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Commit 6d7e4782 authored by Keisuke Nishimura's avatar Keisuke Nishimura Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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sched/fair: Fix the decision for load balance

should_we_balance is called for the decision to do load-balancing.
When sched ticks invoke this function, only one CPU should return
true. However, in the current code, two CPUs can return true. The
following situation, where b means busy and i means idle, is an
example, because CPU 0 and CPU 2 return true.

        [0, 1] [2, 3]
         b  b   i  b

This fix checks if there exists an idle CPU with busy sibling(s)
after looking for a CPU on an idle core. If some idle CPUs with busy
siblings are found, just the first one should do load-balancing.

Fixes: b1bfeab9

 ("sched/fair: Consider the idle state of the whole core for load balance")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKeisuke Nishimura <keisuke.nishimura@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231031133...
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