From 7d0583cf9ec7bf8e5897dc7d3a7059e8fae5464a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dietmar Eggemann Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 13:57:35 +0200 Subject: sched/fair, cpufreq: Introduce 'runnable boosting' The responsiveness of the Per Entity Load Tracking (PELT) util_avg in mobile devices is still considered too low for utilization changes during task ramp-up. In Android this manifests in the fact that the first frames of a UI activity are very prone to be jankframes (a frame which doesn't meet the required frame rendering time, e.g. 16ms@60Hz) since the CPU frequency is normally low at this point and has to ramp up quickly. The beginning of an UI activity is also characterized by the occurrence of CPU contention, especially on little CPUs. Current little CPUs can have an original CPU capacity of only ~ 150 which means that the actual CPU capacity at lower frequency can even be much smaller. Schedutil maps CPU util_avg into CPU frequency request via: util = effective_cpu_util(..., cpu_util_cfs(cpu), ...) -> util = map_util_perf(util) -> freq = map_util_freq(util, ...) CPU contention for CFS tasks can be detected by 'CPU runnable > CPU utililization' in cpu_util_cfs_boost() -> cpu_util(..., boost = 1). Schedutil uses 'runnable boosting' by calling cpu_util_cfs_boost(). To be in sync with schedutil's CPU frequency selection, Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) also calls cpu_util(..., boost = 1) during max util detection. Moreover, 'runnable boosting' is also used in load-balance for busiest CPU selection when the migration type is 'migrate_util', i.e. only at sched domains which don't have the SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES flag set. Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515115735.296329-3-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com --- kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c index e3211455b203..4492608b7d7f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c @@ -155,10 +155,11 @@ static unsigned int get_next_freq(struct sugov_policy *sg_policy, static void sugov_get_util(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu) { + unsigned long util = cpu_util_cfs_boost(sg_cpu->cpu); struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(sg_cpu->cpu); sg_cpu->bw_dl = cpu_bw_dl(rq); - sg_cpu->util = effective_cpu_util(sg_cpu->cpu, cpu_util_cfs(sg_cpu->cpu), + sg_cpu->util = effective_cpu_util(sg_cpu->cpu, util, FREQUENCY_UTIL, NULL); } -- cgit v1.2.3