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    sched: Maintain the load contribution of blocked entities · 9ee474f5
    Paul Turner authored
    We are currently maintaining:
    
      runnable_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum task_load(t)
    
    For all running children t of cfs_rq.  While this can be naturally updated for
    tasks in a runnable state (as they are scheduled); this does not account for
    the load contributed by blocked task entities.
    
    This can be solved by introducing a separate accounting for blocked load:
    
      blocked_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum runnable(b) * weight(b)
    
    Obviously we do not want to iterate over all blocked entities to account for
    their decay, we instead observe that:
    
      runnable_load(t) = \Sum p_i*y^i
    
    and that to account for an additional idle period we only need to compute:
    
      y*runnable_load(t).
    
    This means that we can compute all blocked entities at once by evaluating:
    
      blocked_load(cfs_rq)` = y * blocked_load(cfs_rq)
    
    Finally we maintain a decay counter so that when a sleeping entity re-awakens
    we can determine how much of its load should be removed from the blocked sum.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Turner <pjt@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Segall <bsegall@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.585389902@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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