Re: [RFC 4/8] Improve the tracking of active utilisation

[Vincent Guittot]

There is a How-to that explains how to describe a scenario:
https://git.linaro.org/power/rt-app.git/blob/HEAD:/doc/tutorial.txt

as well as some examples in the doc directory

Regards,
Vincent

On 28 January 2016 at 14:48, luca abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:05:44 +0100
> Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Luca,
>>
>>
>> On 27 January 2016 at 15:45, Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Peter,
>> >
>> > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:39:46 +0100
>> > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 02:36:51PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
>> > > > Ok, so I implemented this idea, and I am currently testing it...
>> > > > The first experiments seem to show that there are no problems,
>> > > > but I just tried some simple workload (rt-app, or some other
>> > > > periodic taskset scheduled by SCHED_DEADLINE). Do you have
>> > > > suggestions for more "interesting" (and meaningful)
>> > > > tests/experiments?
>> > >
>> > > rt-app is the workload generator, right?
>> > >
>> > > I think the most interesting part here is the switched_from path,
>> > > so you'd want the workload to include a !rt task that gets PI
>> > > boosted to deadline every so often.
>> > >
>> > > Also, does rt-app let tasks die? Or does it spawn N tasks and lets
>> > > them run jobs until the end? I think you want to put some effort
>> > > in task_dead_dl() as well.
>> > >
>> > > After that, just make sure rt-app generates a _lot_ of tasks such
>> > > that the migration thing gets used.
>> >
>> > Thanks; I'll check with Juri how to do all of this with rt-app (or
>> > how to modify rt-app to stress these functionalities).
>> >
>>
>> This version of workload generator /rt-app can do all sequences you
>> want:
>> https://git.linaro.org/power/rt-app.git/shortlog/refs/heads/master
> Thanks Vincent; I am going to have a look at it.
> Are the "lock_order" and "resources" task parameters documented or
> described somewhere?
>
>
>                         Thanks,
>                                 Luca
>
>> The merge of these changes are ongoing but still not finished.
>>
>> Let me know if you need help to use it and create some use cases
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vincent
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >                         Thanks,
>> >                                 Luca
>> >
>