Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12 v1] A new CPU load metric for power-efficient scheduler: CPU ConCurrency

[Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>]

> So I should have just deleted all patches, for none of them has a
> changelog.
> 

It is my bad to not make changelogs in patches. The v2 has them, but I should
have made them since always.

> So all this cc crap only hooks into and modifies fair.c behaviour. There
> is absolutely no reason it should live anywhere else except fair.c
> 
> Secondly, the very last thing we need is more CONFIG_ goo, and you
> sprinkle #ifdef around like it was gold dust.
> 

Aggreed. I will change these.

> Thirdly, wth is wrong with the current per-task runtime accounting and
> why can't you extend/adapt that instead of duplicating the lot.
> 

Sure. As you and Vincent said, CC will take a ride of current tracking codes
instead of duplicating.

> Fourthly, I'm _never_ going to merge anything that hijacks the load
> balancer and does some random other thing. There's going to be a single
> load-balancer full stop.
> 
> Many people have expressed interest in a packing balancer (vs the
> spreading we currently default to). Some have even done patches.
> At the same time it seems very difficult to agree on _when_ packing
> makes sense. That said, when we do packing we should do it driven by the
> topology and policy, not by some compile time option.
>

I will make "Workload Consolidation" driven by topology and policy,
essentially it is already so, but sure the codes are not completely clean in
that regard.

> Lastly, if you'd done your homework and actually read some of the
> threads on the subject from say the past two years, you'd know pretty
> much all that already.
> 
> I'm not here to endlessly repeat myself and waste time staring at
> unchangelogged patches.
> 

This will not happen again.

> Anyway, there might or might not be useful ideas in there.. but its very
> hard to tell one way or another.

I think the above is mostly about "amenability" to scheduler codes.
Apparently, I am not doing it right. Will send another version to
make it less hard. Thanks for your time.

Yuyang