Commit 83929cc
sched/autogroup: Fix 64-bit kernel nice level adjustment
Michael Kerrisk reported:
> Regarding the previous paragraph... My tests indicate
> that writing *any* value to the autogroup [nice priority level]
> file causes the task group to get a lower priority.
Because autogroup didn't call the then meaningless scale_load()...
Autogroup nice level adjustment has been broken ever since load
resolution was increased for 64-bit kernels. Use scale_load() to
scale group weight.
Michael Kerrisk tested this patch to fix the problem:
> Applied and tested against 4.9-rc6 on an Intel u7 (4 cores).
> Test setup:
>
> Terminal window 1: running 40 CPU burner jobs
> Terminal window 2: running 40 CPU burner jobs
> Terminal window 1: running 1 CPU burner job
>
> Demonstrated that:
> * Writing "0" to the autogroup file for TW1 now causes no change
> to the rate at which the process on the terminal consume CPU.
> * Writing -20 to the autogroup file for TW1 caused those processes
> to get the lion's share of CPU while TW2 TW3 get a tiny amount.
> * Writing -20 to the autogroup files for TW1 and TW3 allowed the
> process on TW3 to get as much CPU as it was getting as when
> the autogroup nice values for both terminals were 0.
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479897217.4306.6.camel@gmx.de
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