From: Yuyang Du Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 04:12:28 +0000 (+0800) Subject: sched/fair: Add detailed description to the sched load avg metrics X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b5953345efe4f226bb52cbea04558d16ec7ebfa;p=linux-beck.git sched/fair: Add detailed description to the sched load avg metrics These sched metrics have become complex enough, so describe them in detail at their definition. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) [ Fixed the text to improve its spelling and typography. ] Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: lizefan@huawei.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459829551-21625-4-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 7d779d70a3a5..57faf789c88f 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1211,18 +1211,56 @@ struct load_weight { }; /* - * The load_avg/util_avg accumulates an infinite geometric series. - * 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 and cpu capacity scaling into the amount of time - * that a sched_entity is running on a CPU, in the range [0..SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE]. - * For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated such times of all runnable and + * The load_avg/util_avg accumulates an infinite geometric series + * (see __update_load_avg() in kernel/sched/fair.c). + * + * [load_avg definition] + * + * load_avg = runnable% * scale_load_down(load) + * + * where runnable% is the time ratio that a sched_entity is runnable. + * For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated load_avg of all runnable and * blocked sched_entities. - * The 64 bit load_sum can: - * 1) for cfs_rq, afford 4353082796 (=2^64/47742/88761) entities with - * the highest weight (=88761) always runnable, we should not overflow - * 2) for entity, support any load.weight always runnable + * + * load_avg may also take frequency scaling into account: + * + * load_avg = runnable% * scale_load_down(load) * freq% + * + * where freq% is the CPU frequency normalized to the highest frequency. + * + * [util_avg definition] + * + * util_avg = running% * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE + * + * where running% is the time ratio that a sched_entity is running on + * a CPU. For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated util_avg of all runnable + * and blocked sched_entities. + * + * util_avg may also factor frequency scaling and CPU capacity scaling: + * + * util_avg = running% * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE * freq% * capacity% + * + * where freq% is the same as above, and capacity% is the CPU capacity + * normalized to the greatest capacity (due to uarch differences, etc). + * + * N.B., the above ratios (runnable%, running%, freq%, and capacity%) + * themselves are in the range of [0, 1]. To do fixed point arithmetics, + * we therefore scale them to as large a range as necessary. This is for + * example reflected by util_avg's SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE. + * + * [Overflow issue] + * + * The 64-bit load_sum can have 4353082796 (=2^64/47742/88761) entities + * with the highest load (=88761), always runnable on a single cfs_rq, + * and should not overflow as the number already hits PID_MAX_LIMIT. + * + * For all other cases (including 32-bit kernels), struct load_weight's + * weight will overflow first before we do, because: + * + * Max(load_avg) <= Max(load.weight) + * + * Then it is the load_weight's responsibility to consider overflow + * issues. */ struct sched_avg { u64 last_update_time, load_sum;