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 wh...
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