[RFC PATCH v2 5/8] sched/cpufreq_schedutil: always consider all CPUs when deciding next freq

[Juri Lelli]

From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx>

No assumption can be made upon the rate at which frequency updates get
triggered, as there are scheduling policies (like SCHED_DEADLINE) which
don't trigger them so frequently.

Remove such assumption from the code, by always considering
SCHED_DEADLINE utilization signal as not stale.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index a3072f24dc16..b7a576c8dcaa 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -318,17 +318,21 @@ static unsigned int sugov_next_freq_shared(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu, u64 time)
 		s64 delta_ns;
 
 		/*
-		 * If the CPU utilization was last updated before the previous
-		 * frequency update and the time elapsed between the last update
-		 * of the CPU utilization and the last frequency update is long
-		 * enough, don't take the CPU into account as it probably is
-		 * idle now (and clear iowait_boost for it).
+		 * If the CFS CPU utilization was last updated before the
+		 * previous frequency update and the time elapsed between the
+		 * last update of the CPU utilization and the last frequency
+		 * update is long enough, reset iowait_boost and util_cfs, as
+		 * they are now probably stale. However, still consider the
+		 * CPU contribution if it has some DEADLINE utilization
+		 * (util_dl).
 		 */
 		delta_ns = time - j_sg_cpu->last_update;
 		if (delta_ns > TICK_NSEC) {
 			j_sg_cpu->iowait_boost = 0;
 			j_sg_cpu->iowait_boost_pending = false;
-			continue;
+			j_sg_cpu->util_cfs = 0;
+			if (j_sg_cpu->util_dl == 0)
+				continue;
 		}
 		if (j_sg_cpu->flags & SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT)
 			return policy->cpuinfo.max_freq;
-- 
2.14.3