Re: [PATCH] Revert "sched: Fix sleep time double accounting inenqueue entity"

[Vincent Guittot]

Paul,

I let you send a patch that will add comment and move the "if (wakeup) logic" ?

Regards
Vincent

On 22 January 2014 08:45, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This reverts commit 282cf499f03ec1754b6c8c945c9674b02631fb0f.
>
> With the current implementation, the load average statistics of a sched entity
> change according to other activity on the CPU even if this activity is done
> between the running window of the sched entity and have no influence on the
> running duration of the task.
>
> When a task wakes up on the same CPU, we currently update last_runnable_update
> with the return  of __synchronize_entity_decay without updating the
> runnable_avg_sum and runnable_avg_period accordingly. In fact, we have to sync
> the load_contrib of the se with the rq's blocked_load_contrib before removing
> it from the latter (with __synchronize_entity_decay) but we must keep
> last_runnable_update unchanged for updating runnable_avg_sum/period during the
> next update_entity_load_avg.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c |    8 +-------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index e64b079..6d61f20 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2365,13 +2365,7 @@ static inline void enqueue_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq,
>                 }
>                 wakeup = 0;
>         } else {
> -               /*
> -                * Task re-woke on same cpu (or else migrate_task_rq_fair()
> -                * would have made count negative); we must be careful to avoid
> -                * double-accounting blocked time after synchronizing decays.
> -                */
> -               se->avg.last_runnable_update += __synchronize_entity_decay(se)
> -                                                       << 20;
> +               __synchronize_entity_decay(se);
>         }
>
>         /* migrated tasks did not contribute to our blocked load */
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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