Paul Turner 9d85f21c94 sched: Track the runnable average on a per-task entity basis
Instead of tracking averaging the load parented by a cfs_rq, we can track
entity load directly. With the load for a given cfs_rq then being the sum
of its children.

To do this we represent the historical contribution to runnable average
within each trailing 1024us of execution as the coefficients of a
geometric series.

We can express this for a given task t as:

  runnable_sum(t) = \Sum u_i * y^i, runnable_avg_period(t) = \Sum 1024 * y^i
  load(t) = weight_t * runnable_sum(t) / runnable_avg_period(t)

Where: u_i is the usage in the last i`th 1024us period (approximately 1ms)
~ms and y is chosen such that y^k = 1/2.  We currently choose k to be 32 which
roughly translates to about a sched period.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.372695337@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 10:27:18 +02:00
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