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authorDmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>2022-10-09 22:30:23 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>2022-10-09 22:30:23 -0700
commit5f8f8574c7f5585b09a9623f0f13462e4eb67b4d (patch)
tree8f1d5e88bf9604a9e39fbcce0e37b3d8cee451bb /kernel/sched/topology.c
parente62563db857f81d75c5726a35bc0180bed6d1540 (diff)
parentfe5b6aaef72a0f7daa06e7960e0bee45c2984e41 (diff)
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 6.1 merge window.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/topology.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/topology.c23
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 05b6c2ad90b9..8739c2a5a54e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -2316,23 +2316,30 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
/*
* For a single LLC per node, allow an
- * imbalance up to 25% of the node. This is an
- * arbitrary cutoff based on SMT-2 to balance
- * between memory bandwidth and avoiding
- * premature sharing of HT resources and SMT-4
- * or SMT-8 *may* benefit from a different
- * cutoff.
+ * imbalance up to 12.5% of the node. This is
+ * arbitrary cutoff based two factors -- SMT and
+ * memory channels. For SMT-2, the intent is to
+ * avoid premature sharing of HT resources but
+ * SMT-4 or SMT-8 *may* benefit from a different
+ * cutoff. For memory channels, this is a very
+ * rough estimate of how many channels may be
+ * active and is based on recent CPUs with
+ * many cores.
*
* For multiple LLCs, allow an imbalance
* until multiple tasks would share an LLC
* on one node while LLCs on another node
- * remain idle.
+ * remain idle. This assumes that there are
+ * enough logical CPUs per LLC to avoid SMT
+ * factors and that there is a correlation
+ * between LLCs and memory channels.
*/
nr_llcs = sd->span_weight / child->span_weight;
if (nr_llcs == 1)
- imb = sd->span_weight >> 2;
+ imb = sd->span_weight >> 3;
else
imb = nr_llcs;
+ imb = max(1U, imb);
sd->imb_numa_nr = imb;
/* Set span based on the first NUMA domain. */