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Active balance is triggered for a number of voluntary cases like misfit or pinned tasks cases but also after that a number of load balance attempts failed to migrate a task. There is no need to use active load balance when the group is overloaded because an overloaded state means that there is at least one waiting task. Nevertheless, the waiting task is not selected and detached until the threshold becomes higher than its load. This threshold increases with the number of failed lb (see the condition if ((load >> env->sd->nr_balance_failed) > env->imbalance) in detach_tasks()) and the waiting task will end up to be selected after a number of attempts. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210107103325.30851-4-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.