Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] docs: scheduler: Add scheduler overview documentation

From: John Mathew
Date: Wed May 13 2020 - 09:39:19 EST


On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:58 PM Dietmar Eggemann
<dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 07/05/2020 23:15, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> >
> > On 07/05/20 19:05, John Mathew wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > It would also be an opportunity to have one place to (at least briefly)
> > describe what the different sched classes do wrt capacity asymmetry - CFS
> > does one thing, RT now does one thing (see Qais' work), and DL will
> > hopefully soon follow (see Dietmar's work).
> >
> > I'd be happy to contribute (some of) that, if it can be deemed useful (I
> > personally think it might).
>
> I like the idea.
>
> Essentially all the code which is guarded by the 'if
> (static_branch_unlikely(&sched_asym_cpucapacity)' condition or which
> sets it during bring-up.
>
> * 'Cpu capacity < SCHED_LOAD_SCALE for non-big' CPUs setting during
> bringup (necessary dt binding, CPUfreq influence)
>
> * CFS capacity awareness:
>
> * wakeup - select_idle_capacity() (replaced wake_cap() & slow path to
> cover DynamIQ and classical big.LITTLE)
>
> * load_balance - misfit handling
>
> * RT & DL capacity awareness
>
> * ... & the relation to EAS (Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst)
>
> This is what we referred to (at least internally) as CAS (Capacity-Aware
> Scheduling).

Added in pathset v4.

Thanks