Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Sep 15 2018 - 07:47:06 EST



* tip-bot for Vincent Guittot <tipbot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit-ID: 2e62c4743adc4c7bfcbc1f45118fc7bec58cf30a
> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/2e62c4743adc4c7bfcbc1f45118fc7bec58cf30a
> Author: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:00:06 +0200
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:41:05 +0200
>
> sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()
>
> Reuse cpu_util_irq() that has been defined for schedutil and set irq util
> to 0 when !CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING.
>
> But the compiler is not able to optimize the sequence (at least with
> aarch64 GCC 7.2.1):
>
> free *= (max - irq);
> free /= max;
>
> when irq is fixed to 0
>
> Add a new inline function scale_irq_capacity() that will scale utilization
> when irq is accounted. Reuse this funciton in schedutil which applies
> similar formula.
>
> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532001606-6689-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
> kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 3 +--
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 13 +++----------
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
> 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

This commit introduced a build warning in the SMP=n case, could we please fix that? (Probably
the best to maintain variant would be to mark it as __maybe_unused.)

Also, while at it, there's a number of other places that use this pattern:

> -#if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) || defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING)
> +#ifdef HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ

Could we convert those to HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ as well?

dagon:~/tip> git grep 'defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) || defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING)' kernel/sched/
kernel/sched/core.c:#if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) || defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING)
kernel/sched/fair.c:#if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) || defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING)
kernel/sched/pelt.c:#if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) || defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING)
kernel/sched/pelt.h:#if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) || defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING)
kernel/sched/sched.h:#if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) || defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING)

Thanks,

Ingo