Re: [tip:sched/core] [sched/fair] 089d84203a: pts.schbench.32.usec,_99.9th_latency_percentile 52.4% regression

From: Shrikanth Hegde
Date: Thu Dec 18 2025 - 05:37:18 EST




On 12/18/25 2:07 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 12:59:53PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:


Hello,

kernel test robot noticed a 52.4% regression of pts.schbench.32.usec,_99.9th_latency_percentile on:


commit: 089d84203ad42bc8fd6dbf41683e162ac6e848cd ("sched/fair: Fold the sched_avg update")
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched/core

Well, that obviously wasn't the intention. Let me pull that patch :/

Is it possible because it missed scaling by se_weight(se) ??


+#define __update_sa(sa, name, delta_avg, delta_sum) do { \
+ add_positive(&(sa)->name##_avg, delta_avg); \
+ add_positive(&(sa)->name##_sum, delta_sum); \
+ (sa)->name##_sum = max_t(typeof((sa)->name##_sum), \
+ (sa)->name##_sum, \
+ (sa)->name##_avg * PELT_MIN_DIVIDER); \
+} while (0)
+
static inline void
enqueue_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
{
- cfs_rq->avg.load_avg += se->avg.load_avg;
- cfs_rq->avg.load_sum += se_weight(se) * se->avg.load_sum;
+ __update_sa(&cfs_rq->avg, load, se->avg.load_avg, se->avg.load_sum);
}