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Morten Rasmussen authored
To maximize throughput in systems with asymmetric CPU capacities (e.g. ARM big.LITTLE) load-balancing has to consider task and CPU utilization as well as per-CPU compute capacity when load-balancing in addition to the current average load based load-balancing policy. Tasks with high utilization that are scheduled on a lower capacity CPU need to be identified and migrated to a higher capacity CPU if possible to maximize throughput. To implement this additional policy an additional group_type (load-balance scenario) is added: 'group_misfit_task'. This represents scenarios where a sched_group has one or more tasks that are not suitable for its per-CPU capacity. 'group_misfit_task' is only considered if the system is not overloaded or imbalanced ('group_imbalanced' or 'group_overloaded'). Identifying misfit tasks requires the rq lock to be held. To avoid taking remote rq locks to examine source sched_groups for misfit tasks, each CPU is responsible for tracking misfit tasks themselves and update the rq->misfit_task flag. This means checking task utilization when tasks are scheduled and on sched_tick. Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530699470-29808-3-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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