Hi Steve,
these patches fall into the bucket of 'optimization of updating the
value only if the root cfs_rq util has changed' as discussed in '[PATCH
5/8] sched/cpufreq: pass sched class into cpufreq_update_util' of Mike
T's current series '[PATCH 0/8] schedutil enhancements', right?
I wonder if it makes sense to apply them before a proper 'capacity vote
aggregation from CFS/RT/DL' has been agreed upon?
Otherwise I agree with the changes in your 3 patches (inc. "[RFC PATCH]
sched/fair: call cpufreq hook in additional paths") to only invoke
cpufreq_update_util() if &rq->cfs.avg.util_avg has really changed.
On 03/22/2016 01:21 AM, Steve Muckle wrote:
The cpufreq hook should be called whenever the root cfs_rq
utilization changes so update_cfs_rq_load_avg() is a better
place for it. The current location is not invoked in the
enqueue_entity() or update_blocked_averages() paths.
Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuc...@linaro.org>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 46d64e4ccfde..d418deb04049 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2825,7 +2825,9 @@ static inline u64 cfs_rq_clock_task(struct cfs_rq
*cfs_rq);
static inline int update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{
struct sched_avg *sa = &cfs_rq->avg;
+ struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq);
int decayed, removed = 0;
+ int cpu = cpu_of(rq);
if (atomic_long_read(&cfs_rq->removed_load_avg)) {
s64 r = atomic_long_xchg(&cfs_rq->removed_load_avg, 0);
@@ -2840,7 +2842,7 @@ static inline int update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct
cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
sa->util_sum = max_t(s32, sa->util_sum - r * LOAD_AVG_MAX, 0);
}
- decayed = __update_load_avg(now, cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)), sa,
+ decayed = __update_load_avg(now, cpu, sa,
scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight), cfs_rq->curr != NULL,
cfs_rq);
Why did you change these 3 lines above? You reverted this back in "[RFC
PATCH] sched/fair: call cpufreq hook in additional paths".
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