Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/1] cpuidle: teo: Introduce optional util-awareness

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 9:52 PM Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Kajetan,
>
> On 20/10/2022 18:20, Kajetan Puchalski wrote:
> > Hi Rafael,
> >
> >> The avg_util value tells us nothing about how much the CPU is going to
> >> be idle this time and it also tells us nothing about the
> >> latency-sensitivity of the workload.
> >>
> >> Yes, it tells us how much idle time there was on the given CPU in the
> >> past, on the average, but there is zero information about the
> >> distribution of that idle time in it.
> >>
> >> So in the first place please tell me why it fundamentally makes sense
> >> to use avg_util in CPU idle time management at all.
> >
> > I have an alternative suggestion that could be a reasonable way forward
> > here. Instead of applying util-awareness on top of TEO where it would
> > have to be reconciled with how TEO is currently expected to work, I just
> > wrote a simple completely new governor which operates only on timer
> > events alongside util values.
>
> I second the idea. I took a long time to investigate how to improve the
> governor and reached the conclusion having a dedicated governor for
> mobile platform makes sense.

Please define "mobile".

> Also the behavior is very platform dependent.

I'm not sure what you mean.