Re: [PATCH 1/3] Added runqueue clock normalized with cpufreq

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 19:56 +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:29 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: 
> > Solving the CPUfreq problem involves writing a SCHED_DEADLINE aware
> > CPUfreq governor. The governor must know about the constraints placed on
> > the system by the task-set. You simply cannot lower the frequency when
> > your system is at u=1.
> > 
> We already did the very same thing (for another EU Project called
> FRESCOR), although it was done in an userspace sort of daemon. It was
> also able to consider other "high level" parameters like some estimation
> of the QoS of each application and of the global QoS of the system.
> 
> However, converting the basic mechanism into a CPUfreq governor should
> be easily doable... The only problem is finding the time for that! ;-P 

Ah, I think Harald will solve that for you,.. :)

> > The simple solution would be to slow down the runtime accounting of
> > SCHED_DEADLINE tasks by freq/max_freq. So instead of having:
> > 
> >   dl_se->runtime -= delta;
> > 
> > you do something like:
> > 
> >   dl_se->runtime -= (freq * delta) / max_freq;
> > 
> > Which auto-magically grows the actual bandwidth, and since the deadlines
> > are wall-time already it all works out nicely. It also keeps the
> > overhead inside SCHED_DEADLINE.
> > 
> And, at least for the meantime, this seems a very very nice solution.
> The only thing I don't like is that division which would end up in being
> performed at each tick/update_curr_dl(), but we can try to find out a
> way to mitigate this, what do you think Harald?

A simple mult and shift-right should do. You can either pre-compute for
a platform, or compute the inv multiplier in the cpufreq notifier thing.