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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] sched/cpufreq: Make schedutil energy aware
On 03-Jul 14:38, Douglas Raillard wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On 7/2/19 4:44 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Douglas RAILLARD wrote:
> > > Make schedutil cpufreq governor energy-aware.
> > >
> > > - patch 1 introduces a function to retrieve a frequency given a base
> > > frequency and an energy cost margin.
> > > - patch 2 links Energy Model perf_domain to sugov_policy.
> > > - patch 3 updates get_next_freq() to make use of the Energy Model.
> >
> > >
> > > 1) Selecting the highest possible frequency for a given cost. Some
> > > platforms can have lower frequencies that are less efficient than
> > > higher ones, in which case they should be skipped for most purposes.
> > > They can still be useful to give more freedom to thermal throttling
> > > mechanisms, but not under normal circumstances.
> > > note: the EM framework will warn about such OPPs "hertz/watts ratio
> > > non-monotonically decreasing"
> >
> > Humm, for some reason I was thinking we explicitly skipped those OPPs
> > and they already weren't used.
> >
> > This isn't in fact so, and these first few patches make it so?
>
> That's correct, the cost information about each OPP has been introduced recently in mainline
> by the energy model series. Without that info, the only way to skip them that comes to my
> mind is to set a policy min frequency, since these inefficient OPPs are usually located
> at the lower end.

Perhaps it's also worth to point out that the alternative approach you
point out above is a system wide solution.

While, the ramp_boost thingy you propose, it's a more fine grained
mechanisms which could be extended in the future to have a per-task
side. IOW, it could contribute to have better user-space hints, for
example to ramp_boost more certain tasks and not others.

Best,
Patrick

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Patrick Bellasi

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