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SubjectRe: Kernel 4.7rc3 - Performance drop 30-40% for SPECjbb2005 and SPECjvm2008 benchmarks against 4.6 kernel
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 02:44:07PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:

> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 22d64b3f5876..d4f6fb2f3057 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ static inline long calc_tg_weight(struct task_group *tg, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> > */
> > tg_weight = atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
> > tg_weight -= cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib;
> > - tg_weight += cfs_rq->load.weight;
> > + tg_weight += cfs_rq->avg.load_avg;
>
> IIUC, you are reverting
> commit fde7d22e01aa (sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for
> interactive group entities)

Ah!, I hadn't yet done a git-blame on this. Right you are, we should
have put a comment there.

So the problem here is that since commit:

2159197d6677 ("sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels")

load.weight and avg.load_avg are in different metrics. Which completely
wrecked things.

The obvious alternative is using:

scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight);

Let me go run that through the benchmark.

> I have one question regarding the use of cfs_rq->avg.load_avg
> cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib is the sampling of cfs_rq->avg.load_avg so
> I'm curious to understand why you use cfs_rq->avg.load_avg instead of
> keeping cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib. Do you think that the sampling is
> not accurate enough to prevent any significant difference between both
> when we use tg->load_avg ?

I'm not entirely sure I understand your question; is it to the existence
of calc_tg_weight()? That is, why use calc_tg_weight() and not use
tg->load_avg as is?

It seemed like a simple and cheap way to increase accuracy, nothing more
behind it until the commit you referred to.

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