cpufreq: Max freq invariant scheduler load-tracking and cpu capacity support
authorDietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:47:48 +0000 (16:47 +0100)
committerLeo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Tue, 10 May 2016 08:49:54 +0000 (16:49 +0800)
commitb03f1ba3d5bb9db0ca495c8c33ef88588daaae50
tree89e993c75786cdc5d967b314092e2e1919fd5647
parent8296e78e5eaa9bfebf251cbd4bddd97322fa13a9
cpufreq: Max freq invariant scheduler load-tracking and cpu capacity support

Implements cpufreq_scale_max_freq_capacity() to provide the scheduler
with a maximum frequency scaling correction factor for more accurate
load-tracking and cpu capacity handling by being able to deal with
frequency capping.

This scaling factor describes the influence of running a cpu with a
current maximum frequency lower than the absolute possible maximum
frequency on load tracking and cpu capacity.

The factor is:

current_max_freq(cpu) << SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT / max_freq(cpu)

In fact, max_freq_scale should be a struct cpufreq_policy data member.
But this would require that the scheduler hot path (__update_load_avg())
would have to grab the cpufreq lock. This can be avoided by using per-cpu
data initialized to SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE for max_freq_scale.

Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
include/linux/cpufreq.h