Instead of using the cfs_rq_is_decayed() which monitors all *_avg and *_sum, we create a cfs_rq_has_blocked() which only takes care of util_avg and load_avg. We are only interested by these 2 values which are decaying faster than the *_sum so we can stop the periodic update earlier.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index b9660b5..e203297 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -7337,6 +7337,19 @@ static void attach_tasks(struct lb_env *env) rq_unlock(env->dst_rq, &rf); } +static inline bool cfs_rq_has_blocked(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) +{ + if (cfs_rq->avg.load_avg) + return true; + + if (cfs_rq->avg.util_avg) + return true; + + return false; +} + +#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED + static inline bool cfs_rq_is_decayed(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) { if (cfs_rq->load.weight) @@ -7354,8 +7367,6 @@ static inline bool cfs_rq_is_decayed(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) return true; } -#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED - static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu) { struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu); @@ -7391,7 +7402,9 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu) */ if (cfs_rq_is_decayed(cfs_rq)) list_del_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq); - else + + /* Don't need periodic decay once load/util_avg are null */ + if (cfs_rq_has_blocked(cfs_rq)) done = false; } @@ -7461,7 +7474,7 @@ static inline void update_blocked_averages(int cpu) update_cfs_rq_load_avg(cfs_rq_clock_task(cfs_rq), cfs_rq); #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick = jiffies; - if (cfs_rq_is_decayed(cfs_rq)) + if (!cfs_rq_has_blocked(cfs_rq)) rq->has_blocked_load = 0; #endif rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, &rf); -- 2.7.4