Re: [RFC PATCH 24/24] sched/time: Introduce CLOCK_THREAD_DVFS_ID

From: Juri Lelli
Date: Mon Jul 29 2024 - 03:53:36 EST


Hi Peter,

On 27/07/24 12:27, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> In order to measure thread time in a DVFS world, introduce
> CLOCK_THREAD_DVFS_ID -- a copy of CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID that slows
> down with both DVFS scaling and CPU capacity.
>
> The clock does *NOT* support setting timers.
>
> Useful for both SCHED_DEADLINE and the newly introduced
> sched_attr::sched_runtime usage for SCHED_NORMAL.

Just so I'm sure I understand, this would be useful for estimating the
runtime needs of a (also DEADLINE) task when DVFS is enabled, right?

Thanks,
Juri