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

Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-12T14:28:29Z

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Lukasz Luba wrote:

> You can see the util signal of that 'CrRendererMain' task and those
> utilization drops in time, which I was referring to. When the util
> drops below some threshold, the task might 'fit' into smaller CPU,
> which could be prevented automatically byt maintaining the util est
> for longer (but not for all).

Right, so right at those util_est dips it has some small activations.
It's like a poll loop or something instead of a full block waiting for
things to happen.

And yeah, that'll destroy util_est in a hurry :/

> I do like your idea that Util EST might be per-task. I'm going to
> check this, because that might help to get rid of the overutilized state
> which is probably because small tasks are also 'bigger' for longer.
>
> If this util est have chance to fly upstream, I could send an RFC if
> you don't mind.

The biggest stumbling block I see is the user interface; some generic
QoS hints based thing that allows us to do random things -- like tune
the above might do, dunno.