Commit-ID: bb4e30a48045c9cc16c4efe447489542750397cc
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/bb4e30a48045c9cc16c4efe447489542750397cc
Author: Claudio Scordino <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:42:42 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 14 May 2018 09:12:27 +0200
sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentation
Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522741362-4542-1-git-send-email-claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 8ce78f82ae23..b14e03ff3528 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
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