From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 12/16] sched/core: uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 08:03:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190622150332.GM657710@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190621084217.8167-13-patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Hello,
Generally looks good to me. Some nitpicks.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 09:42:13AM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> @@ -951,6 +951,12 @@ controller implements weight and absolute bandwidth limit models for
> normal scheduling policy and absolute bandwidth allocation model for
> realtime scheduling policy.
>
> +Cycles distribution is based, by default, on a temporal base and it
> +does not account for the frequency at which tasks are executed.
> +The (optional) utilization clamping support allows to enforce a minimum
> +bandwidth, which should always be provided by a CPU, and a maximum bandwidth,
> +which should never be exceeded by a CPU.
I kinda wonder whether the term bandwidth is a bit confusing because
it's also used for cpu.max/min. Would just calling it frequency be
clearer?
> +static ssize_t cpu_uclamp_min_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
> + char *buf, size_t nbytes,
> + loff_t off)
> +{
> + struct task_group *tg;
> + u64 min_value;
> + int ret;
> +
> + ret = uclamp_scale_from_percent(buf, &min_value);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + if (min_value > SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE)
> + return -ERANGE;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> +
> + tg = css_tg(of_css(of));
> + if (tg == &root_task_group) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
I don't think you need the above check.
> + if (tg->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN].value == min_value)
> + goto out;
> + if (tg->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MAX].value < min_value) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
So, uclamp.max limits the maximum freq% can get and uclamp.min limits
hte maximum freq% protection can get in the subtree. Let's say
uclamp.max is 50% and uclamp.min is 100%. It means that protection is
not limited but the actual freq% is limited upto 50%, which isn't
necessarily invalid. For a simple example, a user might be saying
that they want to get whatever protection they can get from its parent
but wanna limit eventual freq at 50% and it isn't too difficult to
imagine cases where the two knobs are configured separately especially
configuration is being managed hierarchically / automatically.
tl;dr is that we don't need the above restriction and shouldn't
generally be restricting configurations when they don't need to.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-22 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-21 8:42 [PATCH v10 00/16] Add utilization clamping support Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 01/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 02/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add bucket local max tracking Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 03/16] sched/core: uclamp: Enforce last task's UCLAMP_MAX Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 04/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add system default clamps Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 05/16] sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 06/16] sched/core: uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 07/16] sched/core: uclamp: Reset uclamp values on RESET_ON_FORK Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 08/16] sched/core: uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 09/16] sched/cpufreq: uclamp: Add clamps for FAIR and " Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 10/16] sched/core: uclamp: Add uclamp_util_with() Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 11/16] sched/fair: uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute() Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-21 14:47 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 12/16] sched/core: uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-22 15:03 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2019-06-24 17:29 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-24 17:52 ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-25 9:31 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 13/16] sched/core: uclamp: Propagate parent clamps Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-22 15:07 ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-24 17:34 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-24 17:46 ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 14/16] sched/core: uclamp: Propagate system defaults to root group Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 15/16] sched/core: uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 8:42 ` [PATCH v10 16/16] sched/core: uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes Patrick Bellasi
2019-06-21 14:55 ` [PATCH v10 00/16] Add utilization clamping support Patrick Bellasi
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