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sched/fair: Fix the group_capacity computation
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Do away with 'phantom' cores due to N*frac(smt_power) >= 1 by limiting
the capacity to the actual number of cores.

The assumption of 1 < smt_power < 2 is an actual requirement because
of what SMT is so this should work regardless of the SMT
implementation.

It can still be defeated by creative use of cpu hotplug, but if you're
one of those freaks, you get to live with it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guitto@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dczmbi8tfgixacg1ji2av1un@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and Ingo Molnar committed Sep 12, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -4556,18 +4556,24 @@ static inline int sg_imbalanced(struct sched_group *group)
/*
* Compute the group capacity.
*
* For now the capacity is simply the number of power units in the group_power.
* A power unit represents a full core.
*
* This has an issue where N*frac(smt_power) >= 1, in that case we'll see extra
* 'cores' that aren't actually there.
* Avoid the issue where N*frac(smt_power) >= 1 creates 'phantom' cores by
* first dividing out the smt factor and computing the actual number of cores
* and limit power unit capacity with that.
*/
static inline int sg_capacity(struct lb_env *env, struct sched_group *group)
{
unsigned int capacity, smt, cpus;
unsigned int power, power_orig;

power = group->sgp->power;
power_orig = group->sgp->power_orig;
cpus = group->group_weight;

unsigned int power = group->sgp->power;
unsigned int capacity = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(power, SCHED_POWER_SCALE);
/* smt := ceil(cpus / power), assumes: 1 < smt_power < 2 */
smt = DIV_ROUND_UP(SCHED_POWER_SCALE * cpus, power_orig);
capacity = cpus / smt; /* cores */

capacity = min_t(unsigned, capacity, DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(power, SCHED_POWER_SCALE));
if (!capacity)
capacity = fix_small_capacity(env->sd, group);

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