From b18855500fc40da050512d9df82d2f1471e59642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:49:13 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > sds->avg_load' case in calculate_imbalance() In busiest->group_imb case we can come to calculate_imbalance() with local->avg_load >= busiest->avg_load >= sds->avg_load. This can result in imbalance overflow, because it is calculated as follows env->imbalance = min( max_pull * busiest->group_power, (sds->avg_load - local->avg_load) * local->group_power) / SCHED_POWER_SCALE; As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to another if there are pinned tasks. Fix this by skipping the assignment and assuming imbalance=0 in case local->avg_load > sds->avg_load. [ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f596cc6bc0e5e655119dc892c9bfcad26e971f4.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 11cd13667359..0b99aae339cb 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -4896,7 +4896,8 @@ static inline void calculate_imbalance(struct lb_env *env, struct sd_lb_stats *s * max load less than avg load(as we skip the groups at or below * its cpu_power, while calculating max_load..) */ - if (busiest->avg_load < sds->avg_load) { + if (busiest->avg_load <= sds->avg_load || + local->avg_load >= sds->avg_load) { env->imbalance = 0; return fix_small_imbalance(env, sds); }