[PATCH v9 05/10] sched: make scale_rt invariant with frequency

[Morten Rasmussen]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:48:02PM +0000, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 24 November 2014 at 18:05, Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 02:24:00PM +0000, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> >> On 21 November 2014 at 13:35, Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen at arm.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:54:42PM +0000, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> >> The average running time of RT tasks is used to estimate the remaining compute
> >> >> @@ -5801,19 +5801,12 @@ static unsigned long scale_rt_capacity(int cpu)
> >> >>
> >> >>       total = sched_avg_period() + delta;
> >> >>
> >> >> -     if (unlikely(total < avg)) {
> >> >> -             /* Ensures that capacity won't end up being negative */
> >> >> -             available = 0;
> >> >> -     } else {
> >> >> -             available = total - avg;
> >> >> -     }
> >> >> +     used = div_u64(avg, total);
> >> >
> >> > I haven't looked through all the details of the rt avg tracking, but if
> >> > 'used' is in the range [0..SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE], I believe it should
> >> > work. Is it guaranteed that total > 0 so we don't get division by zero?
> >>
> >> static inline u64 sched_avg_period(void)
> >> {
> >> return (u64)sysctl_sched_time_avg * NSEC_PER_MSEC / 2;
> >> }
> >>
> >
> > I see.
> >
> >> >
> >> > It does get a slightly more complicated if we want to figure out the
> >> > available capacity at the current frequency (current < max) later. Say,
> >> > rt eats 25% of the compute capacity, but the current frequency is only
> >> > 50%. In that case get:
> >> >
> >> > curr_avail_capacity = (arch_scale_cpu_capacity() *
> >> >   (arch_scale_freq_capacity() - (SCHED_SCALE_CAPACITY - scale_rt_capacity())))
> >> >   >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT
> >>
> >> You don't have to be so complicated but simply need to do:
> >> curr_avail_capacity for CFS = (capacity_of(CPU) *
> >> arch_scale_freq_capacity())  >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT
> >>
> >> capacity_of(CPU) = 600 is the max available capacity for CFS tasks
> >> once we have removed the 25% of capacity that is used by RT tasks
> >> arch_scale_freq_capacity = 512 because we currently run at 50% of max freq
> >>
> >> so curr_avail_capacity for CFS = 300
> >
> > I don't think that is correct. It is at least not what I had in mind.
> >
> > capacity_orig_of(cpu) = 800, we run at 50% frequency which means:
> >
> > curr_capacity = capacity_orig_of(cpu) * arch_scale_freq_capacity()
> >                   >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT
> >               = 400
> >
> > So the total capacity at the current frequency (50%) is 400, without
> > considering RT. scale_rt_capacity() is frequency invariant, so it takes
> > away capacity_orig_of(cpu) - capacity_of(cpu) = 200 worth of capacity
> > for RT.  We need to subtract that from the current capacity to get the
> > available capacity at the current frequency.
> >
> > curr_available_capacity = curr_capacity - (capacity_orig_of(cpu) -
> > capacity_of(cpu)) = 200
> 
> you're right, this one looks good to me too

Okay, thanks for confirming. It doesn't affect this patch set anyway, I just
wanted to be sure that I got all the scaling factors right :)