause wrong imbalance value, for example, if
dst_running = env->dst_stats.nr_running + 1 results in 3 or above, and
src_running = env->src_stats.nr_running - 1 results in 1;
The current code is thinking imbalance as 0 since src_running is smaller
than 2.
This is inconsistent with load balancer.

Fixes: fb86f5b211 ("sched/numa: Use similar logic to the load balancer for moving between domains with spare capacity")
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 1a68a05..90cfee7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ struct task_numa_env {
 
 static unsigned long cpu_load(struct rq *rq);
 static unsigned long cpu_util(int cpu);
-static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance, int src_nr_running);
+static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance, int nr_running);
 
 static inline enum
 numa_type numa_classify(unsigned int imbalance_pct,
@@ -1925,7 +1925,7 @@ static void task_numa_find_cpu(struct task_numa_env *env,
 		src_running = env->src_stats.nr_running - 1;
 		dst_running = env->dst_stats.nr_running + 1;
 		imbalance = max(0, dst_running - src_running);
-		imbalance = adjust_numa_imbalance(imbalance, src_running);
+		imbalance = adjust_numa_imbalance(imbalance, dst_running);
 
 		/* Use idle CPU if there is no imbalance */
 		if (!imbalance) {
@@ -8957,7 +8957,7 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *sd
 	}
 }
 
-static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance, int src_nr_running)
+static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance, int nr_running)
 {
 	unsigned int imbalance_min;
 
@@ -8966,7 +8966,7 @@ static inline long adjust_numa_imbalance(int imbalance, int src_nr_running)
 	 * tasks that remain local when the source domain is almost idle.
 	 */
 	imbalance_min = 2;
-	if (src_nr_running <= imbalance_min)
+	if (nr_running <= imbalance_min)
 		return 0;
 
 	return imbalance;
-- 
2.7.4