From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>,
Chris Redpath <Chris.Redpath@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] sched: cpufreq: Remove magic margins
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:28:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230912142821.GA22166@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1b1b663-3a12-9e5d-932b-b3ffb5f02e14@arm.com>
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> You can see the util signal of that 'CrRendererMain' task and those
> utilization drops in time, which I was referring to. When the util
> drops below some threshold, the task might 'fit' into smaller CPU,
> which could be prevented automatically byt maintaining the util est
> for longer (but not for all).
Right, so right at those util_est dips it has some small activations.
It's like a poll loop or something instead of a full block waiting for
things to happen.
And yeah, that'll destroy util_est in a hurry :/
> I do like your idea that Util EST might be per-task. I'm going to
> check this, because that might help to get rid of the overutilized state
> which is probably because small tasks are also 'bigger' for longer.
>
> If this util est have chance to fly upstream, I could send an RFC if
> you don't mind.
The biggest stumbling block I see is the user interface; some generic
QoS hints based thing that allows us to do random things -- like tune
the above might do, dunno.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-12 14:28 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 [this message]
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
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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