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    sched/fair: Stop searching for tasks in newidle balance if there are runnable tasks · 39a4d9ca
    Jason Low authored
    It was found that when running some workloads (such as AIM7) on large
    systems with many cores, CPUs do not remain idle for long. Thus, tasks
    can wake/get enqueued while doing idle balancing.
    
    In this patch, while traversing the domains in idle balance, in
    addition to checking for pulled_task, we add an extra check for
    this_rq->nr_running for determining if we should stop searching for
    tasks to pull. If there are runnable tasks on this rq, then we will
    stop traversing the domains. This reduces the chance that idle balance
    delays a task from running.
    
    This patch resulted in approximately a 6% performance improvement when
    running a Java Server workload on an 8 socket machine.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
    Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
    Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com
    Cc: efault@gmx.de
    Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
    Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
    Cc: aswin@hp.com
    Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398303035-18255-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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