Re: [RFCv5 PATCH 40/46] sched/cpufreq_sched: compute freq_new based on capacity_orig_of()

Juri Lelli
2015-08-17T12:19:18Z

On 16/08/15 21:24, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 09:03:33PM -0700, Michael Turquette wrote:
>> Quoting Peter Zijlstra (2015-08-15 05:46:38)
>>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 07:24:23PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
>>>> index 2968f3a..7071528 100644
>>>> --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
>>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_sched.c
>>>> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ void cpufreq_sched_set_cap(int cpu, unsigned long capacity)
>>>> goto out;
>>>>
>>>> /* Convert the new maximum capacity request into a cpu frequency */
>>>> - freq_new = capacity * policy->max >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
>>>> + freq_new = (capacity * policy->max) / capacity_orig_of(cpu);
>>>>
>>>> /* No change in frequency? Bail and return current capacity. */
>>>> if (freq_new == policy->cur)
>>>
>>> Can't we avoid exporting that lot by simply passing in the right values
>>> to begin with?
>>
>> By "right value" do you mean, "pass the frequency from cfs"?
>
> Nah, just maybe: (capacity << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT) / capacity_orig_of()
> such that you don't have to export that knowledge to this thing.
>

Oh, right. I guess we can just go with something like:

req_cap = get_cpu_usage(cpu) * capacity_margin / capacity_orig_of(cpu);

on fair.c side and switch back to

freq_new = capacity * policy->max >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;

on cpufreq_sched.c side. That saves us exporting capacity_orig_of().

Thanks,

- Juri