[PATCH] sched: allow the load to grow upto its cpu_power

Don't pull tasks from a group if that would cause the group's total load to
drop below its total cpu_power (ie.  cause the group to start going idle).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 1dc29dec38a..dbd4490afec 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1910,6 +1910,7 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu,
 {
         struct sched_group *busiest = NULL, *this = NULL, *group = sd->groups;
         unsigned long max_load, avg_load, total_load, this_load, total_pwr;
+        unsigned long max_pull;
         int load_idx;
 
         max_load = this_load = total_load = total_pwr = 0;
@@ -1959,7 +1960,7 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu,
                 group = group->next;
         } while (group != sd->groups);
 
-        if (!busiest || this_load >= max_load)
+        if (!busiest || this_load >= max_load || max_load <= SCHED_LOAD_SCALE)
                 goto out_balanced;
 
         avg_load = (SCHED_LOAD_SCALE * total_load) / total_pwr;
@@ -1979,8 +1980,12 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, int this_cpu,
          * by pulling tasks to us.  Be careful of negative numbers as they'll
          * appear as very large values with unsigned longs.
          */
+
+        /* Don't want to pull so many tasks that a group would go idle */
+        max_pull = min(max_load - avg_load, max_load - SCHED_LOAD_SCALE);
+
         /* How much load to actually move to equalise the imbalance */
-        *imbalance = min((max_load - avg_load) * busiest->cpu_power,
+        *imbalance = min(max_pull * busiest->cpu_power,
                                 (avg_load - this_load) * this->cpu_power)
                         / SCHED_LOAD_SCALE;