Re: [PATCH] sched: Take thermal pressure into account when determine rt fits capacity

[Xuewen Yan]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:12 AM Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 04/25/22 09:31, Xuewen Yan wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:15 AM Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is it okay to share what the capacities of the littles, mediums and bigs on
> > > your system? And how they change under worst case scenario thermal pressure?
> > > Only IF you have these numbers handy :-)
> >
> > Okay, the little/mid/big cpu scale capacity is 350/930/1024, but the
> > cpu frequency point is discrete, the big core's high freq point may is
> > just a few more than the mid core's highest.
> > In this case, once the thermal decrease the scaling_max_freq, the
> > maximum frequency of the large core is easily lower than that of the
> > medium core.
> > Of course, the corner case is due to the frequency design of the soc
> > and  our thermal algorithm.
>
> Okay, thanks for the info!
>
> >
> > >
> > > Is it actually an indication of a potential other problem if you swing into
> > > capacity inversion in the bigs that often? I've seen a lot of systems where the
> > > difference between the meds and bigs is small. But frequent inversion could be
> > > suspicious still.
> > >
> > > Do the littles and the mediums experience any significant thermal pressure too?
> >
> > In our platform, it's not.
>
> Good.
>
> > > It doesn't seem it'll cause a significant error, but still it seems to me this
> > > function wants the original capacity passed to it.
> > >
> > > There are similar questions to be asked since you modify sg_cpu->max. Every
> > > user needs to be audited if they're fine with this change or not.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure still what we are achieving here. You want to force schedutil not
> > > to request higher frequencies if thermal pressure is high? Should schedutil
> > > actually care? Shouldn't the cpufreq driver reject this request and pick the
> > > next best thing if it can't satisfy it? I could be missing something, I haven't
> > > looked that hard tbh :-)
> >
> > I changed this just want to make it more responsive to the real
> > capacity of the cpu, if it will cause other problems, maybe it would
> > be better not to change it.:)
>
> There are others who can give you a better opinion. But AFAICS we're not fixing
> anything but risking breaking other things. So I vote for not to change it :)
>
> > > It depends on the severity of the problem. The simplest thing I can suggest is
> > > to check if the cpu is in capacity inversion state, and if it is, then make
> > > rt_task_fits_capacity() return false always.
> > >
> > > If we need a generic solution to handle thermal pressure omitting OPPs, then
> > > the search needs to become more complex. The proposal in this patch is not
> > > adequate because tasks that want to run at capacity_orig_of(cpu) will wrongly
> > > omit some cpus because of any tiny thermal pressure. For example if the
> > > capacity_orig_of(medium_cpu) = 700, and uclamp_min for RT is set to 700, then
> > > any small thermal pressure on mediums will cause these tasks to run on big cpus
> > > only, which is not what we want. Especially if these big cpus can end up in
> > > capacity inversion later ;-)
> > >
> > > So if we want to handle this case, then we need to ensure the search returns
> > > false only if
> > >
> > >         1. Thermal pressure results in real OPP to be omitted.
> > >         2. Another CPU that can provide this performance level is available.
> > >
> > > Otherwise we should still fit it on this CPU because it'll give us the closest
> > > thing to what was requested.
> > >
> > > I can think of 2 ways to implement this, but none of them seem particularly
> > > pretty :-/
> >
> > Maybe as Lukasz Luba said:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/ae98a861-8945-e630-8d4c-8112723d1007@xxxxxxx/
> >
> > > Let's meet in the middle:
> > > 1) use the thermal PELT signal in RT:
> > > capacity = capacity_orig_of(cpu) - thermal_load_avg(cpu_rq(cpu))
> > > 2) introduce a more configurable thermal_pressure shifter instead
> > > 'sched_thermal_decay_shift', which would allow not only to make the
> > > decaying longer, but also shorter when the platform already might do
> > > that, to not cause too much traffic.
> >
> > But even if this is changed, there will still be the same problem, I
> > look forward to Lukasz's patch:)
>
> This will not address my concern unless I missed something.
>
> The best (simplest) way forward IMHO is to introduce a new function
>
>         bool cpu_in_capacity_inversion(int cpu);
>
> (feel free to pick another name) which will detect the scenario you're in. You
> can use this function then in rt_task_fits_capacity()
>
>         diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>         index a32c46889af8..d48811a7e956 100644
>         --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
>         +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>         @@ -462,6 +462,9 @@ static inline bool rt_task_fits_capacity(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
>                 if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_asym_cpucapacity))
>                         return true;
>
>         +       if (cpu_in_capacity_inversion(cpu))
>         +               return false;
>         +
>                 min_cap = uclamp_eff_value(p, UCLAMP_MIN);
>                 max_cap = uclamp_eff_value(p, UCLAMP_MAX);
>
> You'll probably need to do something similar in dl_task_fits_capacity().
>
> This might be a bit aggressive though as we'll steer away all RT tasks from
> this CPU (as long as there's another CPU that can fit it). I need to think more
> about it. But we could do something like this too
>
>         diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>         index a32c46889af8..f2a34946a7ab 100644
>         --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
>         +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>         @@ -462,11 +462,14 @@ static inline bool rt_task_fits_capacity(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
>                 if (!static_branch_unlikely(&sched_asym_cpucapacity))
>                         return true;
>
>         +       cpu_cap = capacity_orig_of(cpu);
>         +
>         +       if (cpu_in_capacity_inversion(cpu))

It's  a good idea, but as you said, in mainline, the
sysctl_sched_uclamp_util_min_rt_default is always 1024,
Maybe it's better to add it to the judgment?

 +       if (sysctl_sched_uclamp_util_min_rt_default !=
SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE && cpu_in_capacity_inversion(cpu))

>         +               cpu_cap -= thermal_load_avg(cpu_rq(cpu));

Why use thermal_load_avg? If thermal is always in effect，the
thermal_load_avg would get bigger and bigger, as a result, the cpu_cap
maybe smaller than (capacity_orig - thermal_pressure).

Thanks!

>         +
>                 min_cap = uclamp_eff_value(p, UCLAMP_MIN);
>                 max_cap = uclamp_eff_value(p, UCLAMP_MAX);
>
>         -       cpu_cap = capacity_orig_of(cpu);
>         -
>                 return cpu_cap >= min(min_cap, max_cap);
>          }
>          #else
>
> Thoughts?

>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Qais Yousef