sched/fair: Reduce minimal imbalance threshold
authorVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:24:22 +0000 (09:24 +0200)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:23:26 +0000 (14:23 +0200)
commit2208cdaa56c957e20d8e16f28819aeb47851cb1e
treee11fdea39f71c5ecb6e9a0d7f3a5e4db2cd7f39a
parent5a7f555904671c0737819fe4d19bd6143de3f6c0
sched/fair: Reduce minimal imbalance threshold

The 25% default imbalance threshold for DIE and NUMA domain is large
enough to generate significant unfairness between threads. A typical
example is the case of 11 threads running on 2x4 CPUs. The imbalance of
20% between the 2 groups of 4 cores is just low enough to not trigger
the load balance between the 2 groups. We will have always the same 6
threads on one group of 4 CPUs and the other 5 threads on the other
group of CPUS. With a fair time sharing in each group, we ends up with
+20% running time for the group of 5 threads.

Consider decreasing the imbalance threshold for overloaded case where we
use the load to balance task and to ensure fair time sharing.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921072424.14813-3-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
kernel/sched/topology.c