Re: [Update][PATCH v3 3/4] cpufreq: schedutil: Simplify iowait boosting

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Apr 08 2019 - 01:54:51 EST


On 28-03-19, 11:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is not reason for the minimum iowait boost value in the
> schedutil cpufreq governor to depend on the available range of CPU
> frequencies. In fact, that dependency is generally confusing,
> because it causes the iowait boost to behave somewhat differently
> on CPUs with the same maximum frequency and different minimum
> frequencies, for example.
>
> For this reason, replace the min field in struct sugov_cpu
> with a constant and choose its values to be 1/8 of
> SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE (for consistency with the intel_pstate
> driver's internal governor).
>
> [Note that policy->cpuinfo.max_freq will not be a constant any more
> after a subsequent change, so this change is depended on by it.]
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190305083202.GU32494@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#ee20bdc98b7d89f6110c0d00e5c3ee8c2ced93c3d
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> As pointed out by Quentin, the original patch overlooked two kerneldoc
> comments that needed to be updated along with the code, so do that here.
>
> No other changes with respect to the original.
>
> ---
> kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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

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