Re: [PATCH v6 03/16] sched/core: uclamp: Map TASK's clamp values into CPU's clamp buckets

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 21 2019 - 05:15:18 EST


On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:15:00AM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> +/*
> + * Number of utilization clamp buckets.
> + *
> + * The first clamp bucket (bucket_id=0) is used to track non clamped tasks, i.e.
> + * util_{min,max} (0,SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE). Thus we allocate one more bucket in
> + * addition to the compile time configured number.
> + */
> +#define UCLAMP_BUCKETS (CONFIG_UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT + 1)
> +
> +/*
> + * Utilization clamp bucket
> + * @value: clamp value tracked by a clamp bucket
> + * @bucket_id: the bucket index used by the fast-path
> + * @mapped: the bucket index is valid
> + *
> + * A utilization clamp bucket maps a:
> + * clamp value (value), i.e.
> + * util_{min,max} value requested from userspace
> + * to a:
> + * clamp bucket index (bucket_id), i.e.
> + * index of the per-cpu RUNNABLE tasks refcounting array
> + *
> + * The mapped bit is set whenever a task has been mapped on a clamp bucket for
> + * the first time. When this bit is set, any:
> + * uclamp_bucket_inc() - for a new clamp value
> + * is matched by a:
> + * uclamp_bucket_dec() - for the old clamp value
> + */
> +struct uclamp_se {
> + unsigned int value : bits_per(SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE);
> + unsigned int bucket_id : bits_per(UCLAMP_BUCKETS);
> + unsigned int mapped : 1;
> +};

Do we want something like:

BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct uclamp_se) == sizeof(unsigned int));

And/or put a limit on CONFIG_UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT that guarantees that ?