The Energy Aware Scheduler (AES) estimates the energy impact of waking
up a task on a given CPU. This estimation is based on:
a) an (active) power consumptions defined for each CPU frequency
b) an estimation of which frequency will be used on each CPU
c) an estimation of the busy time (utilization) of each CPU
Utilization clamping can affect both b) and c) estimations. A CPU is
expected to run:
- on an higher than required frequency, but for a shorter time, in case
its estimated utilization will be smaller then the minimum utilization
enforced by uclamp
- on a smaller than required frequency, but for a longer time, in case
its estimated utilization is bigger then the maximum utilization
enforced by uclamp
While effects on busy time for both boosted/capped tasks are already
considered by compute_energy(), clamping effects on frequency selection
are currently ignored by that function.
Fix it by considering how CPU clamp values will be affected by a
task waking up and being RUNNABLE on that CPU.
Do that by refactoring schedutil_freq_util() to take an additional
task_struct* which allows EAS to evaluate the impact on clamp values of
a task being eventually queued in a CPU. Clamp values are applied to the
RT+CFS utilization only when a FREQUENCY_UTIL is required by
compute_energy().
Do note that switching from ENERGY_UTIL to FREQUENCY_UTIL in the
computation of cpu_util signal implies that we are more likely to
estimate the higherst OPP when a RT task is running in another CPU of
the same performance domain. This can have an impact on energy
estimation but:
- it's not easy to say which approach is better, since it quite likely
depends on the use case
- the original approach could still be obtained by setting a smaller
task-specific util_min whenever required
Since we are at that:
- rename schedutil_freq_util() into schedutil_cpu_util(),
since it's not only used for frequency selection.
- use "unsigned int" instead of "unsigned long" whenever the tracked
utilization value is not expected to overflow 32bit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v7:
Message-ID: <20190122151404.5rtosic6puixado3@queper01-lin>
- add a note on side-effects due to the usage of FREQUENCY_UTIL for
performance domain frequency estimation
- add a similer note to this changelog
---
kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 18 ++++++++-------
kernel/sched/fair.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
kernel/sched/sched.h | 18 ++++-----------
3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index 70a8b87fa29c..fdad719fca8b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -195,10 +195,11 @@ static unsigned int get_next_freq(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy,
* based on the task model parameters and gives the minimal utilization
* required to meet deadlines.
*/
-unsigned long schedutil_freq_util(int cpu, unsigned long util_cfs,
- unsigned long max, enum schedutil_type type)
+unsigned int schedutil_cpu_util(int cpu, unsigned int util_cfs,
+ unsigned int max, enum schedutil_type type,
+ struct task_struct *p)
{
- unsigned long dl_util, util, irq;
+ unsigned int dl_util, util, irq;
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
if (!IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK) &&
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ unsigned long schedutil_freq_util(int cpu, unsigned long util_cfs,
*/
util = util_cfs + cpu_util_rt(rq);
if (type == FREQUENCY_UTIL)
- util = uclamp_util(rq, util);
+ util = uclamp_util_with(rq, util, p);
dl_util = cpu_util_dl(rq);
@@ -283,13 +284,14 @@ unsigned long schedutil_freq_util(int cpu, unsigned long util_cfs,
static unsigned long sugov_get_util(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu)
{
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(sg_cpu->cpu);
- unsigned long util = cpu_util_cfs(rq);
- unsigned long max = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, sg_cpu->cpu);
+ unsigned int util_cfs = cpu_util_cfs(rq);
+ unsigned int cpu_cap = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, sg_cpu->cpu);
- sg_cpu->max = max;
+ sg_cpu->max = cpu_cap;
sg_cpu->bw_dl = cpu_bw_dl(rq);
- return schedutil_freq_util(sg_cpu->cpu, util, max, FREQUENCY_UTIL);
+ return schedutil_cpu_util(sg_cpu->cpu, util_cfs, cpu_cap,
+ FREQUENCY_UTIL, NULL);
}
/**
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8c0aa76af90a..f6b0808e01ad 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6453,11 +6453,20 @@ static unsigned long cpu_util_next(int cpu, struct task_struct *p, int dst_cpu)
static long
compute_energy(struct task_struct *p, int dst_cpu, struct perf_domain *pd)
{
- long util, max_util, sum_util, energy = 0;
+ unsigned int max_util, cfs_util, cpu_util, cpu_cap;
+ unsigned long sum_util, energy = 0;
int cpu;
for (; pd; pd = pd->next) {
+ struct cpumask *pd_mask = perf_domain_span(pd);
+
+ /*
+ * The energy model mandate all the CPUs of a performance
+ * domain have the same capacity.
