Re: [PATCH 1/1] intel_pstate: Increase hold-off time before busyness is scaled

[Stephane Gasparini]

Hi Doug


> On Feb 19, 2016, at 5:38 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Steph,
> 
> On 2016.02.19 03:12 Stephane Gasparini wrote:
>> 
>> The issue you are reporting looks like one we improved on android by using 
>> the average pstate instead of using the last requested pstate
>> 
>> We know that this is improving the ffmpeg encoding performance when using the
>> load algorithm.
>> 
>> see patch attached
>> 
>> This patch is only applied on get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load however you can give
>> it a try on get_target_pstate_use_performance
> 
> Yes, that type of patch works on the load based approach.
> Iâm not talking about using average p-state in the scaled_busy computation.

Iâm talking adding the output of the PID (the number of pstate to ad or subtract)
to the average pstate rather than adding this to the current p-sate.

The current p-state is in some situation not reflecting the reality as the 
current p-state can be imposed by a "linked CPU". This is the case when you have a
thread migration on "linked CPU" that was not loaded. Its current P-State will be low
while its average p-state will reflect the activity of the "linked CPU".

I will not claim this is a perfect solution, but this combined to the topology 
awareness of the scheduler is helping to take better decision.

> However, I do not think it works on the performance based approach. Why not?
> Well, and if I understand correctly, follow the math and you end up with:
> 
> scaled_busy = 100%
> 
> scaled_busy = (aperf * 100% / mperf) * (max_pstate / * ((aperf * max_pstate) / mperf))
> 
> ... Doug
> 
> 
â
Steph