Re: çå: [PATCH V4] sched/cpufreq: initialize iowait_boost_max and iowait_boost with cpu capacity

[Quentin Perret]

On Monday 04 Mar 2019 at 18:40:28 (+0100), Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Perhaps you could keep the 'util' and 'max' pointers in
> > sugov_iowait_apply() and overwrite them like before, but in the
> > SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE scale as you suggest ?
> 
> Urgh; but then we're back to having that boostrap problem.

Hmm, I don't understand :/

> Now; at this time; @max is in fact scale_cpu_capacity, so can't we
> change this:
> 
> -       /*
> -        * Apply the current boost value: a CPU is boosted only if its current
> -        * utilization is smaller then the current IO boost level.
> -        */
> -       boost_util = sg_cpu->iowait_boost;
> -       boost_max = sg_cpu->iowait_boost_max;

I was basically suggesting to do 'boost_max = 1024;' here and you
should be good with you way of computing 'min' no ?

> -       if (*util * boost_max < *max * boost_util) {
> -               *util = boost_util;
> -               *max = boost_max;
> -       }
> +       sg_cpu->iowait_boost_pending = false;
> +
> +       return min(max(util, sg_cpu->iowait_boost), max);
> }
> 
> to something like:
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * @util is already in capacity scale, convert iowait_boost
> 	 * into the same scale so we can compare.
> 	 */
> 	boost = (sg_cpu->iowait_boost * max) >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT;
> 	util = max(boost, util);
> 	return min(util, max);
> 

But this should work too, I think.

Thanks,
Quentin