Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Prevent cpu_busy_time from exceeding actual_cpu_capacity

[Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>]

On 20/06/2024 13:37, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 06/20/24 09:45, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 at 20:10, Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/19/24 11:05, Xuewen Yan wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06/18/24 17:23, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 12:53, Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 06/17/24 11:07, Vincent Guittot wrote:

[...]

>>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c
>>>> b/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c
>>>> index 280071be30b1..a8546d69cc10 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c
>>>> @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static u32 get_load(struct cpufreq_cooling_device
>>>> *cpufreq_cdev, int cpu,
>>>>  {
>>>>         unsigned long util = sched_cpu_util(cpu);
>>>>
>>>> -       return (util * 100) / arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu);
>>>> +       return (util * 100) / get_actual_cpu_capacity(cpu);
>>>>  }
>>>>  #else /* !CONFIG_SMP */
>>>>  static u32 get_load(struct cpufreq_cooling_device *cpufreq_cdev, int cpu,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Because if still use arch_scale_cpu_capacity(), the load pct may be decreased,
>>>> It may affect the thermal-IPA-governor's power consideration.
>>>
>>> I am not sure about this one. But looks plausible. Vincent?
>>
>> I don't see why we should change them ? We don't want to change
>> sched_cpu_util() as well
>> AFAICT, the only outcome of this thread is that we should use
>> get_actual_cpu_capacity() instead of arch_scale_cpu_capacity() in
>> util_fits_cpu(). capping the utilization only make the estimation
>> worse
> 
> Yes my bad. Only util_fits_cpu() is needed now

Looks like that's for the uclamp part (2. part) of util_fits_cpu().

For the first part we use capacity_of() which bases on
get_actual_cpu_capacity() [scale_rt_capacity()] and changes each 4ms
[250 Hz].

Our assumption is that hw_load_avg() and cpufreq_get_pressure() change
way less frequent than that, right?

So we can use capacity_of() and get_actual_cpu_capacity() in the same
code path.