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SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip 13/32] sched: Trivial forced-newidle balancer
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On 2020/11/24 7:35, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:07:27PM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
>> On 2020/11/23 12:38, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:19:43PM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
>>>> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>>>
>>>> When a sibling is forced-idle to match the core-cookie; search for
>>>> matching tasks to fill the core.
>>>>
>>>> rcu_read_unlock() can incur an infrequent deadlock in
>>>> sched_core_balance(). Fix this by using the RCU-sched flavor instead.
>>>>
>>> ...
>>>> +
>>>> + if (p->core_occupation > dst->idle->core_occupation)
>>>> + goto next;
>>>> +
>>>
>>> I am unable to understand this check, a comment or clarification in the
>>> changelog will help. I presume we are looking at either one or two cpus
>>> to define the core_occupation and we expect to match it against the
>>> destination CPU.
>>
>> IIUC, this check prevents a task from keeping jumping among the cores forever.
>>
>> For example, on a SMT2 platform:
>> - core0 runs taskA and taskB, core_occupation is 2
>> - core1 runs taskC, core_occupation is 1
>>
>> Without this check, taskB could ping-pong between core0 and core1 by core load
>> balance.
>
> But the comparison is p->core_occuption (as in tasks core occuptation,
> not sure what that means, can a task have a core_occupation of > 1?)
>

p->core_occupation is assigned to the core occupation in the last pick_next_task.
(so yes, it can have a > 1 core_occupation).

Thanks,
-Aubrey

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