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authorDietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>2015-08-14 17:23:09 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-09-13 09:52:55 +0200
commite0f5f3afd2cffa96291cd852056d83ff4e2e99c7 (patch)
tree3b03eab92908164de7e185d895ad16f440cbb542 /include/linux/sched.h
parent2a595721a1fa6b684c1c818f379bef834ac3d65e (diff)
sched/fair: Make load tracking frequency scale-invariant
Apply frequency scaling correction factor to per-entity load tracking to make it frequency invariant. Currently, load appears bigger when the CPU is running slower which affects load-balancing decisions. Each segment of the sched_avg.load_sum geometric series is now scaled by the current frequency so that the sched_avg.load_avg of each sched entity will be invariant from frequency scaling. Moreover, cfs_rq.runnable_load_sum is scaled by the current frequency as well. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Cc: mturquette@baylibre.com Cc: pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439569394-11974-2-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a4ab9daa387c..c8d923ba429d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1177,9 +1177,9 @@ struct load_weight {
/*
* The load_avg/util_avg accumulates an infinite geometric series.
- * 1) load_avg factors the amount of time that a sched_entity is
- * runnable on a rq into its weight. For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated
- * such weights of all runnable and blocked sched_entities.
+ * 1) load_avg factors frequency scaling into the amount of time that a
+ * sched_entity is runnable on a rq into its weight. For cfs_rq, it is the
+ * aggregated such weights of all runnable and blocked sched_entities.
* 2) util_avg factors frequency scaling into the amount of time
* that a sched_entity is running on a CPU, in the range [0..SCHED_LOAD_SCALE].
* For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated such times of all runnable and