Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/3 v5] sched: Rewrite per entity runnable load average tracking

[Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:56:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:21:56AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> >  static inline long calc_tg_weight(struct task_group *tg, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> >  {
> > -	long tg_weight;
> > -
> > -	/*
> > -	 * Use this CPU's actual weight instead of the last load_contribution
> > -	 * to gain a more accurate current total weight. See
> > -	 * update_cfs_rq_load_contribution().
> > -	 */
> > -	tg_weight = atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
> > -	tg_weight -= cfs_rq->tg_load_contrib;
> > -	tg_weight += cfs_rq->load.weight;
> > -
> > -	return tg_weight;
> > +	return atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
> 
> Since you're now also delaying updating load_avg, why not retain this
> slightly better approximation?

Oh, yeah, I know load_avg is delayed, but I don't know why this is slightly better
approximation, in which "Use this CPU's actual weight instead of the last
load_contribution".

In addition to that, if we use this approximation, should we worry that
the child cfs and group's added weight is toward likely to be underrated? No?

or we do this instead:

	tg_weight = atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
	tg_weight -= cfs_rq->tg_load_contrib;
	tg_weight += cfs_rq->load_avg;
                         ~~~~~~~~

Thanks,
Yuyang