Re: Patch "sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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在 2023/3/7 23:23, Greg KH 写道:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 06:51:15PM +0800, Zhang Qiao wrote:
>>
>>
>> 在 2023/3/6 18:05, Greg KH 写道:
>>> On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 05:28:41PM +0800, Zhang Qiao wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 在 2023/3/6 17:19, Greg KH 写道:
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 04:31:57PM +0800, Zhang Qiao wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 在 2023/3/5 12:02, Sasha Levin 写道:
>>>>>>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to the 4.14-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-fair-sanitize-vruntime-of-entity-being-placed.patch
>>>>>>> and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>>>>>>> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> commit 38247e1de3305a6ef644404ac818bc6129440eae
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> This patch has significant impact on the hackbench.throughput [1].
>>>>>> Please don't backport this patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202302211553.9738f304-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u
>>>>>
>>>>> This link says it made hackbench.throughput faster, not slower, so why
>>>>> would we NOT want it?
>>>>
>>>> Please see this section. In some cases, this patch reset task's vruntime by mistake and
>>>> will lead to wrong results.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 03:34:16PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI, In addition to that, the commit also has significant impact on the following tests:
>>>>>
>>>>> +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
>>>>> | testcase: change | hackbench: hackbench.throughput -8.1% regression |
>>>>> | test machine     | 104 threads 2 sockets (Skylake) with 192G memory |
>>>>> | test parameters  | cpufreq_governor=performance                     |
>>>>> |                  | ipc=socket                                       |
>>>>> |                  | iterations=4                                     |
>>>>> |                  | mode=process                                     |
>>>>> |                  | nr_threads=100%                                  |
>>>>> +------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
>>>>>
>>>>> Details are as below:
>>>
>>> So one benchmark did better, by a lot, and one did less, by a little?
>>> Which one matters "more">
>>>
>>> So Linus's tree now has a regression?  Or not?  I'm confused.  We are
>>
>> Yes, Linus's tree also has a regression, and i have sent a patch[1] for fix this regression.
>>
>>
>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/79850642-ebac-5c23-d32d-b28737dcb91e@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> thanks.
>> Zhang qiao.
> 
> Ok, I've dropped this from all stable queues now.  Please let us know
> when we can pick it up again and what the fixup commit id in Linus's
> tree is when it lands there.

Hi,

The fixup patch has been merged into Linus's tree, its commit id is:
a53ce18cacb477dd0513c607f187d16f0fa96f71 ("sched/fair: Sanitize vruntime of entity being migrated")

thanks,
Zhangqiao.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> .
> 



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