The time spent executing IRQ handlers can be significant but it is not reflected
in the utilization of CPU when deciding to choose an OPP. Now that we have
access to this metric, schedutil can take it into account when selecting
the OPP for a CPU.
RQS utilization don't see the time spend under interrupt context and report
their value in the normal context time window. We need to compensate this when
adding interrupt utilization
The CPU utilization is:
IRQ util_avg + (1 - IRQ util_avg / max capacity ) * /Sum rq util_avg
A test with iperf on hikey (octo arm64) gives the following speedup:
iperf -c server_address -r -t 5
w/o patch w/ patch
Tx 276 Mbits/sec 304 Mbits/sec +10%
Rx 299 Mbits/sec 328 Mbits/sec +9%
8 iterations
stdev is lower than 1%
Only WFI idle state is enabled (shallowest idle state).
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: luca.abeni@santannapisa.it
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: quentin.perret@arm.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530200714-4504-8-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add both CFS and RT utilization when selecting an OPP for CFS tasks as RT
can preempt and steal CFS's running time.
RT util_avg is used to take into account the utilization of RT tasks
on the CPU when selecting OPP. If a RT task migrate, the RT utilization
will not migrate but will decay over time. On an overloaded CPU, CFS
utilization reflects the remaining utilization avialable on CPU. When RT
task migrates, the CFS utilization will increase when tasks will start to
use the newly available capacity. At the same pace, RT utilization will
decay and both variations will compensate each other to keep unchanged
overall utilization and will prevent any OPP drop.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: luca.abeni@santannapisa.it
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: quentin.perret@arm.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530200714-4504-4-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
With commit:
8f111bc357 ("cpufreq/schedutil: Rewrite CPUFREQ_RT support")
the schedutil governor uses rq->rt.rt_nr_running to detect whether an
RT task is currently running on the CPU and to set frequency to max
if necessary.
cpufreq_update_util() is called in enqueue/dequeue_top_rt_rq() but
rq->rt.rt_nr_running has not been updated yet when dequeue_top_rt_rq() is
called so schedutil still considers that an RT task is running when the
last task is dequeued. The update of rq->rt.rt_nr_running happens later
in dequeue_rt_stack().
In fact, we can take advantage of the sequence that the dequeue then
re-enqueue rt entities when a rt task is enqueued or dequeued;
As a result enqueue_top_rt_rq() is always called when a task is
enqueued or dequeued and also when groups are throttled or unthrottled.
The only place that not use enqueue_top_rt_rq() is when root rt_rq is
throttled.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Fixes: 8f111bc357 ('cpufreq/schedutil: Rewrite CPUFREQ_RT support')
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530021202-21695-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
These include a significant update of the generic power domains (genpd)
and Operating Performance Points (OPP) frameworks, mostly related to
the introduction of power domain performance levels, cpufreq updates
(new driver for Qualcomm Kryo processors, updates of the existing
drivers, some core fixes, schedutil governor improvements), PCI power
management fixes, ACPI workaround for EC-based wakeup events handling
on resume from suspend-to-idle, and major updates of the turbostat
and pm-graph utilities.
Specifics:
- Introduce power domain performance levels into the the generic
power domains (genpd) and Operating Performance Points (OPP)
frameworks (Viresh Kumar, Rajendra Nayak, Dan Carpenter).
- Fix two issues in the runtime PM framework related to the
initialization and removal of devices using device links (Ulf
Hansson).
- Clean up the initialization of drivers for devices in PM domains
(Ulf Hansson, Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Fix a cpufreq core issue related to the policy sysfs interface
causing CPU online to fail for CPUs sharing one cpufreq policy in
some situations (Tao Wang).
- Make it possible to use platform-specific suspend/resume hooks
in the cpufreq-dt driver and make the Armada 37xx DVFS use that
feature (Viresh Kumar, Miquel Raynal).
- Optimize policy transition notifications in cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).
- Improve the iowait boost mechanism in the schedutil cpufreq
governor (Patrick Bellasi).
- Improve the handling of deferred frequency updates in the
schedutil cpufreq governor (Joel Fernandes, Dietmar Eggemann,
Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar).
- Add a new cpufreq driver for Qualcomm Kryo (Ilia Lin).
- Fix and clean up some cpufreq drivers (Colin Ian King, Dmitry
Osipenko, Doug Smythies, Luc Van Oostenryck, Simon Horman,
Viresh Kumar).
