sched/cpufreq_schedutil: use util_est for OPP selection
authorlakkyung.jung <lakkyung.jung@samsung.com>
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 02:23:13 +0000 (11:23 +0900)
committerlakkyung.jung <lakkyung.jung@samsung.com>
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 05:58:55 +0000 (14:58 +0900)
commit39b1235433aa62ce0263c265cb936531ed38d079
treea6d50cd47c2ac095782b16bdbc5568c5105fa9f0
parentb0d3bafa9bb7a7f51267691d49b478a33a9e89ec
sched/cpufreq_schedutil: use util_est for OPP selection

- backport util-est from linux-power.git

When schedutil looks at the CPU utilization, the current PELT value for
that CPU is returned straight away. In certain scenarios this can have
undesired side effects and delays on frequency selection.

For example, since the task utilization is decayed at wakeup time, a
long sleeping big task newly enqueued does not add immediately a
significant contribution to the target CPU. This introduces some latency
before schedutil will be able to detect the best frequency required by
that task.

Moreover, the PELT signal build-up time is a function of the current
frequency, because of the scale invariant load tracking support. Thus,
starting from a lower frequency, the utilization build-up time will
increase even more and further delays the selection of the actual
frequency which better serves the task requirements.

In order to reduce this kind of latencies, we integrate the usage
of the CPU's estimated utilization in the sugov_get_util function.
This allows to properly consider the expected utilization of a CPU which,
for example, has just got a big task running after a long sleep period.
Ultimately this allows to select the best frequency to run a task
right after its wake-up.

Change-Id: Ibf98a4be222546733cbd88b9a8f2c8858319dd96
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
kernel/sched/sched.h