On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:06:24AM -0700, bseg...@google.com wrote: > > The point really is, metrics (if not many ) need resolution, not just > > NICE_0_LOAD does. > > You can choose to either hardcode a number, like SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT now, > > or you can use SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT, which is even as simple as a sign to > > say what > > the defined is (the scaled one with a better resolution vs. the original > > one). > > I guess this is to say we now have a (no-big-deal) resolution system. > > Yes they were chosen for similar reasons, but they are not conceptually > related, and you couldn't decide to just bump up all the resolutions by > changing SCHED_RESOLUTION_SHIFT, so doing this would just be misleading.
Yes, it appears they are made seemingly conceptually related. But probably it isn't worth a concern, if one knows it is just a scaled integer metric. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
