[RFC][PATCH 12/14] sched/fair: Cure calc_cfs_shares() vs reweight_entity()

[Peter Zijlstra]

Vincent reported that when running in a cgroup, his root
cfs_rq->avg.load_avg dropped to 0 on task idle.

This is because reweight_entity() will now immediately propagate the
weight change of the group entity to its cfs_rq, and as it happens,
our approxmation (5) for calc_cfs_shares() results in 0 when the group
is idle.

Avoid this by using the correct (3) as a lower bound on (5). This way
the empty cgroup will slowly decay instead of instantly drop to 0.

Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2703,11 +2703,10 @@ static long calc_cfs_shares(struct cfs_r
 	tg_shares = READ_ONCE(tg->shares);
 
 	/*
-	 * This really should be: cfs_rq->avg.load_avg, but instead we use
-	 * cfs_rq->load.weight, which is its upper bound. This helps ramp up
-	 * the shares for small weight interactive tasks.
+	 * Because (5) drops to 0 when the cfs_rq is idle, we need to use (3)
+	 * as a lower bound.
 	 */
-	load = scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight);
+	load = max(scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight), cfs_rq->avg.load_avg);
 
 	tg_weight = atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);