Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] sched/fair: Move (inactive) option from code to config

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:12:31PM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> > The option of increased load resolution (fixed point arithmetic range) is
> > unconditionally deactivated with #if 0. But since it may still be used
> > somewhere (e.g., in Google), we want to keep this option.
> > 
> > Regardless, there should be a way to express this option. Considering the
> > current circumstances, the reconciliation is we define a config
> > CONFIG_CFS_INCREASE_LOAD_RANGE and it depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED and
> > 64BIT and BROKEN.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> 
> So I'm very tempted to simply, unconditionally, reinstate this larger
> range for everything CONFIG_64BIT && CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.
> 
> There was but the single claim on increased power usage, nobody could
> reproduce / analyze and Google has been running with this for years now.
> 
> Furthermore, it seems to be leading to the obvious problems on bigger
> machines where we basically run out of precision by the sheer number of
> cpus (nr_cpus ~ SCHED_LOAD_SCALE and stuff comes apart quickly).

Agreed.

Thanks,

	Ingo