sched/eas: Don't update misfit status if the task is pinned
If the task is pinned to a cpu, setting the misfit status means that we'll unnecessarily continuously attempt to migrate the task but fail. This continuous failure will cause the balance_interval to increase to a high value, and eventually cause unnecessary significant delays in balancing the system when real imbalance happens. Caught while testing uclamp where rt-app calibration loop was pinned to cpu 0, shortly after which we spawn another task with high util_clamp value. The task was failing to migrate after over 40ms of runtime due to balance_interval unnecessary expanded to a very high value from the calibration loop. Not done here, but it could be useful to extend the check for pinning to verify that the affinity of the task has a cpu that fits. We could end up in a similar situation otherwise. Fixes: 3b1baa64 ("sched/fair: Add 'group_misfit_task' load-balance type") Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Acked-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210119120755.2425264-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
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