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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
	dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, patrick.bellasi@matbug.net,
	lenb@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	valentin.schneider@arm.com, ionela.voinescu@arm.com,
	qperret@google.com, viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/scheduler/schedutil.txt
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 17:58:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201202165828.GC2414@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201202164531.GA3306@suse.de>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:45:31PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > > It's less obvious what the consequence is unless the reader manages to
> > > tie the IO-wait comment in "Schedutil / DVFS" to this section.
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure I follow. The purpose of UTIL_EST is to avoid
> > ramp-up issues and isn't related to IO-wait boosting.
> > 
> 
> I mixed up the example. Historically io-wait boosting was one way of
> avoiding DVFS ramp-up issues but now that I reread it, it's best to leave
> it general like you already have in your current version.

So IO-wait boosting is an interesting case; as it captures something not
present in the rest of the model, namely interaction.

There's also that series of patches that does the cpu/gpu interaction
thing.

It would be worth expanding on it, but I didn't have it in me to dig
through the archives to get a coherent description of the current state
of things. Something left todo later...

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20  7:55 [RFC] Documentation/scheduler/schedutil.txt Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-20  8:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-20  9:13   ` Quentin Perret
2020-11-20  9:19     ` Viresh Kumar
2020-11-20  9:27       ` Quentin Perret
2020-11-23  9:30   ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-11-23 10:05     ` Vincent Guittot
2020-11-23 11:27       ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-11-23 13:42         ` Vincent Guittot
2020-11-23 18:39           ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-11-20 11:45 ` Valentin Schneider
2020-11-20 14:37 ` Morten Rasmussen
2020-11-23  9:26 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-11-23 14:51   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-02 14:18 ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-02 15:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-02 16:45     ` Mel Gorman
2020-12-02 16:58       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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