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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bsegall@google.com, pjt@google.com, morten.rasmussen@arm.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Clean up attach_entity_load_avg()
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 10:34:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160531083402.GI3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464647577-23057-2-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com>

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 06:32:54AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2961,24 +2961,6 @@ static inline void update_load_avg(struct sched_entity *se, int update_tg)
>  
>  static void attach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>  {
> -	if (!sched_feat(ATTACH_AGE_LOAD))
> -		goto skip_aging;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * If we got migrated (either between CPUs or between cgroups) we'll
> -	 * have aged the average right before clearing @last_update_time.
> -	 */
> -	if (se->avg.last_update_time) {
> -		__update_load_avg(cfs_rq->avg.last_update_time, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)),
> -				  &se->avg, 0, 0, NULL);
> -
> -		/*
> -		 * XXX: we could have just aged the entire load away if we've been
> -		 * absent from the fair class for too long.
> -		 */
> -	}
> -
> -skip_aging:
>  	se->avg.last_update_time = cfs_rq->avg.last_update_time;
>  	cfs_rq->avg.load_avg += se->avg.load_avg;
>  	cfs_rq->avg.load_sum += se->avg.load_sum;

So I'm not a big fan of this patch; the aging is a conceptual part of
attaching the load, the fact that it only happens in one callsite is a
mere 'accident'.

The other two patches look reasonable; but I'll wait until Vince has
commented on them..

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-31  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-30 22:32 [PATCH v2 0/3] sched/fair: Skip attach and detach for new group task in task_move_group_fair() Yuyang Du
2016-05-30 22:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Clean up attach_entity_load_avg() Yuyang Du
2016-05-31  8:34   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-05-31  0:49     ` Yuyang Du
2016-05-31  9:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-31 18:37     ` Yuyang Du
2016-05-30 22:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Skip detach and attach new group task Yuyang Du
2016-05-31 11:55   ` Vincent Guittot
2016-05-31 12:03     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-31 12:33       ` Vincent Guittot
2016-05-31 12:39         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-31 13:20           ` Vincent Guittot
2016-05-30 22:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/fair: Add inline to detach_entity_load_evg() Yuyang Du

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