Re: Kernel 4.7rc3 - Performance drop 30-40% for SPECjbb2005 and SPECjvm2008 benchmarks against 4.6 kernel

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:23:37PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > It seemed like a simple and cheap way to increase accuracy, nothing more
> > behind it until the commit you referred to.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> I thought that the difference should always be smaller than 1/64th of
> the cfs_rq->avg.load_avg thanks to update_tg_load_avg

Right, another reason I just remembered is that it ensures:

	tg_weight >= cfs_rq_weight

Because if this is the only task in the entire group and cfs_rq
increased (but did not exceed the 1/64th threshold) you get the group
weight being smaller than the entity weight, which would be weird.