linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] sched/fair: update scale invariance of PELT

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Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:15:46 +0200
From:   Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@....com>,
        Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
        Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] sched/fair: update scale invariance of PELT

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 12:01, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 06:17:51PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > In order to achieve this time scaling, a new clock_pelt is created per rq.
>
>
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > index 3990818..d987f50 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > @@ -848,6 +848,8 @@ struct rq {
> >       unsigned int            clock_update_flags;
> >       u64                     clock;
> >       u64                     clock_task;
> > +     u64                     clock_pelt;
> > +     unsigned long           lost_idle_time;
>
> Very clever that. Seems to work out nicely. We should maybe look at

Thanks

> ensuring all these clock fields are indeed on the same cacheline.

yes good point