[1/3] sched/nohz: Update idle load-balancing (ILB) comments
Commit Message
- Fix incorrect/misleading comments,
- clarify some others,
- fix typos & grammar,
- and use more consistent style throughout.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Comments
On 06/10/23 12:25, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> - Fix incorrect/misleading comments,
>
> - clarify some others,
>
> - fix typos & grammar,
>
> - and use more consistent style throughout.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
@@ -11547,14 +11547,15 @@ static inline int on_null_domain(struct rq *rq)
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
/*
- * idle load balancing details
- * - When one of the busy CPUs notice that there may be an idle rebalancing
+ * NOHZ idle load balancing (ILB) details:
+ *
+ * - When one of the busy CPUs notices that there may be an idle rebalancing
* needed, they will kick the idle load balancer, which then does idle
* load balancing for all the idle CPUs.
- * - HK_TYPE_MISC CPUs are used for this task, because HK_TYPE_SCHED not set
+ *
+ * - HK_TYPE_MISC CPUs are used for this task, because HK_TYPE_SCHED is not set
* anywhere yet.
*/
-
static inline int find_new_ilb(void)
{
int ilb;
@@ -11575,8 +11576,10 @@ static inline int find_new_ilb(void)
}
/*
- * Kick a CPU to do the nohz balancing, if it is time for it. We pick any
- * idle CPU in the HK_TYPE_MISC housekeeping set (if there is one).
+ * Kick a CPU to do the NOHZ balancing, if it is time for it, via a cross-CPU
+ * SMP function call (IPI).
+ *
+ * We pick the first idle CPU in the HK_TYPE_MISC housekeeping set (if there is one).
*/
static void kick_ilb(unsigned int flags)
{
@@ -11604,7 +11607,7 @@ static void kick_ilb(unsigned int flags)
/*
* This way we generate an IPI on the target CPU which
- * is idle. And the softirq performing nohz idle load balance
+ * is idle, and the softirq performing NOHZ idle load balancing
* will be run before returning from the IPI.
*/
smp_call_function_single_async(ilb_cpu, &cpu_rq(ilb_cpu)->nohz_csd);
@@ -11633,7 +11636,7 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
/*
* None are in tickless mode and hence no need for NOHZ idle load
- * balancing.
+ * balancing:
*/
if (likely(!atomic_read(&nohz.nr_cpus)))
return;
@@ -11655,9 +11658,8 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
sd = rcu_dereference(rq->sd);
if (sd) {
/*
- * If there's a CFS task and the current CPU has reduced
- * capacity; kick the ILB to see if there's a better CPU to run
- * on.
+ * If there's a runnable CFS task and the current CPU has reduced
+ * capacity, kick the ILB to see if there's a better CPU to run on:
*/
if (rq->cfs.h_nr_running >= 1 && check_cpu_capacity(rq, sd)) {
flags = NOHZ_STATS_KICK | NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK;
@@ -11709,11 +11711,11 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(struct rq *rq)
if (sds) {
/*
* If there is an imbalance between LLC domains (IOW we could
- * increase the overall cache use), we need some less-loaded LLC
- * domain to pull some load. Likewise, we may need to spread
+ * increase the overall cache utilization), we need a less-loaded LLC
+ * domain to pull some load from. Likewise, we may need to spread
* load within the current LLC domain (e.g. packed SMT cores but
* other CPUs are idle). We can't really know from here how busy
- * the others are - so just get a nohz balance going if it looks
+ * the others are - so just get a NOHZ balance going if it looks
* like this LLC domain has tasks we could move.
*/
nr_busy = atomic_read(&sds->nr_busy_cpus);