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sched: skip updating rq's next_balance under null SD
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Was playing with sched_smt_power_savings/sched_mc_power_savings and
found out that while the scheduler domains are reconstructed when sysfs
settings change, rebalance_domains() can get triggered with null domain
on other cpus, which is setting next_balance to jiffies + 60*HZ.
Resulting in no idle/busy balancing for 60 seconds.

Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Suresh Siddha authored and Ingo Molnar committed Aug 23, 2007
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14 changes: 12 additions & 2 deletions kernel/sched.c
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Expand Up @@ -3043,6 +3043,7 @@ static inline void rebalance_domains(int cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
struct sched_domain *sd;
/* Earliest time when we have to do rebalance again */
unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + 60*HZ;
int update_next_balance = 0;

for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
if (!(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE))
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3079,8 +3080,10 @@ static inline void rebalance_domains(int cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
if (sd->flags & SD_SERIALIZE)
spin_unlock(&balancing);
out:
if (time_after(next_balance, sd->last_balance + interval))
if (time_after(next_balance, sd->last_balance + interval)) {
next_balance = sd->last_balance + interval;
update_next_balance = 1;
}

/*
* Stop the load balance at this level. There is another
Expand All @@ -3090,7 +3093,14 @@ static inline void rebalance_domains(int cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
if (!balance)
break;
}
rq->next_balance = next_balance;

/*
* next_balance will be updated only when there is a need.
* When the cpu is attached to null domain for ex, it will not be
* updated.
*/
if (likely(update_next_balance))
rq->next_balance = next_balance;
}

/*
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