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Message-ID: <20151005105209.GG2903@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:52:09 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@...el.com>
Cc: mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pjt@...gle.com,
bsegall@...gle.com, morten.rasmussen@....com,
vincent.guittot@...aro.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Generalize the load/util averages
resolution definition
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:56:56AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> Metric needs certain resolution to allow detail we can look into,
> which also determines the range of the metric.
>
> For instance, increasing the resolution of [0, 1] (two levels), one
> can multiply 1024 and get [0..1024] (1025 levels).
>
> /*
> + * Integer metrics need certain resolution to allow how much detail we
> + * can look into, e.g., load, load_avg, util_avg, freq, and capacity.
> + * We define a basic resolution constant number, and then formalize
> + * all these metrics based on that basic resolution.
> + */
> +# define SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT 10
> +# define SCHED_RESOLUTION_SCALE (1L << SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT)
> +
> +/*
I find all that most confusing, maybe just refer to fixed point
arithmetic, that's a well defined and well understood concept.
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