- Fix the handling of PCI devices with the DPM_SMART_SUSPEND flag
set and update stale comments in the PCI core PM code (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Work around an issue related to the handling of EC-based wakeup
events in the ACPI PM core during resume from suspend-to-idle if
the EC has been put into the low-power mode (Rafael Wysocki).
- Improve the handling of wakeup source objects in the PM core (Doug
Berger, Mahendran Ganesh, Rafael Wysocki).
- Update the driver core to prevent deferred probe from breaking
suspend/resume ordering (Feng Kan).
- Clean up the PM core somewhat (Bjorn Helgaas, Ulf Hansson, Rafael
Wysocki).
- Make the core suspend/resume code and cpufreq support the RT patch
(Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Thomas Gleixner).
- Consolidate the PM QoS handling in cpuidle governors (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Fix a possible crash in the hibernation core (Tetsuo Handa).
- Update the rockchip-io Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) driver
(David Wu).
- Update the turbostat utility (fixes, cleanups, new CPU IDs, new
command line options, built-in "Low Power Idle" counters support,
new POLL and POLL% columns) and add an entry for it to MAINTAINERS
(Len Brown, Artem Bityutskiy, Chen Yu, Laura Abbott, Matt Turner,
Prarit Bhargava, Srinivas Pandruvada).
- Update the pm-graph to version 5.1 (Todd Brandt).
- Update the intel_pstate_tracer utility (Doug Smythies).
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Merge tag 'pm-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These include a significant update of the generic power domains
(genpd) and Operating Performance Points (OPP) frameworks, mostly
related to the introduction of power domain performance levels,
cpufreq updates (new driver for Qualcomm Kryo processors, updates of
the existing drivers, some core fixes, schedutil governor
improvements), PCI power management fixes, ACPI workaround for
EC-based wakeup events handling on resume from suspend-to-idle, and
major updates of the turbostat and pm-graph utilities.
Specifics:
- Introduce power domain performance levels into the the generic
power domains (genpd) and Operating Performance Points (OPP)
frameworks (Viresh Kumar, Rajendra Nayak, Dan Carpenter).
- Fix two issues in the runtime PM framework related to the
initialization and removal of devices using device links (Ulf
Hansson).
- Clean up the initialization of drivers for devices in PM domains
(Ulf Hansson, Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Fix a cpufreq core issue related to the policy sysfs interface
causing CPU online to fail for CPUs sharing one cpufreq policy in
some situations (Tao Wang).
- Make it possible to use platform-specific suspend/resume hooks in
the cpufreq-dt driver and make the Armada 37xx DVFS use that
feature (Viresh Kumar, Miquel Raynal).
- Optimize policy transition notifications in cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).
- Improve the iowait boost mechanism in the schedutil cpufreq
governor (Patrick Bellasi).
- Improve the handling of deferred frequency updates in the schedutil
cpufreq governor (Joel Fernandes, Dietmar Eggemann, Rafael Wysocki,
Viresh Kumar).
- Add a new cpufreq driver for Qualcomm Kryo (Ilia Lin).
- Fix and clean up some cpufreq drivers (Colin Ian King, Dmitry
Osipenko, Doug Smythies, Luc Van Oostenryck, Simon Horman, Viresh
Kumar).
- Fix the handling of PCI devices with the DPM_SMART_SUSPEND flag set
and update stale comments in the PCI core PM code (Rafael Wysocki).
- Work around an issue related to the handling of EC-based wakeup
events in the ACPI PM core during resume from suspend-to-idle if
the EC has been put into the low-power mode (Rafael Wysocki).
- Improve the handling of wakeup source objects in the PM core (Doug
Berger, Mahendran Ganesh, Rafael Wysocki).
- Update the driver core to prevent deferred probe from breaking
suspend/resume ordering (Feng Kan).
- Clean up the PM core somewhat (Bjorn Helgaas, Ulf Hansson, Rafael
Wysocki).
- Make the core suspend/resume code and cpufreq support the RT patch
(Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Thomas Gleixner).
- Consolidate the PM QoS handling in cpuidle governors (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Fix a possible crash in the hibernation core (Tetsuo Handa).
- Update the rockchip-io Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) driver (David
Wu).
- Update the turbostat utility (fixes, cleanups, new CPU IDs, new
command line options, built-in "Low Power Idle" counters support,
new POLL and POLL% columns) and add an entry for it to MAINTAINERS
(Len Brown, Artem Bityutskiy, Chen Yu, Laura Abbott, Matt Turner,
Prarit Bhargava, Srinivas Pandruvada).
- Update the pm-graph to version 5.1 (Todd Brandt).
- Update the intel_pstate_tracer utility (Doug Smythies)"
* tag 'pm-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (128 commits)
tools/power turbostat: update version number
tools/power turbostat: Add Node in output
tools/power turbostat: add node information into turbostat calculations
tools/power turbostat: remove num_ from cpu_topology struct
tools/power turbostat: rename num_cores_per_pkg to num_cores_per_node
tools/power turbostat: track thread ID in cpu_topology
tools/power turbostat: Calculate additional node information for a package
tools/power turbostat: Fix node and siblings lookup data
tools/power turbostat: set max_num_cpus equal to the cpumask length
tools/power turbostat: if --num_iterations, print for specific number of iterations
tools/power turbostat: Add Cannon Lake support
tools/power turbostat: delete duplicate #defines
x86: msr-index.h: Correct SNB_C1/C3_AUTO_UNDEMOTE defines
tools/power turbostat: Correct SNB_C1/C3_AUTO_UNDEMOTE defines
tools/power turbostat: add POLL and POLL% column
tools/power turbostat: Fix --hide Pk%pc10
tools/power turbostat: Build-in "Low Power Idle" counters support
tools/power turbostat: Don't make man pages executable
tools/power turbostat: remove blank lines
tools/power turbostat: a small C-states dump readability immprovement
...
Since the refactoring introduced by:
commit 8f111bc357 ("cpufreq/schedutil: Rewrite CPUFREQ_RT support")
we aggregate FAIR utilization only if this class has runnable tasks.
This was mainly due to avoid the risk to stay on an high frequency just
because of the blocked utilization of a CPU not being properly decayed
while the CPU was idle.
However, since:
commit 31e77c93e4 ("sched/fair: Update blocked load when newly idle")
the FAIR blocked utilization is properly decayed also for IDLE CPUs.
This allows us to use the FAIR blocked utilization as a safe mechanism
to gracefully reduce the frequency only if no FAIR tasks show up on a
CPU for a reasonable period of time.
Moreover, we also reduce the frequency drops of CPUs running periodic
tasks which, depending on the task periodicity and the time required
for a frequency switch, was increasing the chances to introduce some
undesirable performance variations.
Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524141023.13765-2-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit 152db033d7 (schedutil: Allow cpufreq requests to be made
even when kthread kicked) made changes to prevent utilization updates
from being discarded during processing a previous request, but it
left a small window in which that still can happen in the one-CPU
policy case. Namely, updates coming in after setting work_in_progress
in sugov_update_commit() and clearing it in sugov_work() will still
be dropped due to the work_in_progress check in sugov_update_single().
To close that window, rearrange the code so as to acquire the update
lock around the deferred update branch in sugov_update_single()
and drop the work_in_progress check from it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Currently there is a chance of a schedutil cpufreq update request to be
dropped if there is a pending update request. This pending request can
be delayed if there is a scheduling delay of the irq_work and the wake
up of the schedutil governor kthread.
A very bad scenario is when a schedutil request was already just made,
such as to reduce the CPU frequency, then a newer request to increase
CPU frequency (even sched deadline urgent frequency increase requests)
can be dropped, even though the rate limits suggest that its Ok to
process a request. This is because of the way the work_in_progress flag
is used.
This patch improves the situation by allowing new requests to happen
even though the old one is still being processed. Note that in this
approach, if an irq_work was already issued, we just update next_freq
and don't bother to queue another request so there's no extra work being
done to make this happen.
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This routine checks if the CPU running this code belongs to the policy
of the target CPU or if not, can it do remote DVFS for it remotely. But
the current name of it implies as if it is only about doing remote
updates.
Rename it to make it more relevant.
Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The iowait boosting code has been recently updated to add a progressive
boosting behavior which allows to be less aggressive in boosting tasks
doing only sporadic IO operations, thus being more energy efficient for
example on mobile platforms.
The current code is now however a bit convoluted. Some functionalities
(e.g. iowait boost reset) are replicated in different paths and their
documentation is slightly misaligned.
