[RFC,00/16] sched/fair/schedutil: Better manage system response time

This series is a re-incarnation of Remove Hardcoded Margings posted a while ago https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231208002342.367117-1-qyousef@layalina.io/ The original series attempted to address response time related issues stemming from hardcoding migration margin in fits_capacity() on HMP system, and DVFS headroom which had a constant 25% boost that is bad for power and thermal on powerful systems. Saving power was the main goal by reducing these values to the smallest possible value automatically based on anticipated worst case scenario. A tricky point was uncovered and demonstrated in the migration margin table in this posting https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240205223344.2280519-4-qyousef@layalina.io/ is that to make the system responsive to sudden changes, we actually need large migration margin the smaller the core capacity is cap threshold % threshold-tick % 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 32 1 3.12 0 0 48 3 6.25 2 4.16 64 4 6.25 2 3.12 80 6 7.5 5 6.25 96 10 10.41 8 8.33 112 14 12.5 11 9.82 128 18 14.06 16 12.5 144 21 14.58 18 12.5 160 26 16.25 23 14.37 176 33 18.75 29 16.47 192 39 20.31 35 18.22 208 47 22.59 43 20.67 224 55 24.55 50 22.32 240 63 26.25 59 24.58 256 73 28.51 68 26.56 272 82 30.14 77 28.30 288 93 32.29 87 30.20 304 103 33.88 97 31.90 320 114 35.62 108 33.75 336 126 37.5 120 35.71 352 138 39.20 132 37.5 368 151 41.03 144 39.13 384 163 42.44 157 40.88 The current 80% margin is valid for CPU with capacities in the 700-750 range, which might have been true in the original generations of HMP systems. 704 557 79.11 550 78.12 720 578 80.27 572 79.44 736 606 82.33 600 81.52 752 633 84.17 627 83.37 This result contradicts the original goal of saving power as it indicates we must be more aggressive with the margin, while the original observation was that there are workloads with steady utilization that is hovering at a level that is higher than this margin but lower than the capacity of the CPU (mid CPUs particularly) and the aggressive upmigration is not desired, nor the higher push to run at max freq where we could have run at a lower freq with no impact on perf. Further analysis using a simple rampup [1] test that spawns a busy task that starts from util_avg/est = 0 and never goes to sleep. The purpose is to measure the actual system response time for workloads that are bursty and need to transition from lower to higher performance level quickly. This lead to more surprising discovery due to utilization invariance, I call it the black hole effect. There's a black hole in the scheduler: ====================================== It is no surprise to anyone that DVFS and HMP system have a time stretching effect where the same workload will take longer to do the same amount of work the lower the frequency/capacity. This is countered in the system via clock_pelt which is central for implementing utilization invariance. This helps ensure that the utilization signal still accurately represent the computation demand of sched_entities. But this introduces this black hole effect of time dilation. The concept of passage of time is now different from task's perspective compared to an external observer. The task will think 1ms has passed, but depending on the capacity or the freq, the time from external observer point of view has passed for 25 or even 30ms in reality. This has a terrible impact on utilization signal rise time. And since utilization signal is central in making many scheduler decision like estimating how loaded the CPU is, whether a task is misfit, and what freq to run at when schedutil is being used, this leads to suboptimal decision being made and give the external observer (userspace) that the system is not responsive or reactive. This manifests as problems like: * My task is stuck on the little core for too long * My task is running at lower frequency causing missing important deadlines although it has been running for the past 30ms As a demonstration, running the rampup test on Mac mini with M1 SoC, 6.8 kernel with 1ms TICK/HZ=1000. $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpu_capacity /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpu_capacity:459 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpu_capacity:459 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpu_capacity:459 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpu_capacity:459 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/cpu_capacity:1024 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpu_capacity:1024 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/cpu_capacity:1024 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/cpu_capacity:1024 Ideal response time running at max performance level ---------------------------------------------------- $ uclampset -m 1024 rampup rampup-5088 util_avg running ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 1015.0┤ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▟▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀│ │ ▗▄▄▄▛▀▀▀▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▟▀▀▀ │ │ ▄▟▀▀ │ 761.2┤ ▄▟▀▘ │ │ ▗▛▘ │ │ ▗▟▀ │ 507.5┤ ▗▟▀ │ │ ▗▛ │ │ ▄▛ │ │ ▟▘ │ 253.8┤ ▐▘ │ │ ▟▀ │ │ ▗▘ │ │ ▗▛ │ 0.0┤ ▗ ▛ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────── rampup-5088 util_avg running residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.4000000000000001 26.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 47.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 67.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 86.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 105.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 124.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 143.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 161.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 178.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 196.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 213.