Re: [RFCv4 PATCH 00/34] sched: Energy cost model for energy-aware scheduling

From: Sai Gurrappadi
Date: Tue May 12 2015 - 18:08:06 EST



On 05/12/2015 12:38 PM, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> Test results for ARM TC2 (2xA15+3xA7) with cpufreq enabled:
>
> sysbench: Single task running for 3 seconds.
> rt-app [4]: mp3 playback use-case model
> rt-app [4]: 5 ~[6,13,19,25,31,38,44,50]% periodic (2ms) tasks
>
> Note: % is relative to the capacity of the fastest cpu at the highest
> frequency, i.e. the more busy ones do not fit on little cpus.
>
> A newer version of rt-app was used which supports a better but slightly
> different way of modelling the periodic tasks. Numbers are therefore
> _not_ comparable to the RFCv3 numbers.
>
> Average numbers for 20 runs per test (ARM TC2).
>
> Energy Mainline EAS noEAS
>
> sysbench 100 251* 227*
>
> rt-app mp3 100 63 111
>
> rt-app 6% 100 42 102
> rt-app 13% 100 58 101
> rt-app 19% 100 87 101
> rt-app 25% 100 94 104
> rt-app 31% 100 93 104
> rt-app 38% 100 114 117
> rt-app 44% 100 115 118
> rt-app 50% 100 125 126

Hi Morten,

What is noEAS? From the numbers, noEAS != Mainline?

Maybe also have some perf numbers to show that perf is in fact preserved
while lowering power.

-Sai

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/