Commit de53fd7aedb1 ("sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices") fixes a major performance issue for containerized clouds such as Kubernetes. Commit de53fd7aedb1 Fixes commit : 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift condition"). This should be applied to all stable kernels that applied commit 512ac999d275, and should probably be applied to all others as well. The issues introduced by these pathes can be read about on the Kubernetes github. https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/67577 It may also be prudent to also apply the not yet accepted patch that fixes some introduced compiler warnings discussed here. https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/18/925 Thank you, Dave Chiluk