Re: [PATCH 1/4] cpufreq: Add a cpufreq pressure feedback for the scheduler

From: Lukasz Luba
Date: Thu Dec 14 2023 - 04:07:09 EST




On 12/14/23 07:57, Vincent Guittot wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 at 06:43, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12-12-23, 15:27, Vincent Guittot wrote:
@@ -2618,6 +2663,9 @@ static int cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
policy->max = __resolve_freq(policy, policy->max, CPUFREQ_RELATION_H);
trace_cpu_frequency_limits(policy);

+ cpus = policy->related_cpus;
+ cpufreq_update_pressure(cpus, policy->max);
+
policy->cached_target_freq = UINT_MAX;

One more question, why are you doing this from cpufreq_set_policy ? If
due to cpufreq cooling or from userspace, we end up limiting the
maximum possible frequency, will this routine always get called ?

Yes, any update of a FREQ_QOS_MAX ends up calling cpufreq_set_policy()
to update the policy->max


Agree, cpufreq sysfs scaling_max_freq is also important to handle
in this new design. Currently we don't reflect that as reduced CPU
capacity in the scheduler. There was discussion when I proposed to feed
that CPU frequency reduction into thermal_pressure [1].

The same applies for the DTPM which is missing currently the proper
impact to the CPU reduced capacity in the scheduler.

IMHO any limit set into FREQ_QOS_MAX should be visible in this
new design of capacity reduction signaling.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220930094821.31665-2-lukasz.luba@xxxxxxx/