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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 09/12] sched: add usage_load_avg
On 15 September 2014 21:15, Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:06:52PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> Add new statistics which reflect the average time a task is running on the
>> CPU and the sum of the tasks' running on a runqueue. The latter is named
>> usage_avg_contrib.
>>
>> This patch is based on the usage metric that was proposed in the 1st
>> versions of the per-entity load tracking patchset but that has be removed
>> afterward. This version differs from the original one in the sense that it's
>> not linked to task_group.
>>
>> The rq's usage_avg_contrib will be used to check if a rq is overloaded or not
>> instead of trying to compute how many task a group of CPUs can handle
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
>
> I should have read this patch before I did almost the same patch for as
> part a series to introduce scale-invariance which I am about to post :(
>
> The only difference I see is slightly different naming and that, AFAICT,
> task group usage is not accounted for in this patch. Can we add the
> support for task groups as well? I can provide a patch based on this one
> if you want.
>
> Also, since more than half this patch comes directly from PJT's original
> patch I would add "by Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>" somewhere in the
> text above.

Sorry, It was obvious for me that per-entity load tracking patchset
were done by pjt but i can surely replace
"the per-entity load tracking patchset" by "the per-entity load
tracking patchset by Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>"

>
> [...]
>
>> +static inline void __update_task_entity_usage(struct sched_entity *se)
>> +{
>> + u32 contrib;
>> +
>> + /* avoid overflowing a 32-bit type w/ SCHED_LOAD_SCALE */
>> + contrib = se->avg.running_avg_sum * scale_load_down(SCHED_LOAD_SCALE);
>> + contrib /= (se->avg.runnable_avg_period + 1);
>> + se->avg.usage_avg_contrib = scale_load(contrib);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static long __update_entity_usage_avg_contrib(struct sched_entity *se)
>> +{
>> + long old_contrib = se->avg.usage_avg_contrib;
>> +
>> + if (entity_is_task(se))
>> + __update_task_entity_usage(se);
>
> Groups are never updated?
>
> As said above. I have code that does it.

Yes, feel free to send a patch above this one that add group

Vincent
>
> Morten
>
>> +
>> + return se->avg.usage_avg_contrib - old_contrib;
>> +}
>> +
>


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