Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2 3/3] schedutil: trace: Add tracing to capture filter out requests

Lukasz Luba
2023-06-20T17:52:50Z

Hi Qais,

I have somehow missed your feedback on this series.

On 5/31/23 19:31, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 05/22/23 15:57, Lukasz Luba wrote:
>> Some of the frequency update requests coming form the task scheduler
>> might be filter out. It can happen when the previous request was served
>> not that long ago (in a period smaller than provided by the cpufreq driver
>> as minimum for frequency update). In such case, we want to know if some of
>> the frequency updates cannot make through.
>> Export the new tracepoint as well. That would allow to handle it by a
>> toolkit for trace analyzes.
>>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> # solved tricky build
>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
>> ---
>> include/trace/events/sched.h | 4 ++++
>> kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 10 ++++++++--
>> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
>> index dbfb30809f15..e34b7cd5de73 100644
>> --- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
>> +++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
>> @@ -739,6 +739,10 @@ DECLARE_TRACE(uclamp_update_tsk_tp,
>> TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *tsk, int uclamp_id, unsigned int value),
>> TP_ARGS(tsk, uclamp_id, value));
>>
>> +DECLARE_TRACE(schedutil_update_filtered_tp,
>> + TP_PROTO(int cpu),
>> + TP_ARGS(cpu));
>> +
>> #endif /* _TRACE_SCHED_H */
>>
>> /* This part must be outside protection */
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>> index f462496e5c07..4f9daf258a65 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
>> @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
>> * Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>> */
>>
>> +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL(schedutil_update_filtered_tp);
>> +
>> #define IOWAIT_BOOST_MIN (SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE / 8)
>>
>> struct sugov_tunables {
>> @@ -318,8 +320,10 @@ static inline bool sugov_update_single_common(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu,
>>
>> ignore_dl_rate_limit(sg_cpu);
>>
>> - if (!sugov_should_update_freq(sg_cpu->sg_policy, time))
>> + if (!sugov_should_update_freq(sg_cpu->sg_policy, time)) {
>> + trace_schedutil_update_filtered_tp(sg_cpu->cpu);
>> return false;
>> + }
>
> Can't we have something more generic here too? Are you interested to count
> these events? How do you plan to use it?

The plan is to record those events, count them and maybe adjust the FW
if the frequency switching capabilities are too low, e.g. 4ms...

We need those numbers to point out that there is a need for faster
FW micro-controller to serve those incoming requests.

>
> I think this will be a very noisy event by the way.

Could be, but on the other hand for those statistical analysis
'the more the better'. It will also depend on number of
CPUs in the cluster, e.g. 4 CPUs vs 1 CPU.

I don't know when we will switch to this per-cpu cpufreq mode
when all CPUs behave like independent DVFS. Juno mainline kernel and FW
supports that mode. We would have to compare those two modes and
measure how much we gain/loose when using one and not the other.

Furthermore, we already suspect some of our integration testing for
EAS-mainline (on Juno) failing due to filtered out requests. How much
that would impact other boards - it would be nice to see in traces.

Thanks for your feedback!
Lukasz