Re: [patch v6 8/8] sched: remove blocked_load_avg in tg

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:17:29PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> blocked_load_avg sometime is too heavy and far bigger than runnable load
> avg. that make balance make wrong decision. So better don't consider it.

Would you happen to have an example around that illustrates this? 

Also, you've just changed the cgroup balancing -- did you run any tests on that?

> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 91e60ac..75c200c 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ static inline void __update_cfs_rq_tg_load_contrib(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq,
>  	struct task_group *tg = cfs_rq->tg;
>  	s64 tg_contrib;
>  
> -	tg_contrib = cfs_rq->runnable_load_avg + cfs_rq->blocked_load_avg;
> +	tg_contrib = cfs_rq->runnable_load_avg;
>  	tg_contrib -= cfs_rq->tg_load_contrib;
>  
>  	if (force_update || abs64(tg_contrib) > cfs_rq->tg_load_contrib / 8) {
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 
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