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Commit ea1dc6fc authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/fair: Fix calc_cfs_shares() fixed point arithmetics width confusion



Commit:

  fde7d22e ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities")

did something non-obvious but also did it buggy yet latent.

The problem was exposed for real by a later commit in the v4.7 merge window:

  2159197d ("sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels")

... after which tg->load_avg and cfs_rq->load.weight had different
units (10 bit fixed point and 20 bit fixed point resp.).

Add a comment to explain the use of cfs_rq->load.weight over the
'natural' cfs_rq->avg.load_avg and add scale_load_down() to correct
for the difference in unit.

Since this is (now, as per a previous commit) the only user of
calc_tg_weight(), collapse it.

The effects of this bug should be randomly inconsistent SMP-balancing
of cgroups workloads.

Reported-by: default avatarJirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
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>
Fixes: 2159197d ("sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels")
Fixes: fde7d22e ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities")
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 7dd49125
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