Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86,sched: Add support for frequency invariance

[Giovanni Gherdovich]

Hello Quentin,

On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 12:57 +0200, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Hi Giovanni
> 
> On Monday 09 Sep 2019 at 04:42:15 (+0200), Giovanni Gherdovich wrote:
> > +static inline long arch_scale_freq_capacity(int cpu)
> > +{
> > +	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF))
> > +		return per_cpu(arch_cpu_freq, cpu);
> 
> So, if this is conditional, perhaps you could also add this check in an
> x86-specific implementation of arch_scale_freq_invariant() ? That would
> guide sugov in the right path (see get_next_freq()) if APERF/MPERF are
> unavailable.
> 
> > +	return 1024 /* SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE */;
> > +}
>

Good remark. If the cpu doesn't have APERF/MPERF, the choice here is that
freq_curr is constantly equal to freq_max, and the scaling factor is 1 all the
time.

But I'm checking this static_cpu_has() every time I do a frequency update;
arguably schedutil should be smarter and settle such a case once and for all
at boot time.

I'll check what's the cost of static_cpu_has() and if it's non-negligible I'll
do what you suggest (x86-specific version of arch_scale_freq_invariant().


Giovanni