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.c...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org> --- 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) { /* -- 2.17.1