linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3 0/5] Add capacity capping support to the CPU controller

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Message-ID: <20170412132450.GJ29455@e110439-lin>
Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:24:50 +0100
From:   Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>,
        Tim Murray <timmurray@...gle.com>,
        Andres Oportus <andresoportus@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
        Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 0/5] Add capacity capping support to the CPU controller

On 12-Apr 14:22, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 06:58:33PM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't get instead what are the "confusing nesting properties"
> > you are referring to?
> 
> If a parent group sets min=.2 and max=.8, what are the constraints on
> its child groups for setting their resp min and max?

Currently the logic I'm proposing enforces this:

a) capacity_max can only be reduced
   because we accept that a child can be further constrained
   for example:
   - a resource manager allocates a max capacity to an application
   - the application itself knows that some of its child are background
     tasks and they can be further constrained

b) capacity_min can only be increased
   because we want to inhibit child affecting overall performance
   for example:
   - a resource manager allocates a minimum capacity to an application
   - the application itself cannot slow-down some of its child
     without risking to affect other (unknown) external entities

> I can't immediately gives rules that would make sense.

The second rule is more tricky, but I see it matching better an
overall decomposition schema where a single resource manager is
allocating a capacity_min to two different entities (A and B) which
are independent but (it only knows) are also cooperating.

Let's think about the Android run-time which allocate resources to a
system service (entity A) which it knows it has to interact with
a certain app (entity B).

The cooperation dependency can be resolved only by the resource
manager, by assigning capacity_min at entity level CGroups.
Thus, entities subgroups should not be allowed to further reduce
this constraint without risking to impact an (unknown for them)
external entity.

> For instance, allowing a child to lower min would violate the parent
> constraint,

Quite likely don't want this.

> while allowing a child to increase min would grant the child
> more resources than the parent.

But still within the capacity_max enforced by the parent.

We should always consider the pair (min,max), once a parent defined
this range to me it's seem ok that child can freely play within that
range.

Why should not be allowed a child group to set:

   capacity_min_child = capacity_max_parent

?

> Neither seem like a good thing.

-- 
#include <best/regards.h>

Patrick Bellasi