Re: [RFC v3 5/5] sched/{core,cpufreq_schedutil}: add capacity clamping for RT/DL tasks

Juri Lelli
2017-03-16T11:16:44Z

On 15/03/17 16:40, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> wrote:
> [..]
> >
> >> > However, trying to quickly summarize how that would work (for who is
> >> > already somewhat familiar with reclaiming bits):
> >> >
> >> > - a task utilization contribution is accounted for (at rq level) as
> >> > soon as it wakes up for the first time in a new period
> >> > - its contribution is then removed after the 0lag time (or when the
> >> > task gets throttled)
> >> > - frequency transitions are triggered accordingly
> >> >
> >> > So, I don't see why triggering a go down request after the 0lag time
> >> > expired and quickly reacting to tasks waking up would have create
> >> > problems in your case?
> >>
> >> In my experience, the 'reacting to tasks' bit doesn't work very well.
> >
> > Humm.. but in this case we won't be 'reacting', we will be
> > 'anticipating' tasks' needs, right?
>
> Are you saying we will start ramping frequency before the next
> activation so that we're ready for it?
>

I'm saying that there is no need to ramp, simply select the frequency
that is needed for a task (or a set of them).

> If not, it sounds like it will only make the frequency request on the
> next activation when the Active bandwidth increases due to the task
> waking up. By then task has already started to run, right?
>

When the task is enqueued back we select the frequency considering its
bandwidth request (and the bandwidth/utilization of the others). So,
when it actually starts running it will already have enough capacity to
finish in time.