check_for_migration() could run concurrently on multiple cpus,
resulting in multiple tasks wanting to migrate to same cpu. This could
cause cpus to be underutilized and lead to increased scheduling
latencies for tasks. Fix this by serializing select_best_cpu() calls
from cpus running check_for_migration() check and marking selected
cpus as reserved, so that subsequent call to select_best_cpu() from
check_for_migration() will skip reserved cpus.
Change-Id: I73a22cacab32dee3c14267a98b700f572aa3900c
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
Printing window size in /proc/sched_debug would provide useful
information to debug scheduler issues.
Change-Id: Ia12ab2cb544f41a61c8a1d87bf821b85a19e09fd
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Add a new ftrace event to record changes to boost setting. Also extend
sched_task_load() ftrace event to record boost setting and reason code
passed to select_best_cpu(). This will be useful for debug purpose.
Change-Id: Idac72f86d954472abe9f88a8db184343b7730287
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Restrict check_for_migration() to operate on fair_sched class tasks
only.
Also check_for_migration() can result in a call to select_best_cpu()
to look for a better cpu for currently running task on a cpu. However
select_best_cpu() can end up suggesting a cpu that is not necessarily
better than the cpu on which task is running currently. This will
result in unnecessary migration. Prevent that from happening.
Change-Id: I391cdda0d7285671d5f79aa2da12eaaa6cae42d7
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
A cpu could mark its currently running task to be migrated to another
cpu (via rq->push_task/rq->push_cpu) and could go offline before
active load balance handles the request. In such case, clear the
active load balance request.
Change-Id: Ia3e668e34edbeb91d8559c1abb4cbffa25b1830b
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Currently turning on boost does not immediately trigger migration of
tasks from lower capacity cpus. Tasks could incur migration latency
of up to one timer tick (when check_for_migration() is run).
Fix this by triggering a migration check on cpus with lower capacity
as soon as boost is turned on for first time.
Change-Id: I244649f9cb6608862d87631325967b887b7f4b7e
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
Allow small and low-prio tasks to benefit from boost, which is
expected to last for a short duration. Any task that wishes to run
during that short period is allowed boost benefit.
Change-Id: I02979a0c5feeba0f1256b7ee3d73f6b283fcfafa
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
sched_window_stat_policy influences task demand and thus various
statistics maintained per-cpu like curr_runnable_sum. Changing policy
non-atomically would lead to improper accounting. For example, when
task is enqueued on a cpu's runqueue, its demand that is added to
rq->cumulative_runnable_avg could be based on AVG policy and when its
dequeued its demand that is removed can be based on MAX, leading to
erroneous accounting.
This change causes policy change to be "atomic" i.e all cpu's rq->lock
are held and all task's window-stats are reset before policy is changed.
Change-Id: I6a3e4fb7bc299dfc5c367693b5717a1ef518c32d
CRs-Fixed: 687409
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed minor conflict in
include/linux/sched/sysctl.h.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Currently, few of the window statistics for tasks are not reset when
window size is changing. Fix this to completely reset all window
statistics for tasks and cpus. Move the reset code to a function,
which can be reused by a subsequent patch that resets same statistics
upon policy change.
Change-Id: Ic626260245b89007c4d70b9a07ebd577e217f283
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Check for invalid window size passed as argument to sched_set_window()
Also move up local_irq_disable() call to avoid thread from being
preempted during calculation of window_start and its comparison
against sched_clock(). Use right macro to evluate whether window_start
argument is ahead in time or not.
Change-Id: Idc0d3ab17ede08471ae63b72a2d55e7f84868fd6
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
When using MAX_POLICY, partial_demand is calculated incorrectly as 0.
Fix this by picking maximum of previous 4 windows and most recent
sample.
