The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     d206fbad9328ddb68ebabd7cf7413392acd38081
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/d206fbad9328ddb68ebabd7cf7413392acd38081
Author:        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
AuthorDate:    Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:01:20 +01:00
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:13:15 +01:00

sched/fair: Revert max_newidle_lb_cost bump

Many people reported regressions on their database workloads due to:

  155213a2aed4 ("sched/fair: Bump sd->max_newidle_lb_cost when newidle balance fails")

For instance Adam Li reported a 6% regression on SpecJBB.

Conversely this will regress schbench again; on my machine from 2.22
Mrps/s down to 2.04 Mrps/s.

Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reported-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reported-by: Hazem Mohamed Abuelfotoh <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250626144017.1510594-2-clm@fb.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/006c9df2-b691-47f1-82e6-e233c3f91faf@oracle.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.406147760@infradead.org
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 19 +++----------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c6e5c64..b73af37 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -12230,14 +12230,8 @@ static inline bool update_newidle_cost(struct sched_domain *sd, u64 cost)
 		/*
 		 * Track max cost of a domain to make sure to not delay the
 		 * next wakeup on the CPU.
-		 *
-		 * sched_balance_newidle() bumps the cost whenever newidle
-		 * balance fails, and we don't want things to grow out of
-		 * control.  Use the sysctl_sched_migration_cost as the upper
-		 * limit, plus a litle extra to avoid off by ones.
 		 */
-		sd->max_newidle_lb_cost =
-			min(cost, sysctl_sched_migration_cost + 200);
+		sd->max_newidle_lb_cost = cost;
 		sd->last_decay_max_lb_cost = jiffies;
 	} else if (time_after(jiffies, sd->last_decay_max_lb_cost + HZ)) {
 		/*
@@ -12920,17 +12914,10 @@ static int sched_balance_newidle(struct rq *this_rq, struct rq_flags *rf)
 
 			t1 = sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu);
 			domain_cost = t1 - t0;
+			update_newidle_cost(sd, domain_cost);
+
 			curr_cost += domain_cost;
 			t0 = t1;
-
-			/*
-			 * Failing newidle means it is not effective;
-			 * bump the cost so we end up doing less of it.
-			 */
-			if (!pulled_task)
-				domain_cost = (3 * sd->max_newidle_lb_cost) / 2;
-
-			update_newidle_cost(sd, domain_cost);
 		}
 
 		/*