[PATCH v2 08/11] sched: get CPU's activity statistic

[Vincent Guittot]

On 30 May 2014 11:50, Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann at arm.com> wrote:
> On 23/05/14 16:53, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> Monitor the activity level of each group of each sched_domain level. The
>> activity is the amount of cpu_power that is currently used on a CPU or group
>> of CPUs. We use the runnable_avg_sum and _period to evaluate this activity
>> level. In the special use case where the CPU is fully loaded by more than 1
>> task, the activity level is set above the cpu_power in order to reflect the
>> overload of the CPU
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot at linaro.org>
>
> [...]
>
>>  /*
>>   * select_task_rq_fair: Select target runqueue for the waking task in domains
>>   * that have the 'sd_flag' flag set. In practice, this is SD_BALANCE_WAKE,
>> @@ -5518,6 +5535,7 @@ struct sg_lb_stats {
>>       unsigned long sum_weighted_load; /* Weighted load of group's tasks */
>>       unsigned long load_per_task;
>>       unsigned long group_power;
>> +     unsigned long group_activity; /* Total activity of the group */
>>       unsigned int sum_nr_running; /* Nr tasks running in the group */
>>       unsigned int group_capacity;
>>       unsigned int idle_cpus;
>> @@ -5538,6 +5556,7 @@ struct sd_lb_stats {
>>       struct sched_group *busiest;    /* Busiest group in this sd */
>>       struct sched_group *local;      /* Local group in this sd */
>>       unsigned long total_load;       /* Total load of all groups in sd */
>> +     unsigned long total_activity;  /* Total activity of all groups in sd */
>>       unsigned long total_pwr;        /* Total power of all groups in sd */
>>       unsigned long avg_load; /* Average load across all groups in sd */
>>
>> @@ -5557,6 +5576,7 @@ static inline void init_sd_lb_stats(struct sd_lb_stats *sds)
>>               .busiest = NULL,
>>               .local = NULL,
>>               .total_load = 0UL,
>> +             .total_activity = 0UL,
>
> AFAICS, total_activity is not used right now. Do you intend to use it to
> calculate something like avg_activity later (like total_load/avg_load)?

this patch only creates group_activity and total_activity.The use of
these statistics appears on the next patches. I have not planned to
compute such avg_activity for the moment mainly because i have need it
yet.

Do you have in mind any use of such avg_activity ?

Vincent

>
>>               .total_pwr = 0UL,
>>               .busiest_stat = {
>>                       .avg_load = 0UL,
>
> [...]
>