[PATCH v6 5/6] sched: replace capacity_factor by usage
Peter Zijlstra
peterz at infradead.org
Fri Oct 3 08:38:26 PDT 2014
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> This implementation of utilization_avg_contrib doesn't solve the scaling
> in-variance problem, so i have to scale the utilization with original
> capacity of the CPU in order to get the CPU usage and compare it with the
> capacity. Once the scaling invariance will have been added in
> utilization_avg_contrib, we will remove the scale of utilization_avg_contrib
> by cpu_capacity_orig in get_cpu_usage. But the scaling invariance will come
> in another patchset.
I would have expected this in the previous patch that introduced that
lot. Including a few words on how/why the cpu_capacity is a 'good'
approximation etc..
> Finally, the sched_group->sched_group_capacity->capacity_orig has been removed
> because it's more used during load balance.
That sentence is a contradiction, I expect there's a negative gone
missing someplace.
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