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 229.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 245.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 277.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 292.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 307.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 322.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 336.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 350.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 364.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 378.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 391.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 404.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 416.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 429.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 441.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 453.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 Observations: ------------- * It takes ~233ms to go from 0 to ~1015 * It takes ~167ms to go from 0 to ~1000 * Utilization increases every tick or 1ms * It takes ~29.5ms to reach a util of ~450 Worst case scenario running at lowest performance level ------------------------------------------------------- $ uclampset -M 0 rampup (Note the difference in the x-axis) rampup-3740 util_avg running ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 989.0┤ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▛▀▀▀▀▀▀▀│ │ ▗▄▄▄▄▄▛▀▀▀▀▀▘ │ │ ▄▄▛▀▀▀ │ │ ▄▄▟▀▀▘ │ 741.8┤ ▄▄▛▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▛▀▘ │ │ ▄▟▀ │ 494.5┤ ▗▟▀▘ │ │ ▄▛▀ │ │ ▗▛▘ │ │ ▄▛▀ │ 247.2┤ ▗▟▘ │ │ ▗▛ │ │ ▟▀ │ │ ▗▟▘ │ 0.0┤ ▗▟ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 0.60 0.76 0.91 1.07 1.22 1.38 1.53 1.69 1.84 2.00 ───────────────── rampup-3740 util_avg running residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.6 10.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.9 30.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 9.0 54.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 75.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 95.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 115.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 6.3 133.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.7 151.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.0 172.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 190.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 207.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 225.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.9 242.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 258.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 274.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 290.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 306.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.9 321.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 336.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 351.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 365.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.9 381.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.9 394.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.9 407.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 420.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 433.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 446.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 458.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 Observations: * It takes 1.350 seconds (!) to go from 0 to ~1000 * Utilization updates every 8ms most of the time * It takes ~223ms to reach a util of ~450 Default response time with 10ms rate_limit_us --------------------------------------------- $ rampup rampup-6338 util_avg running ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 986.0┤ ▄▄▄▄▄▟▀▀▀▀│ │ ▗▄▄▟▀▀▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▟▀▀ │ │ ▄▟▀▀ │ 739.5┤ ▄▟▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▛▘ │ │ ▗▟▀ │ 493.0┤ ▗▛▀ │ │ ▗▄▛▀ │ │ ▄▟▀ │ │ ▄▛▘ │ 246.5┤ ▗▟▀▘ │ │ ▄▟▀▀ │ │ ▗▄▄▛▘ │ │ ▗▄▄▄▟▀ │ 0.0┤ ▗ ▗▄▄▟▀▀ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────── rampup-6338 util_avg running residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.5 15.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.9 36.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 57.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 78.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.9 98.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.0 117.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.0 137.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.0 156.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.0 176.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 191.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.0 211.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.0 230.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 248.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 266.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 277.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 294.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.6 311.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.4 327.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 340.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 358.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 371.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 377.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 389.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 401.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 413.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 431.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 442.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 456.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 ───────────────────────── Sum Time Running on CPU (ms) ───────────────────────── CPU0.0 ▇▇▇▇▇ 90.39 CPU4.