sched/fair: Set rq->rd->overload when misfit
Idle balance is a great opportunity to pull a misfit task. However, there are scenarios where misfit tasks are present but idle balance is prevented by the overload flag. A good example of this is a workload of n identical tasks. Let's suppose we have a 2+2 Arm big.LITTLE system. We then spawn 4 fairly CPU-intensive tasks - for the sake of simplicity let's say they are just CPU hogs, even when running on big CPUs. They are identical tasks, so on an SMP system they should all end at (roughly) the same time. However, in our case the LITTLE CPUs are less performing than the big CPUs, so tasks running on the LITTLEs will have a longer completion time. This means that the big CPUs will complete their work earlier, at which point they should pull the tasks from the LITTLEs. What we want to happen is summarized as follows: a,b,c,d are our CPU-hogging tasks _ signifies idling LITTLE_0 | a a a a _ _ LITTLE_1 | b b b b _ _ ---------|------------- big_0 | c c c c a a big_1 | d d d d b b ^ ^ Tasks end on the big CPUs, idle balance happens and the misfit tasks are pulled straight away This however won't happen, because currently the overload flag is only set when there is any CPU that has more than one runnable task - which may very well not be the case here if our CPU-hogging workload is all there is to run. As such, this commit sets the overload flag in update_sg_lb_stats when a group is flagged as having a misfit task. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> 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: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530699470-29808-10-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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