sched/fair: Skip LLC NOHZ logic for asymmetric systems
authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:59:46 +0000 (17:59 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:06:15 +0000 (12:06 +0100)
commitb9a7b8831600afc51c9ba52c05f12db2266f01c7
tree6ba43d41cae48073c0fa5936e14b555214bafb6d
parenta0fe2cf086aef213d1b4bca1b1291a3dee8357c9
sched/fair: Skip LLC NOHZ logic for asymmetric systems

The LLC NOHZ condition will become true as soon as >=2 CPUs in a
single LLC domain are busy. On big.LITTLE systems, this translates to
two or more CPUs of a "cluster" (big or LITTLE) being busy.

Issuing a NOHZ kick in these conditions isn't desired for asymmetric
systems, as if the busy CPUs can provide enough compute capacity to
the running tasks, then we can leave the NOHZ CPUs in peace.

Skip the LLC NOHZ condition for asymmetric systems, and rely on
nr_running & capacity checks to trigger NOHZ kicks when the system
actually needs them.

Suggested-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190211175946.4961-4-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c