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<title>linux.git/kernel/sched/fair.c, branch v4.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix typo in printk message</title>
<updated>2017-06-11T08:00:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Nowakowski</name>
<email>marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-09T08:00:29+00:00</published>
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'schedstats' kernel parameter should be set to enable/disable, so
correct the printk hint saying that it should be set to 'enable'
rather than 'enabled' to enable scheduler tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496995229-31245-1-git-send-email-marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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'schedstats' kernel parameter should be set to enable/disable, so
correct the printk hint saying that it should be set to 'enable'
rather than 'enabled' to enable scheduler tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski &lt;marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496995229-31245-1-git-send-email-marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T02:09:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T02:09:35+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver()
  init/main: properly align the multi-line comment
  init/main: Fix double "the" in comment
  Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  drivers: Clean up duplicated email address
  treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -&gt; "-O2 -Wall"
  selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/
  HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/
  net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo
  UBI: Fix typos
  Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority
  net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
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<pre>
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver()
  init/main: properly align the multi-line comment
  init/main: Fix double "the" in comment
  Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  drivers: Clean up duplicated email address
  treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -&gt; "-O2 -Wall"
  selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/
  HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/
  net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo
  UBI: Fix typos
  Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority
  net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Move the PELT constants into a generated header</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T08:26:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-11T09:08:42+00:00</published>
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Now that we have a tool to generate the PELT constants in C form,
use its output as a separate header.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that we have a tool to generate the PELT constants in C form,
use its output as a separate header.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Increase PELT accuracy for small tasks</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T08:26:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T11:20:45+00:00</published>
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We truncate (and loose) the lower 10 bits of runtime in
___update_load_avg(), this means there's a consistent bias to
under-account tasks. This is esp. significant for small tasks.

Cure this by only forwarding last_update_time to the point we've
actually accounted for, leaving the remainder for the next time.

Reported-by: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We truncate (and loose) the lower 10 bits of runtime in
___update_load_avg(), this means there's a consistent bias to
under-account tasks. This is esp. significant for small tasks.

Cure this by only forwarding last_update_time to the point we've
actually accounted for, leaving the remainder for the next time.

Reported-by: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix comments</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T08:26:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T10:47:33+00:00</published>
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Historically our periods (or p) argument in PELT denoted the number of
full periods (what is now d2). However recent patches have changed
this to the total decay (previously p+1), leading to a confusing
discrepancy between comments and code.

Try and clarify things by making periods (in code) and p (in comments)
be the same thing (again).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Historically our periods (or p) argument in PELT denoted the number of
full periods (what is now d2). However recent patches have changed
this to the total decay (previously p+1), leading to a confusing
discrepancy between comments and code.

Try and clarify things by making periods (in code) and p (in comments)
be the same thing (again).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix corner case in __accumulate_sum()</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T08:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-31T08:51:41+00:00</published>
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Paul noticed that in the (periods &gt;= LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) case in
__accumulate_sum(), the returned contribution value (LOAD_AVG_MAX) is
incorrect.

This is because at this point, the decay_load() on the old state --
the first step in accumulate_sum() -- will not have resulted in 0, and
will therefore result in a sum larger than the maximum value of our
series. Obviously broken.

Note that:

	decay_load(LOAD_AVG_MAX, LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) =

                1   (345 / 32)
	47742 * - ^            = ~27
                2

Not to mention that any further contribution from the d3 segment (our
new period) would also push it over the maximum.

Solve this by noting that we can write our c2 term:

		    p
	c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n
		   n=1

In terms of our maximum value:

		    inf		      inf	  p
	max = 1024 \Sum y^n = 1024 ( \Sum y^n + \Sum y^n + y^0 )
		    n=0		      n=p+1	 n=1

Further note that:

           inf              inf            inf
        ( \Sum y^n ) y^p = \Sum y^(n+p) = \Sum y^n
           n=0              n=0            n=p

Combined that gives us:

		    p
	c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n
		   n=1

		     inf        inf
	   = 1024 ( \Sum y^n - \Sum y^n - y^0 )
		     n=0        n=p+1

	   = max - (max y^(p+1)) - 1024

Further simplify things by dealing with p=0 early on.

Reported-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Du &lt;yuyang.du@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a481db34b9be ("sched/fair: Optimize ___update_sched_avg()")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Paul noticed that in the (periods &gt;= LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) case in
__accumulate_sum(), the returned contribution value (LOAD_AVG_MAX) is
incorrect.

This is because at this point, the decay_load() on the old state --
the first step in accumulate_sum() -- will not have resulted in 0, and
will therefore result in a sum larger than the maximum value of our
series. Obviously broken.

