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Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 13/32] sched: Trivial forced-newidle balancer
To:     Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
        "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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From:   "Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:07:27 +0800
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On 2020/11/23 12:38, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:19:43PM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
>> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>
>> When a sibling is forced-idle to match the core-cookie; search for
>> matching tasks to fill the core.
>>
>> rcu_read_unlock() can incur an infrequent deadlock in
>> sched_core_balance(). Fix this by using the RCU-sched flavor instead.
>>
> ...
>> +
>> +		if (p->core_occupation > dst->idle->core_occupation)
>> +			goto next;
>> +
> 
> I am unable to understand this check, a comment or clarification in the
> changelog will help. I presume we are looking at either one or two cpus
> to define the core_occupation and we expect to match it against the
> destination CPU.

IIUC, this check prevents a task from keeping jumping among the cores forever.

For example, on a SMT2 platform:
- core0 runs taskA and taskB, core_occupation is 2
- core1 runs taskC, core_occupation is 1

Without this check, taskB could ping-pong between core0 and core1 by core load
balance.

Thanks,
-Aubrey