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From: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
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	Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>,
	Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
	Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@matbug.net>,
	Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
Date: Fri,  1 May 2020 12:49:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200501114927.15248-2-qais.yousef@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200501114927.15248-1-qais.yousef@arm.com>

Uclamp exposes 3 sysctl knobs:

	* sched_util_clamp_min
	* sched_util_clamp_max
	* sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default

Document them in sysctl/kernel.rst.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
CC: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
CC: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
CC: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
CC: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
CC: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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CC: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
CC: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
CC: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@matbug.net>
CC: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
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---

Changes in v4:
	* Punctuation fixes (Randy Dunlap).


 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 0d427fd10941..521c18ce3d92 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -940,6 +940,54 @@ Enables/disables scheduler statistics. Enabling this feature
 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is
 useful for debugging and performance tuning.
 
+sched_util_clamp_min:
+=====================
+
+Max allowed *minimum* utilization.
+
+Default value is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE (1024), which is the maximum possible
+value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.min value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_min, i.e., it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_min].
+
+sched_util_clamp_max:
+=====================
+
+Max allowed *maximum* utilization.
+
+Default value is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE (1024), which is the maximum possible
+value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.max value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_max, i.e., it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_max].
+
+sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default:
+================================
+
+By default Linux is tuned for performance. Which means that RT tasks always run
+at the highest frequency and most capable (highest capacity) CPU (in
+heterogeneous systems).
+
+Uclamp achieves this by setting the requested uclamp.min of all RT tasks to
+SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE (1024) by default, which effectively boosts the tasks to
+run at the highest frequency and biases them to run on the biggest CPU.
+
+This knob allows admins to change the default behavior when uclamp is being
+used. In battery powered devices particularly, running at the maximum
+capacity and frequency will increase energy consumption and shorten the battery
+life.
+
+This knob is only effective for RT tasks which the user hasn't modified their
+requested uclamp.min value via sched_setattr() syscall.
+
+This knob will not escape the constraint imposed by sched_util_clamp_min
+defined above.
+
+Any modification is applied lazily on the next opportunity the scheduler needs
+to calculate the effective value of uclamp.min of the task.
 
 seccomp
 =======
-- 
2.17.1


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-01 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-01 11:49 [PATCH v4 1/2] sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value Qais Yousef
2020-05-01 11:49 ` Qais Yousef [this message]
2020-05-03 17:45   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs Patrick Bellasi
2020-05-05 14:56     ` Qais Yousef
2020-05-11 13:00       ` Patrick Bellasi
2020-05-11 15:28         ` Qais Yousef
2020-05-03 17:37 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value Patrick Bellasi
2020-05-05 14:27   ` Qais Yousef

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