Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] Optimize sched avgs computation and implement flat util hierarchy

[Yuyang Du]

Hi Peter and others,

Could you give this patchset a look?

Thanks,
Yuyang

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 08:23:52AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 08:14:45AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > I should have sent out my flat util hierarchy implementation long time ago,
> > actually code was there but not rebased. I finally have time to do this,
> > so here it is. There are also other proposals to solve migrated tasks' util
> > mobility problem, such as the ones from Dietmar and Vincent.
> > 
> > The sched avgs computation optimization was initiated for the flat util thing,
> > so I send them out together.
> > 
> > According to Morten and Ben's feedback, I removed 32-bit as a period's upper
> > bound limit. So, thanks a lot to them.
> > 
> 
> To compare the effectiveness of the flat util hierarchy, a simple experiment
> was done: rt-app to generate a 50% duty-cycling workload (100us/200us), and
> in the meantime a script to set the CPU affinity of the task, alternating
> to taskset the task to run on CPU x and CPU y every 0.3 sec, so forcing the
> task to ping-pong migrate. By auto-group and ssh itself, the task under test
> is at the third level task group.
> 
> So compare the top cfs_rq's util_avg (group_hierarchy.jpg) vs. the rq's util_avg
> (flat_hierarchy.jpg)
> 
> Thanks,
> Yuyang