From: Nick Piggin Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:30 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] sched: relax pinned balancing X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc1~68^2~139 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77391d71681d05d2f4502f91ad62618522abf624;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] sched: relax pinned balancing The maximum rebalance interval allowed by the multiprocessor balancing backoff is often not large enough to handle corner cases where there are lots of tasks pinned on a CPU. Suresh reported: I see system livelock's if for example I have 7000 processes pinned onto one cpu (this is on the fastest 8-way system I have access to). After this patch, the machine is reported to go well above this number. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 579da278e7..6e452eb95a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -2030,6 +2030,12 @@ static runqueue_t *find_busiest_queue(struct sched_group *group) return busiest; } +/* + * Max backoff if we encounter pinned tasks. Pretty arbitrary value, but + * so long as it is large enough. + */ +#define MAX_PINNED_INTERVAL 512 + /* * Check this_cpu to ensure it is balanced within domain. Attempt to move * tasks if there is an imbalance. @@ -2042,7 +2048,7 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, runqueue_t *this_rq, struct sched_group *group; runqueue_t *busiest; unsigned long imbalance; - int nr_moved, all_pinned; + int nr_moved, all_pinned = 0; int active_balance = 0; spin_lock(&this_rq->lock); @@ -2133,7 +2139,8 @@ out_balanced: sd->nr_balance_failed = 0; /* tune up the balancing interval */ - if (sd->balance_interval < sd->max_interval) + if ((all_pinned && sd->balance_interval < MAX_PINNED_INTERVAL) || + (sd->balance_interval < sd->max_interval)) sd->balance_interval *= 2; return 0;