[PATCH] sched/cfs: change initial value of runnable_avg

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Wed Jun 24 2020 - 11:44:34 EST


Some performance regression on reaim benchmark have been raised with
commit 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")

The problem comes from the init value of runnable_avg which is initialized
with max value. This can be a problem if the newly forked task is finally
a short task because the group of CPUs is wrongly set to overloaded and
tasks are pulled less agressively.

Set initial value of runnable_avg equals to util_avg to reflect that there
is no waiting time so far.

Fixes: 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0424a0af5f87..45e467bf42fc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct task_struct *p)
}
}

- sa->runnable_avg = cpu_scale;
+ sa->runnable_avg = sa->util_avg;

if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class) {
/*
--
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