Let's cleanup the code by consolidating all the IO wait boosting related
functionality within within few dedicated functions and better define
their role:
- sugov_iowait_boost: set/increase the IO wait boost of a CPU
- sugov_iowait_apply: apply/reduce the IO wait boost of a CPU
Both these two function are used at every sugov update and they make
use of a unified IO wait boost reset policy provided by:
- sugov_iowait_reset: reset/disable the IO wait boost of a CPU
if a CPU is not updated for more then one tick
This makes possible a cleaner and more self-contained design for the IO
wait boosting code since the rest of the sugov update routines, both for
single and shared frequency domains, follow the same template:
/* Configure IO boost, if required */
sugov_iowait_boost()
/* Return here if freq change is in progress or throttled */
/* Collect and aggregate utilization information */
sugov_get_util()
sugov_aggregate_util()
/*
* Add IO boost, if currently enabled, on top of the aggregated
* utilization value
*/
sugov_iowait_apply()
As a extra bonus, let's also add the documentation for the new
functions and better align the in-code documentation.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
A more energy efficient update of the IO wait boosting mechanism has
been introduced in:
commit a5a0809bc5 ("cpufreq: schedutil: Make iowait boost more energy efficient")
where the boost value is expected to be:
- doubled at each successive wakeup from IO
staring from the minimum frequency supported by a CPU
- reset when a CPU is not updated for more then one tick
by either disabling the IO wait boost or resetting its value to the
minimum frequency if this new update requires an IO boost.
This approach is supposed to "ignore" boosting for sporadic wakeups from
IO, while still getting the frequency boosted to the maximum to benefit
long sequence of wakeup from IO operations.
However, these assumptions are not always satisfied.
For example, when an IO boosted CPU enters idle for more the one tick
and then wakes up after an IO wait, since in sugov_set_iowait_boost() we
first check the IOWAIT flag, we keep doubling the iowait boost instead
of restarting from the minimum frequency value.
This misbehavior could happen mainly on non-shared frequency domains,
thus defeating the energy efficiency optimization, but it can also
happen on shared frequency domain systems.
Let fix this issue in sugov_set_iowait_boost() by:
- first check the IO wait boost reset conditions
to eventually reset the boost value
- then applying the correct IO boost value
if required by the caller
Fixes: a5a0809bc5 (cpufreq: schedutil: Make iowait boost more energy efficient)
Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The schedutil driver sets sg_policy->next_freq to UINT_MAX on certain
occasions to discard the cached value of next freq:
- In sugov_start(), when the schedutil governor is started for a group
of CPUs.
- And whenever we need to force a freq update before rate-limit
duration, which happens when:
- there is an update in cpufreq policy limits.
- Or when the utilization of DL scheduling class increases.
In return, get_next_freq() doesn't return a cached next_freq value but
recalculates the next frequency instead.
But having special meaning for a particular value of frequency makes the
code less readable and error prone. We recently fixed a bug where the
UINT_MAX value was considered as valid frequency in
sugov_update_single().
All we need is a flag which can be used to discard the value of
sg_policy->next_freq and we already have need_freq_update for that. Lets
reuse it instead of setting next_freq to UINT_MAX.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This reverts commit e2cabe48c2.
Lifting the restriction that the sugov kthread is bound to the
policy->related_cpus for a system with a slow switching cpufreq driver,
which is able to perform DVFS from any cpu (e.g. cpufreq-dt), is not
only not beneficial it also harms Enery-Aware Scheduling (EAS) on
systems with asymmetric cpu capacities (e.g. Arm big.LITTLE).
The sugov kthread which does the update for the little cpus could
potentially run on a big cpu. It could prevent that the big cluster goes
into deeper idle states although all the tasks are running on the little
cluster.
Example: hikey960 w/ 4.16.0-rc6-+
Arm big.LITTLE with per-cluster DVFS
root@h960:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "^CPU part"
CPU part : 0xd03 (Cortex-A53, little cpu)
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU part : 0xd09 (Cortex-A73, big cpu)
CPU part : 0xd09
CPU part : 0xd09
CPU part : 0xd09
root@h960:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq# ls
policy0 policy4 schedutil
root@h960:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq# cat policy*/related_cpus
0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7
(1) w/o the revert:
root@h960:~# ps -eo pid,class,rtprio,pri,psr,comm | awk 'NR == 1 ||
/sugov/'
PID CLS RTPRIO PRI PSR COMMAND
1489 #6 0 140 1 sugov:0
1490 #6 0 140 0 sugov:4
The sugov kthread sugov:4 responsible for policy4 runs on cpu0. (In this
case both sugov kthreads run on little cpus).
cross policy (cluster) remote callback example:
...
migration/1-14 [001] enqueue_task_fair: this_cpu=1 cpu_of(rq)=5
migration/1-14 [001] sugov_update_shared: this_cpu=1 sg_cpu->cpu=5
sg_cpu->sg_policy->policy->related_cpus=4-7
sugov:4-1490 [000] sugov_work: this_cpu=0
sg_cpu->sg_policy->policy->related_cpus=4-7
...
