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From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	"rjw@rjwysocki.net" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com>,
	Sai Charan Gurrappadi <sgurrappadi@nvidia.com>,
	"pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn" <pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] sched/fair: Convert arch_scale_cpu_capacity() from weak function to #define
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 14:25:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55ED9037.8050702@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKfTPtBnj9_oHoXEZFnYnsxb5a3KwPcVHYydRVQEzypkCbJakQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/09/15 08:26, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 3 September 2015 at 21:58, Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> wrote:

[...]

>>> So you change the way to declare arch_scale_cpu_capacity but i don't
>>> see the update of the arm arch which declare a
>>> arch_scale_cpu_capacity to reflect this change in your series.
>>
>> We were reluctant to do this because this functionality makes only sense
>> for ARCH=arm big.Little systems w/ cortex-a{15|7} cores and only if the
>> clock-frequency property is set in the dts file.
> 
> IMO, we should maintain the compatibility of current implementation
> instead of breaking the link and creating a dead code.
> Your proposal below fits the requirement

The only problem with this solution is that now we got a call to
arch_scale_cpu_capacity() in the hotpath whereas before it is only
called in update_cpu_capacity(). An implementation of
scale_cpu_capacity() in arch/arm/kernel/topology.c leads to a function
call in __update_load_avg. I'm in the middle of doing some performance
tests on TC2 w/ and w/o the cpu invariant implementation.

> 
>>
>> Are you planning to push for a 'struct cpu_efficiency/clock-frequency
>> property' solution for ARCH=arm64 as well?
> 
> I know that there has been some discussions aorund that but i didn't
> follow the thread in details
> 
>>
>> I'm asking because for ARCH=arm64 systems today (JUNO, Hi6220) we use the
>> capacity value of the last entry of the capacity_state vector for the cores
>> (e.g. cortex-a{57|53).
> 
> This is a struct of the eas feature ? Not sure that we should link the
> definition of  the cpu capacity to an internal struct of a feature; DT
> seems a better way to define it.

Yeah, the cpu invariant functionality should not base on EAS. We just
use the short-cut in EAS RFCv5 to get it working on ARM64.

> So if you want to revisit the way, we set the capacity of CPU for arm
> and/or arm64, I'm fully open to the discussion but this should happen
> in another thread than this one which has for only purpose the
> alignment of the arch_scale_cpu_capacity interface declaration with
> arch_scale_freq_capacity one.

Agreed.

> 
> So, with the patch below that updates the arm definition of
> arch_scale_cpu_capacity, you can add my Acked-by: Vincent Guittot
> <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> on this patch and the additional one
> below
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent

[...]


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-07 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-14 16:23 [PATCH 0/6] sched/fair: Compute capacity invariant load/utilization tracking Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] sched/fair: Make load tracking frequency scale-invariant Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-13 11:03   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] sched/fair: Convert arch_scale_cpu_capacity() from weak function to #define Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-02  9:31   ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-02 12:41     ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-03 19:58     ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-04  7:26       ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-07 13:25         ` Dietmar Eggemann [this message]
2015-09-11 13:21         ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-11 14:45           ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-13 11:03   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] sched/fair: Make utilization tracking cpu scale-invariant Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-14 23:04   ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-04  7:52     ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-13 11:04     ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Make utilization tracking CPU scale-invariant tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] sched/fair: Name utilization related data and functions consistently Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-04  9:08   ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-11 16:35     ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-13 11:04   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] sched/fair: Get rid of scaling utilization by capacity_orig Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-03 23:51   ` Steve Muckle
2015-09-07 15:37     ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-07 16:21       ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-07 18:54         ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-07 19:47           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 12:47             ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-08  7:22           ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 12:26             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 12:52               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 14:06                 ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:35                   ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-08 14:40                     ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:31                 ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-08 15:33                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-09 22:23                     ` bsegall
2015-09-10 11:06                       ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-10 11:11                         ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-10 12:10                           ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11  0:50                             ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-10 17:23                         ` bsegall
2015-09-08 16:53                   ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-09  9:43                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-09  9:45                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-09 11:13                       ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11 17:22                         ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-17  9:51                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-17 10:38                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-21  1:16                             ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-21 17:30                               ` bsegall
2015-09-21 23:39                                 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-22 17:18                                   ` bsegall
2015-09-22 23:22                                     ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-23 16:54                                       ` bsegall
2015-09-24  0:22                                         ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-30 12:52                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-11  7:46                     ` Leo Yan
2015-09-11 10:02                       ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11 14:11                         ` Leo Yan
2015-09-09 19:07                 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-10 10:06                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 13:39               ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:10                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 15:17                   ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 12:50             ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-08 14:01               ` Vincent Guittot
2015-09-08 14:27                 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-09 20:15               ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-10 10:07                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-11  0:28                   ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-11 10:31                     ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-11 17:05                       ` bsegall
2015-09-11 18:24                         ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-14 17:36                           ` bsegall
2015-09-14 12:56                         ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-14 17:34                           ` bsegall
2015-09-14 22:56                             ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-15 17:11                               ` bsegall
2015-09-15 18:39                                 ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-16 17:06                                   ` bsegall
2015-09-17  2:31                                     ` Yuyang Du
2015-09-15  8:43                             ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-16 15:36                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-08 11:44           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-13 11:04       ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann
2015-08-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] sched/fair: Initialize task load and utilization before placing task on rq Morten Rasmussen
2015-09-13 11:05   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-16 20:46 ` [PATCH 0/6] sched/fair: Compute capacity invariant load/utilization tracking Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-17 11:29   ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-08-17 11:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-31  9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-02  9:51   ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-07 12:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-07 13:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-07 13:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-07 14:44     ` Dietmar Eggemann
2015-09-13 11:06       ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Defer calling scaling functions tip-bot for Dietmar Eggemann

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