Re: [PATCH V2 0/3] Introduce Thermal Pressure

Thara Gopinath
2019-04-30T15:58:01Z

On 04/29/2019 09:29 AM, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
> Hi Thara,
>
>>
>> Hackbench: (1 group , 30000 loops, 10 runs)
>> Result Standard Deviation
>> (Time Secs) (% of mean)
>>
>> No Thermal Pressure 10.21 7.99%
>>
>> Instantaneous thermal pressure 10.16 5.36%
>>
>> Thermal Pressure Averaging
>> using PELT fmwk 9.88 3.94%
>>
>> Thermal Pressure Averaging
>> non-PELT Algo. Decay : 500 ms 9.94 4.59%
>>
>> Thermal Pressure Averaging
>> non-PELT Algo. Decay : 250 ms 7.52 5.42%
>>
>> Thermal Pressure Averaging
>> non-PELT Algo. Decay : 125 ms 9.87 3.94%
>>
>>
>
> I'm trying your patches on my Hikey960 and I'm getting different results
> than the ones here.
>
> I'm running with the step-wise governor, enabled only on the big cores.
> The decay period is set to 250ms.
>
> The result for hackbench is:
>
> # ./hackbench -g 1 -l 30000
> Running in process mode with 1 groups using 40 file descriptors each (== 40 tasks)
> Each sender will pass 30000 messages of 100 bytes
> Time: 20.756
>
> During the run I see the little cores running at maximum frequency
> (1.84GHz) while the big cores run mostly at 1.8GHz, only sometimes capped
> at 1.42GHz. There should not be any capacity inversion.
> The temperature is kept around 75 degrees (73 to 77 degrees).
>
> I don't have any kind of active cooling (no fans on the board), only a
> heatsink on the SoC.
>
> But as you see my results(~20s) are very far from the 7-10s in your
> results.
>
> Do you see anything wrong with this process? Can you give me more
> details on your setup that I can use to test on my board?

Hi Ionela,

I used the latest mainline kernel with sched/ tip merged in for my
testing. My hikey960 did not have any fan or heat sink during testing. I
disabled cpu cooling for little cores in the dts files.
Also I have to warn you that I have managed to blow up my hikey960. So I
no longer have a functional board for past two weeks or so.

I don't have my test scripts to send you, but I have some of the results
files downloaded which I can send you in a separate email.
I did run the test 10 rounds.

Also I think 20s is too much of variation for the test results. Like I
mentioned in my previous emails I think the 7.52 is an anomaly but the
results should be around the range of 8-9 s.

Regards
Thara

>
> Thank you,
> Ionela.
>

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Regards
Thara