Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched/fair: Peter's shares_type patch

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, Vincent.

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 11:30:31AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > For shares_runnable, it should be
> > 
> > group_entity->runnable_load_avg = cfs_rq->runnable_load_avg *
> > group_entity->avg.load_avg / cfs_rq->avg.load_avg
> 
> Yeah, that could be one way to calculate the value while avoiding the
> artifacts.  Hmmm... IIUC, replacing the local contribution with the
> current one is to ensure that we at least calculate with the current
> term on the local queue.  This makes sense for weight and shares but
> as you pointed out it doesn't make sense to replace local base with
> runnable when the base is expected to be sum of load_avgs.  How about
> something like the following?

Vincent, have you given this patch a try?

Also, I got the hikey board but of course it can't be powered by usb,
so am waiting on the power supply now.  Any chance you can share the
system image you're using so that I can exactly replicate your
environment?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun