sched/numa: Fix numa capacity computation
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:23:28 +0000 (13:23 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:48:23 +0000 (12:48 +0200)
Commit c61037e9 fixes the phenomenon of 'fantom' cores due to
N*frac(smt_power) >= 1 by limiting the capacity to the actual
number of cores in the load balancing code.

This patch applies the same correction to the NUMA balancing
code.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407173008-9334-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c

index e1cf419..1413c44 100644 (file)
@@ -1038,7 +1038,8 @@ struct numa_stats {
  */
 static void update_numa_stats(struct numa_stats *ns, int nid)
 {
-       int cpu, cpus = 0;
+       int smt, cpu, cpus = 0;
+       unsigned long capacity;
 
        memset(ns, 0, sizeof(*ns));
        for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask_of_node(nid)) {
@@ -1062,8 +1063,12 @@ static void update_numa_stats(struct numa_stats *ns, int nid)
        if (!cpus)
                return;
 
-       ns->task_capacity =
-               DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(ns->compute_capacity, SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE);
+       /* smt := ceil(cpus / capacity), assumes: 1 < smt_power < 2 */
+       smt = DIV_ROUND_UP(SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE * cpus, ns->compute_capacity);
+       capacity = cpus / smt; /* cores */
+
+       ns->task_capacity = min_t(unsigned, capacity,
+               DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(ns->compute_capacity, SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE));
        ns->has_free_capacity = (ns->nr_running < ns->task_capacity);
 }