sched: Fix more load-balancing fallout
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:38:40 +0000 (13:38 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:54:52 +0000 (12:54 +0200)
commiteb95308ee2a69403909e111837b9068c64cfc349
tree92e9a3368e75b94486dc54f2688453fed17d4eed
parent2300fd67b4f29eec19addb15a8571837228f63fc
sched: Fix more load-balancing fallout

Commits 367456c756a6 ("sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for
load-balancing") and 5d6523ebd ("sched: Fix load-balance wreckage")
left some more wreckage.

By setting loop_max unconditionally to ->nr_running load-balancing
could take a lot of time on very long runqueues (hackbench!). So keep
the sysctl as max limit of the amount of tasks we'll iterate.

Furthermore, the min load filter for migration completely fails with
cgroups since inequality in per-cpu state can easily lead to such
small loads :/

Furthermore the change to add new tasks to the tail of the queue
instead of the head seems to have some effect.. not quite sure I
understand why.

Combined these fixes solve the huge hackbench regression reported by
Tim when hackbench is ran in a cgroup.

Reported-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335365763.28150.267.camel@twins
[ got rid of the CONFIG_PREEMPT tuning and made small readability edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/features.h