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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 511b3be138f..56554dbfa78 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -4250,7 +4250,14 @@ redo: if (!ld_moved) { schedstat_inc(sd, lb_failed[idle]); - sd->nr_balance_failed++; + /* + * Increment the failure counter only on periodic balance. + * We do not want newidle balance, which can be very + * frequent, pollute the failure counter causing + * excessive cache_hot migrations and active balances. + */ + if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) + sd->nr_balance_failed++; if (unlikely(sd->nr_balance_failed > sd->cache_nice_tries+2)) { |