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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 628bf13cb5a5..351c0fe64c85 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -357,12 +357,6 @@ struct util_est { * For cfs_rq, it is the aggregated load_avg of all runnable and * blocked sched_entities. * - * 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 @@ -371,17 +365,14 @@ struct util_est { * 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). + * load_avg and util_avg don't direcly factor frequency scaling and CPU + * capacity scaling. The scaling is done through the rq_clock_pelt that + * is used for computing those signals (see update_rq_clock_pelt()) * - * 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. + * N.B., the above ratios (runnable% and running%) 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] * |