Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] sched/deadline: Fix bandwidth reclaim equation in GRUB

[Vineeth Remanan Pillai]

Hi Dietmar,

Sorry for my late response..

> > + * Since rq->dl.bw_ratio contains 1 / Umax multiplied by 2^RATIO_SHIFT, dl_bw
> > + * is multiped by rq->dl.bw_ratio and shifted right by RATIO_SHIFT.
>
> nit-pick:
>
> s/multiped/multiplied
>
Sorry I missed this. I am working on couple more GRUB fixes and will fix
this along with those changes.

> Not related to this patch directly but I still can't see how `GRUB-PA`
> with schedutil CPUfreq governor should work together with GRUB reclaiming.
>
> CPU frequency is influenced by Uact (rq->dl.running_bw):
>
> sugov_get_util() -> effective_cpu_util() -> cpu_bw_dl() ->
>
>       return rq->dl.running_bw * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE) >> BW_SHIFT
>
> But the extra GRUB reclaim runtime is calculated based on rq->dl.max_bw
> and AFAICS, Uact is not adjusted by scaled_delta_exec?
>
I haven't had a chance to look at GRUB-PA till now and after reading
your mail, I had a quick read of GRUB-PA paper[1] :-). From what I
understood, the dea of GRUB-PA is not to reclaim to the maximum
allowable bandwidth, but to scale down the frequency to the required
utilization(running_bw). This way the tasks run longer(similar to
reclaiming) but using less power.

GRUB reclaim is calculated indirectly based on running_bw as well as
"Uinact = this_bw - running_bw". We factor in reserved and running bw
into the equation and then scale it down to max_bw. So if my
understanding is correct, GRUB-PA doesn't technically reclaim extra
processing capacity, but just allows the task to run longer at lower
frequency so as to save power. I might be wrong and not an expert
here. Luca, please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
Vineeth

[1] C. Scordino, G. Lipari, A Resource Reservation Algorithm for Power-Aware
    Scheduling of Periodic and Aperiodic Real-Time Tasks, IEEE Transactions
    on Computers, December 2006.