On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
> Instead of tracking averaging the load parented by a cfs_rq, we can track
> entity load directly.  With the load for a given cfs_Rq then being the sum of
> its children.
> 
> To do this we represent the historical contribution to runnable average within each
> trailing 1024us of execution as the coefficients of a geometric series.
> 
> We can express this for a given task t as:
>   runnable_sum(t) = \Sum u_i * y^i ,
>   load(t) = weight_t * runnable_sum(t) / (\Sum 1024 * y^i)
> 
> Where: u_i is the usage in the last i`th 1024us period (approximately 1ms) ~ms
> and y is chosen such that y^k = 1/2.  We currently choose k to be 32 which
> roughly translates to about a sched period.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/sched.h |    8 +++
>  kernel/sched/debug.c  |    4 ++
>  kernel/sched/fair.c   |  128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 9dced2e..5bf5c79 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1136,6 +1136,11 @@ struct load_weight {
>         unsigned long weight, inv_weight;
>  };
> 
> +struct sched_avg {
> +       u32 runnable_avg_sum, runnable_avg_period;
> +       u64 last_runnable_update;
> +}; 


So we can use u32 because:

             n         1 
lim n->inf \Sum y^i = --- = ~ 46.66804636511427012122 ; y^32 = 0.5
             i=0      1-y

So the values should never be larger than ~47k, right?

/me goes add something like that in a comment.