Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] sched/core: uclamp: extend sched_setattr to support utilization clamping

[Juri Lelli]

Hi,

On 28/08/18 14:53, Patrick Bellasi wrote:

[...]

> Let's introduce a new API to set utilization clamping values for a
> specified task by extending sched_setattr, a syscall which already
> allows to define task specific properties for different scheduling
> classes.
> Specifically, a new pair of attributes allows to specify a minimum and
> maximum utilization which the scheduler should consider for a task.

AFAIK sched_setattr currently mandates that a policy is always specified
[1]. I was wondering if relaxing such requirement might be handy. Being
util clamp a cross-class feature it might be cumbersome to always have
to get current policy/params and use those with new umin/umax just to
change the latter.

sched_setparam already uses the in-kernel SETPARAM_POLICY thing, maybe
we could extend that to sched_setattr? Not sure exposing this to
userspace is a good idea though. :-/

Best,

- Juri

1 - https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.19-rc2/source/kernel/sched/core.c#L4564