Re: [PATCH 5/6] sched/fair: Get rid of scaling utilization by capacity_orig

[Yuyang Du]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:06:24AM -0700, bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The point really is, metrics (if not many ) need resolution, not just NICE_0_LOAD does. 
> > You can choose to either hardcode a number, like SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT now,
> > or you can use SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT, which is even as simple as a sign to say what
> > the defined is (the scaled one with a better resolution vs. the original one).
> > I guess this is to say we now have a (no-big-deal) resolution system.
> 
> Yes they were chosen for similar reasons, but they are not conceptually
> related, and you couldn't decide to just bump up all the resolutions by
> changing SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT, so doing this would just be misleading.

Yes, it appears they are made seemingly conceptually related. But probably 
it isn't worth a concern, if one knows it is just a scaled integer metric.
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