[PATCH] sched/fair: avoid vruntime compensation for SCHED_IDLE task

From: Jiang Biao
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 08:01:45 EST


From: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Vruntime compensation has been down in place_entity() to
boot the waking procedure for fair tasks. There is no need to
do that for SCHED_IDLE task actually.

Not compensating vruntime for SCHED_IDLE task could make
SCHED_IDLE task more harmless for normal tasks.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 1a68a0536add..adff77676a0a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4115,7 +4115,7 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int initial)
vruntime += sched_vslice(cfs_rq, se);

/* sleeps up to a single latency don't count. */
- if (!initial) {
+ if (!initial && likely(!task_has_idle_policy(task_of(se)))) {
unsigned long thresh = sysctl_sched_latency;

/*
--
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