Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] sched: cpufreq: Remove magic margins

Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-07T20:16:50Z

On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 03:42:13PM +0100, Lukasz Luba wrote:

> > What task characteristic is tied to this? That is, this seems trivial to
> > modify per-task.
>
> In particular Speedometer test and the main browser task, which reaches
> ~900util, but sometimes vanish and waits for other background tasks
> to do something. In the meantime it can decay and wake-up on
> Mid/Little (which can cause a penalty to score up to 5-10% vs. if
> we pin the task to big CPUs). So, a longer util_est helps to avoid
> at least very bad down migration to Littles...

Do they do a few short activations (wakeup/sleeps) while waiting? That
would indeed completely ruin things since the EWMA thing is activation
based.

I wonder if there's anything sane we can do here...