Change-Id: I27850a510746a63b5382c84761920fc021b876c5
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
'rq' reference to a cpu where a waking task last ran can be
potentially incorrect leading to incorrect accounting. This happens
when task_cpu() changes between points A & B in try_to_wake_up()
listed below:
try_to_wake_up()
{
cpu = src_cpu = task_cpu(p);
rq = cpu_rq(src_cpu); -> Point A
..
while (p->on_cpu)
cpu_relax();
smp_rmb();
raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock); -> Point B
Fix this by initializing 'rq' variable after task has slept (its
on_cpu field becomes 0).
Also avoid adding task demand to its old cpu runqueue
(prev_runnable_sum) in case it's gone offline.
Change-Id: I9e5d3beeca01796d944137b5416805b983a6e06e
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
To maximize power savings, set the intial load of newly created
tasks to just above a small task. Setting it below the small
task threshold would cause new tasks to be packed which is
very likely too aggressive.
Change-Id: Idace26cc0252e31a5472c73534d2f5277a1e3fa4
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
There is a possibility that there are no allowed CPUs online when we try
to select the best cpu for a small task. Add a check to ensure we don't
continue if there are no CPUs available.
CRs-fixed: 692505
Change-Id: Iff955fb0d0b07e758a893539f7bc8ea8aa09d9c4
Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
Enabling and disabling hmp/power-aware scheduling is meant to be done
via kernel command line options. Until that is fully supported however,
take advantage of the fact that current targets with more than 4 CPUs
will need these features.
Change-Id: I4916805881d58eeb54747e4b972816ffc96caae7
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
There is no real need to control HMP and power-aware task placement at
runtime after kernel has booted. Boot-time control should be
sufficient. Not allowing for runtime (sysctl) support simplifies the
code quite a bit.
Also rename sysctl_sched_enable_hmp_task_placement to be shorter.
Change-Id: I60cae51a173c6f73b79cbf90c50ddd41a27604aa
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed minor conflict. p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1
has moved to core.c
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
It should be possible to bypass all HMP scheduler changes at runtime
by setting sysctl_sched_enable_hmp_task_placement and
sysctl_sched_enable_power_aware to 0. Fix various code paths to honor
this requirement.
Change-Id: I74254e68582b3f9f1b84661baf7dae14f981c025
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed conflict in rt.c, p->nr_cpus_allowed ==
1 is now moved in core.c]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Avoid the long if() block of code in set_task_cpu(). Move that code to
its own function
Change-Id: Ia80a99867ff9c23a614635e366777759abaccee4
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
It would be fatal if task_cpu() information for a task does not
accurately represent the cpu on which its running. All sorts of wierd
issues can arise if that were to happen! Add a BUG_ON() in context
switch to detect such cases.
Change-Id: I4eb2c96c850e2247e22f773bbb6eedb8ccafa49c
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Avoid wasting effort in migrating tasks that are about to sleep.
Change-Id: Icf9520b1c8fa48d3e071cb9fa1c5526b3b36ff16
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
Fix the hack to set task's on_rq to 0 during task migration. Task's
load is temporarily added back to its runqueue so that
update_task_ravg() can fixup task's load when its demand is changing.
Task's load is removed immediately afterwards.
Temporarily setting p->on_rq to 0 introduces a race condition with
try_to_wake_up(). Another task (task A) may be attempting to wake
up the migrating task (task B). As long as task A sees task B's
p->on_rq as 1, the wake up will not continue. Changing p->on_rq to
0, then back to 1, allows task A to continue "waking" task B, at
which point we have both try_to_wake_up and the migration code
attempting to set the cpu of task B at the same time.
CRs-Fixed: 695071
Change-Id: I525745f144da4ffeba1d539890b4d46720ec3ef1
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Currently active_load_balance_cpu_stop is run by cpu stopper and it
pushes running tasks off the busiest CPU onto idle target CPU. But
there is no check to see whether target cpu is offline or not before
pushing the tasks. With the introduction of active migration in the
scheduler tick path (see check_for_migration()) there have been
instances of attempts to migrate tasks to offline CPUs.
Add a check as to whether the target cpu is online or not to prevent
scheduling on offline CPUs.
