From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] sched: cpufreq: Remove magic margins
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 15:58:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230908135843.GC24372@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230908133336.uge4hcnx4cum3lg5@airbuntu>
On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 02:33:36PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > UTIL_EST_FASTER moves in one direction. And it's a constant response too, no?
> >
> > The idea of UTIL_EST_FASTER was that we run a PELT sum on the current
> > activation runtime, all runtime since wakeup and take the max of this
> > extra sum and the regular thing.
> >
> > On top of that this extra PELT sum can/has a time multiplier and thus
> > ramps up faster (this multiplies could be per task). Nb.:
> >
> > util_est_fast = faster_est_approx(delta * 2);
> >
> > is a state-less expression -- by making
> >
> > util_est_fast = faster_est_approx(delta * curr->se.faster_mult);
> >
> > only the current task is affected.
>
> Okay; maybe I didn't understand this fully and will go back and study it more.
>
> Maybe the word faster is what makes me worried as I really see faster is not
> what people want on a class of systems; or at least CPUs if you think of HMP.
> Taming the beast is a more difficult problem in this class of systems.
The faster refers to the ramp-up. Which was the issue identified in that
earlier thread. The game thing wanted to ramp up more agressive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-08 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-27 23:31 [RFC PATCH 0/7] sched: cpufreq: Remove magic margins Qais Yousef
2023-08-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] sched/pelt: Add a new function to approximate the future util_avg value Qais Yousef
2023-09-06 12:56 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-06 21:19 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-07 11:12 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-10 19:58 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-13 17:22 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-16 19:49 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-16 19:52 ` Qais Yousef
2023-08-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] sched/pelt: Add a new function to approximate runtime to reach given util Qais Yousef
2023-09-06 12:56 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-06 20:44 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-06 21:38 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-15 9:15 ` Hongyan Xia
2023-09-16 19:56 ` Qais Yousef
2023-08-27 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] sched/fair: Remove magic margin in fits_capacity() Qais Yousef
2023-09-06 14:38 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-06 21:45 ` Qais Yousef
2023-08-27 23:32 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] sched: cpufreq: Remove magic 1.25 headroom from apply_dvfs_headroom() Qais Yousef
2023-09-07 11:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-10 19:23 ` Qais Yousef
2023-08-27 23:32 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] sched/schedutil: Add a new tunable to dictate response time Qais Yousef
2023-09-06 21:13 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-06 21:52 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-07 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-10 19:25 ` Qais Yousef
2023-08-27 23:32 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] sched/pelt: Introduce PELT multiplier Qais Yousef
2023-08-27 23:32 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] cpufreq: Change default transition delay to 2ms Qais Yousef
2023-09-06 9:18 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] sched: cpufreq: Remove magic margins Lukasz Luba
2023-09-06 21:18 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-07 7:48 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-07 11:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-07 13:06 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-07 13:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-07 13:33 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-07 13:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-07 13:45 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-08 12:51 ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2023-09-12 11:57 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-10 18:20 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-10 18:14 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-07 13:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-07 13:57 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-07 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-07 14:42 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-07 20:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-12 11:51 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-12 14:01 ` Vincent Guittot
2023-09-13 9:53 ` Lukasz Luba
2023-09-12 14:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-10 19:06 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-10 18:46 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-07 13:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-08 0:17 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-08 7:40 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-08 14:07 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-12 17:18 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2023-09-16 19:38 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-08 10:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-08 13:33 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-08 13:58 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-09-08 13:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-08 14:11 ` Qais Yousef
2023-09-10 21:17 ` Qais Yousef
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