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From: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
	Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 12/16] sched/core: uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 13:24:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190603122422.GA19426@darkstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190531153545.GE374014@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com>

On 31-May 08:35, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Patrick.

Hi Tejun!

> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> > Extend the CPU controller with a couple of new attributes util.{min,max}
> > which allows to enforce utilization boosting and capping for all the
> > tasks in a group. Specifically:
> > 
> > - util.min: defines the minimum utilization which should be considered
> > 	    i.e. the RUNNABLE tasks of this group will run at least at a
> > 		 minimum frequency which corresponds to the util.min
> > 		 utilization
> > 
> > - util.max: defines the maximum utilization which should be considered
> > 	    i.e. the RUNNABLE tasks of this group will run up to a
> > 		 maximum frequency which corresponds to the util.max
> > 		 utilization
> 
> Let's please use a prefix which is more specific.  It's clamping the
> utilization estimates of the member tasks which in turn affect
> scheduling / frequency decisions but cpu.util.max reads like it's
> gonna limit the cpu utilization directly.  Maybe just use uclamp?

Being too specific does not risk to expose implementation details?

If that's not a problem and Peter likes:

   cpu.uclamp.{min,max}

that's ok with me.

-- 
#include <best/regards.h>

Patrick Bellasi

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-03 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15  9:44 [PATCH v9 00/16] Add utilization clamping support Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 01/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 02/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add bucket local max tracking Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 03/16] sched/core: uclamp: Enforce last task's UCLAMP_MAX Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 04/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add system default clamps Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 05/16] sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 06/16] sched/core: uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 07/16] sched/core: uclamp: Reset uclamp values on RESET_ON_FORK Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 08/16] sched/core: uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 09/16] sched/cpufreq: uclamp: Add clamps for FAIR and " Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 10/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add uclamp_util_with() Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 11/16] sched/fair: uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute() Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 12/16] sched/core: uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-31 15:35   ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-03 12:24     ` Patrick Bellasi [this message]
2019-06-03 12:27     ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-05 14:03       ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-05 14:39         ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-05 14:44           ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-05 15:37             ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-05 15:39               ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-03 12:29     ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-05 14:09       ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-05 15:06         ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-05 15:27           ` Tejun Heo
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 13/16] sched/core: uclamp: Propagate parent clamps Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 14/16] sched/core: uclamp: Propagate system defaults to root group Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 15/16] sched/core: uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-15  9:44 ` [PATCH v9 16/16] sched/core: uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes Patrick Bellasi
2019-05-30 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 00/16] Add utilization clamping support Patrick Bellasi

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