linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: fix the calculation of __sched_period in sched

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Date:	Mon, 9 May 2016 09:05:02 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@...wei.com>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	guohanjun@...wei.com, huawei.libin@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix the calculation of __sched_period in
 sched_slice()

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:45:57AM +0800, Zhou Chengming wrote:
> When we get the sched_slice of a sched_entity, we use cfs_rq->nr_running
> to calculate the whole __sched_period. But cfs_rq->nr_running is the
> number of sched_entity in that cfs_rq, rq->nr_running is the number
> of all the tasks that are not throttled. So we should use the
> rq->nr_running to calculate the whole __sched_period value.

No, this was very much on purpose.