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

[Yuyang Du]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:34:00AM -0700, bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION and the non-SLR part of SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT are not
> >> required to be the same value and should not be conflated.
> >> 
> >> In particular, since cgroups are on the same timeline as tasks and their
> >> shares are not scaled by SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT in any way (but are scaled so
> >> that SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION is invisible), changing that part of
> >> SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT would cause issues, since things can assume that nice-0
> >> = 1024. However changing SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION would be fine, as that is
> >> an internal value to the kernel.
> >> 
> >> In addition, changing the non-SLR part of SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT would require
> >> recomputing all of prio_to_weight/wmult for the new NICE_0_LOAD.
> >
> > I think I follow, but doesn't that mean that the current code is broken
> > too? NICE_0_LOAD changes if you change SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION:
> >
> > #define SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT        (10 + SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION)
> > #define SCHED_LOAD_SCALE        (1L << SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT)
> >
> > #define NICE_0_LOAD             SCHED_LOAD_SCALE
> > #define NICE_0_SHIFT            SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT
> >
> > To me it sounds like we need to define it the other way around:
> >
> > #define NICE_0_SHIFT            10
> > #define NICE_0_LOAD             (1L << NICE_0_SHIFT)
> >
> > and then add any additional resolution bits from there to ensure that
> > NICE_0_LOAD and the prio_to_weight/wmult tables are unchanged.
> 
> No, NICE_0_LOAD is supposed to be scale_load(prio_to_weight[nice_0]),
> ie including SLR. It has never been clear to me what
> SCHED_LOAD_SCALE/SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT were for as opposed to NICE_0_LOAD,
> and the new utilization uses of it are entirely unlinked to 1024 == NICE_0

Presume your SLR means SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION:

1) The introduction of (not redefinition of) SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT does not
change anything after macro expansion.

2) The constants in prio_to_weight[] and prio_to_wmult[] are tied to a
resolution of 10bits NICE_0, i.e., 1024, I guest it is the user visible
part you mentioned, so is the cgroup share.

To me, it is all ok. With the SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT, the basic resolution
unit, it is just for us to state clearly, the NICE_0's weight has a fixed
resolution of SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT, or even add this:

#if prio_to_weight[20] != 1 << SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT
error "NICE_0 weight not calibrated"
#endif
/* I can learn, Peter */

I guess you are saying we are conflating NICE_0 with NICE_0_LOAD. But to me,
they are just integer metrics, needing a resolution respectively. That is it.
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