Re: [patch] sched/fair: Move se->vruntime normalization state into struct sched_entity

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun May 22 2016 - 05:36:52 EST


On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:00:01AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-05-21 at 21:00 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2016-05-21 at 16:04 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > Wakees that were not migrated/normalized eat an unwanted min_vruntime,
> > > and likely take a size XXL latency hit. Big box running master bled
> > > profusely under heavy load until I turned TTWU_QUEUE off.
>
> May as well make it official and against master.today. Fly or die
> little patchlet.
>
> sched/fair: Move se->vruntime normalization state into struct sched_entity

Yeah, I used to have a patch like this; but for debugging. I don't
particularly like carrying this information other than for verification
because it means we either do too much or too little normalization.

I'll try and have a look on Monday, but I got some real-life things to
sort out first..