sched: Clean up rebalance_domains() load-balance interval calculation

Instead of the possible multiple-evaluation of num_online_cpus()
in rebalance_domains() that Linus reported, avoid it altogether
in the normal case since it's implemented with a Hamming weight
function over a cpu bitmask which can be darn expensive for those
with big iron.

This also makes it cleaner, smaller and documents the code.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1301991265.2225.12.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index c7ec5c8..80ecd09 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -3820,6 +3820,17 @@ void select_nohz_load_balancer(int stop_tick)
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(balancing);
 
+static unsigned long __read_mostly max_load_balance_interval = HZ/10;
+
+/*
+ * Scale the max load_balance interval with the number of CPUs in the system.
+ * This trades load-balance latency on larger machines for less cross talk.
+ */
+static void update_max_interval(void)
+{
+	max_load_balance_interval = HZ*num_online_cpus()/10;
+}
+
 /*
  * It checks each scheduling domain to see if it is due to be balanced,
  * and initiates a balancing operation if so.
@@ -3849,10 +3860,7 @@ static void rebalance_domains(int cpu, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
 
 		/* scale ms to jiffies */
 		interval = msecs_to_jiffies(interval);
-		if (unlikely(!interval))
-			interval = 1;
-		if (interval > HZ*num_online_cpus()/10)
-			interval = HZ*num_online_cpus()/10;
+		interval = clamp(interval, 1UL, max_load_balance_interval);
 
 		need_serialize = sd->flags & SD_SERIALIZE;