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1156.93 6338 rampup CPU0.0 Frequency ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 2.06┤ ▛▀▀ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 1.70┤ ▛▀▀▘ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 1.33┤ ▗▄▄▄▌ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ 0.97┤ ▗▄▄▄▟ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ 0.60┤ ▗ ▗▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▟ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 6338 rampup CPU4.0 Frequency ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 3.20┤ ▐▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀│ │ ▐ │ │ ▛▀▀ │ │ ▌ │ 2.78┤ ▐▀▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▟ │ │ ▌ │ 2.35┤ ▗▄▄▌ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▄▄▟ │ │ ▌ │ 1.93┤ ▗▄▄▌ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ 1.50┤ ▗▄▄▟ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────── 6338 rampup CPU0.0 Frequency residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.6 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 37.300000000000004 0.972 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15.0 1.332 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15.0 1.704 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 11.0 2.064 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 12.1 ───────────────── 6338 rampup CPU4.0 Frequency residency (ms) ────────────────── 1.5 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 11.9 1.956 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 10.0 2.184 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 10.0 2.388 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 11.0 2.592 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 10.0 2.772 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 10.0 2.988 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 10.0 3.204 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 85.3 Observations: * It takes ~284ms to go from 0 to ~1000 * Utilization ramps up initially every 8ms, then starts to speed up not reaching 1ms until util ~450. It actually flips between 1ms and 2ms for a while after this value. * It takes ~105ms to reach a util ~450 * The task runs on little core for a whopping 90ms before it migrates to the big core in spite of obviously an always running task. That is with the current 80% migration margin. * when running on little CPU, it stays at lowest freq for a whopping 37ms. It takes that long for util to reach a value high enough to move on to the next freq, that is with the 1.25 DVFS headroom. * Moving across frequencies remain slow afterward on little. On big, it seems to be capped at 10ms due to the rate_limit_us which was addressed already in [2]. Defeault response with 70us rate_limit_us ----------------------------------------- rampup-6581 util_avg running ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 984┤ ▄▄▄▄▄▟▀▀▀▀│ │ ▗▄▄▛▀▀▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▞▀▀ │ │ ▄▄▛▀ │ 738┤ ▗▟▀▘ │ │ ▄▛▀ │ │ ▗▟▀▘ │ 492┤ ▄▟▀ │ │ ▄▛▘ │ │ ▗▄▛▘ │ │ ▄▟▀ │ 246┤ ▄▟▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▟▘ │ │ ▗▟▀▀ │ │ ▄▄▄▄▛▀▀ │ 0┤ ▗ ▗▄▄▛▀▘ │ └┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────── 6581 rampup CPU4.0 Frequency residency (ms) ────────────────── 1.5 ▇▇ 2.9 1.728 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 1.956 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 9.0 2.184 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 9.0 2.388 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.0 2.592 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 2.772 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ 7.0 2.988 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 10.0 3.096 ▇▇▇▇▇ 6.0 3.144 ▇▇▇ 3.0 3.204 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 82.4 Observations: ------------- * Results is more or less the same * It takes ~264ms to go from 0 to ~1000 * With better rate limit we still see slow jumps in freqs on the big core. Which demonstrates the bottleneck is in the utilization signal rampup time It gets worse on systems with smaller cores ------------------------------------------- Mobile systems which commonly contain littles that have a capcity of ~200 and sometimes less will suffer more from this bad impact. The smaller the core/freq, the greater the gravitational pull! It was measured to stay over 100ms stuck on the little core and being stuck for longer at lowest frequencies to pick up from 0 util. The solution: j============ The proposal to remove the hardcoded DVFS headroom and migration margin in [3] is still valid. And we build on top of it. But to address the utilization invariance black hole problem, I add a number of patches on top to extend util_est. This black hole effect is only valid for tasks that are transitioning from one steady state, to another steady state. Completely periodic tasks which the system is traditionally built upon; the current utilization signal is a good approximation of its _compute_ demand. But observers (userspace), care about real time. Computational domain vs Time domain: ------------------------------------ The util_avg is a good representation of compute demand of periodic tasks. And should remain as such. But when they are no longer periodic, then looking at computational domain doesn't make sense as we have no idea what's the actual compute demand of the task, it's in transition. During this transition we need to fallback to time domain based signal. Which is simply done by ignoring invariance and let the util accumulate based on observer's time. Coherent response time: ----------------------- Moving transient tasks to be based on observer's time will create a coherent and constant response time. Which is the time it takes util_avg to rampup from 0 to max on the biggest core running at max freq (or performance level 1024/max). IOW, the rampup time of util signal should appear to be the same on all capacities/frequencies as if we are running at the highest performance level all