Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Add allowed CPU capacity knowledge to EAS

[Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>]

Hi Peter,


On 6/14/21 7:58 PM, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The patch set v4 aims to add knowledge about reduced CPU capacity
> into the Energy Model (EM) and Energy Aware Scheduler (EAS). Currently the
> issue is that SchedUtil CPU frequency and EM frequency are not aligned,
> when there is a CPU thermal capping. This causes an estimation error.
> This patch set provides the information about allowed CPU capacity
> into the EM (thanks to thermal pressure information). This improves the
> energy estimation. More info about this mechanism can be found in the
> patches description.
> 
> Changelog:
> v4:
> - removed local variable and improved description in patch 2/3
> - added Reviewed-by from Vincent for patch 2/3
> - added Acked-by from Viresh for patch 1/3
> v3 [3]:
> - switched to 'raw' per-cpu thermal pressure instead of thermal pressure
>    geometric series signal, since it more suited for purpose of
>    this use case: predicting SchedUtil frequency (Vincent, Dietmar)
> - added more comment in the patch 2/3 header for use case when thermal
>    capping might be applied even the CPUs are not over-utilized
>    (Dietmar)
> - added ACK tag from Rafael for SchedUtil part
> - added a fix patch for offline CPUs in cpufreq_cooling and per-cpu
>    thermal_pressure missing update
> v2 [2]:
> - clamp the returned value from effective_cpu_util() and avoid irq
>    util scaling issues (Quentin)
> v1 is available at [1]
> 
> Regards,
> Lukasz
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20210602135609.10867-1-lukasz.luba@arm.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210604080954.13915-1-lukasz.luba@arm.com/
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210610150324.22919-1-lukasz.luba@arm.com/
> 
> Lukasz Luba (3):
>    thermal: cpufreq_cooling: Update also offline CPUs per-cpu
>      thermal_pressure
>    sched/fair: Take thermal pressure into account while estimating energy
>    sched/cpufreq: Consider reduced CPU capacity in energy calculation
> 
>   drivers/thermal/cpufreq_cooling.c |  2 +-
>   include/linux/energy_model.h      | 16 +++++++++++++---
>   include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h     |  2 +-
>   kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c  |  1 +
>   kernel/sched/fair.c               | 13 +++++++++----
>   5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

Could you take these 3 patches via your tree, please?
I'm asking you because the fair.c has most changes
(apart from energy_model.h) and the patches got
ACKs from Rafael and Viresh. The patch which touches
fair.c got Reviewed-by Vincent Guittot. I have address
all the comment, thus, IMHO it could fly now.

Please let me know if you like me to re-base on top
of some of your branches.

Regards,
Lukasz