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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/topology.c | 39 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 62 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst index fc853c8cc346..70e2921ef725 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst @@ -359,32 +359,9 @@ in milli-Watts or in an 'abstract scale'. 6.3 - Energy Model complexity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -The task wake-up path is very latency-sensitive. When the EM of a platform is -too complex (too many CPUs, too many performance domains, too many performance -states, ...), the cost of using it in the wake-up path can become prohibitive. -The energy-aware wake-up algorithm has a complexity of: - - C = Nd * (Nc + Ns) - -with: Nd the number of performance domains; Nc the number of CPUs; and Ns the -total number of OPPs (ex: for two perf. domains with 4 OPPs each, Ns = 8). - -A complexity check is performed at the root domain level, when scheduling -domains are built. EAS will not start on a root domain if its C happens to be -higher than the completely arbitrary EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY threshold (2048 at the -time of writing). - -If you really want to use EAS but the complexity of your platform's Energy -Model is too high to be used with a single root domain, you're left with only -two possible options: - - 1. split your system into separate, smaller, root domains using exclusive - cpusets and enable EAS locally on each of them. This option has the - benefit to work out of the box but the drawback of preventing load - balance between root domains, which can result in an unbalanced system - overall; - 2. submit patches to reduce the complexity of the EAS wake-up algorithm, - hence enabling it to cope with larger EMs in reasonable time. +EAS does not impose any complexity limit on the number of PDs/OPPs/CPUs but +restricts the number of CPUs to EM_MAX_NUM_CPUS to prevent overflows during +the energy estimation. 6.4 - Schedutil governor diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c index 1cc595907363..fcda3f066eec 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c @@ -348,32 +348,13 @@ static void sched_energy_set(bool has_eas) * 1. an Energy Model (EM) is available; * 2. the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag is set in the sched_domain hierarchy. * 3. no SMT is detected. - * 4. the EM complexity is low enough to keep scheduling overheads low; - * 5. schedutil is driving the frequency of all CPUs of the rd; - * 6. frequency invariance support is present; - * - * The complexity of the Energy Model is defined as: - * - * C = nr_pd * (nr_cpus + nr_ps) - * - * with parameters defined as: - * - nr_pd: the number of performance domains - * - nr_cpus: the number of CPUs - * - nr_ps: the sum of the number of performance states of all performance - * domains (for example, on a system with 2 performance domains, - * with 10 performance states each, nr_ps = 2 * 10 = 20). - * - * It is generally not a good idea to use such a model in the wake-up path on - * very complex platforms because of the associated scheduling overheads. The - * arbitrary constraint below prevents that. It makes EAS usable up to 16 CPUs - * with per-CPU DVFS and less than 8 performance states each, for example. + * 4. schedutil is driving the frequency of all CPUs of the rd; + * 5. frequency invariance support is present; */ -#define EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY 2048 - extern struct cpufreq_governor schedutil_gov; static bool build_perf_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map) { - int i, nr_pd = 0, nr_ps = 0, nr_cpus = cpumask_weight(cpu_map); + int i; struct perf_domain *pd = NULL, *tmp; int cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_map); struct root_domain *rd = cpu_rq(cpu)->rd; @@ -431,20 +412,6 @@ static bool build_perf_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map) goto free; tmp->next = pd; pd = tmp; - - /* - * Count performance domains and performance states for the - * complexity check. - */ - nr_pd++; - nr_ps += em_pd_nr_perf_states(pd->em_pd); - } - - /* Bail out if the Energy Model complexity is too high. */ - if (nr_pd * (nr_ps + nr_cpus) > EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY) { - WARN(1, "rd %*pbl: Failed to start EAS, EM complexity is too high\n", - cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map)); - goto free; } perf_domain_debug(cpu_map, pd); |