Change-Id: Ib8ac7f8aeabd3ca7365f3eae977075952dab4f21
Signed-off-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
In the absence of a power driver providing real power values, the scheduler
currently defaults to using capacity of a CPU as a measure of power. This,
however, is not a good measure since the capacity of a CPU can change due
to thermal conditions and/or other hardware restrictions. These frequency
restrictions have no effect on the power efficiency of those CPUs.
Introduce max possible capacity of a CPU to track an absolute measure of
capacity which translates into a good absolute measure of power efficiency.
Max possible capacity takes the max possible frequency of CPUs into account
instead of max frequency.
Change-Id: Ia970b853e43a90eb8cc6fd990b5c47fca7e50db8
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Interrupts can end up waking processes on the same cpu as the one for
which sched_get_busy() is called. Since sched_get_busy() takes the rq
lock this can result in a deadlock as the same rq lock is required to
enqueue the waking up task. Fix the deadlock by disabling interrupts
when taking the rq lock.
Change-Id: I46e14a14789c2fb0ead42363fbaaa0a303a5818f
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
update_task_ravg() in context switch uses wallclock that is updated
before running put_prev_task() and pick_next_task(), both of which can
take some time. Its better to update wallclock after those routines,
leading to more accurate accounting.
Change-Id: I882b1f0e8eddd2cc17d42ca2ab8f7a2841b8d89a
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Load calculations have been modified to accept and return 64 bit values.
Fix up all the places where we make such calculations to store the result
in 64 bit variables. This is necessary to avoid issues caused by
truncation of values.
While at it update scale_task_load() to scale_load_to_cpu(). This is
because the API is used to scale load of both individual tasks as well as
the cumulative load of CPUs. In this sense the name was a misnomer. Also
clean up power_cost() to use max_task_load().
Change-Id: I51e683e1592a5ea3c4e4b2b06d7a7339a49cce9c
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed conflict in power_cost(). power_cost()
now supports sched_use_pelt=1 back again.
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Small tasks execute for small durations. This means that the power
cost of taking CPUs out of a low power mode outweigh any performance
advantage of using an idle core or power advantage of using the most
power efficient CPU. Introduce C-state aware task placement for small
tasks. This requires a two pass approach where we first determine the
most power effecient CPU and establish a band of CPUs offering a
similar power cost for the task. The order of preference then is as
follows:
1) Any mostly idle CPU in active C-state in the same power band.
2) A CPU with the shallowest C-state in the same power band.
3) A CPU with the least load in the same power band.
4) Lowest power CPU in a higher power band.
The patch also modifies the definition of a small task. Small tasks
are now determined relative to minimum capacity CPUs in the system
and not the task CPU.
Change-Id: Ia09840a5972881cad7ba7bea8fe34c45f909725e
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Certain low latency bursty workloads require immediate use of highest
capacity CPUs in HMP systems. Existing load tracking mechanisms may be
unable to respond to the sudden surge in the system load within the
latency requirements. Introduce the scheduler boost feature for such
workloads. While boost is in effect the scheduler bypasses regular load
based task placement and prefers highest capacity CPUs in the system
for all non-small fair sched class tasks. Provide both a kernel and
userspace API for software that may have apriori knowledge about the
system workload.
Change-Id: I783f585d1f8c97219e629d9c54f712318821922f
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed minor conflict in
include/linux/sched/sysctl.h.]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
select_best_cpu() invokes trace_sched_cpu_load() for all online cpus
in a loop, before it enters the loop for core selection. Moving
invocation of trace_sched_cpu_load() in inner core loop is potentially
more efficient.
Change-Id: Iae1c58b26632edf9ec5f5da905c31356eb95c925
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
balance_interval needs to be reset for anycpu being kicked. Otherwise it
can end up ignoring the kick (i.e not doing load balance for itself).
Also bypass the check for existence of idle cpus in tickless state for
!CONFIG_SCHED_HMP to allow for more aggressive load balance.
