On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 18:03 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
How do you know the task is 'small' ?
I want to use cpufreq to be notified that we have a large/small cpu load. If we have several tasks but the cpu uses the lowest frequency, it "should" mean that we have small tasks that are running (less than 20ms*95% of added duration) and we could gather them on one cpu (by increasing the cpu_power on a dual core).
For that you would need to track a time-weighted effective load average of the task and we don't have that.
yes, that's why I use cpufreq until better option, like a time-weighted load average, is available
Egads... so basically you're (ab)using the ondemand cpufreq stats to get a guestimate of the time-weighted load of the cpu, and then (ab)use the scheduler cpufreq hook to pump its capacity numbers.
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