Re: [RFCv6 PATCH 09/10] sched: deadline: use deadline bandwidth in scale_rt_capacity

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:50:14AM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Strictly speaking, the active utilisation must be updated when a task
> wakes up and when a task sleeps/terminates (but when a task sleeps/terminates
> you cannot decrease the active utilisation immediately: you have to wait
> some time because the task might already have used part of its "future
> utilisation").
> The active utilisation must not be updated when a task is throttled: a
> task is throttled when its current runtime is 0, so it already used all
> of its utilisation for the current period (think about two tasks with
> runtime=50ms and period 100ms: they consume 100% of the time on a CPU,
> and when the first task consumed all of its runtime, you cannot decrease
> the active utilisation).

Hehe, this reminds me of the lag tracking in EEVDF/WF2Q/BFQ etc., that
had similar issues.
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