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[RFC,10/11] sched: Ensure cpu_power periodic update

Message ID 1319216241-2736-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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Vincent Guittot Oct. 21, 2011, 4:57 p.m. UTC 
With a lot of small tasks, the softirq sched is nearly never called
when no_hz is enable. The load_balance is mainly called with
the newly_idle mode which doesn't update the cpu_power.
Add a next_update field which ensures a maximum update period when
there is short activity

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    1 +
 kernel/sched_fair.c   |   20 ++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 41d0237..8610921 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -901,6 +901,7 @@  struct sched_group_power {
 	 * single CPU.
 	 */
 	unsigned int power, power_orig;
+	unsigned long next_update;
 };
 
 struct sched_group {
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index bc8ee99..3961876 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -2667,6 +2667,11 @@  static void update_group_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
 	struct sched_domain *child = sd->child;
 	struct sched_group *group, *sdg = sd->groups;
 	unsigned long power;
+	unsigned long interval;
+
+	interval = msecs_to_jiffies(sd->balance_interval);
+	interval = clamp(interval, 1UL, max_load_balance_interval);
+	sdg->sgp->next_update = jiffies + interval;
 
 	if (!child) {
 		update_cpu_power(sd, cpu);
@@ -2774,12 +2779,15 @@  static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
 	 * domains. In the newly idle case, we will allow all the cpu's
 	 * to do the newly idle load balance.
 	 */
-	if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && local_group) {
-		if (balance_cpu != this_cpu) {
-			*balance = 0;
-			return;
-		}
-		update_group_power(sd, this_cpu);
+	if (local_group) {
+		if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) {
+			if (balance_cpu != this_cpu) {
+				*balance = 0;
+				return;
+			}
+			update_group_power(sd, this_cpu);
+		} else if (time_after_eq(jiffies, group->sgp->next_update))
+			update_group_power(sd, this_cpu);
 	}
 
 	/* Adjust by relative CPU power of the group */