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Revert "sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task"

This reverts commit b0defa7ae03ecf91b8bfd10ede430cff12fcbd06. b0defa7ae03ec changed the load balancing logic to ignore env.max_loop if all tasks examined to that point were pinned. The goal of the patch was to make it more likely to be able to detach a task buried in a long list of pinned tasks. However, this has the unfortunate side effect of creating an O(n) iteration in detach_tasks(), as we now must fully iterate every task on a cpu if all or most are pinned. Since this load balance code is done with rq lock held, and often in softirq context, it is very easy to trigger hard lockups. We observed such hard lockups with a user who affined O(10k) threads to a single cpu. When I discussed this with Vincent he initially suggested that we keep the limit on the number of tasks to detach, but increase the number of tasks we can search. However, after some back and forth on the mailing list, he recommended we instead revert the original patch, as it seems likely no one was actually getting hit by the original issue.

Josh Don committed 2 years ago

Commit 2feab241 parent f2661061 file · +3 −9Browse files

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kernel/sched/fair.c+3−9
@@ -9149,12 +9149,8 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *env) · 9148 unmodified lines
91499149 break;
91509150
91519151 env->loop++;
9152− /*
9153− * We've more or less seen every task there is, call it quits
9154− * unless we haven't found any movable task yet.
9155− */
9156− if (env->loop > env->loop_max &&
9157− !(env->flags & LBF_ALL_PINNED))
9152+ /* We've more or less seen every task there is, call it quits */
9153+ if (env->loop > env->loop_max)
91589154 break;
91599155
91609156 /* take a breather every nr_migrate tasks */
@@ -11393,9 +11389,7 @@ more_balance: · 2232 unmodified lines
1139311389
1139411390 if (env.flags & LBF_NEED_BREAK) {
1139511391 env.flags &= ~LBF_NEED_BREAK;
11396− /* Stop if we tried all running tasks */
11397− if (env.loop < busiest->nr_running)
11398− goto more_balance;
11392+ goto more_balance;
1139911393 }
1140011394
1140111395 /*

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