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Commit da86bc3b authored by Morten Rasmussen's avatar Morten Rasmussen Committed by Douglas Raillard
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sched: Prevent unnecessary active balance of single task in sched group



Scenarios with the busiest group having just one task and the local
being idle on topologies with sched groups with different numbers of
cpus manage to dodge all load-balance bailout conditions resulting the
nr_balance_failed counter to be incremented. This eventually causes a
pointless active migration of the task. This patch prevents this by not
incrementing the counter when the busiest group only has one task.
ASYM_PACKING migrations and migrations due to reduced capacity should
still take place as these are explicitly captured by
need_active_balance().

A better solution would be to not attempt the load-balance in the first
place, but that requires significant changes to the order of bailout
conditions and statistics gathering.

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen's avatarMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
parent e32358e0
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