sched/fair: Fix fairness issue on migration
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:04:03 +0000 (13:04 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:49:23 +0000 (10:49 +0100)
commit3a47d5124a957358274e9ca7b115b2f3a914f56d
treeb657610dfb56fde7cd808981068bdeb0d3322eb7
parent2f5177f0fd7e531b26d54633be62d1d4cb94621c
sched/fair: Fix fairness issue on migration

Pavan reported that in the presence of very light tasks (or cgroups)
the placement of migrated tasks can cause severe fairness issues.

The problem is that enqueue_entity() places the task before it updates
time, thereby it can place the task far in the past (remember that
light tasks will shoot virtual time forward at a high speed, so in
relation to the pre-existing light task, we can land far in the past).

This is done because update_curr() needs the current task, and we
might be placing the current task.

The obvious solution is to differentiate between the current and any
other task; placing the current before we update time, and placing any
other task after, such that !curr tasks end up at the current moment
in time, and not in the past.

Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160309120403.GK6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c