Re: [PATCH 0/4] scheduler-based cpu frequency scaling

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon May 04 2015 - 19:02:22 EST


On Monday, May 04, 2015 03:10:37 PM Michael Turquette wrote:
> This series implements an event-driven cpufreq governor that scales cpu
> frequency as a function of cfs runqueue utilization. The intent of this RFC is
> to get some discussion going about how the scheduler can become the policy
> engine for selecting cpu frequency, what limitations exist and what design do
> we want to take to get to a solution.
>
> This work is a different take on the patches I posted in November:
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1413958051-7103-1-git-send-email-mturquette@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This series depends on having frequency-invariant representations for load.
> This requires Vincent's recently merged cpu capacity rework patches, as well as
> a new patch from Morten included here. Morten's patch will likely make an
> appearance in his energy aware scheduling v4 series.
>
> Thanks to Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx> for contributing to the development
> of the governor.
>
> A git branch with these patches can be pulled from here:
> https://git.linaro.org/people/mike.turquette/linux.git sched-freq
>
> Smoke testing has been done on an OMAP4 Pandaboard and an Exynos 5800
> Chromebook2. Extensive benchmarking and regression testing has not yet been
> done. Before sinking too much time into extensive testing I'd like to get
> feedback on the general design.
>
> Michael Turquette (3):
> sched: sched feature for cpu frequency selection
> sched: export get_cpu_usage & capacity_orig_of
> sched: cpufreq_sched_cfs: PELT-based cpu frequency scaling
>
> Morten Rasmussen (1):
> arm: Frequency invariant scheduler load-tracking support
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h | 7 +
> arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 53 ++++++-
> arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 17 +++
> drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 24 ++++
> include/linux/cpufreq.h | 3 +
> kernel/sched/Makefile | 1 +
> kernel/sched/cpufreq_cfs.c | 311 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 48 +++----
> kernel/sched/features.h | 6 +
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 39 +++++
> 10 files changed, 475 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 kernel/sched/cpufreq_cfs.c

Can you *please* always CC PM-related patches to linux-pm?


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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