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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:12:23 -0800
From: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] sched/fair: Check the SD_ASYM_PACKING flag in
 sched_use_asym_prio()
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 <20240207034704.935774-4-alexs@kernel.org>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 11:47:04AM +0800, alexs@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
> 
> sched_use_asym_prio() checks whether CPU priorities should be used. It
> makes sense to check for the SD_ASYM_PACKING() inside the function.
> Since both sched_asym() and sched_group_asym() use sched_use_asym_prio(),
> remove the now superfluous checks for the flag in various places.

Reviewed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>

Tested on Alder Lake and Meteor Lake, which use asym_packing.

Tested-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> To: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
> To: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> To: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
> To: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
> To: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
> To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
> To: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 16 +++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 942b6358f683..10ae28e1c088 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -9740,6 +9740,9 @@ group_type group_classify(unsigned int imbalance_pct,
>   */
>  static bool sched_use_asym_prio(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
>  {
> +	if (!(sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING))
> +		return false;
> +
>  	if (!sched_smt_active())
>  		return true;
>  
> @@ -9941,11 +9944,9 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
>  	sgs->group_weight = group->group_weight;
>  
>  	/* Check if dst CPU is idle and preferred to this group */
> -	if (!local_group && env->sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING &&
> -	    env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE && sgs->sum_h_nr_running &&
> -	    sched_group_asym(env, sgs, group)) {
> +	if (!local_group && env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE && sgs->sum_h_nr_running &&
> +	    sched_group_asym(env, sgs, group))
>  		sgs->group_asym_packing = 1;
> -	}
>  
>  	/* Check for loaded SMT group to be balanced to dst CPU */
>  	if (!local_group && smt_balance(env, sgs, group))
> @@ -11041,9 +11042,7 @@ static struct rq *find_busiest_queue(struct lb_env *env,
>  		 * If balancing between cores, let lower priority CPUs help
>  		 * SMT cores with more than one busy sibling.
>  		 */
> -		if ((env->sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING) &&
> -		    sched_asym(env->sd, i, env->dst_cpu) &&
> -		    nr_running == 1)
> +		if (sched_asym(env->sd, i, env->dst_cpu) && nr_running == 1)
>  			continue;
>  
>  		switch (env->migration_type) {
> @@ -11139,8 +11138,7 @@ asym_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)
>  	 * the lower priority @env::dst_cpu help it. Do not follow
>  	 * CPU priority.
>  	 */
> -	return env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE && (env->sd->flags & SD_ASYM_PACKING) &&
> -	       sched_use_asym_prio(env->sd, env->dst_cpu) &&
> +	return env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE && sched_use_asym_prio(env->sd, env->dst_cpu) &&
>  	       (sched_asym_prefer(env->dst_cpu, env->src_cpu) ||
>  		!sched_use_asym_prio(env->sd, env->src_cpu));
>  }
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>