Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched/fair: schedutil: explicit update only when required

[Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>]

On 15 May 2018 at 18:53, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 03:53:43PM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
>> On 15-May 12:19, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> > On 14 May 2018 at 18:32, Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> > Yes se becomes NULL only when you reach root domain
>
> root group; domains are something else again ;-)

yes good point :-)

>
>> Thus, the scheduler knows that we are going to sleep: does is really
>> makes sense to send a notification in this case?
>
> It might; esp. on these very slow changing machines.
>
>> What about adding a new explicit callback at the end of:
>>    update_blocked_averages() ?
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> ---8<---
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> index cb77407ba485..6eb0f31c656d 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -7740,6 +7740,9 @@ static void update_blocked_averages(int cpu)
>>         if (done)
>>                 rq->has_blocked_load = 0;
>>  #endif
>> +
>> +       cpufreq_update_util(rq, SCHED_CPUFREQ_IDLE);
>> +
>>         rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, &rf);
>>  }
>> ---8<---
>>
>> Where we can also pass in a new SCHED_CPUFREQ_IDLE flag just to notify
>> schedutil that the CPU is currently IDLE?
>>
>> Could that work?
>
> Simlarly you could add ENQUEUE/DEQUEUE flags I suppose. But let's do all
> that later in separate patches and evaluate the impact separately, OK?