Re: [PATCH] cpufreq/schedutil: Only bind threads if needed

[Viresh Kumar]

On 12-09-24, 17:41, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 3:53 PM Christian Loehle
> <christian.loehle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Remove the unconditional binding of sugov kthreads to the affected CPUs
> > if the cpufreq driver indicates that updates can happen from any CPU.
> > This allows userspace to set affinities to either save power (waking up
> > bigger CPUs on HMP can be expensive) or increasing performance (by
> > letting the utilized CPUs run without preemption of the sugov kthread).
> >
> > Without this patch the behavior of sugov threads will basically be a
> > boot-time dice roll on which CPU of the PD has to handle all the
> > cpufreq updates. With the recent decreases of update filtering these
> > two basic problems become more and more apparent:
> > 1. The wake_cpu might be idle and we are waking it up from another
> > CPU just for the cpufreq update. Apart from wasting power, the exit
> > latency of it's idle state might be longer than the sugov threads
> > running time, essentially delaying the cpufreq update unnecessarily.
> > 2. We are preempting either the requesting or another busy CPU of the
> > PD, while the update could be done from a CPU that we deem less
> > important and pay the price of an IPI and two context-switches.
> >
> > The change is essentially not setting PF_NO_SETAFFINITY on
> > dvfs_possible_from_any_cpu, no behavior change if userspace doesn't
> > touch affinities.
> 
> I'd like to hear from Viresh on this.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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