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authorSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-06-20 22:32:44 +0530
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-07-25 11:41:06 +0200
commit5f95ba7a43057f28a349ea1f03ee8d04e0f445ea (patch)
treedf7f7f93e8f7e398ddaa3e2e2008ffc004c42b24 /kernel/sched
parent305c1fac3225dfa7eeb89bfe91b7335a6edd5172 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f95ba7a43057f28a349ea1f03ee8d04e0f445ea.tar.bz2
sched/numa: Simplify load_too_imbalanced()
Currently load_too_imbalance() cares about the slope of imbalance. It doesn't care of the direction of the imbalance. However this may not work if nodes that are being compared have dissimilar capacities. Few nodes might have more cores than other nodes in the system. Also unlike traditional load balance at a NUMA sched domain, multiple requests to migrate from the same source node to same destination node may run in parallel. This can cause huge load imbalance. This is specially true on a larger machines with either large cores per node or more number of nodes in the system. Hence allow move/swap only if the imbalance is going to reduce. Running SPECjbb2005 on a 4 node machine and comparing bops/JVM JVMS LAST_PATCH WITH_PATCH %CHANGE 16 25058.2 25122.9 0.25 1 72950 73850 1.23 (numbers from v1 based on v4.17-rc5) Testcase Time: Min Max Avg StdDev numa01.sh Real: 516.14 892.41 739.84 151.32 numa01.sh Sys: 153.16 192.99 177.70 14.58 numa01.sh User: 39821.04 69528.92 57193.87 10989.48 numa02.sh Real: 60.91 62.35 61.58 0.63 numa02.sh Sys: 16.47 26.16 21.20 3.85 numa02.sh User: 5227.58 5309.61 5265.17 31.04 numa03.sh Real: 739.07 917.73 795.75 64.45 numa03.sh Sys: 94.46 136.08 109.48 14.58 numa03.sh User: 57478.56 72014.09 61764.48 5343.69 numa04.sh Real: 442.61 715.43 530.31 96.12 numa04.sh Sys: 224.90 348.63 285.61 48.83 numa04.sh User: 35836.84 47522.47 40235.41 3985.26 numa05.sh Real: 386.13 489.17 434.94 43.59 numa05.sh Sys: 144.29 438.56 278.80 105.78 numa05.sh User: 33255.86 36890.82 34879.31 1641.98 Testcase Time: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change numa01.sh Real: 435.78 653.81 534.58 83.20 38.39% numa01.sh Sys: 121.93 187.18 145.90 23.47 21.79% numa01.sh User: 37082.81 51402.80 43647.60 5409.75 31.03% numa02.sh Real: 60.64 61.63 61.19 0.40 0.637% numa02.sh Sys: 14.72 25.68 19.06 4.03 11.22% numa02.sh User: 5210.95 5266.69 5233.30 20.82 0.608% numa03.sh Real: 746.51 808.24 780.36 23.88 1.972% numa03.sh Sys: 97.26 108.48 105.07 4.28 4.197% numa03.sh User: 58956.30 61397.05 60162.95 1050.82 2.661% numa04.sh Real: 465.97 519.27 484.81 19.62 9.385% numa04.sh Sys: 304.43 359.08 334.68 20.64 -14.6% numa04.sh User: 37544.16 41186.15 39262.44 1314.91 2.478% numa05.sh Real: 411.57 457.20 433.29 16.58 0.380% numa05.sh Sys: 230.05 435.48 339.95 67.58 -17.9% numa05.sh User: 33325.54 36896.31 35637.84 1222.64 -2.12% Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1529514181-9842-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c20
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index b10e0663a49e..226837960ec0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1546,28 +1546,12 @@ static bool load_too_imbalanced(long src_load, long dst_load,
src_capacity = env->src_stats.compute_capacity;
dst_capacity = env->dst_stats.compute_capacity;
- /* We care about the slope of the imbalance, not the direction. */
- if (dst_load < src_load)
- swap(dst_load, src_load);
-
- /* Is the difference below the threshold? */
- imb = dst_load * src_capacity * 100 -
- src_load * dst_capacity * env->imbalance_pct;
- if (imb <= 0)
- return false;
+ imb = abs(dst_load * src_capacity - src_load * dst_capacity);
- /*
- * The imbalance is above the allowed threshold.
- * Compare it with the old imbalance.
- */
orig_src_load = env->src_stats.load;
orig_dst_load = env->dst_stats.load;
- if (orig_dst_load < orig_src_load)
- swap(orig_dst_load, orig_src_load);
-
- old_imb = orig_dst_load * src_capacity * 100 -
- orig_src_load * dst_capacity * env->imbalance_pct;
+ old_imb = abs(orig_dst_load * src_capacity - orig_src_load * dst_capacity);
/* Would this change make things worse? */
return (imb > old_imb);