[PATCH v2] sched/fair: Sync task util before slow-path wakeup

[Brendan Jackman]

We use task_util in find_idlest_group via capacity_spare_wake. This
task_util is updated in wake_cap. However wake_cap is not the only
reason for ending up in find_idlest_group - we could have been sent
there by wake_wide. So explicitly sync the task util with prev_cpu
when we are about to head to find_idlest_group.

We could simply do this at the beginning of
select_task_rq_fair (i.e. irrespective of whether we're heading to
select_idle_sibling or find_idlest_group & co), but I didn't want to
slow down the select_idle_sibling path more than necessary.

Don't do this during fork balancing, we won't need the task_util and
we'd just clobber the last_update_time, which is supposed to be 0.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

changes v1 -> v2: Just cosmetic

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c95880e216f6..20275178604d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5913,8 +5913,17 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
 			new_cpu = cpu;
 	}

+	if (sd && !(sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_FORK)) {
+		/*
+		 * We're going to need the task's util for capacity_spare_wake
+		 * in find_idlest_group. Sync it up to prev_cpu's
+		 * last_update_time.
+		 */
+		sync_entity_load_avg(&p->se);
+	}
+
 	if (!sd) {
- pick_cpu:
+pick_cpu:
 		if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) /* XXX always ? */
 			new_cpu = select_idle_sibling(p, prev_cpu, new_cpu);

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