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Commit b1885550 authored by Vladimir Davydov's avatar Vladimir Davydov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > sds->avg_load' case in calculate_imbalance()



In busiest->group_imb case we can come to calculate_imbalance() with
local->avg_load >= busiest->avg_load >= sds->avg_load. This can result
in imbalance overflow, because it is calculated as follows

env->imbalance = min(
	max_pull * busiest->group_power,
	(sds->avg_load - local->avg_load) * local->group_power) / SCHED_POWER_SCALE;

As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to
another if there are pinned tasks.

Fix this by skipping the assignment and assuming imbalance=0 in case
local->avg_load > sds->avg_load.

[ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus
  belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical
  cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f596cc6bc0e5e655119dc892c9bfcad26e971f4.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 7e28b271
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