The busy_factor, which increases load balance interval when a cpu is busy,
is set to 32 by default. This value generates some huge LB interval on
large system like the THX2 made of 2 node x 28 cores x 4 threads.
For such system, the interval increases from 112ms to 3584ms at MC level.
And from 228ms to 7168ms at NUMA level.
Even on smaller system, a lower busy factor has shown improvement on the
fair distribution of the running time so let reduce it for all.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
---
kernel/sched/topology.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 1a84b778755d..a8477c9e8569 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
*sd = (struct sched_domain){
.min_interval = sd_weight,
.max_interval = 2*sd_weight,
- .busy_factor = 32,
+ .busy_factor = 16,
.imbalance_pct = 117,
.cache_nice_tries = 0,
--
2.17.1
