Re: [PATCH 01/10] sched/deadline: track the active utilization

[Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>]

On 08/06/17 10:43, Luca Abeni wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:31:25 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > * luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
> > > 
> > > Active utilization is defined as the total utilization of active
> > > (TASK_RUNNING) tasks queued on a runqueue. Hence, it is increased
> > > when a task wakes up and is decreased when a task blocks.
> > > 
> > > When a task is migrated from CPUi to CPUj, immediately subtract the
> > > task's utilization from CPUi and add it to CPUj. This mechanism is
> > > implemented by modifying the pull and push functions.
> > > Note: this is not fully correct from the theoretical point of view
> > > (the utilization should be removed from CPUi only at the 0 lag
> > > time), a more theoretically sound solution is presented in the
> > > next patches.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
> > > Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>  
> > 
> > So that SOB chain is not valid - either Juri needs to be the From:
> > author, or it should be an Acked-by (or Reviewed-by).
> > 
> > For now I've converted this to:
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
> > > Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>  
> 
> Sorry, my fault: I must have misunderstood how to use the Signed-off-by
> stuff.
> 
> The story here is that I took a patch originally developed by Juri and
> fixed and I heavily modified it. Since the current patch is very
> different from the original one, Juri suggested I should by the "From:"
> author, and I simply added his Signed-off-by to acknowledge that he was
> the author of the original patch.
> 
> If Juri is ok with your change, I agree with it.
> 

Yep, I'm OK with Ingo's solution.

Thanks,

- Juri