Change-Id: I52365ee7c2997ec09bd93c4e9ae0293a954e39a8
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed minor conflict in nohz_kick_needed().]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
We currently check the need to migrate the currently running task in
scheduler_tick(). Skip that check for small tasks, as its not worth
the effort!
Change-Id: Ic205cc6452f42fde6be6b85c3bf06a8542a73eba
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
In estimating cost of running a task on a given cpu, cost of cpu at
its current frequency needs to over-ride cost at frequency demanded by
task, where cur_freq exceeds required frequency of task. This is
because placing a task on a cpu can only result in an increase of
cpu's frequency.
Change-Id: I021a3bbaf179bf1ec2c7f4556870256936797eb9
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Window-based load tracking is a pre-requisite for the scheduler to
feed cpu load information to the governor. When PELT is in use, return
failure when governor attempts to set window-size. This will let
governor fall back to other APIs for retrieving cpu load statistics.
Change-Id: I0e11188594c1a54b3b7ff55447d30bfed1a01115
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed trivial merge conflict
in include/linux/sched.h.]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Provide information in /proc/sched_debug on min_capacity, max_capacity
and whether pelt or window-based task load statistics is in use.
Change-Id: Ie4e9450652f4c83110dda75be3ead8aa5bb355c3
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Move up chunk of code to be defined early. This helps a subsequent
patch that needs update_min_max_capacity()
Change-Id: I9403c7b4dcc74ba4ef1034327241c81df97b01ea
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed trivial conflicts.]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
During bootup, its possible for min_max_freq to change as frequency
information for additional clusters is processed. That would need to
trigger recalculation of capacity/load_scale_factor for all (online)
cpus, as they strongly depend on min_max_freq variable. Not doing so
would imply some cpus will have their capacity/load_scale_factor
computed wrongly.
Change-Id: Iea5a0a517a2d71be24c2c71cdd805c0733ce37f8
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
A CPU may have its frequency changed by a different CPU. Because of
this, it is not guaranteed that we will update task statistics at
approximately the same time that the frequency change occurs. To
guard against accruing time to a task at the wrong frequency, update
the task's window-based statistics if the CPU it is running on
changes frequency.
Change-Id: I333c3f8aa82676bd2831797b55fd7af9c4225555
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Add trace events for update_task_ravg(), update_history(), and
set_task_cpu(). These tracepoints are useful for monitoring the
per-task and per-runqueue demand statistics.
Change-Id: Ibec9f945074ff31d1fc1a76ae37c40c8fea8cda9
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Rebalancing at exec time will currently undo any beneficial placement
that has been done during fork time, since select_best_cpu() will not
discount the currently running task.
For now just skip re-evaluating task placement at exec.
Change-Id: I1e5e0fcc329b7b53c338c8c73795ebd5e85a118b
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Historical load maintained per task can be used to influence cpu
frequency better. For example, when a heavy demand task wakes up after
prolonged sleep, we could use the historical load information to alert
cpufreq governor about the need to raise cpu frequency. This patch
changes CPU busy statistics to be aggregation of historical task
demand. Also task's historical load (as defined by
sysctl_sched_window_stats_policy) is add to cpu's busy statistics
(rq->curr_runnable_sum) whenever it executes on a cpu.
Change-Id: I2b66136f138b147ba19083b9b044c4feb20d9b57
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
In the event that a full window (or multiple full windows) have
elapsed when updating a task's window-based stats, the runtime of
those windows needs to be scaled based on the CPU frequency. This
is currently missing, causing full windows to be accounted as having
elapsed at maximum frequency, erroneously inflating task demand.
Change-Id: I356b4279d44d4f39c8aea881c04327b70ed66183
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
After a migration occurs the source and destination CPUs may
not be running at frequencies which match the new task load on
those CPUs.
Previously, the scheduler was notifying cpufreq anytime a task
greater than a certain size migrates. This is suboptimal however
since this does not take into account the CPU's current
frequency and other task activity that may be present.
