[RFC PATCH v1 2/8] sched/deadline: move cpu frequency selection triggering points

Juri Lelli
2017-07-05T09:00:22Z

Since SCHED_DEADLINE doesn't track utilization signal (but reserves a
fraction of CPU bandwidth to tasks admitted to the system), there is no
point in evaluating frequency changes during each tick event.

Move frequency selection triggering points to where running_bw changes.

Co-authored-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
---
Changes from RFCv0:

- modify comment regarding periodic RT updates (Claudio)
---
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 7 ++++---
kernel/sched/sched.h | 12 ++++++------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index a84299f44b5d..6912f7f35f9b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ void add_running_bw(u64 dl_bw, struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
dl_rq->running_bw += dl_bw;
SCHED_WARN_ON(dl_rq->running_bw < old); /* overflow */
SCHED_WARN_ON(dl_rq->running_bw > dl_rq->this_bw);
+ /* kick cpufreq (see the comment in kernel/sched/sched.h). */
+ cpufreq_update_this_cpu(rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq), SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL);
}

static inline
@@ -97,6 +99,8 @@ void sub_running_bw(u64 dl_bw, struct dl_rq *dl_rq)
SCHED_WARN_ON(dl_rq->running_bw > old); /* underflow */
if (dl_rq->running_bw > old)
dl_rq->running_bw = 0;
+ /* kick cpufreq (see the comment in kernel/sched/sched.h). */
+ cpufreq_update_this_cpu(rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq), SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL);
}

static inline
@@ -1135,9 +1139,6 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
return;
}

- /* kick cpufreq (see the comment in kernel/sched/sched.h). */
- cpufreq_update_this_cpu(rq, SCHED_CPUFREQ_DL);
-
schedstat_set(curr->se.statistics.exec_max,
max(curr->se.statistics.exec_max, delta_exec));

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index eeef1a3086d1..d8798bb54ace 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -2057,14 +2057,14 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data *, cpufreq_update_util_data);
* The way cpufreq is currently arranged requires it to evaluate the CPU
* performance state (frequency/voltage) on a regular basis to prevent it from
* being stuck in a completely inadequate performance level for too long.
- * That is not guaranteed to happen if the updates are only triggered from CFS,
- * though, because they may not be coming in if RT or deadline tasks are active
- * all the time (or there are RT and DL tasks only).
+ * That is not guaranteed to happen if the updates are only triggered from CFS
+ * and DL, though, because they may not be coming in if only RT tasks are
+ * active all the time (or there are RT tasks only).
*
- * As a workaround for that issue, this function is called by the RT and DL
- * sched classes to trigger extra cpufreq updates to prevent it from stalling,
+ * As a workaround for that issue, this function is called periodically by the
+ * RT sched class to trigger extra cpufreq updates to prevent it from stalling,
* but that really is a band-aid. Going forward it should be replaced with
- * solutions targeted more specifically at RT and DL tasks.
+ * solutions targeted more specifically at RT tasks.
*/
static inline void cpufreq_update_util(struct rq *rq, unsigned int flags)
{
--
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