[PATCH 113/133] sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Aug 16 22:34:15 UTC 2013


3.8.13.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>

commit bf0bd948d1682e3996adc093b43021ed391983e6 upstream.

We typically update a task_group's shares within the dequeue/enqueue
path.  However, continuously running tasks sharing a CPU are not
subject to these updates as they are only put/picked.  Unfortunately,
when we reverted f269ae046 (in 17bc14b7), we lost the augmenting
periodic update that was supposed to account for this; resulting in a
potential loss of fairness.

To fix this, re-introduce the explicit update in
update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() [called via entity_tick()].

Reported-by: Max Hailperin <max at gustavus.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt at google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9545m3apw5d93ubyrotrj31y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 81fa536..7d0374f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1964,6 +1964,7 @@ entity_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr, int queued)
 	 */
 	update_entity_load_avg(curr, 1);
 	update_cfs_rq_blocked_load(cfs_rq, 1);
+	update_cfs_shares(cfs_rq);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK
 	/*
-- 
1.8.1.2





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