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Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task()

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Hi Yuyang,

On 12/13/2015 11:13 AM, Yuyang Du wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 06:01:45PM -0800, Steve Muckle wrote:
>> In init_entity_runnable_average() the last_update_time is initialized to
>> zero. The task is given max load and utilization as a pessimistic
>> initial estimate.
>>
>> But if in wake_up_new_task() the task is placed on a CPU other than
>> where it was created, __update_load_avg() will be called via
>> set_task_cpu() -> migrate_task_rq_fair() -> remove_entity_load_avg().
>>
>> Since last_update_time is zero the delta will be huge and the task's
>> load will be entirely decayed away before it is enqueued at the
>> destination CPU.
>  
> Since the new task's last_update_time is equal to 0, it will not be decayed.

Can you point me to the code for that logic? I don't see anything that
prevents the decay when a newly woken task is placed on a different CPU
via the call chain I mentioned above. My testing also shows the load
being decayed to zero.

thanks
Steve
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PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2015-12-12 03:10 +0100
  Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2015-12-14 04:00 +0100
    Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2015-12-15 01:50 +0100
      Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2015-12-15 11:20 +0100
        Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2015-12-15 19:50 +0100
          Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2015-12-16 08:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix new task's load avg removed from source CPU in kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-12-16 09:00 +0100
            Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2015-12-17 04:00 +0100
              Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2015-12-17 08:30 +0100
                Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-17 10:50 +0100
                Re: PELT initial task load and wake_up_new_task() Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2015-12-17 11:10 +0100

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