Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt
index 8ce78f8..b14e03f 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ CONTENTS
2.1 Main algorithm
------------------
- SCHED_DEADLINE uses three parameters, named "runtime", "period", and
+ SCHED_DEADLINE [18] uses three parameters, named "runtime", "period", and
"deadline", to schedule tasks. A SCHED_DEADLINE task should receive
"runtime" microseconds of execution time every "period" microseconds, and
these "runtime" microseconds are available within "deadline" microseconds
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ CONTENTS
scheduling deadline = scheduling deadline + period
remaining runtime = remaining runtime + runtime
+ The SCHED_FLAG_DL_OVERRUN flag in sched_attr's sched_flags field allows a task
+ to get informed about runtime overruns through the delivery of SIGXCPU
+ signals.
+
2.2 Bandwidth reclaiming
------------------------
@@ -279,6 +283,19 @@ CONTENTS
running_bw is incremented.
+2.3 Energy-aware scheduling
+------------------------
+
+ When cpufreq's schedutil governor is selected, SCHED_DEADLINE implements the
+ GRUB-PA [19] algorithm, reducing the CPU operating frequency to the minimum
+ value that still allows to meet the deadlines. This behavior is currently
+ implemented only for ARM architectures.
+
+ A particular care must be taken in case the time needed for changing frequency
+ is of the same order of magnitude of the reservation period. In such cases,
+ setting a fixed CPU frequency results in a lower amount of deadline misses.
+
+
3. Scheduling Real-Time Tasks
=============================
@@ -505,6 +522,12 @@ CONTENTS
17 - L. Abeni, G. Lipari, A. Parri, Y. Sun, Multicore CPU reclaiming: parallel
or sequential?. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied
Computing, 2016.
+ 18 - J. Lelli, C. Scordino, L. Abeni, D. Faggioli, Deadline scheduling in the
+ Linux kernel, Software: Practice and Experience, 46(6): 821-839, June
+ 2016.
+ 19 - C. Scordino, L. Abeni, J. Lelli, Energy-Aware Real-Time Scheduling in
+ the Linux Kernel, 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC
+ 2018), Pau, France, April 2018.
4. Bandwidth management
--
2.7.4
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