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Shrikanth Hegde c628db0a68 sched/fair: Check root_domain::overload value before update
The root_domain::overload flag is 1 when there's any rq
in the root domain that has 2 or more running tasks. (Ie. it's overloaded.)

The root_domain structure itself is a global structure per cpuset island.

The ::overload flag is maintained the following way:

  - Set when adding a second task to the runqueue.

  - It is cleared in update_sd_lb_stats() during load balance,
    if none of the rqs have 2 or more running tasks.

This flag is used during newidle balance to see if its worth doing a full
load balance pass, which can be an expensive operation. If it is set,
then newidle balance will try to aggressively pull a task.

Since commit:

  630246a06a ("sched/fair: Clean-up update_sg_lb_stats parameters")

::overload is being written unconditionally, even if it has the same
value. The change in value of this depends on the workload, but on
typical workloads, it doesn't change all that often: a system is
either dominantly overloaded for substantial amounts of time, or not.

Extra writes to this semi-global structure cause unnecessary overhead, extra
bus traffic, etc. - so avoid it as much as possible.

Perf probe stats show that it's worth making this change (numbers are
with patch applied):

	1M    probe:sched_balance_newidle_L38
	139   probe:update_sd_lb_stats_L53     <====== 1->0 writes
	129K  probe:add_nr_running_L12
	74    probe:add_nr_running_L13         <====== 0->1 writes
	54K   probe:update_sd_lb_stats_L50     <====== reads

These numbers prove that actual change in the ::overload value is (much) less
frequent: L50 is much larger at ~54,000 accesses vs L53+L13 of 139+74.

[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325054505.201995-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
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Linux kernel
============

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 reStructuredText 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.