Re: [PATCH 6.18] sched/fair: Revert 6d71a9c61604 ("sched/fair: Fix EEVDF entity placement bug causing scheduling lag")

[John Stultz]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Peter said in April that this could go to 6.18 [1]. Janne Huttunen
> > > posted the same backport last month [2] and Sasha is holding it for
> > > Peter's ack on taking the revert without 4823725d9d1d [3].
> >
> > Yeah, this should be fine without 4823725d9d1d.
>
> Thanks, that was what I was waiting on. Queued John's version for 6.18.

Do note, as Jose pointed out you should probably take: 80390ead2080
("UPSTREAM: sched/fair: Separate se->vlag from se->vprot") as well
then (ideally prior to).

thanks
-john