Re: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler

[Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com>]

Peter Williams wrote:
> Albert Cahalan wrote:
<snip>
>> Nothing can rely on it existing at all, so a name change would
>> solve the problem of apps getting confused.
>>
>> BTW, permill is not per-million, it is per-thousand.
>> Per-million or per-billion would be fine as long as
>> it doesn't overflow.
> 
> 
> OK.  Since SleepAVG does not seem to be entrenched in people's 
> expectations and because of the fact that the value calculated from our 
> usage rates are not really valid (see above), I propose that we change 
> this field's name to CPUrate and report the CPU usage rate directly in 
> permill (unless there are violent objections).

I've analysed the arithmetic and think that we can safely go to 6 
decimal places so I'll make this Per-million.  The change should appear 
in the patches to the 2.6.4 kernel when it is available.

Peter
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