Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] sched/uclamp: add SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_RESET flag to reset uclamp

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:37:56AM +0800, Yun Hsiang wrote:
> If the user wants to stop controlling uclamp and let the task inherit
> the value from the group, we need a method to reset.
> 
> Add SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_RESET flag to allow the user to reset uclamp via
> sched_setattr syscall.
> 
> The policy is
> _CLAMP_RESET                           => reset both min and max
> _CLAMP_RESET | _CLAMP_MIN              => reset min value
> _CLAMP_RESET | _CLAMP_MAX              => reset max value
> _CLAMP_RESET | _CLAMP_MIN | _CLAMP_MAX => reset both min and max
> 

The obvious alternative would be to use a magic value in
sched_util_{min,max} to indicate reset. After all, we strictly enforce
the values are inside [0,1024], which leaves us with many unused values.

Specifically -1 comes to mind. It would allow doing this without an
extra flag, OTOH the explicit flag is well, more explicit.

I don't have a strong preference either way, but I wanted to make sure
it was considered, and perhaps we can record why this isn't as nice a
solution, dunno.