tree 21c6ba96cdbce6b8f6a2649e5415572c2b2892fe
parent a8faa8f55d48496f64d96df48298e54fd380f6af
author Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> 1425455186 +0100
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1427445360 +0100

sched: Make sched entity usage tracking scale-invariant

Apply frequency scale-invariance correction factor to usage tracking.

Each segment of the running_avg_sum geometric series is now scaled by the
current frequency so the utilization_avg_contrib of each entity will be
invariant with frequency scaling.

As a result, utilization_load_avg which is the sum of utilization_avg_contrib,
becomes invariant too. So the usage level that is returned by get_cpu_usage(),
stays relative to the max frequency as the cpu_capacity which is is compared against.

Then, we want the keep the load tracking values in a 32-bit type, which implies
that the max value of {runnable|running}_avg_sum must be lower than
2^32/88761=48388 (88761 is the max weigth of a task). As LOAD_AVG_MAX = 47742,
arch_scale_freq_capacity() must return a value less than
(48388/47742) << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT = 1037 (SCHED_SCALE_CAPACITY = 1024).
So we define the range to [0..SCHED_SCALE_CAPACITY] in order to avoid overflow.

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425455186-13451-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>