Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] sched/cpufreq: Make schedutil energy aware

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Douglas RAILLARD wrote:
> Make schedutil cpufreq governor energy-aware.
> 
> - patch 4 adds sugov_cpu_ramp_boost() function.
> - patch 5 updates sugov_update_(single|shared)() to make use of
>   sugov_cpu_ramp_boost().
> 
> The benefits of using the EM in schedutil are twofold:

> 2) Driving the frequency selection with power in mind, in addition to
>    maximizing the utilization of the non-idle CPUs in the system.

> Point 2) is enabled in
> "sched/cpufreq: Boost schedutil frequency ramp up". It allows using
> higher frequencies when it is known that the true utilization of
> currently running tasks is exceeding their previous stable point.
> The benefits are:
> 
> * Boosting the frequency when the behavior of a runnable task changes,
>   leading to an increase in utilization. That shortens the frequency
>   ramp up duration, which in turns allows the utilization signal to
>   reach stable values quicker.  Since the allowed frequency boost is
>   bounded in energy, it will behave consistently across platforms,
>   regardless of the OPP cost range.
> 
> * The boost is only transient, and should not impact a lot the energy
>   consumed of workloads with very stable utilization signals.

So you're allowing a higher pick when the EWMA exceeds the enqueue
thing.

This then obviously has relation to Patrick's patch that makes the EWMA
asymmetric, but I'm thinking that the interaction is mostly favourable?

I'm not immediately seeing how it is transient; that is, PELT has a
wobble in it's steady state, is that accounted for?