This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/cfs: change initial value of runnable_avg
to the 5.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sched-cfs-change-initial-value-of-runnable_avg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9712223694fbc433231c75b3da4cf72ce9a76af9
Author: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jun 24 17:44:22 2020 +0200
sched/cfs: change initial value of runnable_avg
[ Upstream commit e21cf43406a190adfcc4bfe592768066fb3aaa9b ]
Some performance regression on reaim benchmark have been raised with
commit 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")
The problem comes from the init value of runnable_avg which is initialized
with max value. This can be a problem if the newly forked task is finally
a short task because the group of CPUs is wrongly set to overloaded and
tasks are pulled less agressively.
Set initial value of runnable_avg equals to util_avg to reflect that there
is no waiting time so far.
Fixes: 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624154422.29166-1-vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 2ae7e30ccb33c..5725199b32dcf 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct task_struct *p)
}
}
- sa->runnable_avg = cpu_scale;
+ sa->runnable_avg = sa->util_avg;
if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class) {
/*
