Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] sched: add utilization_avg_contrib

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Fri Oct 03 2014 - 10:45:25 EST


On 3 October 2014 16:15, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> struct sched_avg {
>> + u64 last_runnable_update;
>> + s64 decay_count;
>> + /*
>> + * utilization_avg_contrib describes the amount of time that a
>> + * sched_entity is running on a CPU. It is based on running_avg_sum
>> + * and is scaled in the range [0..SCHED_LOAD_SCALE].
>> + * load_avg_contrib described the the amount of time that a
>> + * sched_entity is runnable on a rq. It is based on both
>> + * runnable_avg_sum and the weight of the task.
>> + */
>> + unsigned long load_avg_contrib, utilization_avg_contrib;
>> /*
>> * These sums represent an infinite geometric series and so are bound
>> * above by 1024/(1-y). Thus we only need a u32 to store them for all
>> * choices of y < 1-2^(-32)*1024.
>> + * runnable_avg_sum represents the amount of time a sched_entity is on
>> + * the runqueue whereas running_avg_sum reflects the time the
>> + * sched_entity is effectively running on the runqueue.
>
> I would say: 'running on the cpu'. I would further clarify that runnable
> also includes running, the above could be read such that runnable is
> only the time spend waiting on the queue, excluding the time spend on
> the cpu.

ok

>
>> */
>> + u32 runnable_avg_sum, avg_period, running_avg_sum;
>> };
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