sched/balancing: Fix 'local->avg_load > sds->avg_load' case in calculate_imbalance()
In busiest->group_imb case we can come to calculate_imbalance() with local->avg_load >= busiest->avg_load >= sds->avg_load. This can result in imbalance overflow, because it is calculated as follows env->imbalance = min( max_pull * busiest->group_power, (sds->avg_load - local->avg_load) * local->group_power) / SCHED_POWER_SCALE; As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to another if there are pinned tasks. Fix this by skipping the assignment and assuming imbalance=0 in case local->avg_load > sds->avg_load. [ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f596cc6bc0e5e655119dc892c9bfcad26e971f4.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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