sched: optimize group load balancer

I noticed that tg_shares_up() unconditionally takes rq-locks for all cpus
in the sched_domain. This hurts.

We need the rq-locks whenever we change the weight of the per-cpu group sched
entities. To allevate this a little, only change the weight when the new
weight is at least shares_thresh away from the old value.

This avoids the rq-lock for the top level entries, since those will never
be re-weighted, and fuzzes the lower level entries a little to gain performance
in semi-stable situations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 617d41e4d6a0..3d804f41e649 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -276,6 +276,16 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
         },
         {
                 .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+                .procname       = "sched_shares_thresh",
+                .data           = &sysctl_sched_shares_thresh,
+                .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
+                .mode           = 0644,
+                .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
+                .strategy       = &sysctl_intvec,
+                .extra1         = &zero,
+        },
+        {
+                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
                 .procname       = "sched_child_runs_first",
                 .data           = &sysctl_sched_child_runs_first,
                 .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),