sched: Consider a not over-utilized energy-aware system as balanced

In case the system operates below the tipping point indicator,
introduced in ("sched: Add over-utilization/tipping point
indicator"), bail out in find_busiest_group after the dst and src
group statistics have been checked.

There is simply no need to move usage around because all involved
cpus still have spare cycles available.

For an energy-aware system below its tipping point,  we rely on the
task placement of the wakeup path. This works well for short running
tasks.

The existence of long running tasks on one of the involved cpus lets
the system operate over its tipping point. To be able to move such
a task (whose load can't be used to average the load among the cpus)
from a src cpu with lower capacity than the dst_cpu, an additional
rule has to be implemented in need_active_balance.

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5daa05eb574121755b6130de2dd332fca97ea83b..a82cf23f8917e40ed92d51dd97643b053b30d7fe 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7215,6 +7215,10 @@ static struct sched_group *find_busiest_group(struct lb_env *env)
         * this level.
         */
        update_sd_lb_stats(env, &sds);
+
+       if (energy_aware() && !env->dst_rq->rd->overutilized)
+               goto out_balanced;
+
        local = &sds.local_stat;
        busiest = &sds.busiest_stat;