linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Improve consistency of allowed NUMA balance calculations

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Message-Id: <20220208094334.16379-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Tue,  8 Feb 2022 09:43:33 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
        Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Gautham Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
        K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Improve consistency of allowed NUMA balance calculations

There are inconsistencies when determining if a NUMA imbalance is allowed
that should be corrected.

o allow_numa_imbalance changes types and is not always examining
  the destination group so both the type should be corrected as
  well as the naming.
o find_idlest_group uses the sched_domain's weight instead of the
  group weight which is different to find_busiest_group
o find_busiest_group uses the source group instead of the destination
  which is different to task_numa_find_cpu
o Both find_idlest_group and find_busiest_group should account
  for the number of running tasks if a move was allowed to be
  consistent with task_numa_find_cpu

Fixes: 7d2b5dd0bcc4 ("sched/numa: Allow a floating imbalance between NUMA nodes")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 095b0aa378df..4592ccf82c34 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9003,9 +9003,10 @@ static bool update_pick_idlest(struct sched_group *idlest,
  * This is an approximation as the number of running tasks may not be
  * related to the number of busy CPUs due to sched_setaffinity.
  */
-static inline bool allow_numa_imbalance(int dst_running, int dst_weight)
+static inline bool
+allow_numa_imbalance(unsigned int running, unsigned int weight)
 {
-	return (dst_running < (dst_weight >> 2));
+	return (running < (weight >> 2));
 }
 
 /*
@@ -9139,12 +9140,13 @@ find_idlest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int this_cpu)
 				return idlest;
 #endif
 			/*
-			 * Otherwise, keep the task on this node to stay close
-			 * its wakeup source and improve locality. If there is
-			 * a real need of migration, periodic load balance will
-			 * take care of it.
+			 * Otherwise, keep the task close to the wakeup source
+			 * and improve locality if the number of running tasks
+			 * would remain below threshold where an imbalance is
+			 * allowed. If there is a real need of migration,
+			 * periodic load balance will take care of it.
 			 */
-			if (allow_numa_imbalance(local_sgs.sum_nr_running, sd->span_weight))
+			if (allow_numa_imbalance(local_sgs.sum_nr_running + 1, local_sgs.group_weight))
 				return NULL;
 		}
 
@@ -9350,7 +9352,7 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *s
 		/* Consider allowing a small imbalance between NUMA groups */
 		if (env->sd->flags & SD_NUMA) {
 			env->imbalance = adjust_numa_imbalance(env->imbalance,
-				busiest->sum_nr_running, busiest->group_weight);
+				local->sum_nr_running + 1, local->group_weight);
 		}
 
 		return;
-- 
2.31.1