Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:17:40 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
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        Michael Turquette <mturquette+renesas@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched/cpufreq: new cfs capacity margin helpers
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:22:07PM -0700, Michael Turquette wrote:
> +/**
> + * cpufreq_set_cfs_capacity_margin - Set global cfs enqueue capacity margin
> + * @margin: new capacity margin
> + *
> + * margin is a percentage of capacity that is applied to the current
> + * utilization when selecting a new capacity state or cpu frequency. The value
> + * should be normalized to the range of [0..SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE], where
> + * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE is 100% of the normalized capacity, or equivalent to
> + * multiplying the utilization by one.
> + *
> + * For instance, to add a 25% margin to a utilization, margin should be 1280,
> + * which is 1.25x 1024, the default for SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE.
> + */
> +void cpufreq_set_cfs_capacity_margin(unsigned long margin)
> +{
> +	cfs_capacity_margin = margin;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpufreq_set_cfs_capacity_margin);

I don't like this as an interface; what's wrong with using percentiles
as per the discussion I had with Rafael last week?

Also, why is this exported?