Commit e70971591 ("sched: Optimize unused cgroup configuration") introduced
an imbalanced scheduling bug.
If we do not use CGROUP, function update_h_load won't update h_load. When the
system has a large number of tasks far more than logical CPU number, the
incorrect cfs_rq[cpu]->h_load value will cause load_balance() to pull too
many tasks to the local CPU from the busiest CPU. So the busiest CPU keeps
going in a round robin. That will hurt performance.
The issue was found originally by a scientific calculation workload that
developed by Yanmin. With that commit, the workload performance drops
about 40%.
CPU before after
00 : 2 : 7
01 : 1 : 7
02 : 11 : 6
03 : 12 : 7
04 : 6 : 6
05 : 11 : 7
06 : 10 : 6
07 : 12 : 7
08 : 11 : 6
09 : 12 : 6
10 : 1 : 6
11 : 1 : 6
12 : 6 : 6
13 : 2 : 6
14 : 2 : 6
15 : 1 : 6
Reviewed-by: Yanmin zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1276754893.9452.5442.camel@debian>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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