the time. This will give the observer (userspace) the expected behavior of things moving through the motions in a constant response time regardless of initial conditions. util_est extension: ------------------- The extension is quite simple. util_est currently latches to util_avg at enqueue/dequeue to act as a hold function for when busy tasks sleep for long period and decay prematurely. The extension is to account for RUNNING time of the task in util_est too, which is currently ignored. when a task is RUNNING, we accumulate delta_exec across context switches and accumulate util_est as we're accumulating util_avg, but simply without any invariance taken into account. This means when tasks are RUNNABLE, and continue to run, util_est will act as our time based signal to help with the faster and 'constant' rampup response. Periodic vs Transient tasks: ---------------------------- It is important to make a distinction now between tasks that are periodic and their util_avg is a good faithful presentation of its compute demand. And transient tasks that need help to move faster to their next steady state point. In the code this distinction is made based on util_avg. In theory (I think we have bugs, will send a separate report), util_avg should be near constant for a periodic task. So simply transient tasks are ones that lead to util_avg being higher across activations. And this is our trigger point to know whether we need to accumulate variant (real time based) util_est. Rampup multipliers and sched-qos: --------------------------------- It turns out the slow rampup time is great for power. With the fix, many tasks will start causing higher freqs. Equally, the speed up will not be good enough for some workloads that need to move even faster than default response time. To cater for those, introduce per-task rampup multiplier. It can be set to 0 to keep tasks that don't care about performance from burning power. And it can be set to higher than 1 to make tasks go even faster through the motions. The multiplier is introduced as a first implementation of a generic sched-qos framework. Based on various discussions in many threads there's a burning need to provide more hints to enable smarter resource management based on userspace choices/trade-offs. Hopefully this framework will make the job simpler from both adding deprecatable kernel hints, and for userspace as there won't be a need to continously extend sched_attr, but add a new enum and userspace should be able to reuse the sched-qos wrappers when new hints are added to make use of them more readily. The patches: ==========i= Patch 1 is a repost of an existing patch on the list but is a required for the series. Patches 2 and 3 add helper functions to accumulate util_avg and calculate the rampup time from any point. Patches 4 and 5 remove the hardcoded margins in favour of a more automatic and 'deterministic' behavior based on the worst case scenario for current configuration (TICK mostly, but base_slice too). Patch 6 adds a new tunable to schedutil to dictate the rampup response time. It allows it to be sped up and slowed down. Since utilization signal has a constant response time on *all* systems regardless of how powerful or weak they are, this should allow userspace to control this more sensibly based on their system and workload characteristics and their efficiency goals. Patch 7 adds a multiplier to change PELT time constant. I am not sure if this is necessary now after introducing per task rampup multipliers. The original rationale was to help cater different hadware against the constant util_avg response time. I might drop this in future postings. I haven't tested the latest version which follows a new implementation suggested by Vincent. Patches 8 and 9 implement util_est extensions to better handle periodic vs transient tasks. Patches 10 and 11 add sched-qos and implements SCHED_QOS_RAMPUP_MULTIPLIER. Patches 12 and 13 further improve dvfs headroom definition by taking into account waiting_avg. waiting_avg is a new signal that accumulates how long a task is RUNNABLE && !RUNNING. This is an important source of latency and perception of responsiveness. It decouples util_avg, which is a measure of computational demand, and the requirement to run at specific freq to meet this demand, and the fact that slower frequency could mean tasks end up waiting for longer behind other tasks. If waiting time is long, it means the DVFS headroom need to increase. So we add it to the list of items to take into account. I tested to ensure the waiting_avg looks sane, but haven't done proper verification on how it helps with contended situations for frequency selection. Patch 14 implements an optimization to ignore DVFS headroom when the utilization signal is falling. It indicates that we are already running faster than we should, so we should be able to save power safely. This patch still needs more verification to ensure it produces the desired impact. Patch 15 uses rampup_multipier = 0 to disable util_est completely assuming tasks that don't care about perf they are okay without util_est altogether. Patch 16 implements another optimization to keep util_avg at 0 on fork given we have enough means now for tasks to manage their perf requirements and we can never crystal ball what the util_avg should be after fork. Be consistent and start from the same lowest point preserving precious resources. The series needs more polishing. But posting now to help discuss further during LPC to ensure it is moving in the right direction. Results: ======== Response time with rampup multiplier = 1 ----------------------------------------- rampup-2234 util_avg running ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 984┤ ▗▄▄▄▄▄▛▀▀▀▀│ │ ▄▄▟▀▀▀▀ │ │ ▄▄▟▀▀ │ │ ▄▟▀▘ │ 738┤ ▄▟▀▘ │ │ ▗▟▀▘ │ │ ▗▟▀ │ 492┤ ▗▟▀ │ │ ▗▟▀ │ │ ▟▀ │ │ ▄▛▘ │ 246┤ ▗▟▘ │ │ ▗▟▀ │ │ ▗▟▀ │ │ ▗▟▀ │ 0┤ ▄▄▄▛▀ │ └┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────── rampup-2234 util_avg running residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.6000000000000005 15.