Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH] sched: Enable root level cgroup bandwidth control

[Vincent Guittot]

Adding daniel and cristian who works on some powercap implementation

On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 14:56, Feiran Zheng . <fam.zheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 1:03 PM Vincent Guittot
> <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 12:38, Feiran Zheng . <fam.zheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:21 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:08:41AM +0100, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > > > > In the data center there sometimes comes a need to throttle down a
> > > > > server,
> > > >
> > > > Why?
> > >
> > > For economical reasons there can be over-provisioning in DC power
> > > supply (UPS capacity etc) because the utilization expectation of the
> > > racks is not maximum value. But the workload can be client driven,
> > > depending on how many users are online, and in the end the power
> > > supply may overload and trip itself. To avoid that, upon a threshold,
> > > some servers need to be brought down or throttled. The latter is
> > > obviously going to be much more smooth.
> >
> > This looks like thermal or power budget management. We have other ways
> > to do so with powercap or idle injection. Did you consider those
> > solutions ?
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> Hi Vincent,
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> I looked at powercap, and it seems Intel only? Any idea about AMD/ARM?
> There seems nothing for them under drivers/powercap/.

there is a DTPM powercap provider in the latest kernel and a scmi
power capp provider is under review
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> I don't know the idle injection interface, can you please give more hints?

idle injection can be used with cpuidle cooling device and there were
some discussion to make a dtpm idle injection device but I think this
has  never been sent on mailing list


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> I also plan to test uclamp, still need to learn more about that.
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> Fam