Note that:

	decay_load(LOAD_AVG_MAX, LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) =

                1   (345 / 32)
	47742 * - ^            = ~27
                2

Not to mention that any further contribution from the d3 segment (our
new period) would also push it over the maximum.

Solve this by noting that we can write our c2 term:

		    p
	c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n
		   n=1

In terms of our maximum value:

		    inf		      inf	  p
	max = 1024 \Sum y^n = 1024 ( \Sum y^n + \Sum y^n + y^0 )
		    n=0		      n=p+1	 n=1

Further note that:

           inf              inf            inf
        ( \Sum y^n ) y^p = \Sum y^(n+p) = \Sum y^n
           n=0              n=0            n=p

Combined that gives us:

		    p
	c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n
		   n=1

		     inf        inf
	   = 1024 ( \Sum y^n - \Sum y^n - y^0 )
		     n=0        n=p+1

	   = max - (max y^(p+1)) - 1024

Further simplify things by dealing with p=0 early on.

Reported-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Du &lt;yuyang.du@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a481db34b9be ("sched/fair: Optimize ___update_sched_avg()")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Optimize ___update_sched_avg()</title>
<updated>2017-03-30T07:43:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuyang Du</name>
<email>yuyang.du@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-12T21:44:23+00:00</published>
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The main PELT function ___update_load_avg(), which implements the
accumulation and progression of the geometric average series, is
implemented along the following lines for the scenario where the time
delta spans all 3 possible sections (see figure below):

  1. add the remainder of the last incomplete period
  2. decay old sum
  3. accumulate new sum in full periods since last_update_time
  4. accumulate the current incomplete period
  5. update averages

Or:

            d1          d2           d3
            ^           ^            ^
            |           |            |
          |&lt;-&gt;|&lt;-----------------&gt;|&lt;---&gt;|
  ... |---x---|------| ... |------|-----x (now)

  load_sum' = (load_sum + weight * scale * d1) * y^(p+1) +	(1,2)

                                        p
	      weight * scale * 1024 * \Sum y^n +		(3)
                                       n=1

	      weight * scale * d3 * y^0				(4)

  load_avg' = load_sum' / LOAD_AVG_MAX				(5)

Where:

 d1 - is the delta part completing the remainder of the last
      incomplete period,
 d2 - is the delta part spannind complete periods, and
 d3 - is the delta part starting the current incomplete period.

We can simplify the code in two steps; the first step is to separate
the first term into new and old parts like:

  (load_sum + weight * scale * d1) * y^(p+1) = load_sum * y^(p+1) +
					       weight * scale * d1 * y^(p+1)

Once we've done that, its easy to see that all new terms carry the
common factors:

  weight * scale

If we factor those out, we arrive at the form:

  load_sum' = load_sum * y^(p+1) +

	      weight * scale * (d1 * y^(p+1) +

					 p
			        1024 * \Sum y^n +
					n=1

				d3 * y^0)

Which results in a simpler, smaller and faster implementation.

Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du &lt;yuyang.du@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: bsegall@google.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486935863-25251-3-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The main PELT function ___update_load_avg(), which implements the
accumulation and progression of the geometric average series, is
implemented along the following lines for the scenario where the time
delta spans all 3 possible sections (see figure below):

  1. add the remainder of the last incomplete period
  2. decay old sum
  3. accumulate new sum in full periods since last_update_time
  4. accumulate the current incomplete period
  5. update averages

Or:

            d1          d2           d3
            ^           ^            ^
            |           |            |
          |&lt;-&gt;|&lt;-----------------&gt;|&lt;---&gt;|
  ... |---x---|------| ... |------|-----x (now)

  load_sum' = (load_sum + weight * scale * d1) * y^(p+1) +	(1,2)

                                        p
	      weight * scale * 1024 * \Sum y^n +		(3)
                                       n=1

	      weight * scale * d3 * y^0				(4)

  load_avg' = load_sum' / LOAD_AVG_MAX				(5)

Where:

 d1 - is the delta part completing the remainder of the last
      incomplete period,
 d2 - is the delta part spannind complete periods, and
 d3 - is the delta part starting the current incomplete period.

We can simplify the code in two steps; the first step is to separate
the first term into new and old parts like:

  (load_sum + weight * scale * d1) * y^(p+1) = load_sum * y^(p+1) +
					       weight * scale * d1 * y^(p+1)

Once we've done that, its easy to see that all new terms carry the
common factors:

  weight * scale

If we factor those out, we arrive at the form:

  load_sum' = load_sum * y^(p+1) +

	      weight * scale * (d1 * y^(p+1) +

					 p
			        1024 * \Sum y^n +
					n=1

				d3 * y^0)

Which results in a simpler, smaller and faster implementation.

Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du &lt;yuyang.du@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: bsegall@google.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486935863-25251-3-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Explicitly generate __update_load_avg() instances</title>
<updated>2017-03-30T07:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-28T09:08:20+00:00</published>
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The __update_load_avg() function is an __always_inline because its
used with constant propagation to generate different variants of the
code without having to duplicate it (which would be prone to bugs).

Explicitly instantiate the 3 variants.

Note that most of this is called from rather hot paths, so reducing
branches is good.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The __update_load_avg() function is an __always_inline because its
used with constant propagation to generate different variants of the
code without having to duplicate it (which would be prone to bugs).

Explicitly instantiate the 3 variants.

Note that most of this is called from rather hot paths, so reducing
branches is good.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched/fair: Prefer sibiling only if local group is under-utilized</title>
<updated>2017-03-27T08:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srikar Dronamraju</name>
<email>srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-22T17:57:50+00:00</published>
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If the child domain prefers tasks to go siblings, the local group could
end up pulling tasks to itself even if the local group is almost equally
loaded as the source group.

Lets assume a 4 core,smt==2 machine running 5 thread ebizzy workload.
Everytime, local group has capacity and source group has atleast 2 threads,
local group tries to pull the task. This causes the threads to constantly
move between different cores. This is even more profound if the cores have
more threads, like in Power 8, smt 8 mode.

Fix this by only allowing local group to pull a task, if the source group
has more number of tasks than the local group.

Here are the relevant perf stat numbers of a 22 core,smt 8 Power 8 machine.

Without patch:
 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 22 -S 100' (5 runs):

             1,440      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  1.26% )
               366      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  5.58% )
             3,933      page-faults               #    0.002 K/sec                    ( +- 11.08% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 48 -S 100' (5 runs):

             6,287      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  3.65% )
             3,776      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  4.84% )
             5,702      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  9.36% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 96 -S 100' (5 runs):

             8,776      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  0.73% )
             2,790      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  0.98% )
            10,540      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  3.12% )

With patch:

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 22 -S 100' (5 runs):

             1,133      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  4.72% )
               123      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  3.42% )
             3,858      page-faults               #    0.002 K/sec                    ( +-  8.52% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 48 -S 100' (5 runs):

             2,169      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  6.19% )
               189      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +- 12.75% )
             5,917      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  8.09% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 96 -S 100' (5 runs):

             5,333      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  5.91% )
               506      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  3.35% )
            10,792      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  7.75% )

Which show that in these workloads CPU migrations get reduced significantly.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490205470-10249-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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If the child domain prefers tasks to go siblings, the local group could
end up pulling tasks to itself even if the local group is almost equally
loaded as the source group.

Lets assume a 4 core,smt==2 machine running 5 thread ebizzy workload.
Everytime, local group has capacity and source group has atleast 2 threads,
local group tries to pull the task. This causes the threads to constantly
move between different cores. This is even more profound if the cores have
more threads, like in Power 8, smt 8 mode.

Fix this by only allowing local group to pull a task, if the source group
has more number of tasks than the local group.

Here are the relevant perf stat numbers of a 22 core,smt 8 Power 8 machine.

Without patch:
 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 22 -S 100' (5 runs):

             1,440      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  1.26% )
               366      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  5.58% )
             3,933      page-faults               #    0.002 K/sec                    ( +- 11.08% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 48 -S 100' (5 runs):

             6,287      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  3.65% )
             3,776      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  4.84% )
             5,702      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  9.36% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 96 -S 100' (5 runs):

             8,776      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  0.73% )
             2,790      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  0.98% )
            10,540      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  3.12% )

With patch:

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 22 -S 100' (5 runs):

             1,133      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  4.72% )
               123      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  3.42% )
             3,858      page-faults               #    0.002 K/sec                    ( +-  8.52% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 48 -S 100' (5 runs):

             2,169      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  6.19% )
               189      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +- 12.75% )
             5,917      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  8.09% )

 Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 96 -S 100' (5 runs):

             5,333      context-switches          #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  5.91% )
               506      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +-  3.35% )
            10,792      page-faults               #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  7.75% )

Which show that in these workloads CPU migrations get reduced significantly.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490205470-10249-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml</title>
<updated>2017-03-24T14:47:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masanari Iida</name>
<email>standby24x7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-07T11:48:02+00:00</published>
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This patch fix spelling typos found in
Documentation/output/xml/driver-api/basics.xml.
It is because the xml file was generated from comments in source,
so I had to fix the comments.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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This patch fix spelling typos found in
Documentation/output/xml/driver-api/basics.xml.
It is because the xml file was generated from comments in source,
so I had to fix the comments.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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