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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.

  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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