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Commit bb0bd044 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/fair: Increase PELT accuracy for small tasks



We truncate (and loose) the lower 10 bits of runtime in
___update_load_avg(), this means there's a consistent bias to
under-account tasks. This is esp. significant for small tasks.

Cure this by only forwarding last_update_time to the point we've
actually accounted for, leaving the remainder for the next time.

Reported-by: default avatarMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 3841cdc3
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@@ -2915,7 +2915,8 @@ ___update_load_avg(u64 now, int cpu, struct sched_avg *sa,
	delta >>= 10;
	if (!delta)
		return 0;
	sa->last_update_time = now;

	sa->last_update_time += delta << 10;

	/*
	 * Now we know we crossed measurement unit boundaries. The *_avg