Re: [PATCH 4/6 v7] sched: propagate load during synchronous attach/detach

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Wed Nov 09 2016 - 10:23:43 EST


On 9 November 2016 at 16:03, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:53:45AM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> When a task moves from/to a cfs_rq, we set a flag which is then used to
>> propagate the change at parent level (sched_entity and cfs_rq) during
>> next update. If the cfs_rq is throttled, the flag will stay pending until
>> the cfs_rq is unthrottled.
>>
>> For propagating the utilization, we copy the utilization of group cfs_rq to
>> the sched_entity.
>>
>> For propagating the load, we have to take into account the load of the
>> whole task group in order to evaluate the load of the sched_entity.
>> Similarly to what was done before the rewrite of PELT, we add a correction
>> factor in case the task group's load is greater than its share so it will
>> contribute the same load of a task of equal weight.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
>
> I did the below on top, that basically moves code about a bit to reduce
> some #ifdef and kills a few comments that I thought were of the:
>
> i++; /* increment by one */
>
> quality.

OK. The changes look fine to me

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