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

[Vincent Guittot]

On 15 December 2015 at 13:20, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:50:14AM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
>> On 12/15/2015 05:59 AM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>
>> >The 2nd definition is used to compute the remaining capacity for the
>> >CFS scheduler. This one doesn't need to be updated at each wake/sleep
>> >of a deadline task but should reflect the capacity used by deadline in
>> >a larger time scale. The latter will be used by the CFS scheduler  at
>> >the periodic load balance pace
>
>> Ok, so as I wrote above this really looks like an average utilisation.
>> My impression (but I do not know the CFS code too much) is that the mainline
>> kernel is currently doing the right thing to compute it, so maybe there is no
>> need to change the current code in this regard.
>> If the current code is not acceptable for some reason, an alternative would
>> be to measure the active utilisation for frequency scaling, and then apply a
>> low-pass filter to it for CFS.
>
> So CFS really only needs a 'vague' average idea on how much time it will
> not get. Its best effort etc., so being a little wrong isn't a problem.
>
> The current code suffices, but I think the reason its been changed in
> this series is that they want/need separate tracking for fifo/rr and
> deadline in the next patch, and taking out deadline like proposed was
> the easiest way of achieving that.

yes. you're right. The goal was to minimize the overhead for tracking
separately  fifo/rr and deadline.


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