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Commit f912002b authored by Morten Rasmussen's avatar Morten Rasmussen Committed by Michele Di Giorgio
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sched: Add group_misfit_task load-balance type



To maximize throughput in systems with asymmetric cpu capacities (e.g.
high RT/IRQ load and/or ARM big.LITTLE) load-balancing has to consider
task and cpu utilization as well as per-cpu compute capacity when
load-balancing in addition to the current average load based
load-balancing policy. Tasks that are scheduled on a lower capacity
cpu need to be identified and migrated to a higher capacity cpu if
possible to maximize throughput.

To implement this additional policy an additional group_type
(load-balance scenario) is added: group_misfit_task. This represents
scenarios where a sched_group has one or more tasks that are not
suitable for its per-cpu capacity. group_misfit_task is only considered
if the system is not overloaded in any other way (group_imbalanced or
group_overloaded).

Identifying misfit tasks requires the rq lock to be held. To avoid
taking remote rq locks to examine source sched_groups for misfit tasks,
each cpu is responsible for tracking misfit tasks themselves and update
the rq->misfit_task flag. This means checking task utilization when
tasks are scheduled and on sched_tick.

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen's avatarMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
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