Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: cpufreq: use rt_avg as estimate of required RT CPU capacity

Steve Muckle
2016-09-01T21:48:59Z

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 06:00:02PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Another problem is that we have many semi related knobs; we have the
> > global RT runtime limit knob, but that doesn't affect cpufreq (maybe it
> > should)
>
> Maybe we could create this sort of link when using the cgroup RT
> throttling interface as well? It should still then fit well once we
> replace the underlying mechanism with DL reservations. And, AFAIK, the
> interface is used by Android folks already.

I'm not sure how the upper bounds can be used to infer CPU frequency...
On my Nexus 6p (an Android device), the global RT runtime limit
seems to be set at 950ms/1sec, the root cgroup is set to 800ms/1sec, and
bg_non_interactive is set at 700ms/1sec.