Re: [PATCH 1/3] Added runqueue clock normalized with cpufreq

[Harald Gustafsson]

2010/12/17 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> I'm thinking this is going about it totally wrong..
>
> Solving the CPUfreq problem involves writing a SCHED_DEADLINE aware
> CPUfreq governor. The governor must know about the constraints placed on
> the system by the task-set. You simply cannot lower the frequency when
> your system is at u=1.
>
> Once you have a governor that keeps the freq such that: freq/max_freq >=
> utilization (which is only sufficient for deadline == period systems),
> then you need to frob the SCHED_DEADLINE runtime accounting.

I agree that this is the other part of the solution, which I have in a separate
ondemand governor, but that code is not ready for public review yet. Since that
code also incorporate other ondemand changes I'm playing with. Such
changes to the ondemand is quite simple it just picks a frequency that at
least supports the total dl bandwidth. It might get tricky for systems which
support individual/clusters frequency for the cores on the system together with
the G-EDF.

> Adding a complete normalized clock to the system like you've done is a
> total no-go, it adds overhead even for the !SCHED_DEADLINE case.

I suspected this, it works as a proof of concept, but not good for mainline.
I will rework this part, if we in general thinks having the dl runtime
accounting
be cpufreq "aware" is a good idea.

> The simple solution would be to slow down the runtime accounting of
> SCHED_DEADLINE tasks by freq/max_freq. So instead of having:
>
>  dl_se->runtime -= delta;
>
> you do something like:
>
>  dl_se->runtime -= (freq * delta) / max_freq;
>
> Which auto-magically grows the actual bandwidth, and since the deadlines
> are wall-time already it all works out nicely. It also keeps the
> overhead inside SCHED_DEADLINE.

OK, I can do that. My thought from the beginning was considering that
the reading of the clock was done more often then updating it, but I agree that
it has a negative impact on none dl threads.

/Harald
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