sched/fair: Reset nr_balance_failed after active balancing

To force a task migration during active balancing, nr_balance_failed is set
to cache_nice_tries + 1. However nr_balance_failed is not reset. As a side
effect, the next regular load balance under the same sd, a cache hot task
might be migrated, just because nr_balance_failed count is high.

Resetting nr_balance_failed after a successful active balance ensures
that a hot task is not unreasonably migrated. This can be verified by
looking at othe number of hot task migrations reported by /proc/schedstat.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458735884-30105-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0fe30e6..cbb075e 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7399,10 +7399,7 @@ more_balance:
                                        &busiest->active_balance_work);
                        }
 
-                       /*
-                        * We've kicked active balancing, reset the failure
-                        * counter.
-                        */
+                       /* We've kicked active balancing, force task migration. */
                        sd->nr_balance_failed = sd->cache_nice_tries+1;
                }
        } else
@@ -7637,10 +7634,13 @@ static int active_load_balance_cpu_stop(void *data)
                schedstat_inc(sd, alb_count);
 
                p = detach_one_task(&env);
-               if (p)
+               if (p) {
                        schedstat_inc(sd, alb_pushed);
-               else
+                       /* Active balancing done, reset the failure counter. */
+                       sd->nr_balance_failed = 0;
+               } else {
                        schedstat_inc(sd, alb_failed);
+               }
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
 out_unlock: