sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentation

Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522741362-4542-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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2.1 Main algorithm
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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
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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
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running_bw is incremented.
2.3 Energy-aware scheduling
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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
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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