sched/balancing: Simplify the sg_status bitmask and use separate ->overloaded and...
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:07:48 +0000 (12:07 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:53:27 +0000 (07:53 +0100)
commit4475cd8bfd9bcb898953fcadb2f51b3432eb68a1
treecfbc984bc1578f8492a43e517da0b16029463dce
parent4d0a63e5b841c759c9a306aff158420421ef016f
sched/balancing: Simplify the sg_status bitmask and use separate ->overloaded and ->overutilized flags

SG_OVERLOADED and SG_OVERUTILIZED flags plus the sg_status bitmask are an
unnecessary complication that only make the code harder to read and slower.

We only ever set them separately:

 thule:~/tip> git grep SG_OVER kernel/sched/
 kernel/sched/fair.c:            set_rd_overutilized_status(rq->rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED);
 kernel/sched/fair.c:                    *sg_status |= SG_OVERLOADED;
 kernel/sched/fair.c:                    *sg_status |= SG_OVERUTILIZED;
 kernel/sched/fair.c:                            *sg_status |= SG_OVERLOADED;
 kernel/sched/fair.c:            set_rd_overloaded(env->dst_rq->rd, sg_status & SG_OVERLOADED);
 kernel/sched/fair.c:                                       sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED);
 kernel/sched/fair.c:    } else if (sg_status & SG_OVERUTILIZED) {
 kernel/sched/fair.c:            set_rd_overutilized_status(env->dst_rq->rd, SG_OVERUTILIZED);
 kernel/sched/sched.h:#define SG_OVERLOADED              0x1 /* More than one runnable task on a CPU. */
 kernel/sched/sched.h:#define SG_OVERUTILIZED            0x2 /* One or more CPUs are over-utilized. */
 kernel/sched/sched.h:           set_rd_overloaded(rq->rd, SG_OVERLOADED);

And use them separately, which results in suboptimal code:

                /* update overload indicator if we are at root domain */
                set_rd_overloaded(env->dst_rq->rd, sg_status & SG_OVERLOADED);

                /* Update over-utilization (tipping point, U >= 0) indicator */
                set_rd_overutilized_status(env->dst_rq->rd,

Introduce separate sg_overloaded and sg_overutilized flags in update_sd_lb_stats()
and its lower level functions, and change all of them to 'bool'.

Remove the now unused SG_OVERLOADED and SG_OVERUTILIZED flags.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZgVPhODZ8/nbsqbP@gmail.com
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/sched.h