[RFC PATCH V2 11/19] sched: add power aware scheduling in fork/exec/wake

From: Preeti U Murthy
Date: Mon Aug 11 2014 - 07:38:46 EST


From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch add power aware scheduling in fork/exec/wake. It try to
select cpu from the busiest while still has utilization group. That's
will save power since it leaves more groups idle in system.

The trade off is adding a power aware statistics collection in group
seeking. But since the collection just happened in power scheduling
eligible condition, the worst case of hackbench testing just drops
about 2% with powersaving policy. No clear change for performance
policy.

The main function in this patch is get_cpu_for_power_policy(), that
will try to get a idlest cpu from the busiest while still has
utilization group, if the system is using power aware policy and
has such group.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
[Added CONFIG_SCHED_POWER switch to enable this patch]
Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

kernel/sched/fair.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 114 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 20e2414..e993f1c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4600,6 +4600,103 @@ struct sd_lb_stats {
#endif
};

+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_POWER
+/*
+ * Try to collect the task running number and capacity of the group.
+ */
+static void get_sg_power_stats(struct sched_group *group,
+ struct sched_domain *sd, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for_each_cpu(i, sched_group_cpus(group))
+ sgs->group_util += max_rq_util(i);
+
+ sgs->group_weight = group->group_weight;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Is this domain full of utilization with the task?
+ */
+static int is_sd_full(struct sched_domain *sd,
+ struct task_struct *p, struct sd_lb_stats *sds)
+{
+ struct sched_group *group;
+ struct sg_lb_stats sgs;
+ long sd_min_delta = LONG_MAX;
+ unsigned int putil;
+
+ if (p->se.load.weight == p->se.avg.load_avg_contrib)
+ /* p maybe a new forked task */
+ putil = FULL_UTIL;
+ else
+ putil = (u64)(p->se.avg.runnable_avg_sum << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT)
+ / (p->se.avg.runnable_avg_period + 1);
+
+ /* Try to collect the domain's utilization */
+ group = sd->groups;
+ do {
+ long g_delta;
+
+ memset(&sgs, 0, sizeof(sgs));
+ get_sg_power_stats(group, sd, &sgs);
+
+ g_delta = sgs.group_weight * FULL_UTIL - sgs.group_util;
+
+ if (g_delta > 0 && g_delta < sd_min_delta) {
+ sd_min_delta = g_delta;
+ sds->group_leader = group;
+ }
+
+ sds->sd_util += sgs.group_util;
+ } while (group = group->next, group != sd->groups);
+
+ if (sds->sd_util + putil < sd->span_weight * FULL_UTIL)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* can not hold one more task in this domain */
+ return 1;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Execute power policy if this domain is not full.
+ */
+static inline int get_sd_sched_balance_policy(struct sched_domain *sd,
+ int cpu, struct task_struct *p, struct sd_lb_stats *sds)
+{
+ if (sched_balance_policy == SCHED_POLICY_PERFORMANCE)
+ return SCHED_POLICY_PERFORMANCE;
+
+ memset(sds, 0, sizeof(*sds));
+ if (is_sd_full(sd, p, sds))
+ return SCHED_POLICY_PERFORMANCE;
+ return sched_balance_policy;
+}
+
+/*
+ * If power policy is eligible for this domain, and it has task allowed cpu.
+ * we will select CPU from this domain.
+ */
+static int get_cpu_for_power_policy(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu,
+ struct task_struct *p, struct sd_lb_stats *sds)
+{
+ int policy;
+ int new_cpu = -1;
+
+ policy = get_sd_sched_balance_policy(sd, cpu, p, sds);
+ if (policy != SCHED_POLICY_PERFORMANCE && sds->group_leader)
+ new_cpu = find_idlest_cpu(sds->group_leader, p, cpu);
+
+ return new_cpu;
+}
+#else
+static int get_cpu_for_power_policy(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu,
+ struct task_struct *p, struct sd_lb_stats *sds)
+{
+ return -1;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_POWER */
+
/*
* select_task_rq_fair: Select target runqueue for the waking task in domains
* that have the 'sd_flag' flag set. In practice, this is SD_BALANCE_WAKE,
@@ -4608,6 +4705,9 @@ struct sd_lb_stats {
* Balances load by selecting the idlest cpu in the idlest group, or under
* certain conditions an idle sibling cpu if the domain has SD_WAKE_AFFINE set.
*
+ * If CONFIG_SCHED_POWER is set and SCHED_POLICY_POWERSAVE is enabled, the power
+ * aware scheduler kicks in. It returns a cpu appropriate for power savings.
+ *
* Returns the target cpu number.
*
* preempt must be disabled.
@@ -4620,6 +4720,7 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
int new_cpu = cpu;
int want_affine = 0;
int sync = wake_flags & WF_SYNC;
+ struct sd_lb_stats sds;

if (p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1)
return prev_cpu;
@@ -4645,12 +4746,22 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
break;
}

- if (tmp->flags & sd_flag)
+ if (tmp->flags & sd_flag) {
sd = tmp;
+
+ new_cpu = get_cpu_for_power_policy(sd, cpu, p, &sds);
+ if (new_cpu != -1)
+ goto unlock;
+ }
}
+ if (affine_sd) {
+ new_cpu = get_cpu_for_power_policy(affine_sd, cpu, p, &sds);
+ if (new_cpu != -1)
+ goto unlock;

- if (affine_sd && cpu != prev_cpu && wake_affine(affine_sd, p, sync))
- prev_cpu = cpu;
+ if (cpu != prev_cpu && wake_affine(affine_sd, p, sync))
+ prev_cpu = cpu;
+ }

if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) {
new_cpu = select_idle_sibling(p, prev_cpu);

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