linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 04/11] sched: Make sched entity usage tracking scale-invariant

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Message-ID: <20150326174700.GE21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:47:00 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
Cc:	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	"nicolas.pitre@...aro.org" <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <Dietmar.Eggemann@....com>,
	Linaro Kernel Mailman List <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 04/11] sched: Make sched entity usage tracking
 scale-invariant

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 05:38:45PM +0000, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> Another potential solution is to stay with weak functions but move the
> multiplication and shift into the arch_scale_*() functions by passing
> the value we want to scale into the arch_scale_*() function. That way we
> can completely avoid multiplication and shift in the default case (no
> arch_scale*() implementations, which is better than what we have today.
> 
> The only downside is that for frequency invariance we need three
> arch_scale_freq_capacity() calls instead of two.

That would still result in unconditional function calls, which on some
archs are _more_ expensive than 64bit mults.
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