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sched/cpufreq: Rate limits for SCHED_DEADLINE

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When the SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling class increases the CPU utilization, it
should not wait for the rate limit, otherwise it may miss some deadline.

Tests using rt-app on Exynos5422 with up to 10 SCHED_DEADLINE tasks have
shown reductions of even 10% of deadline misses with a negligible
increase of energy consumption (measured through Baylibre Cape).

Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520937340-2755-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com
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Claudio Scordino 2018-03-13 11:35:40 +01:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent d519329f72
commit e97a90f706
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kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
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@ -267,6 +267,16 @@ static bool sugov_cpu_is_busy(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu)
static inline bool sugov_cpu_is_busy(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu) { return false; }
#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
/*
* Make sugov_should_update_freq() ignore the rate limit when DL
* has increased the utilization.
*/
static inline void ignore_dl_rate_limit(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu, struct sugov_policy *sg_policy)
{
if (cpu_util_dl(cpu_rq(sg_cpu->cpu)) > sg_cpu->util_dl)
sg_policy->need_freq_update = true;
}
static void sugov_update_single(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
unsigned int flags)
{
@ -279,6 +289,8 @@ static void sugov_update_single(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time,
sugov_set_iowait_boost(sg_cpu, time, flags);
sg_cpu->last_update = time;
ignore_dl_rate_limit(sg_cpu, sg_policy);
if (!sugov_should_update_freq(sg_policy, time))
return;
@ -356,6 +368,8 @@ sugov_update_shared(struct update_util_data *hook, u64 time, unsigned int flags)
sugov_set_iowait_boost(sg_cpu, time, flags);
sg_cpu->last_update = time;
ignore_dl_rate_limit(sg_cpu, sg_policy);
if (sugov_should_update_freq(sg_policy, time)) {
next_f = sugov_next_freq_shared(sg_cpu, time);
sugov_update_commit(sg_policy, time, next_f);