Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] sched/core: uclamp: extend sched_setattr to support utilization clamping

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Tue Jul 17 2018 - 14:04:38 EST


On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 09:28:55AM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> The SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling class provides an advanced and formal
> model to define tasks requirements which can be translated into proper
> decisions for both task placements and frequencies selections.
> Other classes have a more simplified model which is essentially based on
> the relatively simple concept of POSIX priorities.
>
> Such a simple priority based model however does not allow to exploit
> some of the most advanced features of the Linux scheduler like, for
> example, driving frequencies selection via the schedutil cpufreq
> governor. However, also for non SCHED_DEADLINE tasks, it's still
> interesting to define tasks properties which can be used to better
> support certain scheduler decisions.
>
> Utilization clamping aims at exposing to user-space a new set of
> per-task attributes which can be used to provide the scheduler with some
> hints about the expected/required utilization for a task.
> This will allow to implement a more advanced per-task frequency control
> mechanism which is not based just on a "passive" measured task
> utilization but on a more "active" approach. For example, it could be
> possible to boost interactive tasks, thus getting better performance, or
> cap background tasks, thus being more energy efficient.
> Ultimately, such a mechanism can be considered similar to the cpufreq's
> powersave, performance and userspace governor but with a much fine
> grained and per-task control.
>
> Let's introduce a new API to set utilization clamping values for a
> specified task by extending sched_setattr, a syscall which already
> allows to define task specific properties for different scheduling
> classes.
> Specifically, a new pair of attributes allows to specify a minimum and
> maximum utilization which the scheduler should consider for a task.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> include/linux/sched.h | 16 ++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 4 +-
> include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> init/Kconfig | 19 ++++++++++
> kernel/sched/core.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 43731fe51c97..fd8495723088 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -279,6 +279,17 @@ struct vtime {
> u64 gtime;
> };
>
> +enum uclamp_id {
> + /* No utilization clamp group assigned */
> + UCLAMP_NONE = -1,
> +
> + UCLAMP_MIN = 0, /* Minimum utilization */
> + UCLAMP_MAX, /* Maximum utilization */
> +
> + /* Utilization clamping constraints count */
> + UCLAMP_CNT
> +};
> +
> struct sched_info {
> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_INFO
> /* Cumulative counters: */
> @@ -649,6 +660,11 @@ struct task_struct {
> #endif
> struct sched_dl_entity dl;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK
> + /* Utlization clamp values for this task */
> + int uclamp[UCLAMP_CNT];
> +#endif

Seems a bit wasteful to me. Seems you need 2 values that are in the range
0..1024. Can we not do better with task_struct space usage?

thanks!

- Joel