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From 3a86f1d4b2d288f765534c1763ed698029376098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:41:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 05/92] sched/fair: Avoid pulling tasks from non-overloaded
 higher capacity groups

For asymmetric CPU capacity systems it is counter-productive for
throughput if low capacity CPUs are pulling tasks from non-overloaded
CPUs with higher capacity. The assumption is that higher CPU capacity is
preferred over running alone in a group with lower CPU capacity.

This patch rejects higher CPU capacity groups with one or less task per
CPU as potential busiest group which could otherwise lead to a series of
failing load-balancing attempts leading to a force-migration.

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: freedom.tan@mediatek.com
Cc: keita.kobayashi.ym@renesas.com
Cc: mgalbraith@suse.de
Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476452472-24740-5-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 9e0994c0a1c1f82c705f1f66388e1bcffcee8bb9)
Signed-off-by: Gaku Inami <gaku.inami.xw@bp.renesas.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index faf8f18..ee39bfd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7073,6 +7073,17 @@ static inline int sg_imbalanced(struct sched_group *group)
 	return false;
 }
 
+/*
+ * group_smaller_cpu_capacity: Returns true if sched_group sg has smaller
+ * per-CPU capacity than sched_group ref.
+ */
+static inline bool
+group_smaller_cpu_capacity(struct sched_group *sg, struct sched_group *ref)
+{
+	return sg->sgc->min_capacity * capacity_margin <
+						ref->sgc->min_capacity * 1024;
+}
+
 static inline enum
 group_type group_classify(struct sched_group *group,
 			  struct sg_lb_stats *sgs)
@@ -7176,6 +7187,20 @@ static bool update_sd_pick_busiest(struct lb_env *env,
 	if (sgs->avg_load <= busiest->avg_load)
 		return false;
 
+	if (!(env->sd->flags & SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY))
+		goto asym_packing;
+
+	/*
+	 * Candidate sg has no more than one task per CPU and
+	 * has higher per-CPU capacity. Migrating tasks to less
+	 * capable CPUs may harm throughput. Maximize throughput,
+	 * power/energy consequences are not considered.
+	 */
+	if (sgs->sum_nr_running <= sgs->group_weight &&
+	    group_smaller_cpu_capacity(sds->local, sg))
+		return false;
+
+asym_packing:
 	/* This is the busiest node in its class. */
 	if (!(env->sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING))
 		return true;
-- 
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