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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [tip: sched/core] sched,fair: skip newidle_balance if a wakeup is pending
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:15:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIEwnnhG9bFkPqQs@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161907696062.29796.108437696048031441.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 07:36:00AM -0000, tip-bot2 for Rik van Riel wrote:
> @@ -10684,7 +10693,12 @@ out:
>  	if (time_after(this_rq->next_balance, next_balance))
>  		this_rq->next_balance = next_balance;
>  
> -	if (pulled_task)
> +	/*
> +	 * If we are no longer idle, do not let the time spent here pull
> +	 * down this_rq->avg_idle. That could lead to newidle_balance not
> +	 * doing enough work, and the CPU actually going idle.
> +	 */
> +	if (pulled_task || this_rq->ttwu_pending)
>  		this_rq->idle_stamp = 0;

I've un-committed this patch, because vingu was reporting increased idle
time because of this hunk.  I had mistakenly assumed that was sorted
with v3, sorry for not keeping better track of things.

(also, now that I look again, please also fix the Subject to have a
capital after the :)



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-22  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 16:07 [PATCH v3] sched,fair: skip newidle_balance if a wakeup is pending Rik van Riel
2021-04-21 17:27 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-04-22  8:37   ` Vincent Guittot
2021-04-22 16:47     ` Rik van Riel
2021-04-22  7:36 ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Rik van Riel
2021-04-22  8:15   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-04-22 17:02 [PATCH v4] sched,fair: Skip " Rik van Riel
2021-05-12 10:28 ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Rik van Riel

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