sched/numa: Find an alternative idle CPU if the CPU is part of an active NUMA balance
Multiple tasks can attempt to select and idle CPU but fail because numa_migrate_on is already set and the migration fails. Instead of failing, scan for an alternative idle CPU. select_idle_sibling is not used because it requires IRQs to be disabled and it ignores numa_migrate_on allowing multiple tasks to stack. This scan may still fail if there are idle candidate CPUs due to races but if this occurs, it's best that a task stay on an available CPU that move to a contended one. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-12-mgorman@techsingularity.net
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