linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 1/2] sched: dynamically adapt granularity with nr

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Message-Id: <1284372378.14888.11.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:06:18 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 1/2] sched: dynamically adapt granularity with
 nr_running

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 11:55 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Perhaps lag should be negated if you've received a
> > reasonable chunk or something.. but what we really want is a service
> > deadline.
> 
> Hey, I've got a patch for that too :-)
> 
> Not rebased to anything current, but should be able to get frobbed onto
> the last zero-lag thingy without too much grief (I think).

A frobbing I shall go.

> +/*
> + * Entity is eligible once it received less service than it ought to have,
> + * eg. lag >= 0.
> + *
> + * lag_i = S_i - s_i = w_i*(V - w_i)
> + *
> + * lag_i >=0 -> V >= v_i
> + *
> + *     \Sum (v_i - v)*w_i
> + * V = ------------------ + v
> + *          \Sum w_i
> + *
> + * lag_i >= 0 -> \Sum (v_i - v)*w_i >= (v_i - v)*(\Sum w_i)
> + */

Ew, more of that icky stuff.

	-Mike

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