Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] sched/fair: Skip detach sched avgs for new task when changing task groups

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 14 2016 - 10:46:16 EST


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 04:36:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 07:15:53AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> > Newly forked task has not been enqueued, so should not be removed from
> > cfs_rq in task_move_group_fair(). To do so, we identify newly forked
> > tasks by their sched_avg's last_update_time in detach_entity_load_avg().
>
> > static void detach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> > {
> > + /* Newly forked tasks are not attached yet. */
> > + if (!se->avg.last_update_time)
> > + return;
>
> Urgh, so this results in two different heuristics to detect 'new' tasks
> and gives two different meanings to !last_update_time.
>
> How about you use the existing heuristic as per vruntime_normalized()
> and do:
>
> if (!se->sum_exec_runtime)
> return;

Hurm,. I see we already have this confusion as per
remove_entity_load_avg(). Could we fix it there too?