From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:37:23 +0100 Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] sched: pack small tasks In-Reply-To: <1363955155-18382-4-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org> References: <1363955155-18382-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org> <1363955155-18382-4-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Message-ID: <1364301443.5053.9.camel@laptop> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 13:25 +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote: > +static bool is_light_task(struct task_struct *p) > +{ > + /* A light task runs less than 20% in average */ > + return ((p->se.avg.runnable_avg_sum * 5) < > + (p->se.avg.runnable_avg_period)); > +} OK, so we have a 'problem' here, we initialize runnable_avg_* to 0, but we want to 'assume' a fresh task is fully 'loaded'. IIRC Alex ran into this as well. PJT, do you have any sane solution for this, I forgot what the result of the last discussion was -- was there any?