The remote callback (this_cpu=1, target_cpu=5) is executed on cpu=0.
(2) w/ the revert:
root@h960:~# ps -eo pid,class,rtprio,pri,psr,comm | awk 'NR == 1 ||
/sugov/'
PID CLS RTPRIO PRI PSR COMMAND
1491 #6 0 140 2 sugov:0
1492 #6 0 140 4 sugov:4
The sugov kthread sugov:4 responsible for policy4 runs on cpu4.
cross policy (cluster) remote callback example:
...
migration/1-14 [001] enqueue_task_fair: this_cpu=1 cpu_of(rq)=7
migration/1-14 [001] sugov_update_shared: this_cpu=1 sg_cpu->cpu=7
sg_cpu->sg_policy->policy->related_cpus=4-7
sugov:4-1492 [004] sugov_work: this_cpu=4
sg_cpu->sg_policy->policy->related_cpus=4-7
...
The remote callback (this_cpu=1, target_cpu=7) is executed on cpu=4.
Now the sugov kthread executes again on the policy (cluster) for which
the Operating Performance Point (OPP) should be changed.
It avoids the problem that an otherwise idle policy (cluster) is running
schedutil (the sugov kthread) for another one.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
If the next_freq field of struct sugov_policy is set to UINT_MAX,
it shouldn't be used for updating the CPU frequency (this is a
special "invalid" value), but after commit b7eaf1aab9 (cpufreq:
schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely) it
may be passed as the new frequency to sugov_update_commit() in
sugov_update_single().
Fix that by adding an extra check for the special UINT_MAX value
of next_freq to sugov_update_single().
Fixes: b7eaf1aab9 (cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely)
Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: 4.12+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
After commit 794a56ebd9 (sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to
SCHED_DEADLINE) schedutil kthreads are "ignored" for a clock frequency
selection point of view, so the potential corner case for RT tasks is not
possible at all now.
Remove the stale comment mentioning it.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This patch prevents the 'global_tunables_lock' mutex from being
unlocked before being locked. This mutex is not locked if the
sugov_kthread_create() function fails.
Signed-off-by: Jules Maselbas <jules.maselbas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggermann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Cc: Stephen Kyle <stephen.kyle@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nd@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180329144301.38419-1-jules.maselbas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When the SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling class increases the CPU utilization, it
should not wait for the rate limit, otherwise it may miss some deadline.
Tests using rt-app on Exynos5422 with up to 10 SCHED_DEADLINE tasks have
shown reductions of even 10% of deadline misses with a negligible
increase of energy consumption (measured through Baylibre Cape).
Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520937340-2755-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com
Instead of trying to duplicate scheduler state to track if an RT task
is running, directly use the scheduler runqueue state for it.
This vastly simplifies things and fixes a number of bugs related to
sugov and the scheduler getting out of sync wrt this state.
As a consequence we not also update the remove cfs/dl state when
iterating the shared mask.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Do the following cleanups and simplifications:
- sched/sched.h already includes <asm/paravirt.h>, so no need to
include it in sched/core.c again.
- order the <linux/sched/*.h> headers alphabetically
- add all <linux/sched/*.h> headers to kernel/sched/sched.h
- remove all unnecessary includes from the .c files that
are already included in kernel/sched/sched.h.
Finally, make all scheduler .c files use a single common header:
#include "sched.h"
... which now contains a union of the relied upon headers.
This makes the various .c files easier to read and easier to handle.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A good number of small style inconsistencies have accumulated
in the scheduler core, so do a pass over them to harmonize
all these details:
- fix speling in comments,
- use curly braces for multi-line statements,
- remove unnecessary parentheses from integer literals,
- capitalize consistently,
- remove stray newlines,
- add comments where necessary,
- remove invalid/unnecessary comments,
- align structure definitions and other data types vertically,
- add missing newlines for increased readability,
- fix vertical tabulation where it's misaligned,
- harmonize preprocessor conditional block labeling
and vertical alignment,
- remove line-breaks where they uglify the code,
- add newline after local variable definitions,
No change in functionality:
md5:
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.before.asm
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.after.asm
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since schedutil kernel thread directly set priority to 0, the macro
SUGOV_KTHREAD_PRIORITY is not used. So remove it.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518097702-9665-1-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Initializing sg_cpu->flags to SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT has no obvious benefit.
The flags field wouldn't be used until the utilization update handler is
called for the first time, and once that is called we will overwrite
flags anyway.
Initialize it to 0.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: joelaf@google.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: tkjos@android.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/763feda6424ced8486b25a0c52979634e6104478.1513158452.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since the recent remote cpufreq callback work, its possible that a cpufreq
update is triggered from a remote CPU. For single policies however, the current
code uses the local CPU when trying to determine if the remote sg_cpu entered
idle or is busy. This is incorrect. To remedy this, compare with the nohz tick
idle_calls counter of the remote CPU.
Fixes: 674e75411f (sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks)
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: 4.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
'cached_raw_freq' is used to get the next frequency quickly but should
always be in sync with sg_policy->next_freq. There is a case where it is
not and in such cases it should be reset to avoid switching to incorrect
frequencies.
Consider this case for example:
- policy->cur is 1.2 GHz (Max)
- New request comes for 780 MHz and we store that in cached_raw_freq.
- Based on 780 MHz, we calculate the effective frequency as 800 MHz.
- We then see the CPU wasn't idle recently and choose to keep the next
freq as 1.2 GHz.
- Now we have cached_raw_freq is 780 MHz and sg_policy->next_freq is
1.2 GHz.
- Now if the utilization doesn't change in then next request, then the
next target frequency will still be 780 MHz and it will match with
cached_raw_freq. But we will choose 1.2 GHz instead of 800 MHz here.
Fixes: b7eaf1aab9 (cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely)
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: 4.12+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
After commit 674e75411f (sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq
callbacks) we stopped to always read the utilization for the CPU we
are running the governor on, and instead we read it for the CPU
which we've been told has updated utilization. This is stored in
sugov_cpu->cpu.
The value is set in sugov_register() but we clear it in sugov_start()
which leads to always looking at the utilization of CPU0 instead of
the correct one.
Fix this by consolidating the initialization code into sugov_start().
Fixes: 674e75411f (sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks)
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* pm-cpufreq-sched:
cpufreq: schedutil: Always process remote callback with slow switching
cpufreq: schedutil: Don't restrict kthread to related_cpus unnecessarily
cpufreq: Return 0 from ->fast_switch() on errors
cpufreq: Simplify cpufreq_can_do_remote_dvfs()
cpufreq: Process remote callbacks from any CPU if the platform permits
sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks
cpufreq: schedutil: Use unsigned int for iowait boost
cpufreq: schedutil: Make iowait boost more energy efficient
The frequency update from the utilization update handlers can be divided
into two parts:
(A) Finding the next frequency
(B) Updating the frequency
While any CPU can do (A), (B) can be restricted to a group of CPUs only,
depending on the current platform.
For platforms where fast cpufreq switching is possible, both (A) and (B)
are always done from the same CPU and that CPU should be capable of
changing the frequency of the target CPU.
But for platforms where fast cpufreq switching isn't possible, after
doing (A) we wake up a kthread which will eventually do (B). This
kthread is already bound to the right set of CPUs, i.e. only those which
can change the frequency of CPUs of a cpufreq policy. And so any CPU
can actually do (A) in this case, as the frequency is updated from the
right set of CPUs only.
Check cpufreq_can_do_remote_dvfs() only for the fast switching case.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Utilization update callbacks are now processed remotely, even on the
CPUs that don't share cpufreq policy with the target CPU (if
dvfs_possible_from_any_cpu flag is set).
But in non-fast switch paths, the frequency is changed only from one of
policy->related_cpus. This happens because the kthread which does the
actual update is bound to a subset of CPUs (i.e. related_cpus).
Allow frequency to be remotely updated as well (i.e. call
__cpufreq_driver_target()) if dvfs_possible_from_any_cpu flag is set.
Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID is a special symbol which is used to specify that
an entry in the cpufreq table is invalid. But using it outside of the
scope of the cpufreq table looks a bit incorrect.
We can represent an invalid frequency by writing it as 0 instead if we
need. Note that it is already done that way for the return value of the
->get() callback.
Lets do the same for ->fast_switch() and not use CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID
outside of the scope of cpufreq table.
Also update the comment over cpufreq_driver_fast_switch() to clearly
mention what this returns.
