sched/fair: Fix asym packing to select correct CPU
When asymmetric packing is set in the sched_domain and target CPU is busy, update_sd_pick_busiest() may not select the busiest runqueue. When target CPU is busy, find_busiest_group() will ignore checks for asym packing and may continue to load balance using the currently selected not-the-busiest runqueue as source runqueue. Selecting the busiest runqueue as source when the target CPU is busy, should result in achieving much better load balance. Also when target CPU is not busy and asymmetric packing is set in sd, select higher CPU as source CPU for load balancing. While doing this change, move the check to see if target CPU is busy into check_asym_packing(). The extent of performance benefit from this change decreases with the increasing load. However there is benefit in undercommit as well as overcommit conditions. 1. Record per second ebizzy (32 threads) on a 64 CPU power 7 box. (5 iterations) 4.6.0-rc2 Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev ebizzy: 5223767.00 10368236.00 7946971.00 1753094.76 4.6.0-rc2+asym-changes Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change ebizzy: 8617191.00 13872356.00 11383980.00 1783400.89 +24.78% 2. Record per second ebizzy (64 threads) on a 64 CPU power 7 box. (5 iterations) 4.6.0-rc2 Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev ebizzy: 6497666.00 18399783.00 10818093.20 4051452.08 4.6.0-rc2+asym-changes Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change ebizzy: 7567365.00 19456937.00 11674063.60 4295407.48 +4.40% 3. Record per second ebizzy (128 threads) on a 64 CPU power 7 box. (5 iterations) 4.6.0-rc2 Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev ebizzy: 37073983.00 40341911.00 38776241.80 1259766.82 4.6.0-rc2+asym-changes Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change ebizzy: 38030399.00 41333378.00 39827404.40 1255001.86 +2.54% Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459948660-16073-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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