linux-kernel - Re: [patch v5 06/15] sched: log the cpu utilization at rq

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Message-ID: <512ACBD9.7050800@intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:26:33 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
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	viresh.kumar@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	morten.rasmussen@....com
Subject: Re: [patch v5 06/15] sched: log the cpu utilization at rq

On 02/20/2013 11:22 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 22:33 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>>> You don't actually compute the rq utilization, you only compute the
>>> utilization as per the fair class, so if there's significant RT
>> activity
>>> it'll think the cpu is under-utilized, whihc I think will result in
>> the
>>> wrong thing.
>>
>> yes. A bit complicit to resolve this. Any suggestions on this, guys?
> 
> Shouldn't be too hard seeing as we already track cpu utilization for !
> fair usage; see rq::rt_avg and scale_rt_power.
> 

added them in periodic balancing, thanks!

-- 
Thanks Alex
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