linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] sched/deadline: Create DL BW alloc, free & check overflow interface

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Date:   Wed, 3 May 2023 13:45:24 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Qais Yousef <qyousef@...alina.io>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it,
        claudio@...dence.eu.com, tommaso.cucinotta@...tannapisa.it,
        bristot@...hat.com, mathieu.poirier@...aro.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>, Rick Yiu <rickyiu@...gle.com>,
        Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] sched/deadline: Create DL BW alloc, free & check
 overflow interface

On 5/3/23 03:22, Juri Lelli wrote:
> From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
>
> Rework the existing dl_cpu_busy() interface which offers DL BW overflow
> checking and per-task DL BW allocation.
>
> Add dl_bw_free() as an interface to be able to free DL BW.
> It will be used to allow freeing of the DL BW request done during
> cpuset_can_attach() in case multiple controllers are attached to the
> cgroup next to the cpuset controller and one of the non-cpuset
> can_attach() fails.
>
> dl_bw_alloc() (and dl_bw_free()) now take a `u64 dl_bw` parameter
> instead of `struct task_struct *p` used in dl_cpu_busy().  This allows
> to allocate DL BW for a set of tasks too rater than only for a single

Typo: "rater" => "rather".

Cheers,
Longman