Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:52:21 -0800 | From | "Siddha, Suresh B" <> | Subject | smp 'nice' bias support breaks scheduler behavior |
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Con,
> [PATCH] sched: implement nice support across physical cpus on SMP
I don't see imbalance calculations in find_busiest_group() take prio_bias into account. This will result in wrong imbalance value and will cause issues.
For example on a DP system with HT, if there are three runnable processes (simple infinite loop with same nice value), this patch is resulting in bouncing of these 3 processes from one processor to another...Lets assume if the 3 processes are scheduled as 2 in package-0 and 1 in package1.. Now when the busy processor on package-1 does load balance and as imbalance doesn't take "prio_bias" into account, this will kick active load balance on package-0.. And this is continuing for ever, resulting in bouncing from one processor to another.
Even when the system is completely loaded and if there is an imbalance, this patch causes wrong imabalance counts and cause unoptimized movements.
Do you want to look into this and post a patch for 2.6.16?
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