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From: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bsegall@google.com, pjt@google.com, morten.rasmussen@arm.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
	lizefan@huawei.com, umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/fair: Rename scale_load() and scale_load_down()
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 04:30:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160428203007.GD16093@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160428091919.GW3430@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:19:19AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:12:30PM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> > Rename scale_load() and scale_load_down() to user_to_kernel_load()
> > and kernel_to_user_load() respectively, to allow the names to bear
> > what they are really about.
> 
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static void __update_inv_weight(struct load_weight *lw)
> >  	if (likely(lw->inv_weight))
> >  		return;
> >  
> > -	w = scale_load_down(lw->weight);
> > +	w = kernel_to_user_load(lw->weight);
> >  
> >  	if (BITS_PER_LONG > 32 && unlikely(w >= WMULT_CONST))
> >  		lw->inv_weight = 1;
> > @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static void __update_inv_weight(struct load_weight *lw)
> >   */
> >  static u64 __calc_delta(u64 delta_exec, unsigned long weight, struct load_weight *lw)
> >  {
> > -	u64 fact = scale_load_down(weight);
> > +	u64 fact = kernel_to_user_load(weight);
> >  	int shift = WMULT_SHIFT;
> >  
> >  	__update_inv_weight(lw);

[snip]
 
> Except these 3 really are not about user/kernel visible fixed point
> ranges _at_all_... :/

But are the above two falling back to user fixed point precision? And
the reason being that we can't efficiently do this multiply/divide
thing with increased fixed point for kernel load.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05  4:12 [PATCH v3 0/6] sched/fair: Clean up sched metric definitions Yuyang Du
2016-04-05  4:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] sched/fair: Generalize the load/util averages resolution definition Yuyang Du
2016-05-05  9:39   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Yuyang Du
2016-04-05  4:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] sched/fair: Remove SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT and SCHED_LOAD_SCALE Yuyang Du
2016-05-05  9:40   ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Rename SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT to NICE_0_LOAD_SHIFT and remove SCHED_LOAD_SCALE tip-bot for Yuyang Du
2016-04-05  4:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] sched/fair: Add introduction to the sched load avg metrics Yuyang Du
2016-05-05  9:41   ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Add detailed description " tip-bot for Yuyang Du
2016-04-05  4:12 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] sched/fair: Remove scale_load_down() for load_avg Yuyang Du
2016-04-28 10:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-28  3:01     ` Yuyang Du
2016-04-28 19:29     ` Yuyang Du
2016-04-05  4:12 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/fair: Rename scale_load() and scale_load_down() Yuyang Du
2016-04-28  9:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-28 11:18     ` Vincent Guittot
2016-04-28 20:30     ` Yuyang Du [this message]
2016-04-05  4:12 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] sched/fair: Move (inactive) option from code to config Yuyang Du
2016-04-28  9:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-28  9:45     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-28 20:34     ` Yuyang Du

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