Re: [RFC PATCH v1 8/8] sched/deadline: make bandwidth enforcement scale-invariant

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:59:05AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> @@ -1156,9 +1157,26 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
>  	if (unlikely(dl_entity_is_special(dl_se)))
>  		return;
>  
> -	if (unlikely(dl_se->flags & SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM))
> -		delta_exec = grub_reclaim(delta_exec, rq, &curr->dl);
> -	dl_se->runtime -= delta_exec;
> +	/*
> +	 * For tasks that participate in GRUB, we implement GRUB-PA: the
> +	 * spare reclaimed bandwidth is used to clock down frequency.
> +	 *
> +	 * For the others, we still need to scale reservation parameters
> +	 * according to current frequency and CPU maximum capacity.
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(dl_se->flags & SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM)) {
> +		scaled_delta_exec = grub_reclaim(delta_exec,
> +						 rq,
> +						 &curr->dl);
> +	} else {
> +		unsigned long scale_freq = arch_scale_freq_capacity(cpu);
> +		unsigned long scale_cpu = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu);
> +
> +		scaled_delta_exec = cap_scale(delta_exec, scale_freq);
> +		scaled_delta_exec = cap_scale(scaled_delta_exec, scale_cpu);
> +	}
> +
> +	dl_se->runtime -= scaled_delta_exec;
>  

This I don't get...