[PATCH v5 11/12] sched: replace capacity_factor by utilization

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 07:26:48PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 11 September 2014 18:15, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:06:54PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> >> +static inline int group_has_free_capacity(struct sg_lb_stats *sgs,
> >> +                     struct lb_env *env)
> >>  {
> >> +     if ((sgs->group_capacity_orig * 100) >
> >> +                     (sgs->group_utilization * env->sd->imbalance_pct))
> >> +             return 1;
> >> +
> >> +     if (sgs->sum_nr_running < sgs->group_weight)
> >> +             return 1;
> >>
> >> +     return 0;
> >> +}
> >>
> >> +static inline int group_is_overloaded(struct sg_lb_stats *sgs,
> >> +                     struct lb_env *env)
> >> +{
> >> +     if (sgs->sum_nr_running <= sgs->group_weight)
> >> +             return 0;
> >>
> >> +     if ((sgs->group_capacity_orig * 100) <
> >> +                     (sgs->group_utilization * env->sd->imbalance_pct))
> >> +             return 1;
> >>
> >> +     return 0;
> >>  }
> >
> > I'm confused about the utilization vs capacity_orig. I see how we should
> 
> 1st point is that I should compare utilization vs capacity and not
> capacity_orig.
> I should have replaced capacity_orig by capacity in the functions
> above when i move the utilization statistic from
> rq->avg.runnable_avg_sum to cfs.usage_load_avg.
> rq->avg.runnable_avg_sum was measuring all activity on the cpu whereas
> cfs.usage_load_avg integrates only cfs tasks
> 
> With this change, we don't need sgs->group_capacity_orig anymore but
> only sgs->group_capacity. So sgs->group_capacity_orig can be removed
> as it's no more used in the code as sg_capacity_factor has been
> removed

Yes, but.. so I suppose we need to add DVFS accounting and remove
cpufreq from the capacity thing. Otherwise I don't see it make sense.