From 9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 01:09:12 +0200 Subject: cpufreq: schedutil: New governor based on scheduler utilization data Add a new cpufreq scaling governor, called "schedutil", that uses scheduler-provided CPU utilization information as input for making its decisions. Doing that is possible after commit 34e2c555f3e1 (cpufreq: Add mechanism for registering utilization update callbacks) that introduced cpufreq_update_util() called by the scheduler on utilization changes (from CFS) and RT/DL task status updates. In particular, CPU frequency scaling decisions may be based on the the utilization data passed to cpufreq_update_util() by CFS. The new governor is relatively simple. The frequency selection formula used by it depends on whether or not the utilization is frequency-invariant. In the frequency-invariant case the new CPU frequency is given by next_freq = 1.25 * max_freq * util / max where util and max are the last two arguments of cpufreq_update_util(). In turn, if util is not frequency-invariant, the maximum frequency in the above formula is replaced with the current frequency of the CPU: next_freq = 1.25 * curr_freq * util / max The coefficient 1.25 corresponds to the frequency tipping point at (util / max) = 0.8. All of the computations are carried out in the utilization update handlers provided by the new governor. One of those handlers is used for cpufreq policies shared between multiple CPUs and the other one is for policies with one CPU only (and therefore it doesn't need to use any extra synchronization means). The governor supports fast frequency switching if that is supported by the cpufreq driver in use and possible for the given policy. In the fast switching case, all operations of the governor take place in its utilization update handlers. If fast switching cannot be used, the frequency switch operations are carried out with the help of a work item which only calls __cpufreq_driver_target() (under a mutex) to trigger a frequency update (to a value already computed beforehand in one of the utilization update handlers). Currently, the governor treats all of the RT and DL tasks as "unknown utilization" and sets the frequency to the allowed maximum when updated from the RT or DL sched classes. That heavy-handed approach should be replaced with something more subtle and specifically targeted at RT and DL tasks. The governor shares some tunables management code with the "ondemand" and "conservative" governors and uses some common definitions from cpufreq_governor.h, but apart from that it is stand-alone. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- kernel/sched/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/sched/Makefile') diff --git a/kernel/sched/Makefile b/kernel/sched/Makefile index 414d9c16da42..5e59b832ae2b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/Makefile +++ b/kernel/sched/Makefile @@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS) += stats.o obj-$(CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG) += debug.o obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT) += cpuacct.o obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ) += cpufreq.o +obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL) += cpufreq_schedutil.o -- cgit v1.2.3