sched/pelt: Relax the sync of util_sum with util_avg
Rick reported performance regressions in bugzilla because of cpu frequency being lower than before: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215045 He bisected the problem to: commit 1c35b07e ("sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent") This commit forces util_sum to be synced with the new util_avg after removing the contribution of a task and before the next periodic sync. By doing so util_sum is rounded to its lower bound and might lost up to LOAD_AVG_MAX-1 of accumulated contribution which has not yet been reflected in util_avg. Instead of always setting util_sum to the low bound of util_avg, which can significantly lower the utilization of root cfs_rq after propagating the change down into the hierarchy, we revert the change of util_sum and propagate the difference. In addition, we also check that cfs's util_sum always stays above the lower bound for a given util_avg as it has been observed that sched_entity's util_sum is sometimes above cfs one. Fixes: 1c35b07e ("sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent") Reported-by: Rick Yiu <rickyiu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220111134659.24961-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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