Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] sched: idle_balance() does not callload_balance_newidle()

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Thu Dec 18 2008 - 13:13:34 EST


* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-12-18 23:26:59]:

> load_balance_newidle() does not get called if SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
> is set at higher level domain (3-CPU) and not in low level domain
> (2-MC).
>
> pulled_task is initialised to -1 and checked for non-zero which
> is always true if the lowest level sched_domain does not have
> SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag set.
>
> Trivial fix to initialise pulled_task to zero.
>
> This patch has been queued for 2.6.29
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/8/213
>
> Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> kernel/sched.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index f82a7a0..e6a88bf 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -3773,7 +3773,7 @@ out_balanced:
> static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq)
> {
> struct sched_domain *sd;
> - int pulled_task = -1;
> + int pulled_task = 0;
> unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + HZ;
> cpumask_t tmpmask;
>

Isn't this already in Ingo's patch queue?

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Balbir
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