[PATCH 1/4] arm: Frequency invariant scheduler load-tracking support

From: Michael Turquette
Date: Mon May 04 2015 - 18:12:01 EST


From: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@xxxxxxx>

Implements arch-specific function to provide the scheduler with a
frequency scaling correction factor for more accurate load-tracking. The
factor is:

current_freq(cpu) << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT / max_freq(cpu)

This implementation only provides frequency invariance. No
micro-architecture invariance yet.

Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@xxxxxxx>
---
Morten supplied this patch to me in "preview" form. He hasn't posted it
yet that I am aware of and I expect it to show up in his EAS v4 patch
series. The patch may look different at that point. It replaces the
following two patches from his EAS v3 series:

"cpufreq: Architecture specific callback for frequency changes"
"arm: Frequency invariant scheduler load-tracking support"

arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h | 7 ++++++
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 17 +++++++++++++
3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
index 2fe85ff..4b985dc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ void init_cpu_topology(void);
void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid);
const struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu);

+#define arch_scale_freq_capacity arm_arch_scale_freq_capacity
+struct sched_domain;
+extern
+unsigned long arm_arch_scale_freq_capacity(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu);
+
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(atomic_long_t, cpu_freq_capacity);
+
#else

static inline void init_cpu_topology(void) { }
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 86ef244..297ce1b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -672,12 +672,34 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, l_p_j_ref);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, l_p_j_ref_freq);
static unsigned long global_l_p_j_ref;
static unsigned long global_l_p_j_ref_freq;
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_long_t, cpu_max_freq);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_long_t, cpu_freq_capacity);
+
+/*
+ * Scheduler load-tracking scale-invariance
+ *
+ * Provides the scheduler with a scale-invariance correction factor that
+ * compensates for frequency scaling through arch_scale_freq_capacity()
+ * (implemented in topology.c).
+ */
+static inline
+void scale_freq_capacity(int cpu, unsigned long curr, unsigned long max)
+{
+ unsigned long capacity;
+
+ if (!max)
+ return;
+
+ capacity = (curr << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT) / max;
+ atomic_long_set(&per_cpu(cpu_freq_capacity, cpu), capacity);
+}

static int cpufreq_callback(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long val, void *data)
{
struct cpufreq_freqs *freq = data;
int cpu = freq->cpu;
+ unsigned long max = atomic_long_read(&per_cpu(cpu_max_freq, cpu));

if (freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)
return NOTIFY_OK;
@@ -702,6 +724,9 @@ static int cpufreq_callback(struct notifier_block *nb,
per_cpu(l_p_j_ref_freq, cpu),
freq->new);
}
+
+ scale_freq_capacity(cpu, freq->new, max);
+
return NOTIFY_OK;
}

@@ -709,11 +734,35 @@ static struct notifier_block cpufreq_notifier = {
.notifier_call = cpufreq_callback,
};

+static int cpufreq_policy_callback(struct notifier_block *nb,
+ unsigned long val, void *data)
+{
+ struct cpufreq_policy *policy = data;
+ int i;
+
+ for_each_cpu(i, policy->cpus) {
+ scale_freq_capacity(i, policy->cur, policy->max);
+ atomic_long_set(&per_cpu(cpu_max_freq, i), policy->max);
+ }
+
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block cpufreq_policy_notifier = {
+ .notifier_call = cpufreq_policy_callback,
+};
+
static int __init register_cpufreq_notifier(void)
{
- return cpufreq_register_notifier(&cpufreq_notifier,
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = cpufreq_register_notifier(&cpufreq_notifier,
CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ return cpufreq_register_notifier(&cpufreq_policy_notifier,
+ CPUFREQ_POLICY_NOTIFIER);
}
core_initcall(register_cpufreq_notifier);
-
#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
index 08b7847..9c09e6e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
@@ -169,6 +169,23 @@ static void update_cpu_capacity(unsigned int cpu)
cpu, arch_scale_cpu_capacity(NULL, cpu));
}

+/*
+ * Scheduler load-tracking scale-invariance
+ *
+ * Provides the scheduler with a scale-invariance correction factor that
+ * compensates for frequency scaling (arch_scale_freq_capacity()). The scaling
+ * factor is updated in smp.c
+ */
+unsigned long arm_arch_scale_freq_capacity(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
+{
+ unsigned long curr = atomic_long_read(&per_cpu(cpu_freq_capacity, cpu));
+
+ if (!curr)
+ return SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE;
+
+ return curr;
+}
+
#else
static inline void parse_dt_topology(void) {}
static inline void update_cpu_capacity(unsigned int cpuid) {}
--
1.9.1

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