Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: vruntime should normalize when switching from fair

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:54:58AM +0100, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> I forgot to mention that since fair_task's cpu affinity is restricted to
> CPU4, there is no call to set_task_cpu()->migrate_task_rq_fair() since if
> (task_cpu(p) != cpu) fails.
>
> I think the combination of cpu affinity of the fair_task to CPU4 and the
> fact that the scheduler runs on CPU1 when waking fair_task (with the two
> cpus not sharing LLC) while TTWU_QUEUE is enabled is the situation in which
> this vruntime issue can happen.

Ohhh, D'0h. A remote wakeup that doesn't migrate.

That would suggest something like so:

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index b39fb596f6c1..b3b62cf37fb6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9638,7 +9638,8 @@ static inline bool vruntime_normalized(struct task_struct *p)
 	 * - A task which has been woken up by try_to_wake_up() and
 	 *   waiting for actually being woken up by sched_ttwu_pending().
 	 */
-	if (!se->sum_exec_runtime || p->state == TASK_WAKING)
+	if (!se->sum_exec_runtime ||
+	    (p->state == TASK_WAKING && p->sched_remote_wakeup))
 		return true;
 
 	return false;