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Date:   Wed, 3 May 2017 11:10:59 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Fix how load gets propagated from cfs_rq
 to its sched_entity

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:00:28PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Peter.
> 
> Your changes need the following fix patch.

D'0h, so much for not running my patches through a compiler ;-)

> With the fix and
> "sched/fair: Always propagate runnable_load_avg" applied, it seems to
> work fine.  The propagated number is a bit different but I don't see
> noticeable difference in behavior and the new number seems to better
> represent what we need.

Right. Let me stare at that always propagate thing a bit. My instant
worry is overhead, but yeah, we need something to make this work.

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