sched/fair: Make load tracking frequency scale-invariant

Apply frequency scaling correction factor to per-entity load tracking to
make it frequency invariant. Currently, load appears bigger when the CPU
is running slower which affects load-balancing decisions.

Each segment of the sched_avg.load_sum geometric series is now scaled by
the current frequency so that the sched_avg.load_avg of each sched entity
will be invariant from frequency scaling.

Moreover, cfs_rq.runnable_load_sum is scaled by the current frequency as
well.

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: mturquette@baylibre.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com
Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439569394-11974-2-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a4ab9daa387c..c8d923ba429d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1177,9 +1177,9 @@ struct load_weight {
 
 /*
  * The load_avg/util_avg accumulates an infinite geometric series.
- * 1) load_avg factors the amount of time that a sched_entity is
- * runnable on a rq into its weight. For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated
- * such weights of all runnable and blocked sched_entities.
+ * 1) load_avg factors frequency scaling into the amount of time that a
+ * sched_entity is runnable on a rq into its weight. For cfs_rq, it is the
+ * aggregated such weights of all runnable and blocked sched_entities.
  * 2) util_avg factors frequency scaling into the amount of time
  * that a sched_entity is running on a CPU, in the range [0..SCHED_LOAD_SCALE].
  * For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated such times of all runnable and