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

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun May 22 2016 - 05:52:56 EST


On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 11:36 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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..

Ok (flush, say hi to the goldfish little patchlet). I don't care how it
gets fixed, only that it does, and yours will likely be prettier :)

-Mike