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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v3 0/5] Add capacity capping support to the CPU controller
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 06:58:33PM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> >     illustrated per your above points in that it affects both, while in
> >     fact it actually modifies another metric, namely util_avg.
> 
> I don't see it modifying in any direct way util_avg.

The point is that clamps called 'capacity' are applied to util. So while
you don't modify util directly, you do modify the util signal (for one
consumer).