sched/fair: Fix rework of find_idlest_group()
The task, for which the scheduler looks for the idlest group of CPUs, must be discounted from all statistics in order to get a fair comparison between groups. This includes utilization, load, nr_running and idle_cpus. Such unfairness can be easily highlighted with the unixbench execl 1 task. This test continuously call execve() and the scheduler looks for the idlest group/CPU on which it should place the task. Because the task runs on the local group/CPU, the latter seems already busy even if there is nothing else running on it. As a result, the scheduler will always select another group/CPU than the local one. This recovers most of the performance regression on my system from the recent load-balancer rewrite. [ mingo: Minor cleanups. ] Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Tested-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: hdanton@sina.com Cc: parth@linux.ibm.com Cc: pauld@redhat.com Cc: quentin.perret@arm.com Cc: riel@surriel.com Cc: srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Fixes: 57abff06 ("sched/fair: Rework find_idlest_group()") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571762798-25900-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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