From: bsegall@google.com
To: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] sched/fair: Get rid of scaling utilization by capacity_orig
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:36:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xm26wpvsucm5.fsf@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150911182451.GA11102@intel.com> (Yuyang Du's message of "Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:24:51 +0800")
Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:05:53AM -0700, bsegall@google.com wrote:
>>
>> SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION and the non-SLR part of SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT are not
>> required to be the same value and should not be conflated.
>
>> In particular, since cgroups are on the same timeline as tasks and their
>> shares are not scaled by SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT in any way (but are scaled so
>> that SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION is invisible), changing that part of
>> SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT would cause issues, since things can assume that nice-0
>> = 1024. However changing SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION would be fine, as that is
>> an internal value to the kernel.
>>
>> In addition, changing the non-SLR part of SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT would require
>> recomputing all of prio_to_weight/wmult for the new NICE_0_LOAD.
>
> Not fully looked into the concerns, but the new SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT
> is intended to formalize all the integer metrics that need better resolution.
> It is not special to any metric, so actually it is to de-conflate whoever is
> conflated.
It conflates the userspace-invisible SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION with the
userspace-visible value of scale_load_down(NICE_0_LOAD). Increasing
SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION must not change scale_load_down(NICE_0_LOAD).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-14 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-14 16:23 [PATCH 0/6] sched/fair: Compute capacity invariant load/utilization tracking Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] sched/fair: Make load tracking frequency scale-invariant Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-13 11:03 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] sched/fair: Convert arch_scale_cpu_capacity() from weak function to #define Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-02 9:31 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-02 12:41 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-03 19:58 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-04 7:26 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-07 13:25 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-11 13:21 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-11 14:45 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-13 11:03 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] sched/fair: Make utilization tracking cpu scale-invariant Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-14 23:04 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-04 7:52 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-13 11:04 ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Make utilization tracking CPU scale-invariant tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] sched/fair: Name utilization related data and functions consistently Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-04 9:08 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-11 16:35 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-13 11:04 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] sched/fair: Get rid of scaling utilization by capacity_orig Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-03 23:51 ` Steve Muckle
2015-09-07 15:37 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-07 16:21 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-07 18:54 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-07 19:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 12:47 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-08 7:22 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 12:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 12:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 14:06 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:35 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-08 14:40 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:31 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-08 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-09 22:23 ` bsegall
2015-09-10 11:06 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-10 11:11 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-10 12:10 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11 0:50 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-10 17:23 ` bsegall
2015-09-08 16:53 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-09 9:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-09 9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-09 11:13 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11 17:22 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-17 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-17 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-21 1:16 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-21 17:30 ` bsegall
2015-09-21 23:39 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-22 17:18 ` bsegall
2015-09-22 23:22 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-23 16:54 ` bsegall
2015-09-24 0:22 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-30 12:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-11 7:46 ` Leo Yan
2015-09-11 10:02 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11 14:11 ` Leo Yan
2015-09-09 19:07 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-10 10:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 13:39 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 15:17 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 12:50 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-08 14:01 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:27 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-09 20:15 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-10 10:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-11 0:28 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-11 10:31 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11 17:05 ` bsegall
2015-09-11 18:24 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-14 17:36 ` bsegall [this message]
2015-09-14 12:56 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-14 17:34 ` bsegall
2015-09-14 22:56 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-15 17:11 ` bsegall
2015-09-15 18:39 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-16 17:06 ` bsegall
2015-09-17 2:31 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-15 8:43 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-16 15:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-13 11:04 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] sched/fair: Initialize task load and utilization before placing task on rq Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-13 11:05 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-16 20:46 ` [PATCH 0/6] sched/fair: Compute capacity invariant load/utilization tracking Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-17 11:29 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-17 11:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-31 9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-02 9:51 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-07 12:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-07 13:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-07 13:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-07 14:44 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-13 11:06 ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Defer calling scaling functions tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
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