None of the drivers return CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID as of now from
->fast_switch() callback and so we don't need to update any of those.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
With Android UI and benchmarks the latency of cpufreq response to
certain scheduling events can become very critical. Currently, callbacks
into cpufreq governors are only made from the scheduler if the target
CPU of the event is the same as the current CPU. This means there are
certain situations where a target CPU may not run the cpufreq governor
for some time.
One testcase to show this behavior is where a task starts running on
CPU0, then a new task is also spawned on CPU0 by a task on CPU1. If the
system is configured such that the new tasks should receive maximum
demand initially, this should result in CPU0 increasing frequency
immediately. But because of the above mentioned limitation though, this
does not occur.
This patch updates the scheduler core to call the cpufreq callbacks for
remote CPUs as well.
The schedutil, ondemand and conservative governors are updated to
process cpufreq utilization update hooks called for remote CPUs where
the remote CPU is managed by the cpufreq policy of the local CPU.
The intel_pstate driver is updated to always reject remote callbacks.
This is tested with couple of usecases (Android: hackbench, recentfling,
galleryfling, vellamo, Ubuntu: hackbench) on ARM hikey board (64 bit
octa-core, single policy). Only galleryfling showed minor improvements,
while others didn't had much deviation.
The reason being that this patch only targets a corner case, where
following are required to be true to improve performance and that
doesn't happen too often with these tests:
- Task is migrated to another CPU.
- The task has high demand, and should take the target CPU to higher
OPPs.
- And the target CPU doesn't call into the cpufreq governor until the
next tick.
Based on initial work from Steve Muckle.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Make iowait_boost and iowait_boost_max as unsigned int since its unit
is kHz and this is consistent with struct cpufreq_policy. Also change
the local variables in sugov_iowait_boost() to match this.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Currently the iowait_boost feature in schedutil makes the frequency
go to max on iowait wakeups. This feature was added to handle a case
that Peter described where the throughput of operations involving
continuous I/O requests [1] is reduced due to running at a lower
frequency, however the lower throughput itself causes utilization to
be low and hence causing frequency to be low hence its "stuck".
Instead of going to max, its also possible to achieve the same effect
by ramping up to max if there are repeated in_iowait wakeups
happening. This patch is an attempt to do that. We start from a lower
frequency (policy->min) and double the boost for every consecutive
iowait update until we reach the maximum iowait boost frequency
(iowait_boost_max).
I ran a synthetic test (continuous O_DIRECT writes in a loop) on an
x86 machine with intel_pstate in passive mode using schedutil. In
this test the iowait_boost value ramped from 800MHz to 4GHz in 60ms.
The patch achieves the desired improved throughput as the existing
behavior.
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9735885/
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Set dynamic_switching to 'true' to disallow use of schedutil governor
for platforms with transition_latency set to CPUFREQ_ETERNAL, as they
may not want to do automatic dynamic frequency switching.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The policy->transition_delay_us field is used only by the schedutil
governor currently, and this field describes how fast the driver wants
the cpufreq governor to change CPUs frequency. It should rather be a
common thing across all governors, as it doesn't have any schedutil
dependency here.
Create a new helper cpufreq_policy_transition_delay_us() to get the
transition delay across all governors.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
With a shared policy in place, when one of the CPUs in the policy is
hotplugged out and then brought back online, sugov_stop() and
sugov_start() are called in order.
sugov_stop() removes utilization hooks for each CPU in the policy and
does nothing else in the for_each_cpu() loop. sugov_start() on the
other hand iterates through the CPUs in the policy and re-initializes
the per-cpu structure _and_ adds the utilization hook. This implies
that the scheduler is allowed to invoke a CPU's utilization update
hook when the rest of the per-cpu structures have yet to be
re-inited.
Apart from some strange values in tracepoints this doesn't cause a
problem, but if we do end up accessing a pointer from the per-cpu
sugov_cpu structure somewhere in the sugov_update_shared() path,
we will likely see crashes since the memset for another CPU in the
policy is free to race with sugov_update_shared from the CPU that is
ready to go. So let's fix this now to first init all per-cpu
structures, and then add the per-cpu utilization update hooks all at
once.
Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Revert commit 39b64aa1c0 (cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies
slower) that introduced unintentional changes in behavior leading
to adverse effects on some systems.
Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Currently, sugov_next_freq_shared() uses last_freq_update_time as a
reference to decide when to start considering CPU contributions as
stale.
