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authorVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>2023-12-01 17:16:51 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2023-12-23 15:59:56 +0100
commit7736ae5572eb344c090fbef9621a228e7e3d6276 (patch)
tree4307c5b547f6ceb902c64383442214e1ce69a4e2 /Documentation/scheduler
parent1f023007f5e782bda19ad9104830c404fd622c5d (diff)
sched/fair: Remove SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST_FASTUP, true)
sched_feat(UTIL_EST_FASTUP) has been added to easily disable the feature in order to check for possibly related regressions. After 3 years, it has never been used and no regression has been reported. Let's remove it and make fast increase a permanent behavior. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia2@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com> Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> [for the Chinese translation] Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201161652.1241695-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/schedutil.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/schedutil.rst
index 32c7d69fc86c..803fba8fc714 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/schedutil.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/schedutil.rst
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ For more detail see:
- Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst:"1. CPU Capacity + 2. Task utilization"
-UTIL_EST / UTIL_EST_FASTUP
-==========================
+UTIL_EST
+========
Because periodic tasks have their averages decayed while they sleep, even
though when running their expected utilization will be the same, they suffer a
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ though when running their expected utilization will be the same, they suffer a
To alleviate this (a default enabled option) UTIL_EST drives an Infinite
Impulse Response (IIR) EWMA with the 'running' value on dequeue -- when it is
-highest. A further default enabled option UTIL_EST_FASTUP modifies the IIR
-filter to instantly increase and only decay on decrease.
+highest. UTIL_EST filters to instantly increase and only decay on decrease.
A further runqueue wide sum (of runnable tasks) is maintained of: