* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <sva...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2013-10-21 17:14:42]:
> for_each_domain(cpu, sd) { > - struct sched_group *sg = sd->groups; > - struct sched_group_power *sgp = sg->sgp; > - int nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus); > - > - if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES && nr_busy > 1) > - goto need_kick_unlock; > + struct sched_domain *sd_parent = sd->parent; > + struct sched_group *sg; > + struct sched_group_power *sgp; > + int nr_busy; > + > + if (sd_parent) { > + sg = sd_parent->groups; > + sgp = sg->sgp; > + nr_busy = atomic_read(&sgp->nr_busy_cpus); > + > + if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES && nr_busy > 1) > + goto need_kick_unlock; > + } > > if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING && nr_busy != sg->group_weight > && (cpumask_first_and(nohz.idle_cpus_mask, CC'ing Suresh Siddha and Vincent Guittot Please correct me, If my understanding of idle balancing is wrong. With proposed approach will not idle load balancer kick in, even if there are busy cpus across groups or if there are 2 busy cpus which are spread across sockets. Consider 2 socket machine with 4 processors each (MC and NUMA domains). If the machine is partial loaded such that cpus 0,4,5,6,7 are busy, then too nohz balancing is triggered because with this approach (NUMA)->groups->sgp->nr_busy_cpus is taken in account for nohz kick, while iterating over MC domain. Isn't idle load balancer not suppose kick in, even in the case of two busy cpu's in a dual-core single socket system. Thanks, Kamalesh. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev