Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched/fair: util_est: update before schedutil

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 1f6a23a5b451..01dfc47541e6 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5356,6 +5356,9 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
>  	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
>  	struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
>  
> +	/* Estimated utilization must be updated before schedutil */
> +	util_est_enqueue(&rq->cfs, p);

Please clarify the comment with a reason; because I'm sure that the next
time I see that comment, I'll go 'but why again!?'.

>  	/*
>  	 * If in_iowait is set, the code below may not trigger any cpufreq
>  	 * utilization updates, so do it here explicitly with the IOWAIT flag