[tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Ignore cache hotness for SMT migration

From: tip-bot2 for Josh Don
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 03:55:38 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: ec73240b1627cddfd7cef018c7fa1c32e64a721e
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ec73240b1627cddfd7cef018c7fa1c32e64a721e
Author: Josh Don <joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:34:13 -07:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:41:57 +02:00

sched/fair: Ignore cache hotness for SMT migration

SMT siblings share caches, so cache hotness should be irrelevant for
cross-sibling migration.

Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Proposed-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200804193413.510651-1-joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 1a68a05..abdb54e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7402,6 +7402,10 @@ static int task_hot(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
if (unlikely(task_has_idle_policy(p)))
return 0;

+ /* SMT siblings share cache */
+ if (env->sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY)
+ return 0;
+
/*
* Buddy candidates are cache hot:
*/