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SubjectRe: load balancing regression since commit 367456c7
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On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 18:06 -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> Peter,
>
> We noticed in a hackbench test (./hackbench 100 process 2000)
> on a Sandy bridge 2 socket server, there has been a slow down
> by a factor of 4 since commit 367456c7 was applied
> (sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing).
>
> The commit 5d6523e (sched: Fix load-balance wreckage) did
> not fix the regression.
>
> In the profile, there is heavy spin lock contention in the load_balance path of 3.4-rc2
> where it was less than .003% of cpu before commit 367456c7.

I can't actually reproduce but does the below help?

If not, can you shoot your .config over?

---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0d97ebd..e1da5c6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3215,6 +3215,8 @@ static int move_one_task(struct lb_env *env)

static unsigned long task_h_load(struct task_struct *p);

+static const unsigned int sched_nr_migrate_break = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) ? 8 : 32;
+
/*
* move_tasks tries to move up to load_move weighted load from busiest to
* this_rq, as part of a balancing operation within domain "sd".
@@ -3242,7 +3244,7 @@ static int move_tasks(struct lb_env *env)

/* take a breather every nr_migrate tasks */
if (env->loop > env->loop_break) {
- env->loop_break += sysctl_sched_nr_migrate;
+ env->loop_break += sched_nr_migrate_break;
env->flags |= LBF_NEED_BREAK;
break;
}
@@ -4407,7 +4409,8 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
.dst_cpu = this_cpu,
.dst_rq = this_rq,
.idle = idle,
- .loop_break = sysctl_sched_nr_migrate,
+ .loop_break = sched_nr_migrate_break,
+ .loop_max = sysctl_sched_nr_migrate,
};

cpumask_copy(cpus, cpu_active_mask);
@@ -4448,7 +4451,6 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
env.load_move = imbalance;
env.src_cpu = busiest->cpu;
env.src_rq = busiest;
- env.loop_max = busiest->nr_running;

more_balance:
local_irq_save(flags);



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