linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/eas: Don't update misfit status if the task is pinned

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Message-Id: <20210119120755.2425264-1-qais.yousef@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:07:55 +0000
From:   Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
To:     "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/eas: Don't update misfit status if the task is pinned

If the task is pinned to a cpu, setting the misfit status means that
we'll unnecessarily continuously attempt to migrate the task but fail.

This continuous failure will cause the balance_interval to increase to
a high value, and eventually cause unnecessary significant delays in
balancing the system when real imbalance happens.

Caught while testing uclamp where rt-app calibration loop was pinned to
cpu 0, shortly after which we spawn another task with high util_clamp
value. The task was failing to migrate after over 40ms of runtime due to
balance_interval unnecessary expanded to a very high value from the
calibration loop.

Not done here, but it could be useful to extend the check for pinning to
verify that the affinity of the task has a cpu that fits. We could end
up in a similar situation otherwise.

Fixes: 3b1baa6496e6 ("sched/fair: Add 'group_misfit_task' load-balance type")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 197a51473e0c..9379a481dd8c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4060,7 +4060,7 @@ static inline void update_misfit_status(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq)
 	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_asym_cpucapacity))
 		return;

-	if (!p) {
+	if (!p || p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1) {
 		rq->misfit_task_load = 0;
 		return;
 	}
-- 
2.25.1