Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: force update of blocked load of idle cpus

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 06:01:56PM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:

> @@ -9210,7 +9256,15 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
>  			cpu_load_update_idle(rq);
>  			rq_unlock_irq(rq, &rf);
>  
> -			rebalance_domains(rq, CPU_IDLE);
> +			update_blocked_averages(balance_cpu);
> +			/*
> +			 * This idle load balance softirq may have been
> +			 * triggered only to update the blocked load and shares
> +			 * of idle CPUs (which we have just done for
> +			 * balance_cpu). In that case skip the actual balance.
> +			 */
> +			if (!in_nohz_stats_kick(this_cpu))
> +				rebalance_domains(rq, idle);
>  		}
>  
>  		if (time_after(next_balance, rq->next_balance)) {

> @@ -9336,7 +9396,12 @@ static __latent_entropy void run_rebalance_domains(struct softirq_action *h)
>  	 * and abort nohz_idle_balance altogether if we pull some load.
>  	 */
>  	nohz_idle_balance(this_rq, idle);
> -	rebalance_domains(this_rq, idle);
> +	update_blocked_averages(this_rq->cpu);
> +	if (!in_nohz_stats_kick(this_rq->cpu))
> +		rebalance_domains(this_rq, idle);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> +	clear_bit(NOHZ_STATS_KICK, nohz_flags(this_rq->cpu));
> +#endif
>  }
>  
>  /*

You're doing the same thing to both (all) callsites of
rebalance_domains(), does that not suggest doing it inside and leaving
update_blocked_averages() where it is?