Re: [PATCH 0/8] schedutil enhancements

From	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/8] schedutil enhancements
Date	2016-03-16 01:10 +0100
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Hi Mike,

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 10:22:04 PM Michael Turquette wrote:
> I'm happy that scheduler-driven cpu frequency selection is getting some
> attention. Rafael's recent schedutil governor is a step in the right direction.

Thanks!

> This series builds on top of Rafael's schedutil governor, bringing it to parity
> with some of the features in the schedfreq series posted by Steve[0], as well
> as adding a couple of new things.
> 
> Patch 1 removes cpufreq_trigger_update()
> 
> Patches 2-4 move the cfs capacity margin out of the governor and into
> cfs. This value is made tunable by a sysfs control in schedutil.
> 
> Patches 5-6 make cpufreq_update_util() aware of multiple scheduler
> classes (cfs, rt & dl), and add storage & summation of these per-class
> utilization values into schedutil.
> 
> Patches 7-8 introduces Dietmar's generic cpufreq implementation[1] of the
> frequency invariance hook and changes the preprocessor magic in sched.h to
> favor the cpufreq implementation over arch- or platform-specific ones.

After the discussion mentioned by Peter in one of his responses (the relevant
e-mail thread is here: http://marc.info/?t=145688568600003&r=1&w=4) I have
changed the schedutil series to address some points made during it.

In particular, I've modified it to use the formula from 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=145756618321500&w=4 with the twist that
if the utilization is frequency-invariant, max_freq will be used instead
of current_freq.

The way it recognizes whether or not that is the case is based on the
Peter's suggestion from http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145760739700716&w=4.

For this reason, the governor goes into kernel/sched/ as I don't want
arch_scale_freq_invariant() to be exposed to cpufreq at large, because
schedutil will be the only governor using it in foreseeable future.

The fast switching support patch is slightly different too, but that's
not relevant here.

The new series is in the pm-cpufreq-experimental branch of my tree:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git \
pm-cpufreq-experimental

I haven't had the time to post it over the last few days (sorry about
that), but I'll do that tomorrow.

Thanks,
Rafael

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[PATCH 0/8] schedutil enhancements Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 04:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 09:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 11:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 19:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-16 23:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 10:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-17 15:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> - 2016-03-17 17:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-16 13:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq/schedutil: sysfs capacity margin tunable Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-16 23:10 +0100
  [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 23:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/8] sched/cpufreq: remove cpufreq_trigger_update() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 09:10 +0100
  [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 05:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 09:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 10:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 10:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-16 13:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 14:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-03-16 14:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into  cpufreq_update_util Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 14:50 +0100
  [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-03-15 20:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-15 21:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-03-16 20:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 21:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-16 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 8/8] sched: prefer cpufreq_scale_freq_capacity Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-16 13:50 +0100
  [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org> - 2016-03-16 04:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: add margin to utilization update Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-16 23:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/8] sched/cpufreq: new cfs capacity margin helpers Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> - 2016-03-14 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched/cpufreq: new cfs capacity margin helpers Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 22:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/8] schedutil enhancements "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-03-16 01:10 +0100

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