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sched domains tend to trigger simultaneously the load balance loop but the larger domains often need more time to collect statistics. This slowness makes the larger domain trying to detach tasks from a rq whereas tasks already migrated somewhere else at a sub-domain level. This is not a real problem for idle LB because the period of smaller domains will increase with its CPUs being busy and this will let time for higher ones to pulled tasks. But this becomes a problem when all CPUs are already busy because all domains stay synced when they trigger their LB. A simple way to minimize simultaneous LB of all domains is to decrement the the busy interval by 1 jiffies. Because of the busy_factor, the interval of larger domain will not be a multiple of smaller ones anymore. 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> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921072424.14813-4-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.