[RFC PATCH v1 0/8] SCHED_DEADLINE freq/cpu invariance and OPP selection

[Juri Lelli]

Hi,

v1 of the RFC set implementing frequency/cpu invariance and OPP selection for
SCHED_DEADLINE [1]. The set is based on tip/sched/core as of today
(72298e5c92c5), which now already includes Luca's "CPU reclaiming for
SCHED_DEADLINE".

Thanks a lot for reviewing RFCv0!

Patches high level description:

 o [01-02]/08 add the necessary links to start accounting DEADLINE contribution
              to OPP selection 
 o 03/08      it's a temporary solution to make possible (on ARM) to change
              frequency for DEADLINE tasks (that would possibly delay the SCHED_FIFO
              worker kthread); proper solution would be to be able to issue frequency
              transition from an atomic ctx
 o [04-05]/08 it's a schedutil change that copes with the fact that DEADLINE
              doesn't require periodic OPP selection triggering point
 o [06-07]/08 make arch_scale_{freq,cpu}_capacity() function available on !CONFIG_SMP
              configurations too
 o 08/08      implements frequency/cpu invariance for tasks' reservation
              parameters; which basically means that we implement GRUB-PA [2]

Changes w.r.t. RFCv0:

 - rebase on tip/sched/core
 - make use of BW_SHIFT for calculations (Peter)
 - added a comment about guaranteed/requested frequency (Peter)
 - use a high bit for sched_flags SCHED_FLAG_SPECIAL hack; don't expose it to
   userspace and add comments (Peter)
 - refactor aggregation of utilization from scheduling classes

Please have a look. Feedback and comments are, as usual, more than welcome.

In case you would like to test this out:

 git://linux-arm.org/linux-jl.git upstream/deadline/freq-rfc-v1

Best,

- Juri


Juri Lelli (8):
  sched/cpufreq_schedutil: make use of DEADLINE utilization signal
  sched/deadline: move cpu frequency selection triggering points
  sched/cpufreq_schedutil: make worker kthread be SCHED_DEADLINE
  sched/cpufreq_schedutil: split utilization signals
  sched/cpufreq_schedutil: always consider all CPUs when deciding next
    freq
  sched/sched.h: remove sd arch_scale_freq_capacity parameter
  sched/sched.h: move arch_scale_{freq,cpu}_capacity outside CONFIG_SMP
  sched/deadline: make bandwidth enforcement scale-invariant

 include/linux/sched.h            |  1 +
 include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h    |  2 --
 include/linux/sched/topology.h   | 12 +++----
 kernel/sched/core.c              | 15 ++++++--
 kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 kernel/sched/deadline.c          | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 kernel/sched/fair.c              |  4 +--
 kernel/sched/sched.h             | 51 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 8 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)

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