linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/fair: Fix how load gets propagated from cfs_rq to its sched

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Date:   Thu, 4 May 2017 07:51:29 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/fair: Fix how load gets propagated from
 cfs_rq to its sched_entity

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 05:45:46PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:

> FUDGE2: Changes things a lot (load values go wild) but only because
>         it's missing scale_load_down().  After adding
>         scale_load_down(), it doesn't do much.  For this to work, it
>         needs to be always propagated, which btw shouldn't be
>         prohibitively expensive given other operations which are
>         performed at the same time.

Urgh, and my numbers were so pretty :/

Maybe I need to wake up, but I'm not immediately seeing where the
scale_load_down() went missing for FUDGE2.

FUDGE does indeed appear to have one missing.