sched/rt: Fix RT utilization tracking during policy change
RT keeps track of the utilization on a per-rq basis with the structure avg_rt. This utilization is updated during task_tick_rt(), put_prev_task_rt() and set_next_task_rt(). However, when the current running task changes its policy, set_next_task_rt() which would usually take care of updating the utilization when the rq starts running RT tasks, will not see a such change, leaving the avg_rt structure outdated. When that very same task will be dequeued later, put_prev_task_rt() will then update the utilization, based on a wrong last_update_time, leading to a huge spike in the RT utilization signal. The signal would eventually recover from this issue after few ms. Even if no RT tasks are run, avg_rt is also updated in __update_blocked_others(). But as the CPU capacity depends partly on the avg_rt, this issue has nonetheless a significant impact on the scheduler. Fix this issue by ensuring a load update when a running task changes its policy to RT. Fixes: 371bf427 ("sched/rt: Add rt_rq utilization tracking") Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1624271872-211872-2-git-send-email-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
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