Hi, sorry for returning on this discussion, but there is something I still do not understand: On Tue, 16 May 2023 11:08:18 -0400 Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > I had tested this and it was reclaiming much less compared to the > first one. I had 3 tasks with reservation (3,100) and 3 cpus. So, just to confirm: here you have only 3 SCHED_DEADLINE tasks, scheduled on a root domain containing only 3 CPUs (dl_bw_cpus() return 3)... Right? So, the utilization of each task is 3/100 = 0.03 and Uextra is 1 - (0.03 * 3) / 3 = 0.97. And since all the tasks are always active, Uinact = 0... Is this understanding right? If so: > With dq = -(max{u_i, (Umax - Uinact - Uextra)} / Umax) * dt (1) > TID[636]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 95.08 > TID[635]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 95.07 > TID[637]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 95.06 > > With dq = -(max{u_i, (1 - Uinact - Uextra)} / Umax) * dt (2) > TID[601]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 35.65 > TID[600]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 35.65 > TID[602]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 35.65 Here, we should have dq = -(max{0.03, (1 - 0 - 0.97)} / Umax) * dt = -(0.03 / Umax) * dt which reclaims up to Umax... So, the utilization should be 95% Since you measured 35.65%, it means that (1-Uextra) is much larger than 0.97... So, maybe you found some bug in the Uextra computation? Can you try printing the extra_bw value, to check what happened? Thanks, Luca > > As the task bandwidth goes higher, equation (2) reclaims more, but > equation (2) is a constant of 95% as long as number of tasks less > than cpus. If the number of tasks is more than cpus, eq (2) fares > better in reclaiming than eq (1) > > eq (1) with 5 tasks (3,100) > TID[627]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 28.64 > TID[626]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 28.64 > TID[629]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 28.62 > TID[628]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 29.00 > TID[630]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 28.99 > > Here top shows 3 cpus in the range ~45 to 50% util > > eq (2) with 5 tasks (3,100) > TID[667]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 57.20 > TID[670]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 57.79 > TID[668]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 57.11 > TID[666]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 56.34 > TID[669]: RECLAIM=1, (r=3ms, d=100ms, p=100ms), Util: 55.82 > > And here top shows all 3 cpus with 95% util > > > I'll write more about this later... And thanks for coping with all > > my comments! > > > Thanks :-) > > Vineeth