On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 06:30:35PM -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> It was found that when running some workloads (such as AIM7) on large systems
> with many cores, CPUs do not remain idle for long. Thus, tasks can
> wake/get enqueued while doing idle balancing.
>
> In this patch, while traversing the domains in idle balance, in addition to
> checking for pulled_task, we add an extra check for this_rq->nr_running for
> determining if we should stop searching for tasks to pull. If there are
> runnable tasks on this rq, then we will stop traversing the domains. This
> reduces the chance that idle balance delays a task from running.
>
> This patch resulted in approximately a 6% performance improvement when
> running a Java Server workload on an 8 socket machine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.l...@hp.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 3e3ffb8..232518c 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -6689,7 +6689,6 @@ static int idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq)
> if (sd->flags & SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE) {
> t0 = sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu);
>
> - /* If we've pulled tasks over stop searching: */
> pulled_task = load_balance(this_cpu, this_rq,
> sd, CPU_NEWLY_IDLE,
> &continue_balancing);
> @@ -6704,7 +6703,12 @@ static int idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq)
> interval = msecs_to_jiffies(sd->balance_interval);
> if (time_after(next_balance, sd->last_balance + interval))
> next_balance = sd->last_balance + interval;
> - if (pulled_task)
> +
> + /*
> + * Stop searching for tasks to pull if there are
> + * now runnable tasks on this rq.
> + */
> + if (pulled_task || this_rq->nr_running > 0)
> break;
> }
> rcu_read_unlock();
There's also the CONFIG_PREEMPT bit in move_tasks() does making that
unconditional also help such a workload?
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