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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix scheduler regression from "sched/fair: Rework load_balance()"
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On 26 Oct 2020, at 11:05, Chris Mason wrote:

> On 26 Oct 2020, at 10:24, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>
>>
>> Could you try the fix below ?
>>
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -9049,7 +9049,8 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct
>> lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *s
>> * emptying busiest.
>> */
>> if (local->group_type == group_has_spare) {
>> - if (busiest->group_type > group_fully_busy) {
>> + if ((busiest->group_type > group_fully_busy) &&
>> + (busiest->group_weight > 1)) {
>> /*
>> * If busiest is overloaded, try to fill
>> spare
>> * capacity. This might end up creating spare
>> capacity
>>
>>
>> When we calculate an imbalance at te smallest level, ie between CPUs
>> (group_weight == 1),
>> we should try to spread tasks on cpus instead of trying to fill spare
>> capacity.
>
> With this patch on top of v5.9, my latencies are unchanged. I’m
> building against current Linus now just in case I’m missing other
> fixes.
>

I reran things to make sure the nothing changed on my test box this
weekend:

5.4.0-rc1-00009-gfcf0553db6f4 (last good kernel)
Latency percentiles (usec) runtime 30 (s) (1000 total samples)
50.0th: 180 (502 samples)
75.0th: 227 (251 samples)
90.0th: 268 (147 samples)
95.0th: 300 (50 samples)
*99.0th: 338 (41 samples)
99.5th: 344 (4 samples)
99.9th: 1186 (5 samples)
min=25, max=1185

5.4.0-rc1-00010-g0b0695f2b34a (first bad kernel)
Latency percentiles (usec) runtime 150 (s) (960 total samples)
50.0th: 166 (488 samples)
75.0th: 210 (232 samples)
90.0th: 254 (145 samples)
95.0th: 299 (47 samples)
*99.0th: 12688 (39 samples)
99.5th: 13008 (5 samples)
99.9th: 13104 (4 samples)
min=24, max=13100

3650b228f83adda7e5ee532e2b90429c03f7b9ec (v5.10-rc1) + your patch

Latency percentiles (usec) runtime 30 (s) (1000 total samples)
50.0th: 169 (505 samples)
75.0th: 210 (246 samples)
90.0th: 267 (151 samples)
95.0th: 305 (48 samples)
*99.0th: 12656 (40 samples)
99.5th: 12944 (5 samples)
99.9th: 13168 (5 samples)
min=44, max=13155

-chris

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