Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: simplfy the work when reweighting entity

Dietmar Eggemann
2020-08-17T12:28:15Z

On 11/08/2020 13:32, Jiang Biao wrote:
> From: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
>
> The code in reweight_entity() can be simplified.
>
> For a sched entity on the rq, the entity accounting can be replaced by
> cfs_rq instantaneous load updates currently called from within the
> entity accounting.
>
> Even though an entity on the rq can't represent a task in
> reweight_entity() (a task is always dequeued before calling this
> function) and so the numa task accounting and the rq->cfs_tasks list
> management of the entity accounting are never called, the redundant
> cfs_rq->nr_running decrement/increment will be avoided.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
> ---
> v3<-v2: Amend commit log taking Dietmar's advice. Thx.
> v2<-v1: Amend the commit log
>
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 04fa8dbcfa4d..18a8fc7bd0de 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -3086,7 +3086,7 @@ static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
> /* commit outstanding execution time */
> if (cfs_rq->curr == se)
> update_curr(cfs_rq);
> - account_entity_dequeue(cfs_rq, se);
> + update_load_sub(&cfs_rq->load, se->load.weight);
> }
> dequeue_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
>
> @@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@ static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
>
> enqueue_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
> if (se->on_rq)
> - account_entity_enqueue(cfs_rq, se);
> + update_load_add(&cfs_rq->load, se->load.weight);
>
> }

Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>