[PATCH v7 6/7] sched: replace capacity_factor by usage

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:18:02PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 9 October 2014 14:16, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:13:36PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> >> +static inline bool
> >> +group_has_capacity(struct lb_env *env, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs)
> >>  {
> >> +     if ((sgs->group_capacity * 100) >
> >> +                     (sgs->group_usage * env->sd->imbalance_pct))
> >> +             return true;
> >
> > Why the imb_pct there? We're looking for 100% utilization, not 130 or
> > whatnot, right?
> 
> Having exactly 100% is quite difficult because of various rounding.
> So i have added a margin/threshold to prevent any excessive change of the state.
> I have just to use the same margin/threshold than in other place in
> load balance.
> 

Yet you failed to mention this anywhere. Also does it really matter?