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    SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND v9 00/10] sched: consolidation of CPU capacity and usage
    On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:09:20AM +0000, Vincent Guittot wrote:
    > This patchset consolidates several changes in the capacity and the usage
    > tracking of the CPU. It provides a frequency invariant metric of the usage of
    > CPUs and generally improves the accuracy of load/usage tracking in the
    > scheduler. The frequency invariant metric is the foundation required for the
    > consolidation of cpufreq and implementation of a fully invariant load tracking.
    > These are currently WIP and require several changes to the load balancer
    > (including how it will use and interprets load and capacity metrics) and
    > extensive validation. The frequency invariance is done with
    > arch_scale_freq_capacity and this patchset doesn't provide the backends of
    > the function which are architecture dependent.
    >
    > As discussed at LPC14, Morten and I have consolidated our changes into a single
    > patchset to make it easier to review and merge.

    I'm happy with patch 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7. Add my acked-by if you like :)

    The last few needs buy-in from somebody running SMT systems I think.

    Also, it still not clear why patch 10 uses relative capacity reduction
    instead of absolute capacity available to CFS tasks.

    Morten


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