Re: [RFC][PATCH 07/22] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE push and pull logic

[Raistlin]

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 17:17 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 08:32 +0200, Raistlin wrote:
> > Add dynamic migrations to SCHED_DEADLINE, so that tasks can
> > be moved among CPUs when necessary. It is also possible to bind a
> > task to a (set of) CPU(s), thus restricting its capability of
> > migrating, or forbidding migrations at all.
> > 
> > The very same approach used in sched_rt is utilised:
> >  - -deadline tasks are kept into CPU-specific runqueues,
> >  - -deadline tasks are migrated among runqueues to achieve the
> >    following:
> >     * on an M-CPU system the M earliest deadline ready tasks
> >       are always running;
> >     * affinity/cpusets settings of all the -deadline tasks is
> >       always respected. 
> 
> I haven't fully digested the patch, I keep getting side-tracked and its
> a large patch.. 
>
Yeah, I know, take your time. :-)

> however, I thought we would only allow 2 affinities,
> strict per-cpu and full root-domain?
> 
Yes, we do! Writing a better changelog for this already noted for next
version.

> Keep 2 per-cpu utilization counts, a hard-rt and a soft-rt, and ensure
> the sum stays <= 1. Use the hard-rt one for the planned SF_HARD_RT flag,
> use the soft-rt one for !SF_HARD_RT with nr_cpus_allowed == 1, and use
> \Sum (1-h-s) over the root domain for nr_cpus_allowed != 1.
> 
As agreed during LPC, that's exactly what I'll do. Let's hope to don't
screw up while trying to do the math! :-P

Thanks,
Dario
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