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Patrick Bellasi f9be3e5961 sched/fair: Use util_est in LB and WU paths
When the scheduler looks at the CPU utilization, the current PELT value
for a CPU is returned straight away. In certain scenarios this can have
undesired side effects on task placement.

For example, since the task utilization is decayed at wakeup time, when
a long sleeping big task is enqueued it does not add immediately a
significant contribution to the target CPU.
As a result we generate a race condition where other tasks can be placed
on the same CPU while it is still considered relatively empty.

In order to reduce this kind of race conditions, this patch introduces the
required support to integrate the usage of the CPU's estimated utilization
in the wakeup path, via cpu_util_wake(), as well as in the load-balance
path, via cpu_util() which is used by update_sg_lb_stats().

The estimated utilization of a CPU is defined to be the maximum between
its PELT's utilization and the sum of the estimated utilization (at
previous dequeue time) of all the tasks currently RUNNABLE on that CPU.
This allows to properly represent the spare capacity of a CPU which, for
example, has just got a big task running since a long sleep period.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-3-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-03-20 08:11:07 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-18 12:03:15 -07:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2018-03-20 08:08:02 +01:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata 2018-03-19 14:23:30 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs for-4.16-rc5-tag 2018-03-16 13:37:42 -07:00
include sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT 2018-03-20 08:11:06 +01:00
init jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code 2018-02-21 16:54:05 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel sched/fair: Use util_est in LB and WU paths 2018-03-20 08:11:07 +01:00
lib Merge branch 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2018-03-19 14:48:35 -07:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-05 11:29:24 -08:00
samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts kbuild: Handle builtin dtb file names containing hyphens 2018-03-09 01:14:38 +09:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.16 2018-03-12 17:30:38 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-18 12:03:15 -07:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2018-03-19 14:48:35 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.