+ */
+ cpu_cap = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpumask_first(pd_mask));
max_util = sum_util = 0;
+
/*
* The capacity state of CPUs of the current rd can be driven by
* CPUs of another rd if they belong to the same performance
@@ -6468,11 +6477,29 @@ compute_energy(struct task_struct *p, int dst_cpu, struct perf_domain *pd)
* it will not appear in its pd list and will not be accounted
* by compute_energy().
*/
- for_each_cpu_and(cpu, perf_domain_span(pd), cpu_online_mask) {
- util = cpu_util_next(cpu, p, dst_cpu);
- util = schedutil_energy_util(cpu, util);
- max_util = max(util, max_util);
- sum_util += util;
+ for_each_cpu_and(cpu, pd_mask, cpu_online_mask) {
+ cfs_util = cpu_util_next(cpu, p, dst_cpu);
+
+ /*
+ * Busy time computation: utilization clamping is not
+ * required since the ratio (sum_util / cpu_capacity)
+ * is already enough to scale the EM reported power
+ * consumption at the (eventually clamped) cpu_capacity.
+ */
+ sum_util += schedutil_cpu_util(cpu, cfs_util, cpu_cap,
+ ENERGY_UTIL, NULL);
+
+ /*
+ * Performance domain frequency: utilization clamping
+ * must be considered since it affects the selection
+ * of the performance domain frequency.
+ * NOTE: in case RT tasks are running, by default the
+ * FREQUENCY_UTIL's utilization can be max OPP.
+ */
+ cpu_util = schedutil_cpu_util(cpu, cfs_util, cpu_cap,
+ FREQUENCY_UTIL,
+ cpu == dst_cpu ? p : NULL);
+ max_util = max(max_util, cpu_util);
}
energy += em_pd_energy(pd->em_pd, max_util, sum_util);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index de181b8a3a2a..b9acef080d99 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -2335,6 +2335,7 @@ static inline unsigned long capacity_orig_of(int cpu)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL
+
/**
* enum schedutil_type - CPU utilization type
* @FREQUENCY_UTIL: Utilization used to select frequency
@@ -2350,15 +2351,9 @@ enum schedutil_type {
ENERGY_UTIL,
};
-unsigned long schedutil_freq_util(int cpu, unsigned long util_cfs,
- unsigned long max, enum schedutil_type type);
-
-static inline unsigned long schedutil_energy_util(int cpu, unsigned long cfs)
-{
- unsigned long max = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu);
-
- return schedutil_freq_util(cpu, cfs, max, ENERGY_UTIL);
-}
+unsigned int schedutil_cpu_util(int cpu, unsigned int util_cfs,
+ unsigned int max, enum schedutil_type type,
+ struct task_struct *p);
static inline unsigned long cpu_bw_dl(struct rq *rq)
{
@@ -2387,10 +2382,7 @@ static inline unsigned long cpu_util_rt(struct rq *rq)
return READ_ONCE(rq->avg_rt.util_avg);
}
#else /* CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL */
-static inline unsigned long schedutil_energy_util(int cpu, unsigned long cfs)
-{
- return cfs;
-}
+#define schedutil_cpu_util(cpu, util_cfs, max, type, p) 0
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
--
2.20.1
