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

Lukasz Luba
2021-06-14T18:58:38Z

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(-)

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