However, since last_freq_update_time is set by the last CPU that issued
a frequency transition, this might cause problems in certain cases. In
practice, the detection of stale utilization values fails whenever the
CPU with such values was the last to update the policy. For example (and
please note again that the SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT flag is not the problem
here, but only the detection of after how much time that flag has to be
considered stale), suppose a policy with 2 CPUs:
CPU0 | CPU1
|
| RT task scheduled
| SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT is set
| CPU1->last_update = now
| freq transition to max
| last_freq_update_time = now
|
more than TICK_NSEC nsecs
|
a small CFS wakes up |
CPU0->last_update = now1 |
delta_ns(CPU0) < TICK_NSEC* |
CPU0's util is considered |
delta_ns(CPU1) = |
last_freq_update_time - |
CPU1->last_update = 0 |
< TICK_NSEC |
CPU1 is still considered |
CPU1->SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT is set |
we stay at max (until CPU1 |
exits from idle) |
* delta_ns is actually negative as now1 > last_freq_update_time
While last_freq_update_time is a sensible reference for rate limiting,
it doesn't seem to be useful for working around stale CPU states.
Fix the problem by always considering now (time) as the reference for
deciding when CPUs have stale contributions.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Make the schedutil governor take the initial (default) value of the
rate_limit_us sysfs attribute from the (new) transition_delay_us
policy parameter (to be set by the scaling driver).
That will allow scaling drivers to make schedutil use smaller default
values of rate_limit_us and reduce the default average time interval
between consecutive frequency changes.
Make intel_pstate set transition_delay_us to 500.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
The schedutil governor reduces frequencies too fast in some
situations which cases undesirable performance drops to
appear.
To address that issue, make schedutil reduce the frequency slower by
setting it to the average of the value chosen during the previous
iteration of governor computations and the new one coming from its
frequency selection formula.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194963
Reported-by: John <john.ettedgui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
sugov_update_commit() calls trace_cpu_frequency() to record the
current CPU frequency if it has not changed in the fast switch case
to prevent utilities from getting confused (they may report that the
CPU is idle if the frequency has not been recorded for too long, for
example).
However, that may cause the tracepoint to be triggered quite often
for no real reason (if the frequency doesn't change, we will not
modify the last update time stamp and governor computations may
run again shortly when that happens), so don't do that (arguably, it
is done to work around a utilities bug anyway).
That allows code duplication in sugov_update_commit() to be reduced
somewhat too.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
The way the schedutil governor uses the PELT metric causes it to
underestimate the CPU utilization in some cases.
That can be easily demonstrated by running kernel compilation on
a Sandy Bridge Intel processor, running turbostat in parallel with
it and looking at the values written to the MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL
register. Namely, the expected result would be that when all CPUs
were 100% busy, all of them would be requested to run in the maximum
P-state, but observation shows that this clearly isn't the case.
The CPUs run in the maximum P-state for a while and then are
requested to run slower and go back to the maximum P-state after
a while again. That causes the actual frequency of the processor to
visibly oscillate below the sustainable maximum in a jittery fashion
which clearly is not desirable.
That has been attributed to CPU utilization metric updates on task
migration that cause the total utilization value for the CPU to be
reduced by the utilization of the migrated task. If that happens,
the schedutil governor may see a CPU utilization reduction and will
attempt to reduce the CPU frequency accordingly right away. That
may be premature, though, for example if the system is generally
busy and there are other runnable tasks waiting to be run on that
CPU already.
This is unlikely to be an issue on systems where cpufreq policies are
shared between multiple CPUs, because in those cases the policy
utilization is computed as the maximum of the CPU utilization values
over the whole policy and if that turns out to be low, reducing the
frequency for the policy most likely is a good idea anyway. On
systems with one CPU per policy, however, it may affect performance
adversely and even lead to increased energy consumption in some cases.
On those systems it may be addressed by taking another utilization
metric into consideration, like whether or not the CPU whose
frequency is about to be reduced has been idle recently, because if
that's not the case, the CPU is likely to be busy in the near future
and its frequency should not be reduced.
To that end, use the counter of idle calls in the timekeeping code.
Namely, make the schedutil governor look at that counter for the
current CPU every time before its frequency is about to be reduced.
If the counter has not changed since the previous iteration of the
governor computations for that CPU, the CPU has been busy for all
that time and its frequency should not be decreased, so if the new
frequency would be lower than the one set previously, the governor
will skip the frequency update.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
