Vincent reported that when a new task is moved into a new cgroup it gets attached twice to the load tracking. sched_move_task() task_move_group_fair() detach_task_cfs_rq() set_task_rq() attach_task_cfs_rq() attach_entity_load_avg() se->avg.last_load_update = cfs_rq->avg.last_load_update // == 0 enqueue_entity() enqueue_entity_load_avg() update_cfs_rq_load_avg() now = clock() __update_load_avg(&cfs_rq->avg) cfs_rq->avg.last_load_update = now // ages load/util for: now - 0, load/util -> 0 if (migrated) attach_entity_load_avg() se->avg.last_load_update = cfs_rq->avg.last_load_update; // now != 0 The problem is that we don't update cfs_rq load_avg before all entity attach/detach operations. Only enqueue and migrate_task do this. By fixing this, the above will not happen, because the sched_move_task() attach will have updated cfs_rq's last_load_update time before attach, and in turn the attach will have set the entity's last_load_update stamp. Note that there is a further problem with sched_move_task() calling detach on a task that hasn't yet been attached; this will be taken care of in a subsequent patch. Cc: Yuyang Du Reported-by: Vincent Guittot Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -8366,6 +8366,7 @@ static void detach_task_cfs_rq(struct ta { struct sched_entity *se = &p->se; struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se); + u64 now = cfs_rq_clock_task(cfs_rq); if (!vruntime_normalized(p)) { /* @@ -8377,6 +8378,7 @@ static void detach_task_cfs_rq(struct ta } /* Catch up with the cfs_rq and remove our load when we leave */ + update_cfs_rq_load_avg(now, cfs_rq, false); detach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se); } @@ -8384,6 +8386,7 @@ static void attach_task_cfs_rq(struct ta { struct sched_entity *se = &p->se; struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se); + u64 now = cfs_rq_clock_task(cfs_rq); #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED /* @@ -8394,6 +8397,7 @@ static void attach_task_cfs_rq(struct ta #endif /* Synchronize task with its cfs_rq */ + update_cfs_rq_load_avg(now, cfs_rq, false); attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se); if (!vruntime_normalized(p))