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Commit f207934f authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/fair: Align PELT windows between cfs_rq and its se



The PELT _sum values are a saw-tooth function, dropping on the decay
edge and then growing back up again during the window.

When these window-edges are not aligned between cfs_rq and se, we can
have the situation where, for example, on dequeue, the se decays
first.

Its _sum values will be small(er), while the cfs_rq _sum values will
still be on their way up. Because of this, the subtraction:
cfs_rq->avg._sum -= se->avg._sum will result in a positive value. This
will then, once the cfs_rq reaches an edge, translate into its _avg
value jumping up.

This is especially visible with the runnable_load bits, since they get
added/subtracted a lot.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 144d8487
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