[PATCH v8 10/10] sched: make scale_rt invariant with frequency

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Mon Nov 3 07:51:29 PST 2014


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:47:32AM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> The call to arch_scale_frequency_capacity in the rt scheduling path might be
> a concern for RT folks because I'm not sure whether we can rely on
> arch_scale_freq_capacity to be short and efficient ?

Well, you put it in quite a hot path on the CFS side too, so it had
better be blazing fast anyhow.


That said, can you move all the running + invariance bits at the
beginning of the patch set, these appear to be the least controversial
bits and 'desired' by quite a few people, so we'll try and get those
agreed upon and merged first.



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