On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:01:15PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> > > In case a more formal derivation of this formula is needed, it is
>> > > based on the following 3 assumptions:
>> > >
>> > > (1) Performance is a linear function of frequency.
>> > > (2) Required performance is a linear function of the utilization ratio
>> > > x = util/max as provided by the scheduler (0 <= x <= 1).
>> >
>> > Just to mention that the utilization that you are using, varies with
>> > the frequency which add another variable in your equation
>>
>> Right, x86 hasn't implemented arch_scale_freq_capacity(), so the
>> utilization values we use are all over the map. If we lower freq, the
>> util will go up, which would result in us bumping the freq again, etc..
>
> Something like the completely untested below should maybe work.
>
> Rafael?
It looks reasonable (modulo the MPERF reading typo you've noticed),
but can we get back to that later?
I'll first try to address the Ingo's feedback (which I hope I
understood correctly) and some other comments people had and resend
the series.
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 +++++++
> 4 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
> index 7f991bd5031b..af7b7259db94 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
> @@ -146,4 +146,23 @@ struct pci_bus;
> int x86_pci_root_bus_node(int bus);
> void x86_pci_root_bus_resources(int bus, struct list_head *resources);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +
> +#define arch_scale_freq_tick arch_scale_freq_tick
> +#define arch_scale_freq_capacity arch_scale_freq_capacity
> +
> +DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, arch_cpu_freq);
> +
> +static inline arch_scale_freq_capacity(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> +{
> + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
> + return per_cpu(arch_cpu_freq, cpu);
> + else
> + return SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE;
> +}
> +
> +extern void arch_scale_freq_tick(void);
> +
> +#endif
> +
> #endif /* _ASM_X86_TOPOLOGY_H */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> index 3bf1e0b5f827..7d459577ee44 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -1647,3 +1647,27 @@ void native_play_dead(void)
> }
>
> #endif
> +
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, arch_prev_aperf);
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, arch_prev_mperf);
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, arch_cpu_freq);
> +
> +void arch_scale_freq_tick(void)
> +{
> + u64 aperf, mperf;
> + u64 acnt, mcnt;
> +
> + if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
> + return;
> +
> + aperf = rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF);
> + mperf = rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_APERF);
> +
> + acnt = aperf - this_cpu_read(arch_prev_aperf);
> + mcnt = mperf - this_cpu_read(arch_prev_mperf);
> +
> + this_cpu_write(arch_prev_aperf, aperf);
> + this_cpu_write(arch_prev_mperf, mperf);
> +
> + this_cpu_write(arch_cpu_freq, div64_u64(acnt * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE, mcnt));
> +}
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 96e323b26ea9..35dbf909afb2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2901,6 +2901,7 @@ void scheduler_tick(void)
> struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> struct task_struct *curr = rq->curr;
>
> + arch_scale_freq_tick();
> sched_clock_tick();
>
> raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index baa32075f98e..c3825c920e3f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -1408,6 +1408,13 @@ unsigned long arch_scale_freq_capacity(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> }
> #endif
>
> +#ifndef arch_scale_freq_tick
> +static __always_inline
> +void arch_scale_freq_tick(void)
> +{
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> #ifndef arch_scale_cpu_capacity
> static __always_inline
> unsigned long arch_scale_cpu_capacity(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
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