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 39.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.0 61.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.0 85.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 99.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 120.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 144.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 160.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 176.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 192.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 210.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 228.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 246.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 263.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 282.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 291.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 309.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 327.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 344.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 354.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 373.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 382.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 400.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 408.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 425.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 434.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 452.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 2234 rampup CPU1.0 Frequency ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 2.06┤ ▐▀ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ 1.70┤ ▛▀ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 1.33┤ ▄▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 0.97┤ ▗▄▌ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ 0.60┤ ▗▄▄▟ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 2234 rampup CPU4.0 Frequency ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 3.10┤ ▐▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀│ │ ▛▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▐▀▀▀▀▘ │ 2.70┤ ▐ │ │ ▐▀▀▀▀ │ │ ▐ │ 2.30┤ ▛▀▀ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▐▀▀▘ │ │ ▐ │ 1.90┤ ▐▀▀ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▗▄▟ │ │ ▐ │ 1.50┤ ▗▟ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────────────── Sum Time Running on CPU (ms) ───────────────────────── CPU1.0 ▇▇▇▇ 32.53 CPU4.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 540.3 ───────────────── 2234 rampup CPU1.0 Frequency residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.6 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 12.1 0.972 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 6.5 1.332 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.7 1.704 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.5 2.064 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.8 ───────────────── 2234 rampup CPU4.0 Frequency residency (ms) ────────────────── 1.5 ▇▇▇▇▇ 4.0 1.728 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8.0 1.956 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 9.0 2.184 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 9.0 2.388 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 11.0 2.592 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16.0 2.772 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 18.0 2.988 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 47.0 3.096 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 53.4 Response time with rampup multiplier = 2 ----------------------------------------- rampup-2331 util_avg running ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 1002.0┤ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▛▀▀▀▀▀▀│ │ ▄▄▄▟▀▀▀▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▟▀▀▘ │ │ ▗▄▛▀ │ 751.5┤ ▗▄▛▀ │ │ ▟▀ │ │ ▗▟▀▘ │ 501.0┤ ▟▀ │ │ ▗▟▘ │ │ ▄▛ │ │ ▟▘ │ 250.5┤ ▗▛▘ │ │ ▄▛ │ │ ▟▘ │ │ ▄▛▘ │ 0.0┤ ▄▄▛ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────── rampup-2331 util_avg running residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.7 4.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 6.0 26.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.0 52.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 67.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 93.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.9000000000000001 106.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 126.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 149.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 170.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 182.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 206.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 217.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 239.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 251.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 275.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 286.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 299.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 322.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 334.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 345.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 368.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 379.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 391.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 402.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 424.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 434.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 445.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 455.