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Commit 2208cdaa authored by Vincent Guittot's avatar Vincent Guittot Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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sched/fair: Reduce minimal imbalance threshold



The 25% default imbalance threshold for DIE and NUMA domain is large
enough to generate significant unfairness between threads. A typical
example is the case of 11 threads running on 2x4 CPUs. The imbalance of
20% between the 2 groups of 4 cores is just low enough to not trigger
the load balance between the 2 groups. We will have always the same 6
threads on one group of 4 CPUs and the other 5 threads on the other
group of CPUS. With a fair time sharing in each group, we ends up with
+20% running time for the group of 5 threads.

Consider decreasing the imbalance threshold for overloaded case where we
use the load to balance task and to ensure fair time sharing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPhil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921072424.14813-3-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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