Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] sched/fair: Traverse cpufreq policies to detect capacity inversion

[Qais Yousef]

On 12/13/22 18:38, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> On 12/12/2022 19:43, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > On 12/09/22 17:47, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > HMP systems for 1k servers just don't make any sense. A desktop with 128 or
> > even 256 HMP cores is a big stretch; and if that exist I don't think there's an
> > overhead to worry about here; and I *did* consider this. I measured the impact
> > if we have 128 and it was mere 1 or 2 us extra.  And that's on under powered
> > pine book pro. If such a system exist it'd probably be more performant.
> > 
> >> uclamp_min must not set a CPU overutilized because the CPU is not overutilized
> >> in this case. It's only the task that is misfit. You mostly try to bias some
> >> behavior to fit your use case.
> > 
> > Maybe we are talking about different things over here. As long as we agree it's
> > a misfit task then we are aligned.
> 
> IMHO, utilization is about the running task and uclamp is maintained
> taking the runnable tasks into consideration as well. Maybe that's the
> source of the different views here?

I don't think so, see below.

> 
> > As far as I know misfit required overutilized to re-enable load balance. But
> > maybe there's a detail that's creating this confusion.
> 
> I think that Vincent is suggesting to let MF load balance happening even
> in !OverUtilized (OU). We gather the necessary load-balance statistics
> already today in !OU so it is easily to do.

I think this is the cause of confusion. The current as it stands relies on OU
being set to enable misfit load balance.

If we decouple them as Vincent suggested - which is a good and independent
improvement - then yeah uclamp_min raising overutilized is not necessary. It's
just an artifact of how misfit load balance works today.

It's a general good improvement to not load misfit raise overutilized.

As discussed offline, Vincent will post independent patch with this
improvement.


Thanks!

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Qais Yousef