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authorFrode Isaksen <fisaksen@baylibre.com>2017-12-19 11:15:35 +0000
committerJan-Simon Moeller <jsmoeller@linuxfoundation.org>2018-02-07 11:47:29 +0000
commitc4a6287185179732dfc1e903c195ff90c19f1065 (patch)
treed35f5010dbd952e40f5c178322026445b55757c1 /meta-eas/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-renesas/0081-SPLIT-sched-fair-Don-t-load-balance-from-group_other.patch
parent109dea1d5c5a38807b098b588584636ae636a302 (diff)
This layer provides Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) patcheseel_5.1.0eel_5.0.3eel_5.0.2eel/5.1.0eel/5.0.3eel/5.0.25.1.05.0.35.0.2eel
For the moment only for Renesas R-Car Gen3 SoC's. Can be expanded for other SoC's by setting the machine feature biglittle and provide the relevant EAS patches. Bug-AGL: SPEC-813 Change-Id: I2b5e69c515c33e57be19b30466fe208d7b8ac1a5 Signed-off-by: Frode Isaksen <fisaksen@baylibre.com>
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+From 28e38963fbe539c9804d9132aa3613ead32ee330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@arm.com>
+Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:17:26 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH 81/92] SPLIT: sched/fair: Don't load balance from group_other
+ to groups without spare capacity
+
+This is split out from 885677858fd "sched: Consider misfit tasks when
+load-balancing" from lsk-4.4-armlt. The rest of that patch will follow, this is
+separated for ease of examination and discussion.
+
+(cherry picked from commit a3e504284acbf3dd12ceec8ebcabaee1892f876e)
+Signed-off-by: Gaku Inami <gaku.inami.xw@bp.renesas.com>
+---
+ kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 ++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
+index fea3ca8..cf60d93 100644
+--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
++++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
+@@ -7750,6 +7750,14 @@ static bool update_sd_pick_busiest(struct lb_env *env,
+ if (sgs->group_type < busiest->group_type)
+ return false;
+
++ /*
++ * Candidate sg doesn't face any serious load-balance problems
++ * so don't pick it if the local sg is already filled up.
++ */
++ if (sgs->group_type == group_other &&
++ !group_has_capacity(env, &sds->local_stat))
++ return false;
++
+ if (sgs->avg_load <= busiest->avg_load)
+ return false;
+
+--
+1.9.1
+