Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] sched/deadline: merge dl_bw into dl_bandwidth

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Feb 12 2018 - 13:02:48 EST


On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:43:12 +0100
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> However, this surely needs to be fixed here. It's tracking the sum of
> all tasks' (across CPUs) bandwidth admitted on the system, so that's why
> it's called dl_total_bw. Incremented when a task passes sched_setattr()
> and decremented when it leaves the system or changes scheduling class.
>
> Does it make a bit more sense? Would you still prefer a different name?

No the name is fine, the comment needs to change.

- dl_total_bw - tracks the sum of all tasks' bandwidth across CPUs.

How's that?

-- Steve