Re: [PATCH 0/4] sched: Various reweight_entity() fixes

[K Prateek Nayak]

Hello Peter,

On 2/9/2026 9:17 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 03:45:58PM +0530, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> 
>>        # Overflow on enqueue
>>
>>            <...>-102371  [255] ... : __enqueue_entity: Overflowed cfs_rq:
>>            <...>-102371  [255] ... : dump_h_overflow_cfs_rq: cfs_rq: depth(0) weight(90894772) nr_queued(2) sum_w_vruntime(0) sum_weight(0) zero_vruntime(701164930256050) sum_shift(0) avg_vruntime(701809615900788)
>>            <...>-102371  [255] ... : dump_h_overflow_entity: se: weight(3508) vruntime(701809615900788) slice(2800000) deadline(701810568648095) curr?(1) task?(1)       <-------- cfs_rq->curr
>>            <...>-102371  [255] ... : __enqueue_entity: Overflowed se:
>>            <...>-102371  [255] ... : dump_h_overflow_entity: se: weight(90891264) vruntime(701808975077099) slice(2800000) deadline(701808975109401) curr?(0) task?(0)   <-------- new se
> 
> So I spend a whole time trying to reproduce the splat, but alas.
> 
> That said, I did spot something 'funny' in the above, note that
> zero_vruntime and avg_vruntime/curr->vruntime are significantly apart.
> That is not something that should happen. zero_vruntime is supposed to
> closely track avg_vruntime.
> 
> That lead me to hypothesise that there is a problem tracking
> zero_vruntime when there is but a single runnable task, and sure
> enough, I could reproduce that, albeit not at such a scale as to lead to
> such problems (probably too much noise on my machine).
> 
> I ended up with the below; and I've already pushed out a fresh
> queue/sched/core. Could you please test again?

Thank you for looking into this. I'll merge this onto tip:sched/urgent
and take it for a spin overnight like last time with PARANOID_AVG and
see if the sum_shifts increment this time around.

Will report back tomorrow on the status.

As for the patch itself, I'll take a look at it tomorrow - limited by my
drowsiness at the moment :-)

-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Prateek