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sched/fair: Fix load_balance redo for !imbalance
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It can happen that load_balance() finds a busiest group and then a
busiest rq but the calculated imbalance is in fact 0.

In such situation, detach_tasks() returns immediately and lets the
flag LBF_ALL_PINNED set. The busiest CPU is then wrongly assumed to
have pinned tasks and removed from the load balance mask. then, we
redo a load balance without the busiest CPU. This creates wrong load
balance situation and generates wrong task migration.

If the calculated imbalance is 0, it's useless to try to find a
busiest rq as no task will be migrated and we can return immediately.

This situation can happen with heterogeneous system or smp system when
RT tasks are decreasing the capacity of some CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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vingu-linaro authored and Ingo Molnar committed Sep 10, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -8275,7 +8275,7 @@ static struct sched_group *find_busiest_group(struct lb_env *env)
force_balance:
/* Looks like there is an imbalance. Compute it */
calculate_imbalance(env, &sds);
return sds.busiest;
return env->imbalance ? sds.busiest : NULL;

out_balanced:
env->imbalance = 0;
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