Change-Id: I5092bda3a517e1343f97e5a455957c25ee19b549
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
When the number of tasks intended for a cluster exceed the number of
mostly idle CPUs in that cluster, the scheduler currently freely uses
CPUs in other clusters if possible. While this is optimal for
performance the power trade off can be quite significant. Introduce
spill threshold tunables that govern the extent to which the scheduler
should attempt to contain tasks within a cluster.
Change-Id: I797e6c6b2aa0c3a376dad93758abe1d587663624
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed conflict in nohz_kick_needed()]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Knowing the affinity mask and CPU usage of a task is helpful
in understanding the behavior of the system. Affinity information
has been added to the enq_deq trace event, and the migration
tracepoint now reports the load of the task migrated.
Change-Id: I29d8a610292b4dfeeb8fe16174e9d4dc196649b7
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
When a task moves between CPUs in two different frequency domains
the cpufreq governor may wish to immediately modify the frequency
of both the source and destination CPUs of the migrating task.
A tunable is provided to establish what size task is considered
"significant" enough to warrant notifying cpufreq.
Also fix a bug that would cause load to not be accounted properly
during wakeup migrations.
Change-Id: Ie8f6b1cc4d43a602840dac18590b42a81327c95a
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org: Add double rq locking for set_task_cpu()]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Should the system get stuck in a state where load balancing is failing
due to all tasks being pinned, deferring load balancing for up to half
a second may cause further performance problems. Eventually all tasks
will not be pinned and load balancing should not be deferred for a great
length of time.
Change-Id: I06f93b5448353b5871645b9274ce4419dc9fae0f
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
If we have a task to schedule, we currently don't consider CPUs where
it will not fit even if they are idle. Instead we choose the previous
CPU which is sub-optimal for performance if an idle CPU is
present. This change introduces tracking of any idle CPUs irrespective
of whether the task fits on them or not. If we don't have a good place
to put the task, prefer the lowest power idle CPU.
Change-Id: I4e8290639ad1602541a44a80ba4b2804068cac0f
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
Real Time task scheduling has historically been geared towards performance
with a significant attempt to keep higher priority tasks on the same CPU.
This is not optimal for power since the task CPU may not be the most
power efficient CPU.
Also task movement via select_lowest_rq() gives CPU priority the primary
consideration before looking at CPU topologies to find a CPU closest to
the task CPU in terms of topology. This again is not optimal for power
since the closest CPU may be significantly worse for power than CPUs
further away.
This patch removes any bias for the task CPU. When the lowest priority
CPUs in the system are found we give no consideration to the CPU topology.
Instead we find the lowest power CPU within local_cpu_mask. This takes care
of select_task_rq_rt() and push_task(). The pull model remains unaffected
since we have no room for power optimization there.
Change-Id: I4162ebe2f74be14240e62476f231f9e4a18bd9e8
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: s/__get_cpu_var/this_cpu_ptr/]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Normally the load balancer does not pay attention to CPUs with one
task since it is not possible to subdivide that load any further
to achieve better balance. With power aware scheduling however it
may be desirable to relocate that one task if the CPU it is currently
executing on is less power efficient than other CPUs in the system.
Change-Id: Idf3f5e22b88048184323513f0052827b884526b6
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org]: Port to msm-3.18]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: group_capacity_factor changed to
group_no_capacity. group_classify is called by update_sg_lb_stats() too.]
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Although tasks are routed to the most power-efficient CPUs during
task wakeup, a CPU-bound task will not go through this decision point.
Load balancing can help if it is modified to dislodge a single task
from an inefficient CPU. The situation can be further improved if
during the tick, the task placement is checked to see if it is
optimal.
This sort of checking is already being done to ensure proper
task placement in heterogneous CPU topologies, so checking for
power efficient task placement fits pretty well.
Change-Id: I71e56d406d314702bc26dee1438c0eeda7699027
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
