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Documentation/scheduler/sched-deadline.txt: Rewrite section 4 intro

Section 4 intro was still describing the old interface. Rewrite
it.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410256636-26171-3-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -165,39 +165,38 @@ CONTENTS
 
 
  In order for the -deadline scheduling to be effective and useful, it is
  In order for the -deadline scheduling to be effective and useful, it is
  important to have some method to keep the allocation of the available CPU
  important to have some method to keep the allocation of the available CPU
- bandwidth to the tasks under control.
- This is usually called "admission control" and if it is not performed at all,
- no guarantee can be given on the actual scheduling of the -deadline tasks.
-
- Since when RT-throttling has been introduced each task group has a bandwidth
- associated, calculated as a certain amount of runtime over a period.
- Moreover, to make it possible to manipulate such bandwidth, readable/writable
- controls have been added to both procfs (for system wide settings) and cgroupfs
- (for per-group settings).
- Therefore, the same interface is being used for controlling the bandwidth
- distrubution to -deadline tasks.
-
- However, more discussion is needed in order to figure out how we want to manage
- SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth at the task group level. Therefore, SCHED_DEADLINE
- uses (for now) a less sophisticated, but actually very sensible, mechanism to
- ensure that a certain utilization cap is not overcome per each root_domain.
-
- Another main difference between deadline bandwidth management and RT-throttling
+ bandwidth to the tasks under control. This is usually called "admission
+ control" and if it is not performed at all, no guarantee can be given on
+ the actual scheduling of the -deadline tasks.
+
+ The interface used to control the fraction of CPU bandwidth that can be
+ allocated to -deadline tasks is similar to the one already used for -rt
+ tasks with real-time group scheduling (a.k.a. RT-throttling - see
+ Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt), and is based on readable/
+ writable control files located in procfs (for system wide settings).
+ Notice that per-group settings (controlled through cgroupfs) are still not
+ defined for -deadline tasks, because more discussion is needed in order to
+ figure out how we want to manage SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth at the task group
+ level.
+
+ A main difference between deadline bandwidth management and RT-throttling
  is that -deadline tasks have bandwidth on their own (while -rt ones don't!),
  is that -deadline tasks have bandwidth on their own (while -rt ones don't!),
- and thus we don't need an higher level throttling mechanism to enforce the
- desired bandwidth.
+ and thus we don't need a higher level throttling mechanism to enforce the
+ desired bandwidth. Therefore, using this simple interface we can put a cap
+ on total utilization of -deadline tasks (i.e., \Sum (runtime_i / period_i) <
+ global_dl_utilization_cap).
 
 
 4.1 System wide settings
 4.1 System wide settings
 ------------------------
 ------------------------
 
 
  The system wide settings are configured under the /proc virtual file system.
  The system wide settings are configured under the /proc virtual file system.
 
 
- For now the -rt knobs are used for dl admission control and the -deadline
- runtime is accounted against the -rt runtime. We realise that this isn't
- entirely desirable; however, it is better to have a small interface for now,
- and be able to change it easily later. The ideal situation (see 5.) is to run
- -rt tasks from a -deadline server; in which case the -rt bandwidth is a direct
- subset of dl_bw.
+ For now the -rt knobs are used for -deadline admission control and the
+ -deadline runtime is accounted against the -rt runtime. We realise that this
+ isn't entirely desirable; however, it is better to have a small interface for
+ now, and be able to change it easily later. The ideal situation (see 5.) is to
+ run -rt tasks from a -deadline server; in which case the -rt bandwidth is a
+ direct subset of dl_bw.
 
 
  This means that, for a root_domain comprising M CPUs, -deadline tasks
  This means that, for a root_domain comprising M CPUs, -deadline tasks
  can be created while the sum of their bandwidths stays below:
  can be created while the sum of their bandwidths stays below: