sched/fair: Revert 6d71a9c61604 ("sched/fair: Fix EEVDF entity placement bug causing scheduling lag")
Zicheng Qu reported that, because avg_vruntime() always includes
cfs_rq->curr, when ->on_rq, place_entity() doesn't work right.
Specifically, the lag scaling in place_entity() relies on
avg_vruntime() being the state *before* placement of the new entity.
However in this case avg_vruntime() will actually already include the
entity, which breaks things.
Also, Zicheng Qu argues that avg_vruntime should be invariant under
reweight. IOW commit 6d71a9c61604 ("sched/fair: Fix EEVDF entity
placement bug causing scheduling lag") was wrong!
The issue reported in 6d71a9c61604 could possibly be explained by
rounding artifacts -- notably the extreme weight '2' is outside of the
range of avg_vruntime/sum_w_vruntime, since that uses
scale_load_down(). By scaling vruntime by the real weight, but
accounting it in vruntime with a factor 1024 more, the average moves
significantly.
Reported-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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