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[v3,07/13] sched: Enable SD_BALANCE_WAKE for asymmetric capacity systems

Message ID 1469453670-2660-8-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
State Accepted
Commit 9ee1cda5ee25c7dd82acf25892e0d229e818f8c7
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Morten Rasmussen July 25, 2016, 1:34 p.m. UTC 
A domain with the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag set indicate that
sched_groups at this level and below do not include cpus of all
capacities available (e.g. group containing little-only or big-only cpus
in big.LITTLE systems). It is therefore necessary to put in more effort
in finding an appropriate cpu at task wake-up by enabling balancing at
wake-up (SD_BALANCE_WAKE) on all lower (child) levels.

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>

---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

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1.9.1
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diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ec3f7aef321f..a0a74b2d9f41 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6414,6 +6414,13 @@  sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
 	 * Convert topological properties into behaviour.
 	 */
 
+	if (sd->flags & SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY) {
+		struct sched_domain *t = sd;
+
+		for_each_lower_domain(t)
+			t->flags |= SD_BALANCE_WAKE;
+	}
+
 	if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY) {
 		sd->flags |= SD_PREFER_SIBLING;
 		sd->imbalance_pct = 110;