Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] sched: replace capacity_factor by usage

Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-03T15:38:38Z

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:

> This implementation of utilization_avg_contrib doesn't solve the scaling
> in-variance problem, so i have to scale the utilization with original
> capacity of the CPU in order to get the CPU usage and compare it with the
> capacity. Once the scaling invariance will have been added in
> utilization_avg_contrib, we will remove the scale of utilization_avg_contrib
> by cpu_capacity_orig in get_cpu_usage. But the scaling invariance will come
> in another patchset.

I would have expected this in the previous patch that introduced that
lot. Including a few words on how/why the cpu_capacity is a 'good'
approximation etc..

> Finally, the sched_group->sched_group_capacity->capacity_orig has been removed
> because it's more used during load balance.

That sentence is a contradiction, I expect there's a negative gone
missing someplace.