[RFCv5 PATCH 15/46] sched: Introduce energy data structures

Morten Rasmussen
2015-07-07T18:24:16Z

From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>

The struct sched_group_energy represents the per sched_group related
data which is needed for energy aware scheduling. It contains:

(1) atomic reference counter for scheduler internal bookkeeping of
data allocation and freeing
(2) number of elements of the idle state array
(3) pointer to the idle state array which comprises 'power consumption'
for each idle state
(4) number of elements of the capacity state array
(5) pointer to the capacity state array which comprises 'compute
capacity and power consumption' tuples for each capacity state

Allocation and freeing of struct sched_group_energy utilizes the existing
infrastructure of the scheduler which is currently used for the other sd
hierarchy data structures (e.g. struct sched_domain) as well. That's why
struct sd_data is provisioned with a per cpu struct sched_group_energy
double pointer.

The struct sched_group obtains a pointer to a struct sched_group_energy.

The function pointer sched_domain_energy_f is introduced into struct
sched_domain_topology_level which will allow the arch to pass a particular
struct sched_group_energy from the topology shim layer into the scheduler
core.

The function pointer sched_domain_energy_f has an 'int cpu' parameter
since the folding of two adjacent sd levels via sd degenerate doesn't work
for all sd levels. I.e. it is not possible for example to use this feature
to provide per-cpu energy in sd level DIE on ARM's TC2 platform.

It was discussed that the folding of sd levels approach is preferable
over the cpu parameter approach, simply because the user (the arch
specifying the sd topology table) can introduce less errors. But since
it is not working, the 'int cpu' parameter is the only way out. It's
possible to use the folding of sd levels approach for
sched_domain_flags_f and the cpu parameter approach for the
sched_domain_energy_f at the same time though. With the use of the
'int cpu' parameter, an extra check function has to be provided to make
sure that all cpus spanned by a sched group are provisioned with the same
energy data.

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/sched.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 7de815c..c4d0e88 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1017,6 +1017,23 @@ struct sched_domain_attr {

extern int sched_domain_level_max;

+struct capacity_state {
+ unsigned long cap; /* compute capacity */
+ unsigned long power; /* power consumption at this compute capacity */
+};
+
+struct idle_state {
+ unsigned long power; /* power consumption in this idle state */
+};
+
+struct sched_group_energy {
+ atomic_t ref;
+ unsigned int nr_idle_states; /* number of idle states */
+ struct idle_state *idle_states; /* ptr to idle state array */
+ unsigned int nr_cap_states; /* number of capacity states */
+ struct capacity_state *cap_states; /* ptr to capacity state array */
+};
+
struct sched_group;

struct sched_domain {
@@ -1115,6 +1132,7 @@ bool cpus_share_cache(int this_cpu, int that_cpu);

typedef const struct cpumask *(*sched_domain_mask_f)(int cpu);
typedef int (*sched_domain_flags_f)(void);
+typedef const struct sched_group_energy *(*sched_domain_energy_f)(int cpu);

#define SDTL_OVERLAP 0x01

@@ -1122,11 +1140,13 @@ struct sd_data {
struct sched_domain **__percpu sd;
struct sched_group **__percpu sg;
struct sched_group_capacity **__percpu sgc;
+ struct sched_group_energy **__percpu sge;
};

struct sched_domain_topology_level {
sched_domain_mask_f mask;
sched_domain_flags_f sd_flags;
+ sched_domain_energy_f energy;
int flags;
int numa_level;
struct sd_data data;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index a22cf89..7b687c6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -853,6 +853,7 @@ struct sched_group {

unsigned int group_weight;
struct sched_group_capacity *sgc;
+ struct sched_group_energy *sge;

/*
* The CPUs this group covers.
--
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