linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/3] sched/pelt: Don't sync hardly *_sum with *

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Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:37:59 +0100
From:   Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To:     mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com,
        mgorman@...e.de, bristot@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rickyiu@...gle.com, odin@...d.al
Cc:     sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, naresh.kamboju@...aro.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] sched/pelt: Don't sync hardly *_sum with *_avg

Rick reported performance regressions in bugzilla because of cpu
frequency being lower than before:
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215045

He bisected the problem to:
commit 1c35b07e6d39 ("sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent")

More details are available in commit message of patch 1.

This patchset reverts the commit above and adds several checks when
propagating the changes in the hierarchy to make sure that we still have
coherent util_avg and util_sum.

Dietmar found a simple way to reproduce the WARN fixed by 
commit 1c35b07e6d39 ("sched/fair: Ensure _sum and _avg values stay consistent")
by looping on hackbench in several different sched group levels.

This patchset as run on the reproducer with success but it probably needs
more tests by people who faced the WARN before.

The changes done on util_sum have been also applied to runnable_sum and
load_sum which faces the same rounding problem although this has not been
reflected in measurable performance impact.

Changes for v2:
- fix wrong update of load_sum
- move a change from patch 3 to patch 2
- update patch 3 commit message

Vincent Guittot (3):
  sched/pelt: Don't sync hardly util_sum with uti_avg
  sched/pelt: Don't sync hardly runnable_sum with runnable_avg
  sched/pelt: Don't sync hardly load_sum with load_avg

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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2.17.1