Re: [PATCH] sched: fix off-by-one bug in balance_tasks()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Apr 15 2009 - 07:42:20 EST


On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 10:49 +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> If the load that need be moved equals the half weight of a task, I think
> it is unnecessary to move this task. Or this task will be moved back and
> forth.

That's actually desirable. Consider the 3 tasks on 2 cpus statically
infeasible scenario. There you'd want the tasks to bounce around a bit
in order to provide fairness.

> Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index 5724508..44926c8 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -3085,7 +3085,7 @@ next:
> if (!p || loops++ > sysctl_sched_nr_migrate)
> goto out;
>
> - if ((p->se.load.weight >> 1) > rem_load_move ||
> + if ((p->se.load.weight >> 1) >= rem_load_move ||
> !can_migrate_task(p, busiest, this_cpu, sd, idle, &pinned)) {
> p = iterator->next(iterator->arg);
> goto next;

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