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1.0 ───────────────────────── Sum Time Running on CPU (ms) ───────────────────────── CPU0.0 ▇ 16.740000000000002 CPU4.0 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 726.91 2331 rampup CPU0.0 Frequency ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 2.06┤ ▛ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 1.70┤ ▛▘ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 1.33┤ ▗▌ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ │ ▐ │ 0.97┤ ▟ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 0.60┤ ▗▄▌ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 2331 rampup CPU4.0 Frequency ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 3.14┤ ▄▄▄▄▄▟▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀│ │ ▛▀▀▀▀▘ │ │ ▄▄▌ │ │ ▄▄▌ │ 2.51┤ ▄▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▐▀▘ │ 1.87┤ ▐▀ │ │ ▗▟ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 1.24┤ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ │ ▌ │ 0.60┤ ▌ │ └┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬┘ 1.700 1.733 1.767 1.800 1.833 1.867 1.900 1.933 1.967 2.000 ───────────────── 2331 rampup CPU0.0 Frequency residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.6 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 5.7 0.972 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 1.332 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2.0 1.704 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4.0 2.064 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 3.0 ───────────────── 2331 rampup CPU4.0 Frequency residency (ms) ────────────────── 0.6 ▇ 1.0 1.728 ▇▇ 2.9 1.956 ▇▇ 4.0 2.184 ▇▇▇ 6.0 2.388 ▇▇ 4.0 2.592 ▇▇▇▇ 7.0 2.772 ▇▇▇▇▇ 9.0 2.988 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20.0 3.096 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 23.0 3.144 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 118.3 Speedometer score: ------------------ With the fix [2] applied to keep rate_limit_us as small as possible | score ----------------------+-------- default | 352 rampup multiplier = 1 | 388 rampup multiplier = 2 | 427 rampup multiplier = 3 | 444 rampup multiplier = 4 | 456 [1] https://github.com/qais-yousef/rampup [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240728192659.58115-1-qyousef@layalina.io/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231208002342.367117-1-qyousef@layalina.io/ Qais Yousef (16): sched: cpufreq: Rename map_util_perf to sugov_apply_dvfs_headroom sched/pelt: Add a new function to approximate the future util_avg value sched/pelt: Add a new function to approximate runtime to reach given util sched/fair: Remove magic hardcoded margin in fits_capacity() sched: cpufreq: Remove magic 1.25 headroom from sugov_apply_dvfs_headroom() sched/schedutil: Add a new tunable to dictate response time sched/pelt: Introduce PELT multiplier boot time parameter sched/fair: Extend util_est to improve rampup time sched/fair: util_est: Take into account periodic tasks sched/qos: Add a new sched-qos interface sched/qos: Add rampup multiplier QoS sched/pelt: Add new waiting_avg to record when runnable && !running sched/schedutil: Take into account waiting_avg in apply_dvfs_headroom sched/schedutil: Ignore dvfs headroom when util is decaying sched/fair: Enable disabling util_est via rampup_multiplier sched/fair: Don't mess with util_avg post init Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst | 17 +- Documentation/scheduler/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/scheduler/sched-qos.rst | 44 +++++ drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 4 +- include/linux/cpufreq.h | 3 + include/linux/sched.h | 12 ++ include/linux/sched/cpufreq.h | 5 - include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 6 + include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h | 46 +++++ kernel/sched/core.c | 71 +++++++ kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 174 +++++++++++++++++- kernel/sched/debug.c | 5 + kernel/sched/fair.c | 149 +++++++++++++-- kernel/sched/pelt.c | 140 ++++++++++++-- kernel/sched/sched.h | 12 ++ kernel/sched/syscalls.c | 37 ++++ .../trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 4 + 17 files changed, 685 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/sched-qos.rst

Message ID	20240820163512.1096301-1-qyousef@layalina.io
Headers	show Received: from mail-lf1-f48.google.com (mail-lf1-f48.google.com [209.85.167.48]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D1FE191F89 for <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>; Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:35:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>, John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io> Subject: [RFC PATCH 00/16] sched/fair/schedutil: Better manage system response time Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:34:56 +0100 Message-Id: <20240820163512.1096301-1-qyousef@layalina.io> Precedence: bulk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Series	sched/fair/schedutil: Better manage system response time \| expand [RFC,00/16] sched/fair/schedutil: Better manage system response time [RFC,01/16] sched: cpufreq: Rename map_util_perf to sugov_apply_dvfs_headroom [RFC,02/16] sched/pelt: Add a new function to approximate the future util_avg value [RFC,03/16] sched/pelt: Add a new function to approximate runtime to reach given util [RFC,04/16] sched/fair: Remove magic hardcoded margin in fits_capacity() [RFC,05/16] sched: cpufreq: Remove magic 1.25 headroom from sugov_apply_dvfs_headroom() [RFC,06/16] sched/schedutil: Add a new tunable to dictate response time [RFC,07/16] sched/pelt: Introduce PELT multiplier boot time parameter [RFC,08/16] sched/fair: Extend util_est to improve rampup time [RFC,09/16] sched/fair: util_est: Take into account periodic tasks [RFC,10/16] sched/qos: Add a new sched-qos interface [RFC,11/16] sched/qos: Add rampup multiplier QoS [RFC,12/16] sched/pelt: Add new waiting_avg to record when runnable && !running [RFC,13/16] sched/schedutil: Take into account waiting_avg in apply_dvfs_headroom [RFC,14/16] sched/schedutil: Ignore dvfs headroom when util is decaying [RFC,15/16] sched/fair: Enable disabling util_est via rampup_multiplier [RFC,16/16] sched/fair: Don't mess with util_avg post init

[RFC,00/16] sched/fair/schedutil: Better manage system response time

Message