Re: [PATCH 5/5] sched/fair: narrow the sched_use_asym_prio checking scenario

From: Shrikanth Hegde
Date: Tue Jan 23 2024 - 03:47:28 EST




On 1/17/24 2:27 PM, alexs@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Alex Shi <alexs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Current function doesn't match it's comments, in fact, core_idle
> checking is only meaningful with non-SMT.
> So make the function right.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alexs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 96163ab69ae0..0a321f639c79 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -9741,8 +9741,8 @@ group_type group_classify(unsigned int imbalance_pct,
> */
> static bool sched_use_asym_prio(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> {
> - return (!sched_smt_active()) ||
> - (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY) || is_core_idle(cpu);
> + return (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY) ||
> + (!sched_smt_active() && is_core_idle(cpu));
> }

This seems wrong. This would always return false for higher than SMT domains
if smt is active.

Was this meant to be sched_smt_active() && is_core_idle(cpu)?

>
> static inline bool _sched_asym(struct sched_domain *sd,