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

From: Miao Xie
Date: Wed Apr 15 2009 - 21:27:36 EST


on 2009-4-15 19:41 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.

I see. Thanks for your explanation.

Miao Xie
>
>> 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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