[PATCH] sched/fair: remove redundant call to cpufreq_update_util

[Vincent Guittot]

With commit bef69dd87828 ("sched/cpufreq: Move the cfs_rq_util_change() call to cpufreq_update_util()")
update_load_avg() has become the central point for calling cpufreq (not
including the update of blocked load). This change helps to simplify
further the number of call to cpufreq_update_util() and to remove last
redundant ones. With update_load_avg(), we are now sure that
cpufreq_update_util() will be called after every task attachment to a
cfs_rq and especially after propagating this event down to the util_avg of
the root cfs_rq, which is the level that is used by cpufreq governors like
schedutil to set the frequency of a CPU.

The SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION flag forces an early call to cpufreq when the
migration happens in a cgroup whereas util_avg of root cfs_rq is not yet
updated and this call is duplicated with the one that happens immediately
after when the migration event reaches the root cfs_rq. The dedicated flag
SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION is now useless and can be removed. The interface of
attach_entity_load_avg() can also be simplified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h |  1 -
 kernel/sched/fair.c           | 14 +++++++-------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h
index cc6bcc1e96bc..3ed5aa18593f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
  */
 
 #define SCHED_CPUFREQ_IOWAIT	(1U << 0)
-#define SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION	(1U << 1)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
 struct cpufreq_policy;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 2d170b5da0e3..023aa42aaac7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ void post_init_entity_util_avg(struct task_struct *p)
 		 * For !fair tasks do:
 		 *
 		update_cfs_rq_load_avg(now, cfs_rq);
-		attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, 0);
+		attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
 		switched_from_fair(rq, p);
 		 *
 		 * such that the next switched_to_fair() has the
@@ -3114,7 +3114,7 @@ static inline void cfs_rq_util_change(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, int flags)
 {
 	struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq);
 
-	if (&rq->cfs == cfs_rq || (flags & SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION)) {
+	if (&rq->cfs == cfs_rq) {
 		/*
 		 * There are a few boundary cases this might miss but it should
 		 * get called often enough that that should (hopefully) not be
@@ -3520,7 +3520,7 @@ update_cfs_rq_load_avg(u64 now, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
  * Must call update_cfs_rq_load_avg() before this, since we rely on
  * cfs_rq->avg.last_update_time being current.
  */
-static void attach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
+static void attach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 {
 	u32 divider = LOAD_AVG_MAX - 1024 + cfs_rq->avg.period_contrib;
 
@@ -3556,7 +3556,7 @@ static void attach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *s
 
 	add_tg_cfs_propagate(cfs_rq, se->avg.load_sum);
 
-	cfs_rq_util_change(cfs_rq, flags);
+	cfs_rq_util_change(cfs_rq, 0);
 
 	trace_pelt_cfs_tp(cfs_rq);
 }
@@ -3614,7 +3614,7 @@ static inline void update_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *s
 		 *
 		 * IOW we're enqueueing a task on a new CPU.
 		 */
-		attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, SCHED_CPUFREQ_MIGRATION);
+		attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
 		update_tg_load_avg(cfs_rq, 0);
 
 	} else if (decayed) {
@@ -3871,7 +3871,7 @@ static inline void update_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *s
 static inline void remove_entity_load_avg(struct sched_entity *se) {}
 
 static inline void
-attach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags) {}
+attach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se) {}
 static inline void
 detach_entity_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se) {}
 
@@ -10439,7 +10439,7 @@ static void attach_entity_cfs_rq(struct sched_entity *se)
 
 	/* Synchronize entity with its cfs_rq */
 	update_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, sched_feat(ATTACH_AGE_LOAD) ? 0 : SKIP_AGE_LOAD);
-	attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, 0);
+	attach_entity_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
 	update_tg_load_avg(cfs_rq, false);
 	propagate_entity_cfs_rq(se);
 }
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