[PATCH] sched/fair: fix use stale overloaded status to find busiest group

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Tue Nov 04 2014 - 00:31:25 EST


Commit caeb178c60f4 ("sched/fair: Make update_sd_pick_busiest() return
'true' on a busier sd") makes groups are ranked in the order overloaded >
imbalance > other and busiest group is picked according to this order.
sgs->group_capacity_factor is used to check if group is overloaded. In
the case of the child domain prefers tasks go to siblings first, the
sgs->group_capacity_factor will be set lower to one in order to move all
the excess tasks away. However, group overloaded status is not updated
in the case of sgs->group_capacity_factor be set lower to one which
leads to miss find the busiest group. This patch fix it by updating
group overloaded status in the case of sg capacity factor is set to
one in order to find busiest group accurately.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index ec32c26d..c603e50 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6344,8 +6344,10 @@ static inline void update_sd_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *sd
* with a large weight task outweighs the tasks on the system).
*/
if (prefer_sibling && sds->local &&
- sds->local_stat.group_has_free_capacity)
+ sds->local_stat.group_has_free_capacity) {
sgs->group_capacity_factor = min(sgs->group_capacity_factor, 1U);
+ sgs->group_type = group_classify(sg, sgs);
+ }

if (update_sd_pick_busiest(env, sds, sg, sgs)) {
sds->busiest = sg;
--
1.9.1

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